I am a rescue person.  Dogs are my passion but I’m an equal opportunity rescuer.  I’ve worked with a few different dog groups and a ferret group.  I’d like to volunteer for our local shelter but they actually have a waiting list to volunteer for them.  (Imagine that!)

I have two dogs, three ratties, three ferrets, and now the bunny boys and I must say that as far as small animals go?  Rabbits suit me so much better than the ferrets and the rats.  Don’t get me wrong, I love my critters and I will care for them for their entire lives…but if I had looked into rabbit rescue a few years ago I most probably would have not adopted ferrets and rats.

Ferrets have their pros and their cons.  I’m a little burnt out on the cons…the main one being the poop!  They are poop machines!  And their poop isn’t easy to deal with like bunny turds are.  It’s a challenge to keep up with the daily poop, especially when you have a trio.

What I like so much about rabbits is their quiet presence.  I like that they’re happy to see me, I enjoy the daily cage cleaning and feeding routine.  I love how soft they are and the brightness of their eyes.  And I especially like that they are content to just be in the same room with me.  I can let them out of the cage and relax (my living room is bunny proofed) and they’ll come up to me every now and then to say hello.  I know they’re babies now so they’re easy and I know they’ll be teenagers before I know it…but they’ll also mature not long after that and once they’re neutered they’ll settle down and grow into well mannered boys.

I’m happy to have my bunny boys.  They should still be around when my girls leave for college, though they’ll be really old by then…and I may have to fight for custody.  My girls are rescuers too and they may actually need to live off campus so they can have some kind of critter of their own.

Anyway, I’m just so happy with my boys I can hardly stand it!  And I’m glad I found this forum.  I’m learning a lot here.

**disclaimer:  the bunny cage is not in an area of the house accessable to the dogs…and when the bunnies are out in the living room the dogs are confined to a different part of the house.  We’re very careful with our critter management over here.  Especially since my dogs are a Pit Bull and a Rottweiler.  :0)  The ferrets have been here for four years and we’ve never had an incident.  Just thought I should throw that out there.