Meet Our New Family Member!

Meet the new member of our family a loving and sweet "Dwarf Lionhead Rabbit" Kaylea has named Dumbo and "Dumbi" for short. Dumbi joined our family yesterday. We had gone to the pet store to just look at the animals. Kaylea is such an animal lover - not like her mama. She is really good with them too! Well she has been asking us for a pet for quite some time... and well e already know dogs don't do so well with her. Puppies and dogs while she likes them she is terrified of them at the same time, which is why we had to give Tootie to a new family last year. But she has been lovingly taking care of her "pretend" hamster now for about 2 weeks... carefully placing him in his cage, singing him lullabys and petting him and kissing him goodnight before she goes to bed. She even has me sing the hamster special lullabys at night time. I feel pretty silly singing to a pretend hamster in a pretend cage made from her Elmo purse.

So, what kind of pet could we get that she wasn't terrified of, stayed in a cage not all over the house all the time, and the biggest concern I had was that it wouldn't bite. As far as the biting goes the pet store lady gave us two choices - mice (yuck) or a bunny rabbit. So I went with #2.

We had picked out a bunny that had been living with a family so it was used to being held. It was a big fat lazy white bunny with brown spots. Kaylea already named it and we already payed for it - $14.99... not bad and she was really sweet - but shed alot. Just as we were getting ready to take "Susie" homethe owner of the pet store said he couldn't let us take her. When they inspected her cage they noticed there wasn't one single bit of poo in her cage. (A rabbit that doesn't poop? Perfect I thought!) But that meant she was really sick, and he didn't want to let us take her home and have something happen to her and Kaylea be even more upset. So, he offered us the first bunny we looked at that was $49.99 for the same price. After some negotiation and tears, Kaylea agreed and now she is in love with Dumbi! Also the good things are it is a dwarf rabbit so he won't get big and he doesn't shed at all! So say hi to our new little Dumbi!

If you have any tips on taking care of rabbits please give them to me!