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Tweak says, "fredro starr=my life"

sometimes sanity takes vacation time on me (keieeeye) wrote,
@ 2009-06-03 15:30:00

Current mood:	relaxed
Entry tags:	bunbun

Of course...
Vegetables and treats: $25
Toys: $30
Rabbit ignoring them all to tear up a piece of cardboard: Priceless.

eta:
He is, however, now eating the treats I got him that are good for preventing hairballs. I only got them (and another variety of the same brand that helps control odor) because they actually do some good and he's only getting a few a week. I was rather more unimpressed by prettily dyed "rabbit and guinea pig fruit and vegetable treats" with "high protein and fibre" - 9% protein and 4.2% fibre. FOUR POINT TWO? That is not high! Fat was 6%, and personally I try to feed things that are more like... 20% fibre, 3% fat. This is why he lives off hay, pellets and vegetables.

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keieeeye
2009-06-03 03:49 pm UTC (link)

Yeh Holly's four and a half months now, I believe females can be spayed as early as three and a half. Rabbits is young though considering how short their lifespan is in the wild-- and omg I was at the chain petstore yesterday and the label on the rabbit tanks said lifespan was 4-6 years. I was like "WHAT? A well cared for rabbit can live over 10 years!" But then they also had them on a food mix that had a pile of seeds and shit in it. Rabbits and guinea pigs do not have the same dietary requirements, guise. Rabbits are lagomorphs. They don't eat seeds.

My guideline is basically that anything that's been prettified to appeal to humans probably isn't that great for the animals.

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