Looking to add to the family?
This is Oreo. But he’s not the kind you twist, lick and dunk. He’s the kind you kiss, squeeze and love.
See what we did there?
This Oreo is a super-cute bunny, and current inhabitant of the Sydney Dogs and Cats Home.
Oreo is a male, tricoloured lop ear rabbit, and he’s looking for a family.
He is affectionate and loves a cuddle. Oreo also likes spending time outside, stretching his legs and exploring new surroundings.
His favourite food is hay, but he is also partial to a bit of the sweet stuff… Apple, that is.
The Sydney Dogs and Cats Home is a council pound and Not-For-Profit community facility. It has a simple mission – to prevent the unnecessary euthanasia of healthy, loving, domestic pets, young, old or with special needs, by re-homing them and giving them a second chance at life. Find the newest member of your family on their website.
You can contact SDCH here:
Email: sdch@sydneydogsandcatshome.org
Phone: +612 9587 9611
Fax: +612 9588
Save a life. Rescue a pet.
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We love our female bunny. My daughter looks after her mostly (with a bit of prompting). She is an indoor bunny and does get to run around. It's a bit messy but she is lovely and quiet and not too smelly. I think rabbits are great pets and they get along with other animals - just take care to slowly introduce them as you would with any already established pet. I would wholeheartedly recommend a bunny for a pet.
Ok have to pipe up for those checking this out. Rabbits are amazing pets and severely under appreciated! But please be aware that they are not particularly easy or low maintenance and are not suitable for children to do most of the care taking. So do not get one on impulse, as with any animal. The vet fees are particularly high for rabbits, and they do require quite some attention and space and unlimited hay to munch on all day long. They are the best companion animals when given free-range or partial free-range of the house and constantly spend time with you. You can absolutely toilet train them just like indoor cats, even from adulthood once they have been desexed. Desexing is of course for the obvious reasons recommended and also from a social perspective because they can be very territorial, hormonal and grumpy if left un-fixed. They can also get very lonely without a bunny friend unless you are home a lot. Since they are very social creatures they will not do well outside in a hutch by themselves (also no commercial hutches really provide enough space for them to run and jump).
They will however reward you with kisses, demands for pats, entertaining antics and may sit with you on the couch to watch tv. The best rabbit I ever had was an adopted as an adult, please skip the pet store baby rabbits and adopt from a shelter.
Check out http://rabbit.org/ for more info on keeping bunnies indoors. Its an american site but most info still applies.
Yep,you're spot on (about everything). We haven't desexed our male bunny and he is a bloody nuisance in Spring. He literally runs 100's of circles around me, I am not sure if he's rounding me up or figuring out a way to do what he wants to do. He humps our cats, the dog and the poor guinea pig (the one I really feel sorry for). I am too scared of him having an operation so we just put up with it.
ps the guinea pig is fine.
Well if you can afford it, the boys often recover really quickly from surgery! A lot less major than for the girls, but yes there is always a risk with anesthesia. Also, it probably won´t stop him humping completely. Even the desexed girls do it, its can also just be a hierarchical thing to say that "I am the top rabbit!", but once his dominance is established and unquestioned by your other pets it would probably die down. And some say the circles is actually kind of a "I love you!" so its pretty sweet...