Agrandando la familia

Aren't they cute??

We found Lopi (the lop) and Pepo in a pet shop that sells iguanas and snake and other nasty exotic animals. They were together in a tiny filthy cage. The store employee didn't know how old they were or their gender, all she knew is that the bunnies have been in the small cage with no excersize time for over 3 weeks. We just couldn't leave them there.

The situation is far from perfect. We have one unaletered bunny just adjusting to our new home. I only have experience with one other bunny, i'm still new at this and have no experience with little bunnies, much less with two.

Step 1: Make a cage



As I said, improvised, which means it sometimes falls, which results in this situation:


Bunny on the run!

I think all that time in that cage affected the babies in different ways.

Lopi seems to be older. his bone structure and muscle seem more developed. He must have not get any exersice down while he was growing up though, he is pretty out of shape! It took him a while to start running, the first day he was very corageous and tried to get in every spot of the house, but the second day he got scared (prolly because of an encounter wth Tito). He seem to be picking up the litterbox habit better than Pepo, at least he pee and poo in or near it jeje

Pepo is the one I'm worried about. He seems so little and fragile.
He is so dirty, like he haven't learned how to clean himself. He tries to clean his ears like Lopi does, but he can't get them to stay low for too long jaja. Im afraid there could be somehitng wrong with his teeth, he makes a lot of noise with his mouse, like teeth grinding, and they front teeth looked extra long to me. I don't know if he is too little to be litter trained but he doesn't seem to care at all. Oh, and this bunny could win any race, open the door of the cage and he'll run so fast you won't know what happened.

Getting Started: Tito

This is Tito, our first bunny, he is a 1 year old mini lop but when I got him I never thought mini really meant huge, and with a giant head!

Some people might say that he is rather antisocial, even an aloof bunny, but I like to say he is sociable and loving in his own Tito kind of way. He doesn't like to be held, i think he is very afraid of heights, he doesn't climb on anything, he likes to stay always on the floor.

He has his several sociable moments durring the day and he'll come to you to be petted, but he'll probably decide soon that it was enough.

This is Tito in his bathroom, he was very easy to train, actually, he didn't need any trainning at all, he did everyhting by himself. He is a very clean bunny too, you will never see him with food or any kind of dirt attached to his fur.

He hasn't being neutered yet, due to the lack of capable vets around this area, but next weeek i'm meeting with a vet specialized in surgery in exotic animals.

Oh, I almost forgot, i'm not even sure its a he.

Eventhough I read a lot before getting Tito, i made several "beginners mistake" and he is one spoiled bunny!. I didn't assign him any particular space in the house so.. he just took it all! The second things I had problems with was with his litterbox, I tried two products that where the only ones available in the dozens of pet stores i visited that then turned out to be very bad for bunnies, lucky I found out this real soon, so now I only put newspaper in the litterbox (its the best I can do). Another mistake I made concernes his diet, it tok me a while to find hay, and I only found one kind, and by the time I found it Tito was old enough to decided he didn't want that new ingredient in his food. he doesn't eat it even if it is the only food he has. His diet consists in pellets, parsley, carrot and spinach.

About a month ago we moved, and Tito has not being the same, he is still in adjustment period. We put him in the spare room, for a whole day he didn't leave his litterbox, and so far he doesn't dare to leave t he room. I'm hoping hell feel safer and get more brave in a couple of weeks. Tito is not happy as he can be since he is not neutered, sexual behaviour gets in the middle of bonding and making other bunny friends, that's why getting him surgery is a first priority!