Describe you rabbit and more

[HerculesandMolasses]

I want you to describe your rabbit’s or rabbits’ colors and markings and ear type and all of that stuff and their personality (if you know the breed or the mixed breed that would be great.) I also would like you to tell me their cages if they have one and all the details on their things, food, food preparation, cage size, flooring. I just want to see what other people are doing with their rabbits.

Here is my description on my rabbit and his things:
Ok so I don’t have much backround on Hercules the rabbit’s breed, but he looks like a mutt with a lot of black english spot in him. If you don’t know what english spots are then here is the colors, markings, and body type. He is white with a chain of black spots down his flanks, black ears, black butterfly pattern on his mouth, black eye spots, one black cheek spot, black stripe down his spine and tail with ragged edges and a late start and a break, one feathered belly spot, and all his ears have white running into it, his eye spots trail into the ears, he is missing one cheek spot, and he has many feathered markings. He has upright ears and an arched body with a break in the arch behind the shoulders. He is almost eight months. He weighs about four pounds and is fairly small. He is fearless, bold, rebellious, curious, and clever. He liked to escape his cage, but now he can’t. His favorite pastimes are digging, doing bunny 500s, chewing on carpets, and jumping on my bed. He licks everyone, but he licks people he knows a lot much more often. He isn’t scared of loud noises and will often run around, trying to investigate it. He is also a rebel because he always seems to get into places that you don’t want him to go in; it’s like he goes in them way more than the other places. He binkies a lot and flops occasionally. He eats kaytee timothy hay mostly, he eats a daily salad of normally parsely, bok choy, romaine lettuce, bell pepper, and diced fruit(s), and a small amount of oxbow adult pellets. He drinks out of a water bowl with a big jug attached to it that automatically refills it. His pellets are contained in a heavy ceramic black and white bowl. His toys are a metal slinky, willow sticks, a willow ball, toilet paper rolls cut or torn in various ways or not cut at all, a jingle ball, a sock stuffed with hay, and hay woven into a carrot shape. His hide home is made out of cardboard boxes; three of them, which are separate rooms; one is filled with napkin, one is filled with digging materials such as cardboard pieces, wooden things, etc., and one is filled with small amounts of both. The one filled with small amounts of both is the entrance and it has two doors and then two more which connect to the other rooms. The largest room is the one filled with digging materials and it has a window which he can fit through with some difficulty. The room filled with napkins is rarely visited and it’s the smallest room which has a window. On the top of the large box there is a cardboard tray with a lower part cut out that has a blanket and a fluffy stuffed animal rabbit. His cage is a large expen in the side of my room which has thirty square feet. His “run” is not really a run but more like the rest of my room which is much bigger than my rabbits cage, but I don’t know the square footage. The flooring of his cage is fleece over carpet. His litterbox is a blue cat litterbox and it has hay is put in one side because he doesn’t use hay racks. His litter is paper pulp pellets and I fill the box up with a few inches of litter. It is cleaned daily or every other day. I plan on getting a lop rabbit a few months after Hercules is neutered.

[kirstyol]

Ok our first bunny is named Bramble, we have had him since he was six weeks old and he is neutered. For the first few months of his life he lived in the biggest rabbit cage the shop sold at night and free roamed as much as possible during the day, the plan was to make him a free roam bunny all the time but we realised that this wasn’t going to work out as, frankly Bramble is too inquisitive and would get himself in trouble eating something he shouldn’t so we upgraded to a dog crate attached to a playpen for him. He is a little over a year old now and still just as inquisitive – will eat just about anything whether its food or not and loves hiding under the coffee table. If a door opens or the phone goes he is on full alert – he wants to know everything that’s going on! He has helicopter ears which just recently he has been able to fully lop them at times, he is brown with some grey through his rear end and black on his face – I think he is a cinnamon rabbit but am not totally sure.

Bramble is bonded to our second bunny, Ron. Ron is around two and a half and came to live with us a few months ago. I adopted him from a guy who had basically been left with him after his flatmate left the country, unable to keep him, Ron was put up for adoption and I brought him home. He was in a bit of a state when he came home, looked like he had never seen a brush, was quite overweight and his diet was made up exclusively of cheap rabbit muesli and kale with a little hay. We worked on his diet a little and kept him away from Bramble, but Bramble knew there was another rabbit here and was desperate to meet him being the inquisitive guy that he is so we let them meet and they became instant friends – like no work at all in their bonding they just became mates and that was it.

Ron is Brown on top and white underneath and upright ears, we think he is a palomino rabbit, but he is a little small for the breed. Certainly not a small rabbit though he weighs in at around 3.5 kilos! Bramble is smaller at a little over 2 kilos, but Bramble is the dominant one of the pair. Ron likes to be petted and stuff but is also quite happy lying in a corner somewhere, whereas Bramble loves company and if you are not paying attention to him you had better have a good reason! They are both very clever, and affectionate with humans and each other. Ron doesn’t care if someone comes to the door, unless they walk towards him and he realises that they might pet him! Ron is by far the more laid back of the pair, but he does get excited at times – usually if a bag rustles because he thinks there is food coming his way!

They currently live in an XL dog crate attached to the biggest pen they sold on Amazon when I bought it. and have too many toys to mention which I try and rotate so they don’t get bored. Just now they have a few wicker chew balls, a treat ball, willow chew sticks, a carrot chew and an edible house that I just bought them from pets at home with a voucher I had. they also have a cat tunnel which appears to be their favourite toy. They have one of those corner litter boxes for rabbits, but Ron doesn’t always use it if I am honest – his litter training is a work in progress. They eat excel rabbit nuggets and whatever veggies I buy, I like to rotate those too so they don’t get bored. As for hay, Bramble is a total fusspot and turns his nose up at a lot of hays, since he has issues with his teeth its even more important that he eats a decent amount of hay so after trying what feels like every brand of hay on the market we found one that he eats a decent amount of. I have to order it off amazon as I cant find it in pet shops anywhere, even though its timothy hay which in itself isn’t hard to find, but Bramble will only eat this one brand.

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