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Huddboro

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Anyone had experience of getting them? Looking to get the little man two for Christmas with an outdoor hutch.
 
I've got two, found them to be a absolute mare tbh, destroy everything, chew everything, we've had about 3 hutches in 3 years as they just chew through it, let them run around you garden and they eat everything, let them in the house they chew carpet and wires and anything else. Need cleaning constantly, have to make sure their poop is out of the cage each day. It gets hard in the bleak winter going out in the rain and cleaning/feeding/petting/saying hello. Other than that they're cute, affectionate & good for eating veggie kitchen scraps :cool: (also insure them they can have quite high vet bills if anything goes wrong because they're classed as "exotic")
 
Huddboro said:
Anyone had experience of getting them? Looking to get the little man two for Christmas with an outdoor hutch.
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Did the same for my daughter three years ago.
Did not research how long the little blighters live for.
My then freshly turfed lawn looks like the Somme, any and all plants ravaged.
Now on to the fifth hutch, little swines eat them for fun.
Garden furniture, shed, fence and anything else they can get at gnawed away.
They bite like a bitch.
Think again !!!!
 
Went to 'Bunny Land' I think it was called on the moors towards Whitby for our daughters years ago. They provided us with a dutch rabbit which was a fantastic pet. Yes they munch flowers, unless you supervise them and build them a run, no probs. Very playful and you can run around with them and they will chase you. Produce fantastic fertiliser!
 
Huddboro said:
Anyone had experience of getting them? Looking to get the little man two for Christmas with an outdoor hutch.
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We’ve got one. It’s a complete pain in the **** and if I’d had my way it would have been covered in pastry years ago. Get a Lab instead.
 
Thought it was gonna be about lamping. I went back 30 years when I saw the title.

The advice I was gonna give ain't relevant😂
 
S7DiscoDown said:
Thought it was gonna be about lamping. I went back 30 years when I saw the title.

The advice I was gonna give ain't relevant😂
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it just reminded me my butcher has a sign up advertising them the other day. I haven’t had one for years.
I did have one as a kid, but found out it triggered Asthma I didn’t know I had until we got one, so that was given away sharply by my parents.

not sure how my vegan missus would feel with one sprawled across the chopping board though.
 
My daughter has 2 rabbits, they are outdoor rabbits and don't cause too many problems. Yes they live for 15 years, all being well so it isn't like getting a hamster. Yes they do chew. But they are affectionate and loving. We have them contained in a run I built so they don't destroy the garden.
 
You need to have a proper decent area adjoined to the hutch where they can excercise whenever they want. You can't just have them locked in a hutch, so you need to make allowance for that. Lots of people keep them in spaces too small and they get health problems, agrression, and just die. Ours lived until they were 10 and were a good pet for the kids but only because we were able to get their living conditions right.
 
Pretty sure I ran one down on Sunday night on a country road in Lincolnshire. Tried to swerve out of the way of it as he he was just running down the road instead of running off to the side. Didn't hear a thud at all so maybe it got lucky :cry:
 
A guy brought a big white one to our house when I was aged 5 and my sister 7. We both sat and played with it until me dad came home, killed it and had it for his tea.

I can honestly say I have never tried or would be willing to eat rabbit.
 
The opposite for me. The 20 odd years I didn't eat meat the only meat I could say I actually missed was rabbit. I still love it now.
 
Had a few over the years, a lot had different temperaments, some more suitable for kids than others.
We also had guinea pigs, they were easier to look after and enormous fun.
 
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