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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:34 pm 
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Eh decided to bring this topic up maybe cause everyone can learn a bit of something from someone else's experience. This is a broad topic, but just type down your experiences. A bad sale? Bad purchase? Bad pet buyers?etc..... go! :bunnyhop:

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That someone was spreading a rumor that i put rabbits with DQS in the 4H sale too sell too 4H kids.completly untrue.i used too be a 4H leader.That black buck was one of my best rabbits that i had been showing all year.I was very upset.i almost sold my rabbits because of it.I got 7 dollars for that buck.He was as good or better than the buck i kept.


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I have very limited space. I finally found a source for NZ that I had wanted for a long time. Emailed back and forth about price, etc. Just before I emailed a definite yes to the seller my buck chewed through the wooden side of his part of the hutch and got into the areas of at least 6 does (it was some time ago), none purebred or of any special type to be able to sell the kits easily. I had to cancel getting my NZs. Don Juan that he was, I was butt-deep in popples a month later.


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We had purchased a Thrianta buck from a great breeder. Two days later he passed away. I was devastated but we did end up with two of his sons. I now wish we had got a doe too but i love the boys . He was an awesome rabbit and we still miss him :(


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Losing my entire herd of 24 pedigreed, purebred Cali's because of an impulse purchase of a cute little $10 feed store mutt rabbit that ended up having pasteurella... :(

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So far it was a rabbit that was advertised as a pure NZW doe with pedigree. I drove to a very scary part of town (no names) 45 mins away and she was a buck and with obvious california blood. I did not stay long enough to get into it with the guy. He was obviously clueless and just wanted to get rid of the rabbits. I just wanted to get out of there with my life. This was the part of town you do not want to be in anytime of day. And yes I heard gunfire while I was getting back in the car. My daughter, who came with me, said we should have brought our gun too. Never again. I will always google map it before heading out.

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That someone was spreading a rumor that i put rabbits with DQS in the 4H sale too sell too 4H kids.completly untrue.i used too be a 4H leader.That black buck was one of my best rabbits that i had been showing all year.I was very upset.i almost sold my rabbits because of it.I got 7 dollars for that buck.He was as good or better than the buck i kept.


Well I hope they found out that you didn't! People sometimes.

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Losing my entire herd of 24 pedigreed, purebred Cali's because of an impulse purchase of a cute little $10 feed store mutt rabbit that ended up having pasteurella... :(


Oh my gosh :( Sorry to hear that One Acre. That is absolutely crazy about what one rabbit can do.

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We had purchased a Thrianta buck from a great breeder. Two days later he passed away. I was devastated but we did end up with two of his sons. I now wish we had got a doe too but i love the boys . He was an awesome rabbit and we still miss him :(


Did you find out why he passed?

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So far it was a rabbit that was advertised as a pure NZW doe with pedigree. I drove to a very scary part of town (no names) 45 mins away and she was a buck and with obvious california blood. I did not stay long enough to get into it with the guy. He was obviously clueless and just wanted to get rid of the rabbits. I just wanted to get out of there with my life. This was the part of town you do not want to be in anytime of day. And yes I heard gunfire while I was getting back in the car. My daughter, who came with me, said we should have brought our gun too. Never again. I will always google map it before heading out.



Oh gosh. I've been in a similar situation. You didn't buy them,right?

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We haven't had too many horrible rabbit people experiences because I usually see them coming a mile away in email and stop conversing with them. I bought a couple mini rex that turned out to not be so great but it seems everyone does that their first round.

We have had our own accidents. We built a new cage well over 2' in height. Got all the wire on but not the ceiling. Oh well it's 2' high and there are just a bunch of 3week old netherland x mini rex in there with their chubby mom. Came back to find the entire group (minus the adult) had climbed out, fallen about 6', and 3 bodies were scattered across the colony. The other 4 were found hiding in between the cages on ledges, feeders, and water bottles for who knows how long given how thirsty they were. I don't know if they were killed by the fall or the colony because we had a rash of aggressive actions toward smaller rabbits during that time and I'm still not sure who was doing it. Note- rabbits can climb very well.

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wanted to think about this for a while.....

Worst rabbit experience...as in Horrific... was losing a beautiful NZW doe by using a cage with 1" holes in the bottom. Losing her quickly spurred replacement of that floor with 1 X 1/2".

Worst experience ... as in 'kick my self Really hard'... was purchasing a herd of rabbits of a breed i wanted so much to work with... and losing every one of them to pasteurella. I had purchased a couple early on from this person and the rabbits were Great. When i learned this person was having to get out of rabbits i thought it would be a wonderful way to increase the breeding herd. Thankfully these animals were kept in a quarantine building and never got near our main herd. Lesson learned from this..."If it sounds too good to be true...it IS"

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Losing my entire herd of 24 pedigreed, purebred Cali's because of an impulse purchase of a cute little $10 feed store mutt rabbit that ended up having pasteurella... :(


Hmmm i wonder if this is why mine got so week and sick all of a sudden, oh well i am not buying from a feed store again.

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Being new to rabbits, I haven't had any really devastating experiences yet. I lost one of my original bucks before I could breed him, and I lost a few young rabbits to killer-attack-mousies. Nothing compared to the horror stories above.

So I'd have to say my worst experience so far is reading these posts just prior to going to a show, with my Rabbitosis having a flare-up, and now being nervous about buying any new rabbits! :evil:

Harrumph! I thought this was a forum of enablers, not dissuaders!


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I believe that You will enjoy the experience !! You've heard enough from all of us to be watchful of certain things. But do have fun !! that's a huge part of Rabbit Shows... the Friendliness of most people and ohhhh those beautiful Rabbits !!!

( You DO have at least one extra hole You're taking along ??? right ??? 'Take-Me'Home' bunnies will certainly be there... just sayin.....)

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( You DO have at least one extra hole You're taking along ??? right ??? 'Take-Me'Home' bunnies will certainly be there... just sayin.....)


:D I'm about to assemble my 2nd 4-hole cage, plus I have two 2 holes, so I'll have at least 12 holes (if time permits I may make a 3rd 4-hole), and I am only bringing 9 rabbits. I hope to sell some at the show- 7 of those are bucks!


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Losing my entire herd of 24 pedigreed, purebred Cali's because of an impulse purchase of a cute little $10 feed store mutt rabbit that ended up having pasteurella... :(


Hmmm i wonder if this is why mine got so week and sick all of a sudden, oh well i am not buying from a feed store again.


Feed store bunnies are typically the culls that the breeder doesn't want...I learned this after the fact. Better to deal directly with the breeder if you can.

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My worst experience was my first breeding experience with rabbits.

I was nine and had a gorgeous Mini Rex doe and a very handsome Mini Rex buck, but I didn't want to breed my doe just yet because she was showing so well. My parents couldn't afford to buy me a good doe, and we were young in our rabbit venture, so they got a free doe at a show. They told my parents that she was free because she was too light in color.

Wrong.

She was free because she was a baby-eater. Not just eating them after giving birth, but eating limbs and ears and leaving them to die on the floor of her cage. When we got her, I thought she felt a little "weird", like her ribs were too wide or "sprung" I guess, and now that I've had rabbits longer I recognize it as a rabbit who has carried a lot of litters. She was also full of milk, which I also thought was just her being shaped weird at the time because I was new and had no clue. The breeders knew she was an evil vicious monster and gave her to my parents anyways, promising she would have lots of lovely babies for their little girl just getting into rabbits. I'm assuming she had killed her last litter for them a day or two before the show that my folks got her at.

I didn't breed another rabbit for a year. Thankfully, my beautiful little show doe made a lovely mama when I retired her, and Dad took care of evil-baby-eater. I always felt bad for my parents though.

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