Domestic rabbits live on average 7-11 or 8-12 years depending on the source of your information, the breed (larger rabbits have shorter lives), genetics, and lifestyle of the bunny. I always use the 8-12 year range to quote to people in the hope they’ll understand the long term promise they’ll be making when they say: “Yes, let’s take that one home.”
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Paradise Lost – Every Time We Lose A Pet
Today I am mad at Adam and Eve. If they hadn’t screwed up I would be a happy, skinny vegetarian living in endless health along with my pets and human loves.
The IKEA Effect or Why You Love Your Kid and I Love My Vest and My Rabbit
It is entirely possible that we do not give our children the best of everything because we love them, but rather we love them because we gave them everything.
The Furry Factor – Transforming Pet Lovers into People Lovers One Animal at a Time
"In the company of the animals they really love, a) all people are much more likeable, and b) people are much nicer to the humans around them."
Hopping Down the Bunny Trail – Moving Toward Rabbit Adoption Pt 1
“...it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life." ~From Finally Home~” ― Elizabeth Parker . . We visited the Flemish Giants at MSPCA Nevins Farm in Methuen. The 14 baby rabbits and their 3 parents, surrendered after a misguided attempt at Easter rabbit sales (UGH!), held court in… Continue reading Hopping Down the Bunny Trail – Moving Toward Rabbit Adoption Pt 1
Needy is as Needy Does
"I don't think it's necessarily healthy to go into relationships as a needy person. Better to go in with a full deck." Anjelica Huston
Everything I Need to Know About Parenting, I Learned from my Guinea Pig
In hindsight you’ll realize pregnancy and birth are the easy parts, raising good kids takes considerably more time, effort, patience and resilience to pain and heartbreak .
It Takes A Village to Rescue a Rabbit
"I made a difference for that one."
Putting the Easter Bunny Back Into Easter
First thing Easter morning and I wasn’t thinking of the glory of the day, I was applying considerable restraint to stem the stream of profanity that threatened to come spewing out in the direction of the bunny I usually love.
Mums, the word revisited
>Congratulations to the “Coalition to Promote the Mum as the Only Fall Flower” that I believe must exist, based on the obvious monopoly it holds each fall on the front steps of every single house in New England.
