Who thinks I should get a baby angora rabbit?
I met a grown-up one at KnitKnackers the other day. Her name is Pandora and I fell head over heels in love with her. I want one just like her. She’s big and soft and she was recently shorn so she’s half-naked with wonderful hairy ears, and she doesn’t make any noise at all as she putters around the store looking for trouble.
You shear them every few months and make stuff out of their wool. And you can litter train them!
Here’s what they look like all grown up:
I’m not convinced about the litter training. And they chew. You think birds chew!
I’ve heard about the chewing – they’re pretty good at it.
I had a half-angora bunny for a while, Hiphop, aka Bunny Guy. She turned out to be a he, and while he was cage trained, he was not fixed, and soiled the carpet with his jism. He did not chew, but that was probably because I had already covered all the electric cords with flexible corrigated tubing.
With Angoras, you MUST MUST MUST brush them every day, or their fur will mat and/or they will ingest too much fur and get potentially lethal hairballs. Petromalt helps, as does pineapple.
Otherwise, I think rabbits make wonderful pets. Visit http://www.rabbit.org/ for more info.
He soiled the carpet with his jism? That does it. I’m getting a girl bunny!
You need to get a farm…for all the critters you want. I admit she is absolutely adorable; but what would Duncan think. The birds would dive bomb her. Are these actual pictures of the one you saw…or just generic pics?
Generic pix. You wouldn’t believe how soft an angora bunny is. Maybe I’ll get one for Chelsea!
She’s a cutie! I use to have rabbits, they make great pets – but like Abby says – read up on them!
Did your cats get along with them Valerie?
OMG I WANNA FLUFFEH BUNNEH!!!
Okay maybe not for keeps… but I need to SNUGGLE IT!
Oh I know, you should feel how soft. It’s the softest thing I’ve ever felt! And it likes to snuggle.
Awwww! My daughters and I say 3 votes YES for the bunny. That is the cutest thing we’ve ever seen. Now the girls want one too…
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cats and rabbits get along great, you can litter train them for peeing, they still poop everywhere and they chew up electrical cords. Hobbes, our house bunny is now living outside. We’re getting angoras sometime soon.
They told us that they’re litter-trainable for poop too. Why is Hobbes living outside? (Because of the chewing and pooping?) Will the angoras live outside too?
I doubt the poop trainability – they poop as they go. They just leave a little trail of berries. Hobbes was chewing cords under the bed. We might bring him in for the winter if I can get the cord issue dealt with. The angoras will definitely be outside. In a cool part of the barn. Rabbits generally are healthier outside and they get a good thick coat for the winter. Farm rabbits get treated differently than pets generally. Both ways are equally humane, but in general if you have an animal for production you feed it a higher protein feed and hay for faster growth and stronger fibre. They have a shorter life because of this though.
Very cute, would you spin and knit the yarn? FIgure in the time to care for it along with all the other pets and dog to come, it might be overwhelming.
My big concern is how the dog-to-come will get along with the bunny. Logan was a gentle old soul, but wild bunnies brought out the predator in him. (He never caught one, but it wasn’t for lack of trying.)
They don’t need to be brushed daily, twice a week is what the handspinners tell us, and you’re better off blowdrying them and just using your fingers – it’ll save you hair. We’re planning this as Nature Girl’s moneymaking venture
Good idea. I bought some angora bunny fur on etsy awhile back for $18, just so I could touch it whenever I needed something soft to touch.
Well our dogs totally leave the rabbits alone – we have 4 in cages and two more are free range until we trap em and bring them into their own hutch :-). Mica would have killed them though. Bear is half lab half ? – we expect a field springer spaniel. So he should be all over chasing them. Marley is half lab half rottweiler and too obedient a doggy to EVER chase a bunny. They treat the rabbits like long earred cats.
Totally adorable! Can the grown up version move though??
Underneath all that fur are four little feet! I figure he can double as a swiffer.
I watched Cesar Millan deal with a dog whose prey drive was easily triggered by rabbits and chickens and things (oh my). You MUST be the leader of the pack and you must work with the dog to let it know that you ARE the boss and it is NOT allowed to make decisions, like kill the bunny. It’s a fair bit of work, depending on the dog.
what a cute little baseboard chewer!