Rabbit

[alanaarhodes]

Does anyone know about owning a rabbit in hong kong ?? Where can you buy them and do they need much care ?

[Stoob]

Does anyone know about owning a rabbit in hong kong ?? Where can you buy them and do they need much care ?

Look like you've really done you homework prior to buying a pet!!

[Ern]

Take a bit more care than most people think, but lovely smart pets.

Hong Hong Rabbit Society read the sections on care and adoption.

Also consider adopting from hong kong spca, they always have some in.

[bryant.english]

I'm going to tell you something about rabbits:

1.) They are cute and lovely pets but the little bunny grows into an adult very bloody quickly.
2.) A lot of poo, lots and lots of pea sized minging poo.
3.) You cannot toilet train them, well you can to a degree, but their piss stinks wherever the spot is that they settle on as their toilet!
4.) If you're unlucky, you'll get one that likes to thump with it's legs - very noisy and destructive.
5.) They actually need a lot of excercise and some of that needs to be on grass, you may not be able to provide that....
6.) They are going to chew your stuff to pieces - much worse than dogs.

Ours actually committed suicide in the end, I kid you not! The worst thing was, I wasn't desperately unhappy that he'd gone to meet his maker, I would not buy another rabbit in a million years....

[Satay Sue]

I'm going to tell you something about rabbits:

1.) They are cute and lovely pets but the little bunny grows into an adult very bloody quickly.
2.) A lot of poo, lots and lots of pea sized minging poo.
3.) You cannot toilet train them, well you can to a degree, but their piss stinks wherever the spot is that they settle on as their toilet!
4.) If you're unlucky, you'll get one that likes to thump with it's legs - very noisy and destructive.
5.) They actually need a lot of excercise and some of that needs to be on grass, you may not be able to provide that....
6.) They are going to chew your stuff to pieces - much worse than dogs.

Ours actually committed suicide in the end, I kid you not! The worst thing was, I wasn't desperately unhappy that he'd gone to meet his maker, I would not buy another rabbit in a million years....

They're not supposed to be indoors roaming around your living room though are they? My parents kept rabbits and guinea pigs for years from when I was around 8, and even now they have two guinea pigs. But they are always kept in their garden, in a roomy hutch, and allowed out daily (weather permitting) to explore the garden. I remember one particularly bright little rabbit who would run up and untie your shoelaces if you were sitting in the garden and then lie by your feet. He lived for 6 years!

[rani]

You can adopt rabbits from the spca.org.hk

[purplepiano]

I'm going to tell you something about rabbits:

1.) They are cute and lovely pets but the little bunny grows into an adult very bloody quickly.
2.) A lot of poo, lots and lots of pea sized minging poo.
3.) You cannot toilet train them, well you can to a degree, but their piss stinks wherever the spot is that they settle on as their toilet!
4.) If you're unlucky, you'll get one that likes to thump with it's legs - very noisy and destructive.
5.) They actually need a lot of excercise and some of that needs to be on grass, you may not be able to provide that....
6.) They are going to chew your stuff to pieces - much worse than dogs.

Ours actually committed suicide in the end, I kid you not! The worst thing was, I wasn't desperately unhappy that he'd gone to meet his maker, I would not buy another rabbit in a million years....

Hmm, I don't know about the inability to toilet train rabbits. I had a big lop bunny growing up in the UK and he was litter trained. He was an outdoor/indoor rabbit though (he thought he was a cat).

If you have space get a cage/run for your rabbit to stop them chewing EVERYTHING in sight. However, I feel rabbits are more of an outdoor pet rather than one for apartment living.

[hello_there]

Like any animal, rabbits need a lot of care (and should ideally spend much of their time outdoors, which isn't possible in HK as the climate is too hot). They need to be fed a variety of fresh food (rabbit kibble, hay and freshly cut fruit/veg) daily; they need exercise (and cannot be left in a tiny cage all day - a decent rabbit hutch is the size of some bedrooms I've seen in HK). They need sunlight and ideally time outdoors, daily. Some rabbits (depending on the breed) can get very big. Rabbits get sick and vet bills can be expensive. Rabbits chew - everything - and can make a real mess of a house. If you work, you will need to run the aircon all day, even if you aren't home. Rabbits smell, and even if you do get yours trained to use a litterbox (some do this fairly easily, others don't at all) it still smells, especially in a small apartment.

Honest opinion, a house cat or even a small dog (if you are home during the day enough to properly care for a dog) are much easier pets, unless you have a lot of indoor and outdoor space to build proper rabbit hutches where they can get the exercise they need without destroying everything (or in the case of being outside, escaping).

[SiuMaiTaiTai]

rabbits are surprisingly hard work, more than a cat in my opinion and not as fun either.

[bryant.english]

he was litter trained.

The reason I say 'to a degree' is that there is an extremely short window of time in which to train them and not all rabbits respond to it. Further, where they decide to poo is it for life, if you move house you're screwed....