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- Shiitake Mushrooms (I think I spelled that wrong)
- Green Peppers
- Onions
- Corn
- Cauliflower.
Are those all safe for bunnies to eat? The first one is because my mom’s gonna be getting that for a party and any left over, she’d just feed to bunny every now and then, the rest are things my grandparents grow and Simba’s gonna be there for a week and I want to make a list of things he can and cannot eat for them so they don’t accidentally feed him something bad.
This is the first time we would leave Simba, we’re going on vacation and can’t take him to the cabin, we can’t take the dogs either, so my grandparents get all the animals. I’m so worried they might feed him something he can’t eat. Also the poor guy’s probably gonna be cooped up in his cage the whole time 
But once we get home, he’ll be out as much as possible. Haha, I’m so worried, my mom told me to make up proportions if I’m so worried they won’t feed him the right amount so I have 16 little baggies of food (I feed him a little less than 1/4 a cup of food twice a day and a certain amount of veggies.) and I’m gonna make up bags of veggies for them. He’s my first rabbit since I was really young and I’m just taking every precaution I can. Even if I get made fun of for being so protective… -
Corn is favored by companies, Pandora, cause it is a cheap filler. It’s not expensive for them to get, it’s high in carbs so fills the animals up, but low nutrition so it’s not really that great for them, but means more profit off selling that bag of food. That is why it’s in so many products – dog foods, cat foods, rabbit foods, etc. Most higher quality feeds for animals will leave it out in place of more nutritious ingredients. And for veggie snacks, there are much better alternatives.
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I ended up leaving him with my older sister with approved veggies proportioned out, but I’ll never do that again, she left the state! Even though it was a day trip, she still left Simba alone, and she doesn’t close his cage door correctly. (We’re in the process of building a new one, but his current one has a broken latch so we use binder clips to keep it closed) He knows how to open it and when we came home, he was out and about in the back room because he opened his cage. Also, she brought a snake into our house that’s bigger than Simba, if I recall correctly, that snake also is an escape artist. It scares me to know that they both could have got out and the snake could have ate Simba… I think I might just save up the money for next year to hire a sitter that has experience with rabbits, because apparently my 20 year old sister isn’t responsible enough to do so. She didn’t give him his hay every day (There was enough for each day, and only 2 out of 8 of the bags were emptied.) she neglected my pet and that makes me angry and even more distrustful of her.
I hate that I can’t trust my own sister with a simple task of feeding my rabbit, changing his litter and water, and letting him out for a bit each day. I know she left him out though, there was piles of poop in his favorite spots, which she didn’t clean up until I told her to…. -
I’m glad he is okay, too. But my problem with her leaving is that she left early in the morning and didn’t get back til late at night, so I’m not sure if she fed him that day or got someone to feed him… My mom made her get rid of the snake though. I just hate that I can’t trust my own sister with such a simple task. I actually had to email my therapist because it stressed me out and I don’t see her for another week yet.
Simba’s like a therapy bunny to me because I have really bad anxiety (That’s the worst of my issues) and he helps me when I have attacks. And if something happened to him, I’d be really upset, he’s been calm and loving from the moment we got him and his personality is something of its own, he’s not startled easily and he loves to be outside, even though there’s loud cars he doesn’t even flinch (We checked to see if he’s deaf and he’s not) We couldn’t possibly find another rabbit like him. D: I kinda went off on a bit of a rant, but yeahhh. I don’t like when people mistreat my pets, she didn’t even tell us she was leaving, and she has a junk car, so she could have broke down somewhere and not got home for another couple days while it was fixed and Simba wouldn’t have been fed for a couple days if that happened. :/ -
Posted By tanlover14 on 07/26/2012 08:20 AM
Where in PA are you from?! I’m from Pittsburgh and I know a GREAT lady who works at the Humane Society. She’s my boss’s wife also and she LOVES bunnies. I know the state is pretty large so it’s more possible that you’re extremely far away but if you happen to be close to Pittsburgh she’s GREAT for bunny-sitting! She took care of mine for a week while I was out of town and my buns were happy little critters when I got back! And she gave me updates every day!I live just outside Pittsburgh, actually, about an half hours drive from Pittsburgh. I’ll have to tell my mom if we go on vacation next year.
Of course, I’ll need her info. 
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