dawgbyte

Rocky never knew his parents. When he was a baby, he was forcefully taken away from his mommy and daddy and then sold for adoption in Simei. Day and night, he huddled in a corner miserably missing his family and home, while strangers glance at him and eventually forgot him.

One day, a lady named Julie saw him and exclamed: "Wow, what an adorable little rabbit! I will love you and I will hug you everyday and I will take care of you forever and ever and ever!!!" For the first time in weeks, Rocky was happy. Little did he know that his happiness was about to be cut short. The next month, she neutered him.

"Suddenly, I feel strange... let's go shopping."

llmjen

Oh, ha, ha I can answer that! A pair of mature rabbits can produce more than 200 babies within a year. Its not difficult to take care of the mummy and babies, just make sure you have a nesting box and line the nesting box with clean soft towels and hay and change the towels daily. Place the nesting box in a small, warm and quiet room away from the male. My female bunny is good with her kids, she feeds them well everyday and doesn't bite them as some bunnies can injure or 'cannibalized' their babies because of anxiety as rabbits are highly skittish ("fractious") by nature.

I don't encourage breeding of rabbits, mine was an accident. I have a big enclosure and I placed a fencing in the middle to separate them when they were sexually active as I wanted to wait for them to be a bit older before I get them sterilized but somehow one of them managed to climb over and thereafter when the female rabbit started pulling her fur out, grabbing my son's tees and shredding the newspapers to line a corner of the balcony I realised then that she could be pregnant so I placed a nesting box and the next day I found the babies. The next day, I sent the male to a vet to be neutered.

llmjen

Oh, poor thing!. Ash knew his parents,brothers and sisters and I bought him from Yishun but Princess is from Thailand as she is gift to me from my husband when he went on a business trip there and chanced upon her.

poopy

yea.
thx for being a responsible owner!:biggrin4:

dawgbyte

Wow, the way she sleeps is adorable.

llmjen

Oh yea, if you are the photographer, you could have done justice to the photo. I am a moron with camera. Princess looks very nice with a small tiara on her head that I bought her but I am never able to capture that picture so its good to learn how to since my rabbits are quite good photo objects. Any good tips with a digital camera?

dawgbyte

I'm not really a "photographer", just a trigger-happy snapper like the rest. What I normally do is take the photo in the afternoon when the sunlight is just nice. I take indoors next to windows. This lighting is just nice to make the rabbit "3-D". Try to adjust your camera to ISO 800 or 1600. It will be grainy but less blur. If it has image stabilizer, use that. If you can adjust the apperture, lower it down.

Rabbits are very curious creatures so I will sit around and snap some test pix, while waiting for my rabbit to get used to me and my camera.. Once he is relaxed, you can get very nice expression and antics and moodswings. You can also try to feed her a bit. You can take picture of her eating, yawning, bored, sleepy, jumpy, etc.

If you want to make your pet cute, use macro and do not zoom-in but shoot very close to her. Normally she might start to get curious and try to sniff your camera... just shoot away and you will get a big nose and tiara and eyes that are very alert. I think eyes are important. This will also blur the background and give you nice picture.

Here is one using the above technique. Camera is Fuji F11 (brick camera).

Try to use props too. Woven baskets, mats, and of course, her tiara. It makes the picture more colorful and interesting. For my Miki the Pig, I used a paper clip to add color as well as reference his size.

Lastly, I enhance the color using photoshop.

blurheroine

thats so sweet.
my rabbit just passed away on the 8th. i used to take lotsa pictures for her like this too. (:

Dagger%u2122

Wow Mr dawgbyte, your rabbit is reallly cute. Anyway, i bet you are good at writing essays.

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dawgbyte

I just happened to be free at work sometimes.

How old was your rabbit? That's sad.

blurheroine

yup. she was about 8 years old.
she had diarrhoea the few weeks before and even when she got well, her weight never came back.
i never got to toilet train her either, she was reeally stubborn. haha.
i had to give all the toilets i got for her away.



thats my baby for you. (:

oh yea how olds your rabbit anw? is she considered a senior yet? because i still have more than half a pack of senior pellets.
intending to give it away.
and do you know if anybody is interested in more than a metre's long bunny cage? im selling mine.

dawgbyte

Very nice rabbit and it seems she had a good and long life. I will be sad if something bad happens to my rabbit. He is 4 years old. I think already a senior but he don't like pellets. I have to throw away the pellets from his mixed food. Actually he have a very long list of food he don't like. He doesn't even like strawberries. Weird. As for the cage, sorry I don't know anyone who needs it at the moment.

yunise

whoa.. u train yr rabbit to look at the camera?

Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

dawgbyte

No. My rabbit is narcissistic. He just likes to be photographed naked.