Rabbits

A healthy rabbit is not a furry air freshener, but it should not fill the room with animal odor either. Up close you may smell warm fur, hay dust, or a faint musky note. The sharp household smell usually lives...

A rabbit can love forehead rubs, follow you into the kitchen, and still hate being picked up. Those facts fit together.Rabbits meet trusted companions on the ground. A lift removes traction, escape, and control in one motion. Some learn to...

Rabbits blink. You can live beside one for days and miss it because the movement is quick and the baseline rate is low compared with ours.The more useful distinction is between a blink that opens again and a squint that...

A rabbit thump can travel through a floor before you hear it as a sound. The rabbit lifts a powerful hind foot, strikes, and freezes to listen. Every ear in the room gets the message.Alarm is the original job. Pet...

A binky lasts about as long as it takes you to reach for the phone. The rabbit runs, lifts, twists, kicks, lands sideways, and carries on as if nothing happened. It can look joyful and slightly broken at the same...

A low rabbit can clear a surprisingly tall object. The official record gives us a clean number: 99.5 centimeters, just over 39 inches. Your living room still refuses to become a math problem.Most escapes are a mix of jumping, climbing,...

The first time a rabbit naps with both eyes open, the scene looks wrong. The body has gone still, the eye is visible, and yet the rabbit does not react to the tiny sounds that usually turn an ear. This...

Rabbit body language gets flattened into a dictionary: ears up means this, ears back means that. Real rabbits are less cooperative. A lop cannot point both ears like an upright-eared rabbit. A relaxed rabbit can put the ears back. A...

Rabbits can eat a short list of correctly identified, unsprayed flowers, including pot marigold (Calendula officinalis), rose, nasturtium, and dandelion. A flower is not safe because it is colorful, wild, or labeled edible for people. Plant identity and growing history...

Baby rabbits normally begin with their mother's milk. As they start nibbling solids, hay and water become available. Growing domestic rabbits can use alfalfa hay and a plain young-rabbit pellet, then move gradually to an adult grass-hay diet on a...

Keep rabbits away from poisonous plants, moldy food, processed human snacks, meat, dairy, and any plant you cannot identify with confidence. A suspected toxic exposure needs an immediate call to an exotic veterinarian. The unsafe list is longer than a...

Yes, raw and in a small amount. The usable part is washed raw zucchini flesh and skin. Keep out cooked or seasoned zucchini, bitter fruit, spoiled pieces, or leaves from the plant. Normal raw flesh, skin, and soft seeds can...