Cute goth bunnies 🖤 Artworks by @dayrisfelix on Instagram

Sweet smell of summer 🌼

Rabbits and triangles🐇

Happy Lunar New Year!  A soft and peaceful moon rabbit because those are the tidings I wish for us all this year. Prints

in my flop era (like how a bunny flops over when they're comfortable. thank you.)

in my flop era (my ears are so so floppy and fluffy. thanks)

i didn't even know 2023 is year of the rabbit. lets all enter our flop era... together oxo

bunny for year of the rabbit by 檀仁TANRENCAT

hello to new year

enjoy these rabbits

the best part of this post

Jennifer Gennari

Bunny Cuddles, 2018

Oil on panel

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be soft

but be ready

The “I Probably Shouldn’t Have Pets” Starter Pack

Could someone tell me what’s wrong with meowmix?

seems that it’s made some cats sicker (puking uncontrollably) and has been infested with bugs often, also in general, i think it’s probably just low grade and can give cats problems (like purina for dogs)

What’s wrong with the bird cage? I could understand that it could be too small for a large bird like a parrot, but what about a canary?

Nope. That cage is far too small to be used as a home for any kind of bird. It’s acceptable as a travel cage for small birds, or as a sleeping only cage. But songbirds deserve to have room to move around and fly too.

For Canaries and finches, it’s recommended they have at least a 3 foot cage!

Canaries are birds that need to fly. They were not meant to be domesticated and profited from as pets. They are highly active birds that will self harm from stress in such confined spaces. Canaries are delightful to have in groups, though they are fine on their own, but every 1 bird adds 3 cubic feet to the space needed. They need multiple perches and toys. These are examples of proper Canary or other small bird enclosures.

Meow Mix is a horrible brand of cat food, I used to feed it to my cats and they would just throw it back up. It’s so low quality that half of the ingredients aren’t even food items. The meat is all scrap by products from slaughterhouses like hooves, eyes, tails and fat because it’s cheap. Which is something they don’t list on the packaging to fool pet owners. I always used to find worms in my bags of Meow Mix. Beneful literally uses antifreeze in it’s food, which has lead to the deaths of thousands of dogs a year. From conditions such as internal bleeding, seizures and cancers. 

Rabbits shouldn’t be confined to a cage. (Especially a dog cage..?) Rabbits are curious creatures that need to jump, run, chew and play to be healthy. Keeping them locked in a cage 24/7 as a toy for your kids will make them sick or develop aggression from stress. Healthy rabbit lifespans are 10+ years. Rabbit cages should only be a place for your rabbit to use the litterbox and sleep after a long day of exercise and play. Also, never keep two rabbits together unless they are fixed. Rabbits are territorial and they will either fight or mate rapidly when intact. Up to 14 babies every month. This is the proper set up for a rabbit.

I’m cringing at that rainbow “my mommy got me a cute hamster” rodent cage. These are small creatures that need to run around and explore. They need to burrow and chew. This is the proper set up for a hamster or other small rodent. 

Betta fish get stressed from any confinement under 5 gallons. They are the worst pet for being sold to kids as “accessories” in small cubed tanks. When kept like that the fish will die a horribly stressed life within a year when they can live for 7 or more. They need calm filtration with many dark caves and soft plants. They are aggressive to other fish. These fish are so intelligent that they actually play with you, and they need mental stimulation to live healthy. These are proper Betta setups.

Who the fuck would even feed an omnivorous bearded dragon pellet food…? Do they want a sick pet? If pet stores even bothered to care about the keeping of exotic pets, they would know that shit is bad for them. If you can’t feed live meal worms and crickets than you shouldn’t own an exotic pet in the first place. Pellet food isn’t even real food, it’s chemically made with preservatives. 

@amazingpetenclosures

All of this is good info, thanks!

“Too small for a large bird like a parrot”

Reminder that parrots are not one species and range from budgie (parakeet) and cockatiel sized to macaws.

Either way it’s too fucking small, mate

@ the people in the comments going like “but i cant afford anything bigger/better!”

like no offence, but you shouldnt get a pet at all if you cannot afford to give them decent care.

Kinda unhappy with this one, had too much story/ideas in my mind, but too few pages lol. Anyway, the message is still important. Rabbits often suffer from poor keeping and are often abandoned, especially around Easter time.

important psa about buns

We raised rabbits when I was a child and my sister gave a rabbit a bath (she was 5) and it died..so heed this instruction.

I wasn’t going to reblog this, but then I realized I might save a rabbit.

This is important guys. If your rabbit gets into something gnarly and you HAVE to bathe them: 1. Fill a bowl with warm water. 2. Get a washcloth. Put it in the water. Squeeze it out until it is just damn.  3. Lightly scrub the dirty area on your bun. 4. That is it. DO NOT get your bun wet. Only slightly damp on the part that was dirty.  (source)

VERY IMPORTANT! SAVE A BUNS LIFE!

Do not bathe your bun!!!!

Boosting!

this applies to guinea pigs, too!

Rabbits can and do swim in the wild; they’ve got toe webbing and buoyant fat and all the other adaptations that make a land mammal good in the water, because that’s a great way to get away from clumsier predators and escape tracking by scent.

The problem is that the same thing that makes a bunny’s coat so good at shedding rain means that when they do get soaked through, it takes forever for them to dry properly, so if they don’t have adequate shelter and ideally help drying off they can get a nasty case of hypothermia.

Keep them warm, and dry them off as best you can. Don’t stop or let them go until they’re dry, even on a warm day. Don’t use a hair dryer either unless you really know what you’re doing, because it can easily go the opposite way and burn them, and the noise is likely to freak them right out.

And yes, rabbits in general are high-strung enough to have fatal heart attacks if you stress them enough; if they aren’t used to the water and some stupid human forces them into the bath that’s terrifying, so just don’t do it. It also means you gotta make sure not to panic them when you’re drying them off; fortunately being wrapped up in a towel is comforting to most bunnies, since it’s a) an extra layer between them and any threats, b) kinda like being in a tunnel, and c) kinda like being surrounded by a warren of other bunnies.

As for the ear infections I’m not sure, but I think that’s mainly a problem with lop-eared rabbits, since floppy ears are a mutation introduced by human breeders and it causes them a bunch of other problems as well. If they have the proper upright ears like a wild rabbit I think they can get the water out easily enough and not worry too much about that.