Monthly Archives: December 2008

A very dear friend of mine from high school who is residing in Melbourne, Australia just told me that his doe Oreo just kindled 5 kits. 1 was a stillborn. That is really good for a 1st time mommy! And to top it off, she actually built a very nice nest.

Jack and his girlfriend Jordan did great by providing both his rabbits with a very nice environment. Just take a look at the posh hutches these spoiled buhnies are living in (don’t forget to imagine the love shack the humans live in too).

Bugsy (the buck) was actually a lost buhny taken in by Jack. Oreo was later bought to be Bugsy’s companion. Oreo reminds me of Charlyz a lot! The first time I saw photos of her, I was shocked and thought Charlyz went down under!

Photos time!

This is Bugsy:

Don’t you think these hutches look so damn good!?

After encountering so many deaths both in newborn kits and adult rabbits, death is the least of my phobias now. Please do not get me wrong. I still dread death in rabbits and it is something I hate but am able to accept because it is inevitable most of the time.

The scariest thing for me thus far, is being approached by people interested in my rabbits that think that they already know it all. Please do not get me wrong. I respect those that have a good attitude for learning and I must admit that there is still so much more to be learned. I too have much more to learn in this rabbit raising hobby.

I am very afraid of people that are too prideful.

The point I am writing this is that, from the bottom of my heart, I am crying out loud hoping that people for once will understand my good intentions. This blog has exposed my rabbitry to the anonymous cyber world and that really scares me because this entire internet thing is just too superficial.

The internet can work for you and also against you easily. For a breeder that could not care less about the well being of their rabbits, the internet definitely work wonders. It can bring in revenue. Unfortunately, the well being of my rabbits is top priority. At times, I myself do not really understand the reason why I am being so particular but it is just the way I am and I understand that not many people is willing to subscribe to such awkward principles.

It is really hard for me just to let go and just not bother about who takes home my rabbit. There are just too many danger zones.

To name a few, there is a possibility of rabbit farm operators pretending to be interested buyers, backyard breeders who are interested to make a few extra dollars, college students acting as “brokers” earning a few dollars with a change of hand and of course impulse buyers that will soon grow bored of their new found pet.

I have seen too much of these going around and it really scares the crap out of me.

My question to fellow breeders in the US is, do you guys get these a lot or you rather sweep some under the carpet?

I believe that is something very possible from where I came from. Many cultures in this world believe in the super natural power of the dead and the dead has got great influences in their lives.

But what I am really trying to say is that, should you as a living human being be controlled by objects or should it be the other way around?

Many people keep pets of all sorts and mine happened to be rabbits. Every sane person could see how helpless domesticated pets has become compared to their wild counterparts. And that gives us more reason to take good care of our pets because they rely and depend on us heavily.

I just do not understand sometimes why people tend to provide a domesticated pet an environment closer to their “natural” habitat. Are they trying to make their pets feral?

I can’t seemed to get the point of this when what people take years to domesticate, they tend to reverse the order of things.

For example, I read about people having great experiences raising their rabbits in their backyards or gardens. I have no qualms about that although personally I feel that domesticated rabbits should allowed time in the garden but not living in one all the time. Since most are kept in residential area and there can be too many hazards threatening their lives.

Keeping rabbits in the garden is not the problem but not carefully evaluating the consequences is. I sometimes read about rabbits “escaping” through burrow that they have dug in the garden and I believe to a certain extend, this is a problem. Pets in my opinion, to a certain extend, can be seen as objects with lives of course. They closely relate to objects in the sense whereby they need a being of better judgment to govern over them.

We as the owners are fully responsible for the well being of our pets. We are the higher being with greater judgment. So, when a rabbit burrows through to our neighbor’s lawn, do we say that it is the fault of the rabbit? When our dog poops in front of our neighbor’s compound, do we say bad dog or lousy owner?

But I believe in a land where the dead has got more power than the living, it is most of the time A BAD DOG or A BAD RABBIT because the owner has got a smaller brain compared to the DOG and RABBIT.

How sad and small our brains has shrunk!