AHH!!!!!! *RANT*

[MirBear]

So my grandpa’s down to visit… and well he’s a country guy..

i got upset when i came back from my dads sunday because my mom’s boyfriend take AWFUL care of the buns. he puts food in the water dish, water in the food dish, over feeds them the water isnt even clean its from the rain barrel and he uses the dirty food cup to fill up with the water and leaves it unprotected in the garage for the next day when he goes to feed and water them. so i complained to my mom. and she’s trying to tell me to just be happy someone looking after them when the pellets are mush because obviously they didnt take the water out before putting pellets in, the water is digusting. and now i have a grandfather telling me that they way i look after my rabbits is wrong and i’m not letting them be natural so i get up and walk away.

not to mention all the easter dinner cracks that are making me want to cry.

now today i’m talking about larger cages and such and my grandfather’s saying how he can help make a nice BIG cage and run for them, so my mom starts talking about how shes been “researching” how to house rabbits outdoors in the winter. if she did proper research she’d know not to house them outdoor period!!! anyways, as shes saying how they need to be kept dry and cant get wet my grandpa says alright so we’ll have a wire bottom so the waste can fall through. now a red alarms going off and im saying no. no. no. no. no. they CAN’T be on a wire bottom. i have them littertrained they will have their litter box’s in it. oh well now im not allowing them to be natural again and blah blah blah. so we move onto the pen, and my grandpa mentions how if you feed them and care for them and such they’ll never leave the yard and my mom says how oh when their out in the yard they dont leave the yard and if someone chasing them to catch them they just run in the garage anyways. great. good one mom. now he turns to me and says we dont have to build a run you could just open the hutch and let them run free in the yard and they wont go anywhere. i’m like  there is a busy road behind us. the yard isn’t secure and they will kill each other!!!! now im wrong and doughting nature because you dont see a bunch of dead rabbits in the wild and one will be dominant and then they’ll live happily and such. nope. now im trying to explain.

-and what if one isn’t submissive?

“you mean dominant and one willl always be dominant”

ok, so what if their both dominant then they’ll fight to get the other to be submissive and will either get hurt or kill one another. “

“now your doughting nature people always try and second guess nature, that is wrong, you are taking away your rabbits ability to be natural …  im just tring to help you but if you dont want me to thats fine you can just keep them in those little cages if thats what you want.”

after this conversation what does he do? MORE FOOD JOKES!!! i turned around said my animals are NOT FOOD and we’ll here i am,.   sorry for the rant.

[Doe of Chai]

Hang in there.

[Maria]

People can be so mean! I was having trouble earlier in the year with my car and asked family and friends for advice. Almost everyones response was get rid of the bunnies as they are a drain and then you can move to a nicer flat near work! How is that helpful.
People don’t understand bunnies as pets I don’t know why! If I mention that the bunnies pulled up the carpet, or shredded a book people sigh and say ‘thats why you shouldn’t keep rabbits! Get a cat!’
When I recently got a third rabbit, everyone felt they had the right to tell me I was stupid and making a mistake.
But please hang in there. When I was younger I had 2 rabbits that had to stay outside because my parents didn’t want them inside and I was always trying to sneak them in.
Let the rabbit pie jokes wash over you and just smile that they are missing out on the great relationship you can have with a bun!
Besides you won’t be living there forever and one day you can have a house full of buns if you want to! In the meantime, find research about house rabbits for your mum, about wire cages causing sore feet and the dangers to rabbits being prey animals and maybe she will understand!

[MirBear]

ive been on this forum for over a year and its a constant battle to get them inside, members here are great with support and advice and have helped me through some really tough times before, thanks guys <3.
as for research and my mom, she looks at it but it hasnt ever swayed any of her oppinions yet.. :/

[Deleted User]

Mirbear, can you house your rabbits at your father’s place?

[LizzieKnittyBun]

Ugh… I feel you. There are so many people in my family who STILL joke about eating my pets, and it just about makes me want to throw up…

[Andi]

I would just look at them and say straight faced adn serious “This conversation is very hurtful to me, as I love my Bunnies as anyone would love their cat or dog. I hope that you can respect that fact even if you do not agree, and stop with these hurtful comments.”
Seriously some people just don’t get it unless you write it out for them.

I grew up eating rabbit, my grandmother was poor and lived in the bush, she did what she could to get by. She now lives in closer to me, and when she visit she has never once even said anything about eating my rabbits. I can’t say much for others, but i do respect her so much more knowing she puts my feelings above teasing comments.

The part about your Mom researching about rabbits and such, I think that could be a good thing. Just let her know if she wants to learn about rabbits you can give her some sites (Like the HRS), and if you need to argue a point (Indoor vs outdoor living) make sure you have the facts to back it up so she can’t just brush you off about it.

*HUGS* Keep strong, and don’t let people bully you with their immature comments (No matter their age).

[MirBear]

petzy, unfortunatly i cant, he loves over an hour away and i only see him every 2-3 weeks and only for the weekend, i would have no way of caring for them and they dont want the responsability. they dont een care for the cat thats his girlfriends son’s job (he’s 19) the son wanted the cat the son cleans and feeds the cat (they pay the expenses: vet, food, litter… etc)

 

my grandpa left for huntsville this morning so as much as i love him i’m kinda glad he went home. he brought my sisters and one of my cousins back with him for a week so he’s not lonely.

(he lost my  grandmother in march, some of you may remember me posting about her passing and how torn up he was)

its been such a stressful year. with my grandma passing, and my sisters “living conditions” and her “state of mind” , moving, getting me and my younger sister signed up for school and such, i almost feel bad for asking for anything, And this is the one thing i did ask for and its a   no.

[Deleted User]

Hopefully things will settle for you all around.

I am not sure if your mother’s research is going to lead to your rabbots being better off, as there are many different philosophies about how to keep rabbits. If I were in your situation I would settle for the garage at night, the cages that you have there, and for an enclosed pen in your yard for the daytime. This is better for them than to have your mother allow them at large all over.

[Deleted User]

Will your mother buy you decent materials to build a covered, safe, enclosure since having them outside is what she wants? If you can’t build it very sturdy, covered and protected from stray dogs, cats, birds and predators, and dampness, cold and insects, I would look into rehoming the two rabbits, I’m afraid.

[MirBear]

petzy, that is what she wants to do, it was my grandfather who said i should just build them a hut and have them run free, my mom wants to make a hut and have an inclosed pen attached. but she doesn’t want to waste her yard, so for this winter at least they will be int the garage, unless a hut magically appears in my yard. last time she wanted to build a hut however, her boyfriend messed it up royally. hes jamacan and what he thinks is a large enough space for them, not even my mother agreee’s with.. and that says something. the hut he built was nice, if it was for just one dwarf rabbit like hershey, so this time, this hut will NOT be built by him..

actually though, the type of hut my mom wants its really really nice. it will be along the back of the garage, and thats a good 12 feet or more. and the runns would be huge for that. if that actuallt gets done, i wont mind having them outside. they’ll have more room than i do!

[Beka27]

We obviously don’t advocate outdoor living, but I have to admit, I’ve seen pics of some very nice, large, SAFE, weather-proof outdoor rabbit runs/hutches. I know it can be done. If your mom is willing to work with you on getting them a good space, that may be the best you can hope for at this point.

[LittlePuffyTail]

***Hugs to you**** Non-bunny people can be so frustrating!

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