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    • hportland
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        Seriously, I get so jealous every time I see someone post something about how “their husband wants a French Lop someday” or “their boyfriend just got a Mini Rex”. Where are you finding these guys?! Don’t get me wrong, my own boyfriend is 100% fantastic. But when it comes to my two rabbits, he’s just like, “Oh yeah, they’re cute. But I want a dog.” Is there some sort of rabbit-based dating site that I’m missing out on? What’s the secret?

         

        Sorry if this is a weird topic


      • BrunosMama
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          LOL this topic cracks me up. Wouldn’t it be cool if there was bunnymatch.com lol. My husband actually never considered himself an animal person til he met me. He had only ever had one pet before, a bulldog. Then he met my cats and fell in absolute love. Later, we discovered a love for bunnies…and all furries! Lol now he’s the biggest softy. He went fishing with a friend this summer, and cried because the fish died while trying to release it. He was also trying to save an injured possum, but had to end its misery. He had to call our neighbor to do it. He also bawled one night while trimming bunny toes and he cut the quick. The bunny was upset, but he took it waay harder. I guess I got lucky. Or rather he had no choice bwa hahahahahha!!!!


        • Sindri
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            My husband doesn’t like our rabbits. He thinks they are cute but they have been too destructive so he is not too happy about that. I think its great that people have husbands or boyfriends that love their rabbits and other pets. I do understand how you feel though. I am an animal lover in general he keeps this place from becoming a total zoo.


          • hportland
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              BrunosMama, I would TOTALLY use that website. Might I ask what prompted your love of bunnies? Gosh, that is the cutest! I really do love it when guys let themselves get all mushy with animals. It’s a really good side of them.

              Sindriona: Haha! I feel you on that. My boyfriend will listen to my rabbit horror stories (Pee on the bed! Mountains of poop in the closet!) and say, “Geez, this is why I don’t have pets!” It’s really good that your husband keeps things from getting out of control though!


            • BrunosMama
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                Hportland- it was actually guinea pigs! I had piggies as a kid. A friend of ours got a couple and I started asking the husband if we could get one. He said he would rather try a bunny. “Bigger and more to love” he reasoned lol. So I started research on buns and we decided to try. Bruno was our first. She startedv a quick addiction. We got her in June 2011. As of September 2014, we have 9 bunnies (none by pregnancy) we still have Bruno (she is my avatar pic) and she rules then roost! Lol


              • JackRabbit
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                  When we only had Kieko and our dog (who had definitely claimed hubby as hers), he thought Kieko was cute. It wasn’t until Kieko curled up on his lap that he was enslaved. From that point, I would get home from work and find him laying on the sofa upstairs with her curled up in his arms. He still talks all macho and jokes about the buns to his buddies, but he’s all mush with the bunnies. He’s also cleaning litterboxes and running the shop vac in the bunny room right now while I’m laying on the floor reading BB and being a human climbing toy for the M&Ms!


                • LBJ10
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                    My husband was the one who wanted a rabbit. We had chinchillas before and after they died my husband said he wanted a bunny to fill the void. Leopold was actually supposed to be HIS rabbit.


                  • LongEaredLions
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                      My hubby loves animals so he was totally open to bunnies, although he probably didn’t expect to love them as much as he does.
                      Bunnymatch.com, LOL!


                    • LittlePuffyTail
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                        My husband is a compassionate person and really likes animals but I wouldn’t say he’s a “rabbit lover”. Although he was very attached to our little Bridge bun Stormy. Stormy really loved him too and was always giving him tons of kisses. He came home from work the day we had to put him down and he cried.

                        He enjoys the bunnies but not on the same level I do. He doesn’t freak out about everything cute they do like I do, lol. He’s describes himself as “more of a cat guy”.

                        But he is really good about helping me pay for them and has never complained not once about all the vet bills (Bindi is very high maintenance with the vet). Not like my horse whom he has labelled “The Walking Vet Bill”. And he’s always there to take care of them if I’m away.

                        While I would like him to be more rabbit crazy, I still think I’m lucky.


                      • Sindri
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                          My husband is really good about the whole vet care for them. He even doesn’t mind me taking them to get their nails done he just doesn’t like the damage to the house and to our elliptical machine that has been done. I think he doesn’t relate to them because they arent the cuddley type of a pet that he is use to. He does like animals in general though. Our first pets together was our ferrets we both wanted them. Then we we got a dog and then cats. He really likes our dogs and now really likes one of our cats who suddenly has decided to sit on his lap whenever he gets the chance.


                        • Avantika
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                            My boyfriend Rohit tends to fall for the cute, naive and innocent. So, falling in love with a rabbit was pretty predictable. (This is the same reason he fell for me, because I am rather timid in how I think and socially anxious in how I carry myself, not very clever and still look very small for my age :3) Its an LDR and I brought Moshu after I last met him, so he has never met Moshu. But..we often talk of her and I share with him her pictures and videos. A total softie from inside that dork is, meeting Moshus is high on his priority list when he’s here.
                            The funny thing is, I never really wanted to have rabbit as a pet before I met him. It may sound odd and maybe Freud can explain this (xD) but I often used to think how he looks like a rabbit with his chubby cheeks and long teeth. I think the thought of him was what made me bring home a bunny. :33


                          • TheMidnightSapphire
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                              My boyfriend has never been a huge animal person but has grown quite fond of my pets and now tells me that when we have our own house a rabbit will be our first pet together, he has completely fallen in love with Sapphire! (He does like Midnight but is in love with Sapphire ha ha ha!)
                              He still says he isn’t a huge animal person but we shall see! Ha ha!


                            • JPetrucci84
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                                TMS – He’s talking about you guys having your own house? Sounds like things are getting better!

                                My ex actually got me into rabbits. I’ve had pretty much all of the other pets (several dogs, a few cats, a couple birds, a tarantula, scorpion, step sisters) so I never really gave a second thought to owning a rabbit until our impromptu rescue. I would definitely subscribe to bunnymatch.com, haha. If I reach 40 and still don’t have my own Person, I might just adopt another 20 rabbits and call it a life. lol


                              • Darren
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                                  This is a funny thread idea…… You girls might be on to something look out match.com I’m just the guy with a bunny to most people, then comes the endless list of questions once someone new finds out I have a bunny instead of a dog. Educating the uneducated one person at a time. Good luck with with the bunnymatch.com


                                • JPetrucci84
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                                    Posted By Darren on 11/15/2014 8:58 PM

                                    You girls might be on to something look out match.com I’m just the guy with a bunny to most people, then comes the endless list of questions once someone new finds out I have a bunny instead of a dog. Educating the uneducated one person at a time. Good luck with with the bunnymatch.com

                                       Story of my life right here. ^^


                                  • TheMidnightSapphire
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                                      Yeah JPetrucci84! My inbox is messing up so I couldn’t message you back but thanks so much


                                    • Little Lion Head
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                                        Haha funny thread, I love this! When I was dating my hubby I convinced him to let me a get a bunny b/c he was working 80 hours a week and I was lonely. We technically weren’t allowed to have pets and back then I thought a bunny would be fine b/c they are just in a cage all day and super clean……….well then I found BB and realized I knew nothing!! Haha

                                        Our Bridge bun Boston was my husband’s little buddy. She followed him everywhere and she was always kissing him. Made it impossible not to love her. We used to live in the upstairs of a duplex and when I would get home from work both the hubby and Boston would be sitting at the top of the stairs waiting for me. So cute!

                                        JR my hubby is the same way. He talks a big game to his friends, but he spends a lot of his day laying on the floor baby talking to Pumpkin and trying to get a kiss!!


                                      • Silverpaws
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                                          I read this out to my boyfriend, he replied ‘We live in burrows under the ground, we male bunny lovers, and once a season we spring out of the ground.’
                                          The boyfriend is actually the reason I got my Merlin, he got him for me from a rescue to help with my depression.


                                        • Megabunny
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                                            Just saw this thread. Oh misery loves company. My hubby is great and puts up with vet bills and food bills and such, though I think we would’ve had a problem with the $1,000+ surgery if my dad hadn’t left me money recently, but he doesn’t like rabbits too much. Funny about your chins LBJ. Mine really liked the chins I bred and learned about them along with me, plus built me a cage for the first one I ever got before we were married. But I am green with envy when I hear people talk about their free range bunnies, too,(destructive) and the barriers their husbands let them put up to stay out of trouble (unsightly)and have more free run time. I have to be on top of my guy the majority of the time he’s out of his cage, though I have arranged the screened in back porch for when the weather is nice. What about those who get to put their bunnies in a nice enclosure in the livingroom??? I can’t think of a better piece of furniture than a rabbit cage ha ha. But then I remember how much destruction there has been to walls and wallpaper and I know we can’t have that. But I do wonder what it would be like to have him be a kindred spirit and, well, want to clean up stray rabbit poops while I play on BB like JackRabbit’s hubby. Give that man a big thank you, JR. my hubby knows I have to have animals in my life. We make it work, but it does feel so one sided sometimes. But he was raised as a city boy. Guess after 27 years I’ll keep him!


                                          • kcomstoc
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                                              Actually my boyfriend didn’t want animals (not because he doesn’t like animals but because we were living with his parents and we needed a “quiet” animal) but I begged him for something because I need an animal they just bring so much joy and they always cheer you up if you’re sad, so we compromised by getting a bunny. Truthfully he didn’t want one it was for me but after we got Caleb he was so loving and gave lots of nose kisses (you’d have to be heartless not to love him), but bunnies are a lot more work than I thought. Still after we moved and I started working you could see Caleb was lonely (my boyfriend had college) so we decided to get him a bunny pal.

                                              Best idea ever after they were bonded (in like 2 months) they’re inseparable, they hop everywhere together and even though Gamgee (his bonded brother) is a LOT LESS loving then Caleb you can tell that they love each other. Now my boyfriend is the one that says “we always got to have 2 bunnies” and I’m the one that says “bunnies are awesome but maybe no more after these 2 lol”. So we’ll likely have bunnies because HE wants them now still they are amazing little animals.


                                            • Jordain
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                                                My boyfriend loves Murray because of how large he is and how soft he is. He calls him his “bunson” and is super proud that Murray uses a litter box. Bunny’s are funny creatures that do quirky things that dogs and cats can’t so we get a lot of laughs just watching Murray. When I first wanted a rabbit he had created a long list of bunny criteria’s for us which kept me from adopting the first rabbit I saw. It took 2 years to find Murray the “soul-bun” but it was definitely worth the wait. I think all boyfriends/husbands who love animals will love a bunny too as long as you take care of the bun and it doesn’t wake your significant other during the night. (Thats the only time I hear my boyfriend say “i hate ‘your’ rabbit!!” any other time its “his” rabbit hahaha) I don’t think he would tolerate me getting more than one rabbit though, he’s already starting to see me turn into a bunny slave and he’s concerned to say the least lol!


                                              • Little Lion Head
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                                                  I’ve been after my hubby to let me get a 2nd bun. I told him that it would make Pumpkin happy. He said “I let you get Pumpkin to make YOU happy. I’ll start worrying about making Pumpkin happy when she makes ME happy.” Hahaha he was being sarcastic b/c he’s offended she doesn’t give kisses. I told him that if we get her buddy that give kisses maybe it will rub off on her!

                                                  Jordain–Pumpkin is mine when she’s naughty too, the hubby’s when’s cute and sweet.

                                                  So funny that you point out they are so much more fun to watch than other animals. We had friends over Saturday, four humans and one bunny in the living room. All night hubby and I were nudging each other “quick look” “did you see that?!” pointing out bunny loafs, binkies, yawns, and stretches. Our friends think we’re nuts!


                                                • Megabunny
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                                                    How could anyone find that unusual at all??? They just don’t know how to enjoy the simple things in life LOL That little Pumpkin Face would steal all my attention, too

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