Toady
Well-Known Member
Since Ash has passed I'm thinking of 'going back to basics' and getting a Mini Lop (or Holland Lop in the US) from a local registered breeder and learning what I can, I think I jumped in the deep end getting an angora as my first bunny.
Maybe it is just me but I've found some other rabbit groups to be really 'anti-breeders' and they're saying "Forget going to a breeder and adopt a rescue bunny instead". There's only a handful of rescues here in Australia and Loki is a rescue bunny and I love him a lot, but is it wrong to want to purchase a bunny you know is well bred and from a planned litter; not some 'oops' litter, backyard breeder in it for the money or a pet shop bunny who was dumped on a rescue cause it got too big?
This breeder has a litter of broken coloured babies due at the end of the month so was waiting for them to be born but yesterday I got an email saying that they had a 5 month old sable broken female returned cause the owner was moving to Queensland where bunnies aren't allowed... trying to work out a nice way to say that I'd prefer a buck and waiting til this litter is born, that I'm not quite ready just yet. Is that mean of me?
Maybe it is just me but I've found some other rabbit groups to be really 'anti-breeders' and they're saying "Forget going to a breeder and adopt a rescue bunny instead". There's only a handful of rescues here in Australia and Loki is a rescue bunny and I love him a lot, but is it wrong to want to purchase a bunny you know is well bred and from a planned litter; not some 'oops' litter, backyard breeder in it for the money or a pet shop bunny who was dumped on a rescue cause it got too big?
This breeder has a litter of broken coloured babies due at the end of the month so was waiting for them to be born but yesterday I got an email saying that they had a 5 month old sable broken female returned cause the owner was moving to Queensland where bunnies aren't allowed... trying to work out a nice way to say that I'd prefer a buck and waiting til this litter is born, that I'm not quite ready just yet. Is that mean of me?