If you’re contemplating buying a pet rabbit just in time for Easter, think twice before you bring Bugs Bunny into your home. According to Mary Cotter, the vice president and education/outreach director of the House Rabbit Society, bunnies are not as easy to care for as you think.
"People buy them thinking they’re great low-maintenance starter pets, but that’s a misconception," Cotter says. "They’re closer to dogs and cats than they are to the so-called pocket pets," she adds.
Cotter adds that while some rabbits can be affectionate, most don’t like to be held and they prefer to be left alone. So much for that stereotype. PS We can’t think of any pets we’d put in our pockets, but maybe that’s just us.
Have you broken down and bought a bunny for your child?
IT’S SOOOO CUTE!!!
Well i got a pet rabbit when i was 4 and i have to admit he wasnt looked after pretty well. Sure he got cleaned out often enough and he always had food and water. In the winter we would make a polythene shield to protect him from the smow wind and rain from coming in his hutch and making him wet and cold. But he lived until he was almost 11 which i think was pretty good considering he was rarely handled or let out of his small cage in the shaded back yard. I think that thwey make good pets for children as they are small to handle but young children should never be thrudt upon the responsibility of having one. A guinea pig is a much suitabl candidate.