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- From: kenny@stsci.edu
- Subject: Re: a bunny toy
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.172048.1@stsci.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:20:48 GMT
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- In article <1k1hma$9nt@agate.berkeley.edu>, annie@garnet.berkeley.edu (Anne Jessop) writes:
- >
- >
- > Just now, she seems to have decided her litter box is a toy, too. Pine
- > shavings everywhere...Then she got part way out of it (hind legs on the
- > floor, front legs reaching into the box) and started _dragging_ it across
- > the floor!
-
- Mine do that too. I have two who do a tug of war with theirs. More often
- than not it gets dumped on one or the other. My big one likes to sleep in
- it - she's a big 10 lb lop, and she just oozes out over the sides when she
- really gets comfy. It looks real funny - I've got pictures.
-
- > Enough of that...I sort of recall someone saying earlier that it's a
- > better idea than not to spay females even if they have no contact with
- > males, because they tend to get ovarian tumors...Is that right? I've
- > always just kind of felt that if there was no need, why have her cut up?
- > Can someone please repost or repeat the basic arguments for getting
- > rabbits spayed? Also, she's about 1 1/2. Is that too old? Too young?
-
- Get it done. The house rabbit handbook says there's something like an
- 80% chance of a rabbit over 5 or so getting them. I recently had my 4
- year old done, because I just found out about that fact not too long ago.
- She had the beginnings of tumors growing in her uterus. Fortunately, they
- hadn't spread, so we think we did it in time. 2 spayed, 4 to go. Sigh.
-
- > Thanks, especially for indulging all that "cute bunny" stuff,
-
- No problem. I like cute bunny stuff. (I have lots of cute bunnies of my own).
-
- > Annie
-
- Debbie
-