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    • Karla
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        Can I just show you this guy?

         

        He looks so good. He is from a shelter. It only says he is not neutered and that he is a bit timid. He is a black and tan lionhead…I already have three, and I don’t think my boyfriend wants anymore right now. But maybe four is a good number…better than three?

         


      • kralspace
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          He’s beautiful and being black, might just ‘disappear’ into your group and not be noticed by your boyfriend……….

          I look at Petfinder all the time, I know all the buns at the Dallas sanctuary and when I go visit every few months it’s strange to see them in person.


        • Karla
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            Haha, exactly…I did think for a second that maybe he will never notice.

            You actually go to visit the sanctuarys – how can you do that without bringing one home? I actually never look at the shelters’ websites, because I end up feeling sorry for one or more and it breaks my heart that I cannot adopt it.

            Are all your bunnies bonded into one group or do they pair up themselves once you get an even number?


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              Posted By Karla on 02/18/2010 07:29 AM

              Are all your bunnies bonded into one group or do they pair up themselves once you get an even number?

              you mean like people going out to a party, each bringing one date… –are you suggesting that  they have a concept of odd and even numbers?

              Joking aside, I see your point, and it has been said many times, that each rabbit should have their own ‘partner’… I don’t really think in those terms myself. Rabbits thrive in herds. Some herds have loner buns in them, or very close trios etc.

               


            • Karla
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                Baah

                You know what, it was actually something you wrote the other day, that made me think this Well, it was in another context, but you told Skibunny that her third bunny would change the bond between her already bonded pair. And I know it was in a different context, but then I started thinking that perhaps the bond between Molly and Karl actually had been more intense when it was just the two of them…and then I thought I really ought to get me one more


              • kralspace
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                  I live about 1.5 hours away from the North Texas Rabbit Sanctuary in Dallas, Texas and I go up every few months to buy a big box of hay, toys and supplies. The trip costs me around $17 in gas but I would be paying over $30 in shipping if I ordered the hay myself, and it’s a good excuse to visit with all the wonderful bunny people there (Hi Sarita!)

                  They’ve been a great help to me in learning to take care of the buns, I used their vet to get Pringles spayed ($160 vs over $500 here in Waco by a vet I didn’t trust [not my current vet whom I love])

                  They have a great setup for the buns they take in and you can’t go up there and not spend time visiting with all the sweeties.

                  We started out with my son wanting a rabbit 4 years ago. We got Pringles as a tiny furball from the feed store. We learned they needed company so a few months later I bought Daisy (I can’t sex anything right) from Petco after seeing him for months in a tiny glass cage there. He finally had a sign over him that said “Leftover Easter Bunny, Too old, gotta go, clearance!” I asked what would happen to him if no one bought him and the manager said they just ‘do something’ with them and I couldnt leave him there.

                  Daisy fell in love with Pringles and life was good. The shelter here called to see if I would foster a little bunny they had taken in a neglect case. He had nearly starved to death with food in front of him because the people could not see the overgrown white teeth that had grown THROUGH his lips, pretty much locking his mouth shut (Toby is solid black)

                  Pringles found his cage in the back bedroom, fell into lust and deserted poor Daisy, taking all their toys to give to Toby and refusing to leave her place beside his cage, trying to squeeze between the bars. Sigh, we adopt bunny number 3.

                  Daisy pined away, sitting beside the food because he never ate without Pringles. After a few weeks I posted a Bunny Looking for Love webpage for Daisy and got a response from NTRS that they had plenty of girls for him to meet and we arranged a Saturday date. After a morning of dates that ranged from “My God, woman, quit sitting on me” to “I hate you and I’m going to kill you!” we met a lovely white rex, Lola who came home with us. Sigh, we adopt bunny #4.

                  A friend at work asked me to keep her dad’s bunny, Simba until he passed away (the dad, not the bunny) and one of their family would then take him. After her dad’s death, no one wanted him and they talked about taking him to the shelter so, you guessed it, we adopt #5.

                  Simba had never lived around rabbits and kept trying to join one of the couples until I was afraid he was going to be killed. At one point he was reared up and sticking his face against the grid of Pringles/Toby’s condo. Pringles grabbed him by the lionmane and jerked him off his feet, banging him  against the bars until I could make her let go. and Simba went right back to them trying to kiss up.

                  So another bunny date at NTRS was in order. But I had seen little Hershey on a previous trip, she had lost her lifetime mate and needed a friend. Luckily Simba agreed and the wonderful Hershey came home with us as #6.

                  They do joke at the NTRS that I need a nametag that says “Hi, my name is Kathy and DONT let me leave here with a bunny!”

                  So in the thread where we describe outselves, I guess on one my words would be “SUCKER!”    😉

                  EDITED to add: So to make the long story above short, I have (had) six bunnies because our first bunny was such a shameless hussy!


                • Karla
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                    Hahaha, I love your story. That was so funny to read And your bunnies just sound like such personalities, I felt so sorry for poor Daisy being deserted.


                  • kralspace
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                      I’m jealous that all of yours live together. I tried several times to join mine, but the girls are just horrible and out to kill each other.


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                        The third bunny will interfere in a pair’s relationship if that third bun is supposed to really bond too. I think it’s just logical, across species, across the board. It’s in the numbers. Imagine you have a best friend. Then your best friend and you meet someone you both end up really liking… your initial friendship with your best friend will be changed to make room for the third friend.

                        In my quartet Lint likes to be by himself at times ever since he has had to share his first bond (Mops). It’s not sad, though. Lint was so bossy over Mops that I am glad Mops now has other options.

                        If your trio is really tight, you will have to decide if you want to risk any changes by adding one more. Your trio bonded voluntarily without any forcing, next time around it might be a different story. You could reduce Molly and Karl back to being a pair by getting a rabbit to bond with Jack and keeping two sets of bonded bunnies separately… but that’s not what you want, I am pretty sure.


                      • Karla
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                          I would hate to split them up and just have two pairs. I’d like to help another bunny with a good home, and I thought it would be fun with a foursome, but I would be sad if my trio suffered from it. Hmmm…

                          But you got to admit that he looks sweet?


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                            –the trio won’t suffer, but perhaps you will during the bonding….
                            *yes, he’s sweet.


                          • ScooterandAnnette
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                              we started out with just Bailey. And then we added Reno, and managed to bond them together and they were a happy pair. Then we added Aeryn and after a while managed to bond the three of them together and everything was just fine. Then we added Tegan and after another while we were able to bond the 4 of them together and they were a nice happy quartet. When got Keelie and Kylie the idea was to bond them all together but that’s just never going to work out given their personalities.

                              – Annette


                            • MimzMum
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                                I can’t see the picture yet, but I had to post to respond to Kathy’s story…which was so touching and amusing at the same time. I can see even better now the special bonds all your bunnies had. What a house full of love you have experienced!
                                (I am sure my hubby has told everyone at Petco to hide any prospective adoptable creatures whenever they see me coming.)

                                Mimzy started out as my first (and supposedly only) bun, whom we thought we might add one of the other buns we found him with, but that one disappeared before we could catch him. It wasn’t hard for Mimz to get all the attention…but this got my daughter wanting her own bun. Enter Pip at Petco, one of those ‘clearance’ bunnies that we watched for six months before my daughter batted her eyelashes at her dad and got him to let her bring Pip home.

                                It was then I realized Mimzy’s behavior was changing and he must’ve realized there was another bun in the house. So thinking he missed his former companions, we began trying to bond them. After much dominance behavior which usually ended in Pip doing her best to snuggle her head under Mimzy’s chin for a snooze, we almost had them successfully bonded when Mimzy started having nasal issues and I learned he had something potentially contagious called branhamella. All bonding stopped and they haven’t been paired since then…that was over a year ago.

                                Enter Fiver. An adoptable bun that I just couldn’t leave at Petco (again!). They all live in my bedroom, but in separate pens. So I know they know each other is there….
                                Now with my bed pretty much being his territory, but being the only comfortable place in my home I feel okay with giving medicine to my other rabbits on, he gets a pretty good dose of Mimzy, and Pip on the odd occasion since she’s a healthy girl.
                                Mimzy and Fiver will sit, bars between them, and touch lips and noses and never a harsh word between them…but if I open the pen door, Fiver will charge out and take a snap at Mimzy, probably because he’s on his ‘territory.’ Still, I have a good feeling I could get them bonded if I tried and stuck with it when Mimzy is well again. They do seem to need each other…if I am reading them right.

                                However, I fear what this will do to any chance to rebond Mimzy with Pip, since Pip has never shown any inclination to give Fiver even a sniff…and I would really like to see Mimz & Pip all schmubby-wubby again. (In fact, when Fiver first came home, I had him in a separate xpen next to Mimzy and Pip and, whenever Mimz tried to come see what Fiver was about, Pip would charge round and make a posturing to shoo Mimzy off and let Fiver know in no uncertain terms that this was HER husbun! It’s been a long time since then though..and I’m willing to give it another try.)

                                I don’t want Fiver feeling like a third wheel…or trying to tear either of the other two apart, and I would like a bun all to myself for company…but still, having all three together would be wonderful, as it would be necessary then to ensconce them a space in the house that’s all theirs and they can give each other comfort and care as all good bunny warrens do.

                                It’s a hard choice. I know if it didn’t work out, I would pine to give the ‘third bun’ a fourth just so it wouldn’t feel let out…but what Petzy said about bunnies not having a concept of unevenness, I have to wonder if it wouldn’t work out for my three eventually if I stuck with it. 0_o


                              • Monkeybun
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                                  We’ll just have to box up Petzy and ship her to Alaska to help you bond them all MM


                                • jerseygirl
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                                    Going a little off topic, plus I’m probably late with this but I…

                                          Just wanted to say…


                                  • Karla
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                                      So nice of you! Yeaaah…and not too late at all. It is only just 2 pm here on my birthday. I’m spending my birthday in bed ’cause I’ve been ill all week. But my boyfriend woke me up this morning with breakfast in bed AND three happy little bunnies following right behind him. So all 5 of us had breakfast in bed


                                    • jerseygirl
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                                        That makes a sweet picture! Well, glad my timing wasn’t way off. I was trying to figure the time zones. Sorry you haven’t been well though. Make sure you are well pampered!


                                      • Monkeybun
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                                          Happy Birthday!!


                                        • MimzMum
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                                            Happy Birthday! Many happy returns of the day!
                                            Awww…three little bunny emissaries of glad tidings and breakfast in bed. ^_^ Too sweet!


                                          • Sarita
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                                              Happy Birthday!


                                            • Karla
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                                                Thanks you guys

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