Do pet bunnies like being held and petted?
In my extremely limited experience of 3 pet bunnies, one acquired immediately after weaning and the other two as adults passed on from an indifferent previous home, they can. If you get them when they're very wee, handle them a lot, and make anyone who happens to stop by handle them too, they -- well, who the hell knows what goes on in their tiny brains and whether they actually
like
being held and petted, but they certainly come to expect it and tolerate it. And once they expect it and tolerate the holding, they generally enjoy the petting. My gotten-when-wee bunny was a chin-and-cheek-skritching slut.
In conclusion, bunny bunny bunny. And also bunny.
If you get them when they're very wee, handle them a lot, and make anyone who happens to stop by handle them too
This is my experience as well. Bunnies held by humans from bunny-infancy can be very cuddly, or at least calm. Adult bunnies learning to be held, OTOH, kick hard.
The calmest rabbits I ever met were angoras -- you could hold them in your lap and spin angora yarn right off their backs (combing the hair out, not pulling it).
I just watched last night's Daily Show. I * heart * Calvin Trillin.
Do pet bunnies like being held and petted?
My friend's pet bunny, Georgia seemed to enjoy it. She would snuggle on the sofa with him all the time.
I was just pointing out to a colleague, also a recent father, the other day that having a preschooler in the house is an important lesson to anyone who thinks that humans are intrinsically different from primates.
I'm living the lesson.
still giggling over the asleep bare-assed on the ottoman, thereby condemning myself to a similar incident
still giggling over the asleep bare-assed on the ottoman, thereby condemning myself to a similar incident
Watch it, Woman. You're up next!
IOSmallPetN,
My best friend had a chinchilla, and it was an excellent pet. Also in the no-pets-apartment-pet category, they do adorable little things (rolling in dust always got the OMG!cute reaction from onlookers), and at least the one that he had liked being held and would scale humans like they're giant jungle gyms.
Bun-buns are awesome too, though.
Watch it, Woman. You're up next!
And don't I know it.
We took her swimming over at Kristin's house this weekend. The girl has NO FEAR. There are three steps down to the shallow end. She would get to the second step and then throw herself forward, arms out to the side, big grin on her face. And she'd sink like a stone. I reach down, snatch her out of the water and she's laughing like a loon.
Then, she'd jump from the side into the deep end, into my arms, thereby forcing me to go under and swim to where I could touch.
It was so exhausting. I'm buying her a floaty thing for next time. Not the arm thingies, but a sit-in-it floaty and maybe a life jacket.
Not the arm thingies, but a sit-in-it floaty and maybe a life jacket.
I really like the life jackets. Especially the ones for little kids with the neck thingy that supports their head if they lean backwards. Olivia needs a floaty for our 4th of July visit to Indiana.
still giggling over the asleep bare-assed on the ottoman, thereby condemning myself to a similar incident
As I recall, that ass was not entirely bare.
I sometimes see people coming back from the lake with little dogs in life jackets. I'm sure they're cute on kids, too!
