Tonight I wanted to show my husband how big the creme d'argent mutts were and pulled out a black one to hand to him. He must have grabbed it a little too firmly because it started screeching and wouldn't stop until I'd cupped it loosely in my hands for awhile. I had to dig out a calmer one for him. What do you do about taming colony rabbits and catching them when you are ready to do something with them? I'm not too concerned since they are only the meat rabbits but I've seen cottontails bash themselves to death on walls and I'm worried with no human handling even the domestics might be pretty bad. Am I going to be butchering screeching rabbits in a couple months or will they calm down after they start coming out of the nest while we're around?