Hi everyone! I’ve been lurking around the forum and I thought I’d share my bunny story.

I got my first rabbit, a holland lop named JD, from the pet store three or four years ago. I knew nothing about rabbits. I had him in one of those horridly small wire cages that the store had and since he wasn’t fixed he srayed urine on the walls. Eventually I moved his cage outside. We live in a condo so we have a small, fenced in backyard. I made the cage rainproof and put it under a tree and left the door open. JD was happy to have so much space. Then I got a dwarf Hoto whose aggresiveness earned her the name Snap. Shortyly after, JD dissapeared. I suspect he was stolen as there was no hole for him to get out and no remains to suggest he was eaten.  A few weeks later we got a call asking if we’d lost a bunny. I was so excited but when the brought the bunny it was a dutch but took  him anyways. By this time we had made a large cage for the backyard out of wood and wire. I think it was 4 ft long, three feet high, and two or three feet wide. I named the Dutch Kobus off a list of Dutch names I found online. Well, Kobus and Snap had babies. Of course, not knowing much, only one survived. Domino. Then I find out about the nic condos and construct one for the backyard. I mostly let the buns have free run of the backyard with the four long, two wide, three high condo as shelter. Then the raccoons came, and took Snap. Shortly after that, a black bunny appeared on the other side of the fence. She was talking to Kobus and trying to find a way in. My dad went and caught her in the morning. But she taught them how to dig… wich drove my mom crazy. And they destroyed almost all the plants… So I finally moved it inside. And miss black bunny (Emily) is scheduled for her spay tomorrow (the boys were spayed before Snap’s demise).

Almost forgot. I got another bun over the summer (someone ‘found’ him and thought I could take him. I wasn’t there so my brother accepted the bun… cute gray dutch boy with one blue eye. He was so sweet but since Emily was still intact and I didn’t have the money for him he had to be rehomed.

I work at a non-chain pet store, so I spend a lot of time online learning about bunnies so I can pass on the knowledge to anyone interested in our rabbits (currently cute baby holland lops). What a ways I’ve come!