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The end of this blog

It’s been a while but I needed to update this blog for closure. Earlier this year, bimbo passed away due to a freak accident. She died peacefully, but not much could have been done.

She was a wonderful rabbit. Sassy, bossy, but always begging for pets and wanting to know what’s up. I’ll miss her forever.

What’s next? Well, the main blog this account is attached to has been inactive for months now, I moved on and will not be updating this blog anymore. But that is not the end of my rabbit story! I recently rescued 5 rex rabbits, and you can follow us @conejocorner !

Thank you all for the bimlove. She was one of a kind, and I’m so honored I got to share her with you all

Bimbo- forever our most precious bim.

4/20/20 🌻 January 2024

[bimblog]

The end of this blog

It’s been a while but I needed to update this blog for closure. Earlier this year, bimbo passed away due to a freak accident. She died peacefully, but not much could have been done.

She was a wonderful rabbit. Sassy, bossy, but always begging for pets and wanting to know what’s up. I’ll miss her forever.

What’s next? Well, the main blog this account is attached to has been inactive for months now, I moved on and will not be updating this blog anymore. But that is not the end of my rabbit story! I recently rescued 5 rex rabbits, and you can follow us @conejocorner !

Thank you all for the bimlove. She was one of a kind, and I’m so honored I got to share her with you all

Bimbo- forever our most precious bim.

4/20/20 🌻 January 2024

[bimblog]

The end of this blog

It’s been a while but I needed to update this blog for closure. Earlier this year, bimbo passed away due to a freak accident. She died peacefully, but not much could have been done.

She was a wonderful rabbit. Sassy, bossy, but always begging for pets and wanting to know what’s up. I’ll miss her forever.

What’s next? Well, the main blog this account is attached to has been inactive for months now, I moved on and will not be updating this blog anymore. But that is not the end of my rabbit story! I recently rescued 5 rex rabbits, and you can follow us @conejocorner !

Thank you all for the bimlove. She was one of a kind, and I’m so honored I got to share her with you all

Bimbo- forever our most precious bim.

4/20/20 🌻 January 2024

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Should we assume you have issues with the popular pet rabbit YouTube channel “Lennon the Bunny”? I’ve always been fond of rabbits but she’s what got me more interested in them in the first place (I do not have any rabbits, but I did unfortunately write an entire little care guide based mostly off of things like what she says and what the House Rabbit Society and similar sources say) and needless to say, I am concerned. It seems like from what you’re saying rabbits are much easier to care for than that (at least in terms of diet and sociality).

I do have issues with that channel, yes. That being said, I know better than to expect anything more from a pet rabbit channel.

In terms of sociality, even HRS themselves admit that it's extremely dangerous to try to bond two intact rabbits of the same sex because the chances are high that they'll constantly fight or even kill each other. When they talk about bonding rabbits, they talk about at least one or both rabbits being neutered. Rabbits naturally have Raging Hormones(tm) and that can make tensions high between them. In the wild they would mellow this out by having the does being pretty much constantly bred or nursing, but for obvious reasons that's not really good for somebody just trying to have some pet rabbits. So it's much better generally to just let the rabbits have their own space and be on their own. They can get the social interaction they want or need from the humans that care for them.

In terms of diet... let me try to explain it this way:

Imagine if the largest/wealthiest dog advocacy organization tried to say that dogs absolutely need to be fed a varied, raw food diet, and if you don't feed them that, then that's abuse and your dog's guts are going to spontaneously stop working. We know a raw diet for dogs can be great, but the problem is that it means the owner of the dog has to do a lot of research into the exact nutritional content of various things, the nutritional requirement of their specific dog, and all the math that goes into it - not to mention they have to have the money to be able to buy all those things or the time to grow/harvest those things. Most people just aren't able to do that, which is why high quality kibble and wet foods have been created.

HRS is basically exactly like that. They give a (very flawed, mind you - the amount of fruit they recommend is absurd and dangerous from the high sugar content) basic outline of what percent of various things should be in a rabbit's diet. A large portion is hay, the second largest portion is "leafy greens" (which they just all lump together in one category despite different greens having different nutritive contents) and then pellets and fruit are equal in their 'small' percentages. It would take a considerable amount of prior knowledge about the nutritional qualities of rabbit-safe ingredients, and a very good understanding of your rabbit's personal nutritional needs, in order to really make this diet work. Most people just don't have that capability.

Again, just as we know raw feeding can be great for dogs when done properly, feeding your rabbit a varied diet can be fantastic! You just really have to know what you're doing before you get into. If you don't, you're very likely to see GI issues like bloat or GI Stasis.

HRS and followers of them such as "Lennon the Bunny" will claim that complete feed pellets cause bloat or GI Stasis. This is interesting, because the only time I've heard of rabbits having these issues is if they were accidentally fed a bad batch of pellets (which isn't super duper common) - and even then, it's mostly bloat; I've heard of maybe two cases of GI Stasis from breeder rabbits total. Complete feed pellets are not much different than feeding your dog a high quality kibble - they take the guesswork out of feeding your animal, and guarantee your animal is getting exactly the right nutrition they need.

Instead, I've seen way more cases of bloat and GI stasis in pet rabbits, especially those being fed the HRS recommended diet. It's very likely the cause is that they are getting to much of one thing or another (whether that be sugar or something else) because their diet just isn't consistent and isn't actually well formulated.

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Yeeeeah and then putting it in the same category as putting down runts/unhealthy babies like >>;

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It’s always the people with weird fandom blogs who critique animal husbandry on here……

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Ok Swiftie

01/27/2023

Contrary to popular belief, domestic rabbits are not social animals. They descend from European wild rabbits. Despite living in colonies, they have their own den space and will fight to defend territory. While it’s not Impossible to “bond” rabbits, it is not recommended. Rabbits are perfectly fine on their own.

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Another commission for a friend, their bun as a pumpkin

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Commission for a friend I did! They wanted their rabbit as a little dapper man 💙

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1/1/2023

So long friend, until next time!

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Oh! You should totally draw a rabbit made out of snow, or a rabbit with a tigers pattern or somethin!

01/02/2023

The extremely rare Sumatran Striped Rabbit! We don’t know a lot about this guy, most photos of it are from trail cams or one rare time someone tried selling it as a pet rabbit (not maliciously, they just didn’t know it was an endangered species)

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01/03/2023

3 of @rusasi-ma ‘s rabbits! I really recommend their blog on rabbit husbandry, though tw they do farm for meat and there is discussions of slaughter on occasion.

The symbol is the famous trinity hare symbol which appears across several cultures.

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how about a bun wearing a party hat?

01/04/2023

I’m planning a bigger piece so the next few day’s pieces might be a lil more simple.

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I don't have a picture of him because it was from like a million years ago but- do you think you might be able to do my pet rabbit from when I was little? His name was Mr. Rabbit (I was a very creative child I know), and he looked like an american rabbit with with a black spot on one of his eyes and a black spot on his back! He used to wear this little red velcro bowtie that looked just adorable. Or at least that's how I remember him XD Even if you don't draw him- thank you, and good luck with the new year! ^^

01/05/2023

Mr. Rabbit struck me as a very dignified little fellow. I’m sure he’s enjoying a cup of tea, wherever he is.

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01/06/2023

No thought head empty

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01/07/2023