ARL Rabbits and Small Animals

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House Rabbits And Children

To a child, “loving” a rabbit means cuddling, holding, and carrying it around. These are behaviors that make most rabbits feel insecure and frightened. When fearful or mishandled, some rabbits will bite or scratch as they try to get away from what they consider a dangerous situation. This misinterpreted “bad behavior” is often the reason rabbits are surrendered to shelters. Adults must take responsibility for supervising the interactions between children and house rabbits. Teaching children the proper way to interact with a house rabbit will establish a lasting, loving, and long relationship for both child and rabbit.

Consider this: It takes 30 seconds for a rabbit to become pregnant, 30 days for a litter to be born, and only 30 minutes after delivery of a litter to become pregnant again. All Animal Rescue League rabbits are spayed or neutered before going to their new homes. This ensures that they aren’t “breeding like rabbits” to create a house rabbit overpopulation problem since rabbits produce an average of 6 bunnies per litter.

Books:

Peter Rabbit, The Velveteen Rabbit, Bunnicula, Aesop Fables The Tortoise and the Hare, Pat the Bunny, Goodnight Moon, Guess How Much I Love You, Uncle Rhemus, The Runaway Bunny, Oh!, What Would You Be?