I live with my boyfriend, and he’s like yours…he won’t do any bunny related chores and gives me the stink eye every time I talk about maybe getting another or something along those lines…

However, he is very partial to Yuuki (my brown male Lionhead 5 mo) and he’s recently begun cuddling Kibou (my white 3 mo lionhead female) every night…Kibou even licked him to groom him last night!

My two daughters absolutely love the buns, but as is typical of kids, I have to "remind" them to help me with the less pleasant bunny interactions, like cleaning the pen, giving food and water, etc.  My wife is funny.  When we first got DJ and Curly Sue, she was in the "tolerant" camp, and when Curly Sue chewed a hole in the sofa, we almost moved over into "intolerant" territory.  We have this giant (4 story now) NIC condo sitting in the family room, and she does not really complain about it much.  Once little Deanna came into the picture, however, my wife became completely smitten.  She never had animals growing up, so she always just kind of ignored them until Deanna stole her heart.  Now Deanna comes into the bed room to snuggle with her, she sits on the sofa petting Deanna, it is pretty funny.

If it wasn’t for my bunny, I wouldn’t have my girlfriend now. I don’t often make good first impressions so when I met her, things weren’t going very well for me. However, on my phone, I have a pic of my rabbit as my backdrop and she saw it and nearly squealed. It turns out that she’s a bunny gal herself. After that, well we’ve been together for just over a year now.

Both of us are a bit sad that we won’t introduce our bunnies to one another. I found out that mine doesn’t like other females and hers is an EXTREMELY SPOILED unspayed female. But we do love each other’s buns very much and we have an understanding that if it is a choice between her or my bun (or in her case me and her bun), the bun’s will win out.

I live with my boyfriend as well – and he is completely anti-lulla, when im looking. lulla has taken over our spare bedroom which used to house his star wars collection. he completely FREAKS OUT if there is a little turd pellet. he stands there and points and goes "oh my god oh my god stacy get it get it thats so grosssss"

but i’ve caught him taking her out of her cage and petting her when he thinks im not around – i came home one time and they were napping together on the couch.

he also shows her to his friends when he comes over and says "heres stacy’s rabbit with a stupid name – it doesnt do anything" then he pets her. *eye roll*

i mentioned the idea of another rabbit – and of course thats a no go. but it doesnt matter im going to do it anyway!

I had been suggesting to him for awhile that i wanted a rabbit – and he never took me seriously until i brought lulla home. haha!

well – lulla says i have to go (shes digging at me since im not paying attention to her), good luck with your stubborn boyfriends who secretly love bunnies.

I live with my husband and my kids. Of course the kids love them to death and they like to help out. My son in perticular loves to feed them for me. My daughter is very calm and is so good with them when they are running around. My husband likes to act like he just puts up with them but he secretly loves them to death. He calls himself daddy and loves to pet them and Him and Coney are just best buds. When I am trying to get Coney back in his house he just runs, but when daddy calls him he comes. Little poop!

cool thread!

Mike is pretty okay with Meadow.  he’s less than thrilled with her taking over the couches, but he will also give her bunny rubs.  i’ve said things about our second bunny in the future and he says no.  since i don’t work, he’s the sole support of us, and it seems at times he likes to calculate for me how much we spend on Meadow… which is not that much… really.  *shrug*

he did get mad b/c he was laying on the couch, half asleep last night and Meadow comes running and lands with a huge thump on his stomach.  he jumped about 6 feet in the air… muttered something that he can’t even lay on his own couch… and stormed into the bedroom.

i do all the bun chores myself… but i also do all the housework myself… so why should Meadow be any different…?  lol.

i live with the boyfriend who does his best to be convincing that he only tolerates The Terrible Two. He keeps threatening that they are going to be moved into the spare bedroom as they keep him up all night with their noise. (however he hasn’t thrown a fit at finding they’ve chewed the new skirting boards under the bed), and he can threaten this all he likes as I’m with xnovalentine, doesn’t matter what he says! i do ALL the cleaning of their bits and bobs (he just likes to point out that they’ve pooped here, pooped there and not actually clean up the poops himself..or he’ll walk into the bedroom & scream with horror and disgust as their litter box stinks the place out, but wont even consider the idea of cleaning it out himself! Yet herein lies the man who actually got up and out of bed, popped on the light, and got on the floor to cuddle Brian Bum (Mr Buggers) & Bettie Bean (Sweaty), when i was away from home for a couple of nights (Bettie comes up onto the bed for her cuddle, but Brian digs and scrapes on the floor cushion next to the bed demanding a cuddle), the boyfriend also refers to Brian as “son”. 🙂

It’s just me and Pepper, though she likes people and probably wishes I had more of them around – especially the sloppy ones that drop food on the floor.

I have a fairly active blog and at one point asked my readers if I should be putting the bunny stuff on a filter.  EVERYONE chimed in that the bunny stories were one of teh best parts.  Sigh – so much for thinking I was interesting…..

Me and my gf are both very devoted to our buns and share the responsibilities 50/50. We’re both totally in love with them and celebrate every time they do something cute, take pictures of them for each other, etc. I think sharing the experience of owning a bunny with someone else has made it much better and sharing the responsibilities makes things much easier.

I live with my boyfriend and all our animals are our babies…the only difference is when they are good they are his, and when they are bad they are mine.

I am the more rabbit oriented one. (I feed and clean up after them) We never had a rabbit until we found Fu on the the street, and it was a learning experience. As clever and determined as she was, it did not prepare us for beasty boy. Shadow is a whole different ball game, way more rambunctious than Fu ever was and it drives the BF crazy. After a few hours of tripping over him, pulling off the hutch, calming dogs and cats he is screaming "put the bunny away!" and I am the one yelling he needs more time. But he is the same guy that will climb over the baby gate, get on his hands and knees to kiss and rub noses with him and to be the good guy and hand out the papaya tablets.  He still has to come to terms with why the bun needs to be neutered and gets a little green around the gills when I mention adopting a campanion for Shadow and bonding bunnies by driving them around in the car. 

I live with my 3 year old daughter, my boyfriend, one very old and lazy dog and 3 buns.
My daughter loves them although she is still a little too young to help care for them. But she loves to share bits of her banana and laughs at the silly things they do. My dog is quite fond of them as well (she’s also quite fond of their droppings…ewwwww!) My boyfriend is pretty much like the rest of yours… they are my bunnies so he doesn’t help much with the chores..unless he is going to Lowes, and then he will grab a bag of wood stove pellets for me.
I want to build a condo for them in the living room but he wants them to stay in the laundry room.
I usually get my way though…so when the condo is done I’ll post pictures. ( I sound like such a brat )

I’m FAR too tired to be laughing so much this morning!!!!!! lololol SO much so i’ve now got a headache. lol

My dog does that also!  After eating  up all the poos, he nudges the bun’s butt for more.  Lucky for us he keeps it down.

When friends see the butt nudging, they all go awwwww how cute, the dog love the bunny.  We just look at each other and think…if they only knew

LOL awesome

I live with my fiance, 2 buns, 4 cats and a fish. Ricky thinks I’m weird because I treat my bunnies like my children and I’m so anal about their care. He pretends he’s not “into” the bunnies but I do catch him talking to them with a baby voice. He doesn’t do any rabbit related chores but he pays for all their supplies without complaint

You know, one of my kids asked me the other day why people use a silly squeaky voice when talking to bunnies, and I could not give her a real answer.  She does it too of course, we all do.  I watched a fascinating show once that dealt with how mothers talk to newborn babies, and how across all cultures and languages moms use a high squeaky voice to talk to their babies when they are happy, but their voice lowers when they are trying to discipline the child.  People talk the same way to animals, there must be some deep seated evolutionary reason for this.

It likely has something to do with the fact that larger creatures have deeper voices and thus a deeper voice lends a more intimidating air to a message you’re trying to convey (in the case of using a lower voice for discipline)…and the opposite follows as well (using a lighter or higher voice to convey tenderness or kindness).

I know several people with dogs and buns and the dogs do view the buns as "hoppy little treat dispensers"