House Rabbit Network

‘Over or under, what’s a bunny to do?”

Your first impression of Roscoe might be “Awww, look at this cute little rabbit!”. Then, when you approach him to open his cage door to give him a friendly pet, that’s when Mr Gruff kicks in. Roscoe might grunt, snort or lunge at “trespassers” to his domain…. this little guy is letting you know who he thinks is in charge here!

“Ah razzzzzzzzzzzzzzzberries!!!!”

But once you coax your way past his defenses to give him a scrufftie, he’s quite agreeable to let you take him out for some R&R time. Interestingly, the territorial tough guy suddenly mellows out and is as interactive and fun to watch as one could ever imagine. For a solid half hour, he is as good as it gets: chinning and poking all the toys or anything else that he crosses paths with, scooting and running about, even entertaining us with a few binkies! However, he did give one little grunt when picked up at the end of his playtime. I guess he was just “commenting” on the necessity of having to return to his abode!

“Yo, you wanna piece a me? C’mon, bring it!”

Mr. Gruff is definitely not so tough. In fact, with a bit of TLC, this little boy will bring lots of joy to his “forever loving home”…..Might that be YOU?

“Halt, who goes there?”

Henrietta was rescued in September and a few days later delivered a litter of babies.

Over the next few months the babies’ growth and development will be chronicled.

For their first 2.5 weeks of life they stayed hidden in their nest. Between 2.5 and 3 weeks old they left their nest for short periods of time to investigate their surroundings.

At 3 weeks of age they started to lap water from a shallow bowl and eat tiny amounts of crumbled food pellets. Tiny sounds of chewing could be heard from their nest as they learned to eat small amounts of alfalfa hay.

Their foster mom has started to socialize them. At first they were startled by the smell and touch of a human hand. Touching Mama first and babies second helped co-mingle the smells and they soon loved gentle stroking.

Still at only 3 weeks old they spend more and more time out of their nest and have started “jiffy-popping” around their enclosure.

They continue to nurse from Mom twice a day.

-HRN Fostermom: Cheryl-