All my friends say I'm stupid for being "obsessed" with my bunny. Um excuse me, but I didn't realize it was stupid to love your pet? They all ask me why I would get a rabbit spayed because it's "a waste of money." I told them that if Luna doesn't get spayed she'll be at a high risk for getting cancer. This is their response, "So? Just get a new one if it dies. Rabbits are cheap and it's not like they have a personality." Uh rabbits have NO personality?! They clearly don't have a clue what they're talking about AT ALL!  It completely irked me to hear them say this.

Wow. These are your friends?

Even if it weren't about rabbits, I would expect friends to be supportive and not judgemental. I would ask them to be a bit more sensitive to what you find important and that they not make such strong comments about things they have no experience with. I guess there will always be times when others opinions will clash badly with our own. Let it roll off you and do what you think is right.

Posted By DancingBun on 08/30/2010 06:11 PM

All my friends say I'm stupid for being "obsessed" with my bunny. Um excuse me, but I didn't realize it was stupid to love your pet? They all ask me why I would get a rabbit spayed because it's "a waste of money." I told them that if Luna doesn't get spayed she'll be at a high risk for getting cancer. This is their response, "So? Just get a new one if it dies. Rabbits are cheap and it's not like they have a personality." Uh rabbits have NO personality?! They clearly don't have a clue what they're talking about AT ALL!  It completely irked me to hear them say this.

Don't worry, my own mom says the same stuff to me.. she wont let me have mine spayed as she says why spend $400 on a $15 bunny thats only going to live a few years.

mind you she finally admits that they do have personality.. after she spent some time with hershey and had twix purring but don't listen to them.. pass it off as jokes. you always have us, we dont critisize you, we understand. they dont. were like our own species

Posted By bunbuns1 on 08/30/2010 07:05 PM
Try not to take it personally. While he never made comments like this, my dad was VERY skeptical at first of Eddie. Maybe it's a male thing, but none of the men I've told about my rabbits have ever really understood it. They can't believe they have personality, can be litter box trained, etc. My dad still doesn't think mine should be free in my apartment and that I should spend money on them at the vet, etc. But he doesn't say anything cause he's my dad and he knows how much I love my furbutts. Maybe men can't seem to wrap their heads around rabbits as pets because most of them wouldn't choose to get one themselves.

My hubby adores our little fluffballs

Roar

My boyfriend ADORES my bunny, my dad LOVES her also!

I find that rude about what your male friend said about 'So? Just get a new one!'  Rabbits cannot be replaced. We owners will move on, but, that bunny is forever in our hearts. And saying SO to cancer, pet or not, just hurts

I would ignore those buttheads. It isn't THEIR pet. They obviously are stupidheads

I hate when guys talk that way just to be macho.  It makes them so unattractive!  My husband absolutely adores our rabbits (and everyone else's on BB, he's a lurker on here!).  I know a few people that make jokes about rabbit stew and I know they're just joking around but it does get to me.  The longer we've had the rabbits the less they joke though.  My brother-in-law would make jokes but when he called us up about finding that california rabbit in his yard, I saw his other side and he really did care for the hurt rabbit.  So deep down there is a soft side in guys, it's just hard to see in some.  I really don't see the difference between a rabbit, dog, cat or even baby, you love them all the same and would do anything for them (or at least for me I would)

If those guys always make jokes about you having rabbits then what I would do is probably not discuss rabbits around them because they might just give you a hard time all the time.  But they really should respect you more.  

Posted By MirBear on 08/31/2010 04:01 PM
we should start a pictuure tread for skibubby's hubby :p

He got all excited when I told him someone suggested a thread of bunny pictures just for him

Yet we have to sit through their boring stories of their kids.    Ha.   My bunny is more interesting than your kid   lol

Thats how I feel at the masjid.  When I said I had a baby gate to keep cotton out of the bedroom and ruby in my friend looked shocked and laughed and said a baby gate.    She really had no idea.   She is more interested in the kids since she runs the masjid sunday school.  Thats ok.  I know she didnt' mean any insult.  

They do ask how my buns are though.   They care but some just don't get it.  lol.  Then others like to hear the funny stories. 

Now as far as being told so what if they get cancer etc I never hear that.

Except from hubby he says  I waste $ taking them to the vet.  HE isn't so bad now that I have bun ins.

Yet we have to sit through their boring stories of their kids. Ha. My bunny is more interesting than your kid lol

Oh, but bunnies are more entertaining than kids

THEY DON'T CRY