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- From: annie@garnet.berkeley.edu (Anne Jessop)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets
- Subject: Re: INFO NEEDED/NEW BUNNY OWNER
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 05:53:02 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1993Jan19.222547.2742@vax1.mankato.msus.edu> lynn@vax1.mankato.msus.edu writes:
- >Recently my wife purchased a black French Lop. He is now 5 months old.
- >I was wondering if anyone out there could please tell me when their ears
- >will lie down. The first ear went down about 5 weeks ago. Will we be stuck
- >with 1 ear up and 1 down?
-
- Pee-wee's (my mini lop) ears did the lop thang ever since I brought her home
- at 6 weeks. She's my first lop of any kind, so someone else might give
- you better advice. I do notice, tho, that she lops a "certain way'.
- Meaning that Both her ears flop over one way, but the other way only one
- will flop and one will stick up. She also sticks her ears up at will,
- when she's hears an unfamiliar noise.
-
- >Also, I've heard alot about litter training rabbits. Does this include all
- >the little pellets they leave around? We've sucessfully trained our rabbit
- >to urinate in the litter box, but we cannot train him to use it for pooping.
-
- Again, I am only (and obviously) speaking from my experience, but Pee-wee only
- urinates in her box and in one corner of the bathroom. I have just gotten
- used to sweeping up the pills...Pee-wee is about 1 1/2 years old, and very
- affectionate towards humans. So I share the question: Is there anyway we
- can train "older" bunnies how not to leave their pellets all over the place,
- even if (especially if) they already piss in a box? (For me , I guess it
- doesn't matter quite so much, because PW is shedding like I don't know
- what, in the middle of the wettest winter ever to hit California since 1950!
- She has no bare patches of skin, and is very active, but I sweep and
- think, "Shit! Why bother!"
-
- --Annie
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