Category: Rabbit Awareness Week
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Rabbit welfare: over to you
The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mohandas Gandhi Support your local animal shelter Donate money. Donate time. Donate old newspapers, towels, toys or food if you have neither time nor money. Next time you see a collection box for an animal rescue…
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Celebun Welfare: Companionship
Rabbit Awareness Week reporting by Dr Delores Contrary to popular belief, lagomorphs are social animals who need a bunny companion. No offence darling, but a guinea pig won’t do… Not only are our diets incompatible, they are also poor conversationalists. And as lovely as waiters and waitresses can be, nothing compares to a fellow bun…
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Celebun welfare: vets
Rabbit Awareness Week reporting by Bink Vets are a necessary evil. Well. They mean well, of course. Not my favourite of passtimes, visits to the vet are on the schedule thrice a year to prevent Myxomatosis (spring and autumn) and VHD, an especially unpleasant way to ‘reach the eternal clover fields’, ‘cross the rainbow bridge’,…
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Celebun welfare: housing
Rabbit Awareness Week reporting by Katrijn The question of logomorph housing remains a hot topic even today. Many contemporary architects remain undereducated in the field of hutch design, as evidenced by shocking examples of sub standard rabbit dwellings still on the market today. Figs. 1-2, substandard rabbit housing Let me tell you what I want,…
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Celebun welfare: entertainment
Rabbit Awareness Week reporting by Haas So, we like ter ‘ave a bi’ of fun like, a bit of men’al stimula’ion in addi’ion ter da fine dinin’ ‘n all. So ‘ere’s me two pennies’ worf of entertainmen’ fer da discerning Celebun of terday. Or sunfink like dat. 1. Daily cuddles Shouldn” need an explerna’ion, but…
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Celebun welfare: diet top 5
Rabbit Awareness Week reporting by Bink Contrary to reports in the red top segment of the press, we are actually a very easily pleased bunch when it comes to diet. That said, this does not mean you can shove anything our way and we’ll be OK, because the Celebun digestive system is a delicate affair…
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Celebun welfare: Top 5
Rabbit Awareness Week reporting by Dr Delores As you will appreciate, we Celebuns are high maintenance in the welfare department, despite our generously laid-back attitude to life overall. We see our role as that of mentors of novice bun fans, the Obi-Bun Kenobi’s of the blogosphere, keepers of world peace, and confidantes of the great,…