So, background - We live in Africa and someone mentioned to my DH that they reared rabbits. So DH reminiscing of his half-French childhood decided it would be nice to have a rabbit stew and ordered some rabbit meat... urgh.
Anyway, so rabbit got delivered this morning alive and kicking - and very cute. Gardener offered to, ahem, you know.
Obviously could not go ahead with it so now we have a new pet rabbit!
So:
We are lucky to have an enormous garden, walled in, with a very high wall.
We have two cats, who have just been staring at the rabbit but don't seem to be threatening it.
It appears to have fleas.
What do I do with this rabbit? Can it roam around? Will it need a hutch tonight? Does it need injections could it be carrying some weird disease?
Can I put flea powder on it? What does it eat?
And is it going to destroy all the lovely plants I have in my garden?
Thanks!
(I have named him Lucky, by the way!)
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Just had a rabbit delivered 1 hour ago! My DH wanted to make stew, but it was alive, so now we have a pet.... Help!
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somuchtosortout · 30/10/2013 07:50
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