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When I was looking into getting Powder, I joined another bunny forum – but it was full of breeders and people who kept outside bunnies so I wasn’t too inclined to like their advice, they said the best foods to feed were Mannapro and Purina Rabbit Chow (even for people who were just keeping the buns as house pets), cages looked too small that they recommended, etc. So I went looking for a house rabbit forum, since I wanted him to live a life as a spoiled house pet and figured a house bunny specific forum would be better at enabling me to do that – this was the first one I found from my google search.
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I found a bunny (Nova) abandoned in a park. I was worried she was pregnant and what I should do, now that she hadn’t died from the shock of being caught (I honestly thought that was going to happen). I had had another rabbit that died the day after I got Nova, and while I didn’t know why, I now know that he probably died of GI stasis (though he had some other problems, like only one testicle). I wouldn’t have even got another rabbit if I hadn’t found Nova. Well I was heavily involved with a rat forum at the time, but they knew little about rabbits. We had a copy of the HRS handbook in my house, but it wasn’t able to answer my questions about finding a possibly pregnant rabbit in a park. So I Googled something and found Binky Bunny!
Of course at 16/17 or whatever, I wasn’t exactly inclined to follow the advice given and actually take her to the vet, especially because even though I cared about my new bunny, my experience was that they did tend to die frequently (someone I knew bred, and I got my bunnies from her, and her bunnies often didn’t live very long). So Nova surprised me and gave birth to two stillborn babies, though that would have happened anyways because of all the stress she went through. I did get her spayed soon after, once she got some weight put on her (something about an 80+% chance of cancer was very persuasive!). And her diet was better. Though not enough veggies, (sometimes none) she did always have hay. Now she is very well cared for, and I owe much of what I know to BB. When taking her into the vet, I was told she was a very spoiled bunny.
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I actually found the store first. I think through hrs or mhrs Facebook. Signed up to be notified when tunnel came in stock. And forgot about the site– sorry bb- until I got that notification it was in and I came back to the site and started exploring. I was timid to join a forum (I was a forum virgin
) but once I was reading everyone’s advice I was like hey hey I got a question and it all bubbled up from there. Now I’m hooked -
Google, I believe. I was looking for rabbit toys or information.
This site has educated me, and in return, has helped me educate others about house rabbits
I’m known as the ‘Rabbit Lady’ at work, and my customers will return to my line to talk to me about bunnies. Last one, one said “Take care of that bunny!” 
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