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- From: alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu (amy lynn young-leith)
- Newsgroups: rec.pets
- Subject: Re: a bunny toy
- Keywords: old sheets
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.102642.15212@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 05:26:33 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1993Jan26.102642.15212
- References: <1k1hma$9nt@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
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- In article <1k1hma$9nt@agate.berkeley.edu> annie@garnet.berkeley.edu (Anne Jessop) writes:
- [...]
- >my study, when she cares to share it with me :) ) and she pushes at it and
- >digs in it and rearranges it and drags it around all the time. She's
- >really funny. We have started this game where she'll be digging and I'll
- >throw another piece of the sheet over her and she digs her way out and
- >jumps on me. Lots of laughs...
-
- Dink does tihs too! Not all the time but if there's a pillow within
- reach, or sheets on the floor, he ends up digging, pulling, bunching
- it up and playing with it. I thought perhaps nesting instincts, but
- he's a male! Oh well, it's cute but he DEMOLISHED it! He ate a big
- whole right through the middle of this blanket. It wasn't a big loss,
- because it was bunched up and stuffed in the corner of the room so he
- cound't get behind the waterbed from that side.
-
- I also had this stash of small stuffed animals, and Dink LOVED 'em.
- He'd drag them around, jump on them, etc.
-
- >Just now, she seems to have decided her litter box is a toy, too. Pine
- >shavings everywhere...Then she got part way out of it (hind legs on the
- >floor, front legs reaching into the box) and started _dragging_ it across
- >the floor!
-
- Dink's gotten this thing with the toilet bowl brush. He drags it out
- from behind the toilet DAILY.
-
- >Enough of that...I sort of recall someone saying earlier that it's a
- >better idea than not to spay females even if they have no contact with
- >males, because they tend to get ovarian tumors...Is that right? I've
- >always just kind of felt that if there was no need, why have her cut up?
- >Can someone please repost or repeat the basic arguments for getting
- >rabbits spayed? Also, she's about 1 1/2. Is that too old? Too young?
-
- I've heard that it's never too late unless she's really old and the
- operation might harm her more. The reasons for doing so are because
- the health dangers for females that aren't spayed are much higher than
- for those that are. If you find a good vet who has experience with
- buns (try the cat vets in town, mine's great), she shouldn't be
- considered in any danger.
-
- >Thanks, especially for indulging all that "cute bunny" stuff,
- >Annie
-
- Hey, I got in on it too! =)
-
- amy
-
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