Hello, thought I'd intruduce myself as I've been scouring this website for information for so long!  What a great website; just reading through various posts and the info on the main site has been a real inspiration (along with a copy of the House Rabbit Handbook of course!)

So, my name is Chris and my girlfriend and I have just adopted 2 beautiful Lionhead siblings from Lecoeur Rabbit Rescue here in Hampshire, UK. They were born in June 2009, so they are just about 5 months, give or take a week or so and they have lived in our lounge in a 4ft x 4ft puppy pen since Saturday. We've got another puppy pen, which we can open up to section off an area of the lounge, and the last 2 nights we've been sitting in there while they've been running around and binkying!  Pic attached.

The black one is called Ariel, and the grey/white harlequin is called Miranda. I need desperatley to post a question about them now, as they've just had their first fight and we're a bit scared!

Hehehe! Thanks guys; they're really funny as well. Miranda loves to look around and then "bunny flop" and they both did about 6 small binkies yesterday when we had them out for their playtime

This website is cool. There are a couple of UK specific ones, but I gleaned so much useful information from here I thought it'd be rude not to try to contribute or at least say hello

hi and welcome!

Beautiful sister bunnies.

It's time to separate the two  until they're spayed. Separate them until one month after the surgery to avoid injuries. They can clean take each others' ears off.

Now, what neat pellets are those? They look totally different than mine!

I don't think we have those in Canada. The pellets here are all cut short, maybe a third of an inch or 1 cm. The ones in your photo are very long and weird-shaped.
 

I am in a foolish mood:

Ariel with her ears up...

Ariel with her ears down

Welcome - they are tooo gorgeous! Is Miranda really a lionhead with magpie harlequin colouring?!   So great!

Posted By katie.hedger on 11/19/2009 05:27 PM
bahahahahahaha markbun!!!

i bet they're too proper to thump or they do it with a pinky in the air!
i'm in love with british people. too bad there aren't many in texas.... o.O

Indeed. For instance, they find it exceedingly bad-mannered if I walk past without doffing my hat and have instisted we turf over a section of the lounge so they can play cricket!

I actually went to Texas about 8 years ago for a couple of weeks to visit a couple of ex-pats. I can honestly say it was a bizarre culture shock, and nothing like I imagined. I had a really amusing conversation with a tall Texan chap (after a fair few whiskey sours) and after I'd been talking at him for about 10 minutes he said "Boy, I don't understand a word you just said, you wanna cigar?!"

Awesome burgers though. Best ever.

Posted By boogercj on 11/20/2009 02:14 AM

Indeed. For instance, they find it exceedingly bad-mannered if I walk past without doffing my hat and have instisted we turf over a section of the lounge so they can play cricket!

And demand tea and crumpets at four o' clock sharp, no doubt    

      Now where did they put those floppy straw hats? Time to be off to Ascott for the races..

 

When asked where I would like to visit if I left the US, my first choice is always the UK.

Hehe, well at the moment we've had persistent, heavy rain and gales for about 2 weeks now; it's turned into a proper stormy and gloomy autumn . I asked my rabbits and they're definitly glad to be house-bunnies!