Topaz
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So I'm finally getting around to making a blog about my three buns; a bonded pair of males and one female who I intend to bond with the boys (everyone is speutered.) First, pics and their stories.
Marlowe and Jasper were unaltered dumpees at a pet supply store. I'm friends with the owner and she told me they, along with 5 other rabbits, were dumped at her stores because they were not "show quality." I was intending to have the chocolate mini lop, the friendliest of all the buns there, until the breeder came back and reclaimed him and 1 other bun (the rest found homes.) Leaving these two on their own. No one wanted them (including myself at the time,) because they were far from tame. If you walked by their cage, they ran to the back. Well, knowing that we had the time to commit to these guys, we brought them home. AFter a month, we had them neutered, went through lots of fighting between the two, and now they're finally happy. Thye do not like to be touched, and almost never leave the cage during their free time (which used to be whenever we were home, but since they never leave, we cut it down to a couple hours of leaving the door open.) Here's Marlowe (the agouti,) and Jasper (the black.)
Sorry for the lack of photos of Jasper. It's very hard to get a decent shot of him, and that one is old (from when they were fighting.)
AFter they were getting along great, I decided I wanted my pair to be a trio. I searched for a long time to find a spayed female. My heart was set on a blue small breed girl. I passed up lots of buns looking for "the one." Finally, my friend BlueFrog emailed me a petfinder page with this sweet face:
Her name was "Hoppy" and she's a French Lop (don't know about her color, though.)
Well, after help from 2 folks to transport her from Chicago to Rockford where I picked her up. Her new name is Gypsy, and she LOVES attention. I wanted a bun I could pet and sit on the floor with..and I got her!
Look at her poor dirty feesties
I'm thinking that with her cage kept clean, and her being litter trained, this should clean up, right?
She and Marlowe have been grooming each other through the bars. They really seem to enjoy each other.
That's all for now.
Marlowe and Jasper were unaltered dumpees at a pet supply store. I'm friends with the owner and she told me they, along with 5 other rabbits, were dumped at her stores because they were not "show quality." I was intending to have the chocolate mini lop, the friendliest of all the buns there, until the breeder came back and reclaimed him and 1 other bun (the rest found homes.) Leaving these two on their own. No one wanted them (including myself at the time,) because they were far from tame. If you walked by their cage, they ran to the back. Well, knowing that we had the time to commit to these guys, we brought them home. AFter a month, we had them neutered, went through lots of fighting between the two, and now they're finally happy. Thye do not like to be touched, and almost never leave the cage during their free time (which used to be whenever we were home, but since they never leave, we cut it down to a couple hours of leaving the door open.) Here's Marlowe (the agouti,) and Jasper (the black.)
Sorry for the lack of photos of Jasper. It's very hard to get a decent shot of him, and that one is old (from when they were fighting.)
AFter they were getting along great, I decided I wanted my pair to be a trio. I searched for a long time to find a spayed female. My heart was set on a blue small breed girl. I passed up lots of buns looking for "the one." Finally, my friend BlueFrog emailed me a petfinder page with this sweet face:
Her name was "Hoppy" and she's a French Lop (don't know about her color, though.)
Well, after help from 2 folks to transport her from Chicago to Rockford where I picked her up. Her new name is Gypsy, and she LOVES attention. I wanted a bun I could pet and sit on the floor with..and I got her!
Look at her poor dirty feesties
I'm thinking that with her cage kept clean, and her being litter trained, this should clean up, right?
She and Marlowe have been grooming each other through the bars. They really seem to enjoy each other.
That's all for now.
That was a very nice thing to take them in even though they don't like to be picked up or held. Not too many people would have done that. 
