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Before and After Easter Rabbit

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Easter Rabbits
Before Easter, people buy rabbits and bunnies, thinking it'll be a great little Easter gift. They stick the poor bunny in a basket with some eggs as a cute display and give it to their eager kids.

But after the excitement of a new pet and cuteness, they realize the little cuties require food and water and cage cleaning every day. They get bored with the rabbit and no longer are interested in it's 'cute' and 'fluffy' grown-up face. They dump their pets on the side of the road, put them outside the doors of animal shelters, or worse, let them free in the wild, thinking they're doing the rabbit a favor by giving it freedom.

WRONG WRONG WRONG
That is all wrong. Before you get ANY pet, you should research it first. Find out what it can or cannot eat and how much space it needs for a cage, any interesting particularities, everything you can find out about the animal you have in mind. Think to yourself if you can afford it and are willing to clean up after it and can give it food and water everyday. Then discuss it with your whole family, look your house over for a place for the cage, see if your house is pet-proof and make sure you can take in a pet. It's so much work, it's like taking in another human of a sort. So do your research before you adopt.

Kids and Rabbits, Bad Combo
Rabbits are great pets but not many people realize they are pets. Many think they're a play thing for their kids. Rabbits and kids do not mix. Kids like cute, fluffiness and want to grab and cuddle and play. But rabbits like solid ground under their feet, not hanging from some squeezing arms. Hugging a rabbit reminds them of eagles and hawks' talons around their middles, squeezing them as the birds fly off to their nest. What do dangling, scared-out-of-their-wit rabbits do? Kick out to get free, resulting in accidental nails scratches for the child. Then the kid cries out that the bunny is evil and mean and scratches and the parents find a way to get rid of the demonic creature immediately. So a child's idea of fun is different from a rabbit's. Never ever EVER get a pet rabbit for your child for Easter. Make sure your kids know how to play nicely with the rabbit and know how to hold the rabbit securely but not tightly.

So please, don't adopt a rabbit for Easter. Do your research, make sure you are 100% rabbit safe and go to a shelter AFTER Easter to make a good impression on the shelter workers. Imagine their surprise when you come through the doors, not looking to get rid of yet another one but to take one home.

Rabbits as gifts
There is nothing wrong with adopting a rabbit as a gift as long as the person you're giving it to knows how to take care of the rabbit. Don't give the rabbit in a room full of loud people and flashy-cameras, that would terrify the poor animals but after the party, you can call the person out and give the rabbit.

I could go on forever about rabbits and adopting them...


No bunnies, real or OCs, were harmed in the making of the image. I would never ever put Tapi in a scratchy basket or close him up in a box and put him on the side of the road for the sake of a picture. I asked Mochi, my OC lop rabbit, if I could draw him and he agreed to sit in a basket and a box for the images.
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Annamay26's avatar
I had a bunny. I wouldn't throw her out. This is sad...