macksmom98
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. What a fitting name! Seriously tho, I am sure you made the right choice.
. What a fitting name! Seriously tho, I am sure you made the right choice.
Stupid rabbit or maybe it's stupid me
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You know it's funny. I realized today that if it were my dog that bit one of the family (in an unprovoked attack) hard enough to need stitches I'd put the dog down. If it bit a friend's child, a baby, a stranger--I'd have no choice but to put it down. Sad but true. So I decided it was madness to allow this rabbit to repeatedly bite me, hard and deep. I don't enjoy culling but I came to feel it was necessary.
Tiny Buns... that is EXACTLY the attitude you need to have. Good job reaching that decision.
Good job reaching that decision. 
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Absolutely! Good way to look at it, Tiny Buns... it's not fun, but it is the responsible thing to do.
I agree with your decision wholeheartedly.
To me, a biter (more specifically, one who draws blood) is a rabbit that has failed at behaving like a domestic animal.
We root those wild types out of the gene pool for the good of rabbits in general. Anyone with a loving, cuddly, friendly pet bunny (who reads this in horror) needs to understand that culling for domesticity is how rabbits went from wild animals that would panic at human contact, to an animal that can love and enjoy their lives with us.
Selecting for domestic behavior is also selecting for traits that I believe will lead to happier animals, because biters tend to feel stress or fear from human attention, neither of which are positive emotions.
I don't have any statistics to back that up, but, I am of the opinion that aggressive animals are at much higher risk for abuse, neglect, or abandonment.
To me, a biter (more specifically, one who draws blood) is a rabbit that has failed at behaving like a domestic animal.
We root those wild types out of the gene pool for the good of rabbits in general. Anyone with a loving, cuddly, friendly pet bunny (who reads this in horror) needs to understand that culling for domesticity is how rabbits went from wild animals that would panic at human contact, to an animal that can love and enjoy their lives with us.
Selecting for domestic behavior is also selecting for traits that I believe will lead to happier animals, because biters tend to feel stress or fear from human attention, neither of which are positive emotions.
I don't have any statistics to back that up, but, I am of the opinion that aggressive animals are at much higher risk for abuse, neglect, or abandonment.
