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Low Maintenance Pets: Rabbits

As low maintenance pets, rabbits are generally viewed as a cross between cats and dogs, in the sense that though they are self-sufficient like cats, they still do require certain interactions from their owners just like dogs.


Requiring a lot of physical exercise, would-be owners could either source ample spaced indoor rabbit enclosures that afford rabbits with lots of room for exercise routines, or opt for getting leashes or body harnesses that are specially designed to accommodate a rabbit’s mobility when they are outdoors. Some rabbits can be trained to be adept in moving around with body leashes or harnesses worn on them.


Just like guinea pigs and hamsters, rabbits aren’t exactly peckish when talking about their dietary needs, with a wide variety of commercial food pellets for rabbits available in pet stores, matched with their preferred diets of healthy greens, fruits and vegetables – carrots included.

With more than 50 breeds known to be in the United States alone,
prospective pet owners can find rabbits that can weigh as much as 2 to 13 pounds, with lifespans that could range between five to ten years.

Like dogs, certain rabbit breeds can be trained to “come” when they are being called, with others even trainable to use their own litter box, giving them another “odd” pet attribute as a cross between a pet cat and a pet dog.

Singularly unique on their own, keeping a rabbit as a pet isn’t generally taxing for pet owners – save perhaps when talking about multiple rabbits living together in one household.


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Rabbits, particularly the notion of a wererabbit, was the highlight plot element in the 2005 Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit  animated feature, starring the voice talents of Ralph Finnes, Helena Bonham Carter and Peter Sallis.

Though the threat of a wererabbit doesn’t exactly strike as much fear as the threat of a werewolf would, the movie’s parody on the werewolf’s status as a creature shrouded by myths and legends put the habits and traits of rabbits under the spotlight, particularly the long association between rabbits and carrots.
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However, as many rabbit pet owners would tell, hay and vegetable varieties are known to be more beneficial as rabbit diet staples, which says a lot about how popular media inaccurately got the whole rabbit-carrot link to be.

If you happen to be thinking about keeping a rabbit and stocking up on carrots as its only feed, here are some other lesser known rabbit facts to help you rethink and reevaluate your plans of keeping a rabbit as a pet.

Rabbits live long – as pets, rabbits are known to live long lives, which means that if you’re planning on keeping one as a pet, you’d have to be prepared to take good care of a rabbit for a long time.

A number of animal shelters in the US have taken in “abandoned” pet rabbits, which were given up by owners because they couldn’t afford to have them anymore. Before you go out of your way into getting a pet rabbit, consider its long lifespan first, and see if you’re in the right position to have one.

Rabbits can be trained, but not as easily as dogs – you can train a rabbit to use the litterbox, but understand that though rabbits are trainable, they are not trainable as dogs are.

Though there are expert trainers who have trained rabbits to do tricks based on commands, not everyone is capable of training rabbits to such extensive degrees. In fact, a number of frustrated pet rabbit owners confess that they don’t even get to properly interact with their pet rabbits, let alone train them to do anything.

Rabbits don’t have health problems because they eat greens a lot – though hay and mixed vegetables are a pet rabbit’s ideal dietary staples, the consumption of greens doesn’t mean that rabbits don’t get health problems.

In fact, a number of rabbit pet owners have encountered huge problems with their pet rabbits in this regard, given that not all vets are experts in the care of rabbit-specific health conditions.

So if you’re still mulling about getting a pet rabbit, consider the rabbit facts mentioned about.

If they’re something you’re willing to deal with in keeping a rabbit as a pet, then you’re in for some great times in the company of a rabbit in your life.
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The Flemish Giant Rabbit


Known for its obviously apparent large size, the Flemish Giant Rabbit is among the most many types of domesticated rabbit pets for homes, opted for its… well, its large size.

With no actual maxim size on record, the average weight of this giant rabbit variety is averaged at 22 pounds, as its history and origin is also not defined and exact, only that Dutch Traders were reported to have brought their early-ancestor varieties around, during the 16th and 17th Centuries.
The American Rabbit Breed Association (ARBA) classifies seven known varieties of the Flemish Giant Rabbit, with white, steel gray, sandy, light gray, fawn, blue and black. In terms of classes, three doe classes and three buck classes fill the class categorization of Flemish Giants, with Junior, Intermediate and Senior bucks and does.

Flemish Giant Rabbits take their name after the giant rabbits of Flanders, and their loose origins link them with crossbreeding with Patagonian Rabbits. As mentioned above, Dutch Traders brought early ancestors of the Flemish Giant with them, that ancestor being the Patagonian, from routes to Europe to the Argentine Republic and back.

Juniors class Flemish Giants, as defined by the ARBA Standard of Perfection, ideally weigh 6 pounds, as senior class bucks average at 13 pounds, with senior class does at 14 pounds.

Weighing an average 22 pounds, Flemish Giants are quite huge, and their largeness can even be dubbed as unusual when compared to other rabbit types.

As pet rabbits, they are not known to have life-depended particular treatments over regular rabbits, but their food consumption is reported to be significantly larger, as their size would bring expectations to be.

If you’re on the lookout for a large rabbit breed to have as a pet, Flemish Giants may just be what you’ve been looking for.
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