My mum was quite similar when I was young. I had a couple of mice for christmas one year, ofcourse there was one buck and two does! So it ended up with quite a lot of mice. My mum got rid of the lot telling me they had found a good home, a few years later I found out they went to a snake keeper, a common fate for my current mice, but these were cherished childhood pets.
I never had rabbits as a youngster, we always had guinea pigs which were really lovely childrens pets, very docile. From keeping rabbits in the last few years I think rabbits need quite a lot of handling and socialisation to get them to be managable. I am really lucky because its obvious that Martha has been well handled by her breeders, she is very confidant, far more than my other rabbits were at the same age. Without proper handling they can be very antisocial animals, I'm putting in a lot of work with Martha because she is going to be a very large rabbit so could inflict quite a bit of damage if she decided to, she already has invertantly, her claws are like little pins!
I never had rabbits as a youngster, we always had guinea pigs which were really lovely childrens pets, very docile. From keeping rabbits in the last few years I think rabbits need quite a lot of handling and socialisation to get them to be managable. I am really lucky because its obvious that Martha has been well handled by her breeders, she is very confidant, far more than my other rabbits were at the same age. Without proper handling they can be very antisocial animals, I'm putting in a lot of work with Martha because she is going to be a very large rabbit so could inflict quite a bit of damage if she decided to, she already has invertantly, her claws are like little pins!
