Rabbits.
Rabbits make great pets. They are fairly easy to keep in good condition, and can even be housetrained. They are content to be cuddled if handled from babies, and come in so many varieties, there is a type and colour that should appeal to everyone.
They also get on with other household pets.
It is important to give them a good balanced diet, and take them to the Vet for health checks, but they are great around children, and an easy way to teach them about caring for an animal that doesn’t need long walks, or exotic food.
If you would prefer one that is as big as a dog, you can also buy very large breeds.
I have had rabbits in the past. One benefit of the smaller ones is that you can take them to family or friends to be cared for when you go on holiday. They rarely show any distress about being kept in captivity, though they sadly do not live that long.
(And I also like to eat rabbit, but don’t tell them that!)
I had a rabbit too and I named her kiki. It was the naughtiest rabbit on earth to be honest. It could never stay in one place and then one day it died because some man who liked to eat rabbits too ate it thinking that it was meat…but for me it was my kiki😔😔😞😢
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Someone killed your pet rabbit for food? That’s awful, Suzan.
Best wishes, Pete. xx
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Yeah, he ate my kiki🥺🥺. I still feel so terrible. I miss him now that you talked about rabbits😢😞
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Goodness me that is a big rabbit!
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I love those Flemish Giants, Abbi! That one is much bigger than Ollie. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I haven’t had rabbit pie for a few years …my mum used to make a great one…ours were always for the pot rather than as a pet …
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Although we ate rabbit often, we never killed the pet ones we kept in hutches. Though my grandad always did, when he was alive.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Same as my dad and grandad all the rabbits were for the pot …
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Whats about a rabbit as a new friend for Ollie? 😉
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Unfortunately Ollie chases wild rabbits. So I would have to be careful. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Oh, no chance for a really friendship. Take care of him, because rabbit mother can be very angry. Michael
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Rabbit with onion and brown gravy….yummy chiq
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They do cook up nicely, chuq. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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😎
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oh my! such a huge rabbit! never tried eating rabbit, Pete. i don’t think i’ll ever will. regards. 🙂 🙂
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They do taste good, Wilma. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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😄😄😄
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“Once upon a time there were four little Rabbits, and their names were–Flopsy, Mopsy, Cottontail, and Peter, ” Beatrix Potter. Now I’m seeing the connection, C
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I never read Potter as a child. But now I get it, Cheryl.
Best wishes, Pete.
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This alphabet is turning into a zoo 🤣🤣
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What can I say? I’m an animal lover! Zoos will feature, when I get to ‘Z’.
Best wishes, Pete.
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S for snakes 🐍 ? 😊
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Not snakes. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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That first bunny is one of the cutest I’ve ever seen, and the last one…yikes!
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If I had one now, I think it would have to be a ‘giant’. That first one is so cute! I couldn’t find a bigger photo of it, sadly.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I like rabbits and rabbit was an important part of our diet back in the day. Fried or in hasenpfeffer.
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We generally had it as rabbit stew, Don. I still like that now.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I tend to Pâté them not pat them 🙂
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I love eating them, but also love stroking pet ones.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I used to raise rabbits – and I sure do miss them.
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They can breed exceptionally quickly. Did you raise them for food, or as pets?
Best wishes, Pete.
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Both. My lop-eared bunnies were for show. My main buck was the best pet ever!!
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Glad to hear that, GP. I am very attracted to those Flemish Giants, I confess.
Best wishes, Pete.
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The few times I have had rabbit to eat it was laced with buckshot. That made it an adventure rather than a culinary experience. It was not the only gamey meal I had with that friend who thought he was self-sufficient as long as he a sixpack to fall back on 🙂 Warmest regards, Theo
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We had ‘home-killed’ rabbits, mostly, so no buckshot. However, I have hurt my teeth on shot whilst eating pheasant in the past.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Rabbits are of course amazing as well! But don’t think I’ve ever eaten rabbit to be honest🤔 So yeah guess I won’t be telling them that either way! Loved the picture with the dog by the way, that was brilliant😊😊
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Thanks, Michel. It is very tasty to eat, but you have to be careful of the very sharp small bones.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I didn’t know you could house train rabbits, Pete. I know people who own rabbits and they drop little poops everywhere which I find very off putting. I could never eat one, but my mom ate rabbit a lot as a kid. There wasn’t much else and they were lucky to have any meat at all.
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We had it all the time when I was young, as people kept them at home for food, so it was cheap. Now it is relatively expensive to buy rabbit meat here.
I had housetrained rabbits who would poo and pee on newspapaers that we trained them to use. But they lived in hutches and runs in the garden most of the time, and all through the summer.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I miss my rabbit intensely. Such wonderful animals!
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Sorry to hear you lost your rabbit. I had two once, but they didn’t live long.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Mu niece has a house rabbit – not quite as large as the one in your last pic. It gets on very well with her Rhodesian Ridgeback. I like to eat them, too 🙂
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Love a rabbit casserole! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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With a nice Rioja 🙂
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Anything Red will do for me, Mary.
(Hope all’s well with you?)
Best wishes, pete. x
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Yes, thanks. Had my third chemo today so more than half way now.
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Still rooting for you, dear Mary. x
I knew it was today, so I was thinking about you.
Best wishes, Pete.
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So Rabbits won out over Robots? Robots make great pets. They are fairly easy to keep in good condition (keep an oil can handy!), and can even be house trained to not zap your electronics. They are safe to be cuddled, as long as you don’t touch their “kill command” switch. They come in many appealing software/hardware varieties. They also get on with other household pets, as long as they’re willing to submit to an iron fist. And they are great for controlling the behavior of obnoxious children at family gatherings.
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I like robots, but they need to improve a great deal before they make my list! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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