showrabbits
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Well today we had a near disaster.
It started about two weeks ago. Like i mentioned before our rabbitslive out in our barn wich is over a 100 years old but remolded, sided,and made into a garage. It has a huge double stall garge door wich weopen when we are home to let the rabbits see out and injoy theexcitment of the outdoors, and fresh air and natural light. WELL thatone that day two weeks ago I came home to find the bottom of the sidedoor ripped off. Okay well my first thought is wich rabbit did this? Myrabbits get turns running around the barn when I am out there, and myretired does have run of the barn the rest of the time. They areFlemish Giants but didnt think that they were that strong. I was kindof scared to go into the barn. LOL. I did though and found AJ and Mousetwo of our retired does hidding upstairs. Mouse knows how to go up anddown stairs but AJ didnt and Mouse never has before in the barn. Theyseemed overly happy to see me. I took them back down stairs and checkedaround. I suspected that AJ is the one that distoyed the door. Sheloves to play outside, but never before has she distroyed something toescape the barn. Usauly it is just racing out the door when I open thedoor. Well I started to suspect that something wasnt quite right acouple of hours later because everyone was hiped up and stomping theirfeet. The other major tip was that the barn door was open and AJ andMouse was by my feet the whole time when usauly they go out and munchon grass. Well I started to check over everyone and found that onerabbit hurt its tail wich was minor, but ruins his promising showcareer but I will find him a good pet home. Then I checked over myyoungest litter since IF something was in the barn it would probably goafter the easiest prey wich was not the 20 pound rabbits who wouldfight back. Well the litter happend to be AJs last litter wich was bornin June. What was in the barn had managed to also try to grab one ofthese rabbits as well. The cages all have 1 by 2 wire on the sides ofthe cages. This rabbit had gotten a bad cut on his hind quarter. It wasbad but not life threatening and is healing nicely but also ended hershow career, I am also now looking for a pet home for her.
WELL today the mistery of what did this was solved. I came home to findthree dogs that was very large. They looked like mixes. They were inthe barn. One was smelling around the floor, and the other two weredigging and bitting at the cages. The rabbits were terrified and backat the back of the cages. My brother had left the garage door open andleft. Something that he knows not to do but should of been fine. Iwasnt sure what to do. The dogs were obvisily strays by theircondition, and I was too afraid to get out of the car. So I pulled upto the barn at about 30 miles and hour, trying to scare the dogs with aspeeding car heading for them, honking my horn and rolled down the carwindow and threw every school tex book I had at them wich worked. Ournaibor works for the county and apperantly had major problems with thedogs wich had already ment that next time that the dogs came out of thewoods agian the naibor apperantly had to take care of them. I guessthat they were causing problems with killing peoples dogs, andthreatening their kids. So we wont run into problems with these dogsagain after tonight wich is sad that the dogswereput downbut I am kind of glad since the dogsare getting tested for any kind of diseases, and I wasnt put in theposition of having to decide whether or not to have to the dogs putdown, there was no way to fight having them put down. We could of dogproofed the barn butit still wouldnt betotatly safealso so I am kind ofglad aboutthat. Thistime I guess that the rabbits reconized these dogs and stayed againstthe back of their cages where the dogs couldnt get them. I lost threecage doors though, and the rest of the doors can be flatened back outand doesnt need to be replacedso the dogs only caused meabout 30 dallors worth of damage this time. I am realy sad that thishad to happen though. It could of been so much worse. The dogs could ofkilled everything or hurt alot more rabbits alot worse. The rabbitsthat were injured are doing great, and the rest of the rabbits arealready back to their cherry selfs thank goodness.
I thought that I would post this because I knew that alot of peoplehave rabbits that are outside. These dogs were able to bend up thecages pretty bad and were very close to getting the rabbits, so makesure that those hutches are sturdy and your rabbits are safe.
It started about two weeks ago. Like i mentioned before our rabbitslive out in our barn wich is over a 100 years old but remolded, sided,and made into a garage. It has a huge double stall garge door wich weopen when we are home to let the rabbits see out and injoy theexcitment of the outdoors, and fresh air and natural light. WELL thatone that day two weeks ago I came home to find the bottom of the sidedoor ripped off. Okay well my first thought is wich rabbit did this? Myrabbits get turns running around the barn when I am out there, and myretired does have run of the barn the rest of the time. They areFlemish Giants but didnt think that they were that strong. I was kindof scared to go into the barn. LOL. I did though and found AJ and Mousetwo of our retired does hidding upstairs. Mouse knows how to go up anddown stairs but AJ didnt and Mouse never has before in the barn. Theyseemed overly happy to see me. I took them back down stairs and checkedaround. I suspected that AJ is the one that distoyed the door. Sheloves to play outside, but never before has she distroyed something toescape the barn. Usauly it is just racing out the door when I open thedoor. Well I started to suspect that something wasnt quite right acouple of hours later because everyone was hiped up and stomping theirfeet. The other major tip was that the barn door was open and AJ andMouse was by my feet the whole time when usauly they go out and munchon grass. Well I started to check over everyone and found that onerabbit hurt its tail wich was minor, but ruins his promising showcareer but I will find him a good pet home. Then I checked over myyoungest litter since IF something was in the barn it would probably goafter the easiest prey wich was not the 20 pound rabbits who wouldfight back. Well the litter happend to be AJs last litter wich was bornin June. What was in the barn had managed to also try to grab one ofthese rabbits as well. The cages all have 1 by 2 wire on the sides ofthe cages. This rabbit had gotten a bad cut on his hind quarter. It wasbad but not life threatening and is healing nicely but also ended hershow career, I am also now looking for a pet home for her.
WELL today the mistery of what did this was solved. I came home to findthree dogs that was very large. They looked like mixes. They were inthe barn. One was smelling around the floor, and the other two weredigging and bitting at the cages. The rabbits were terrified and backat the back of the cages. My brother had left the garage door open andleft. Something that he knows not to do but should of been fine. Iwasnt sure what to do. The dogs were obvisily strays by theircondition, and I was too afraid to get out of the car. So I pulled upto the barn at about 30 miles and hour, trying to scare the dogs with aspeeding car heading for them, honking my horn and rolled down the carwindow and threw every school tex book I had at them wich worked. Ournaibor works for the county and apperantly had major problems with thedogs wich had already ment that next time that the dogs came out of thewoods agian the naibor apperantly had to take care of them. I guessthat they were causing problems with killing peoples dogs, andthreatening their kids. So we wont run into problems with these dogsagain after tonight wich is sad that the dogswereput downbut I am kind of glad since the dogsare getting tested for any kind of diseases, and I wasnt put in theposition of having to decide whether or not to have to the dogs putdown, there was no way to fight having them put down. We could of dogproofed the barn butit still wouldnt betotatly safealso so I am kind ofglad aboutthat. Thistime I guess that the rabbits reconized these dogs and stayed againstthe back of their cages where the dogs couldnt get them. I lost threecage doors though, and the rest of the doors can be flatened back outand doesnt need to be replacedso the dogs only caused meabout 30 dallors worth of damage this time. I am realy sad that thishad to happen though. It could of been so much worse. The dogs could ofkilled everything or hurt alot more rabbits alot worse. The rabbitsthat were injured are doing great, and the rest of the rabbits arealready back to their cherry selfs thank goodness.
I thought that I would post this because I knew that alot of peoplehave rabbits that are outside. These dogs were able to bend up thecages pretty bad and were very close to getting the rabbits, so makesure that those hutches are sturdy and your rabbits are safe.
. My aunt's boxer was fine with heras well. He used to watch her for hours, and ran round thehutch to find where she'd went when she went into the covered bit ofher hutch! LOL
