Official Off Topic Discussion Thread #1
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Hello; Not a fatal dog mauling story. More the risks of pets to kids. Something like 17% of children reported to have been bitten by a pet with many needing medical care. Only around 50% of the bites from dogs.
I recall when i was 8 or 9 years old my grandfather brought in a couple of rabbits. One I was falsely told was to be mine and the other for my sister. They were in two boxes on the floor. Somehow the rabbits were put in the same box. They began to fight furiously. I reached in to get my rabbit. Was bitten thru a finger near my knuckle. I think my first lifelong scar.
The rabbits were actually to be raised for meat and the skins. I think the first two were both males and such is why they fought in the box. Later on one of the small traumas of my young life was walking into the shed and seeing my rabbit being skinned. I bawled like a child since i was one. My mom raised a stink. My dad got mad and realesed all the rabbits from the cage he had built. I also got to watch the neighborhood dogs catch and tear them apart.
Hello; The bucks (male rabbits) will fight each other. Saw such myself. Most likely because someone put them in a not too big box together after being hauled around. I got a bite because i stuck my hand in the middle of their fight. The story I linked was about pets in general biting children and not all the pets being dogs. Just threw in a personal experience on the non dog side.Rabbits? Rabbits?!?
Rabbits are killers, plain and simple; bloodthirsty and vicious. They should be banned! Think of the children!
If it saves just one life...
I do get what you are trying to do I suppose. Somehow trying to make such, non-dog pet bites, seem like an overreaction or some such. I guess figuring to play down the earlier statements I made about fatal dog maulings. Or maybe you were just trying to be funny? Also, maybe you never raised rabbits.
My other fundamental mistake, aside from trying to stop a rabbit fight, was not understanding the rabbits were like the chickens, ducks and pigs raised for food. But no rabbits do not attack people as far as i know.
We have a fluffy white male rabbit with smokey tones in his fur, he's a beautiful rabbit, but totally vicious!
Trying to change his water, feed him, or clean him out is an ordeal, an ordeal which leaves muggins here with an array of scratches on my hands and forearms. Yes, you've guessed correctly, I've been reluctantly pushed forward as rabbit monitor!
But the scratches are only part of it. If I actually go to get him out for my son to play with he goes berserk, and that's when he'll attempt to bite too!
Here's the deal though, once he's out he'll play quite happily with my son. He'll sit on my wife's lap whilst she pets him, he'll even play with the dog quite happily.
We took him to the vets and they recommended he had "the operation", which would calm him down. So the blasted vet took our money, cut his balls off, yet here we are months later with the same psycho rabbit, with me anyway, no one else!
One rule in our house regarding the rabbit is never to leave it's cage door open, or have it out when the cat's around, because my Diego will absolutely nail the damn rabbit.
As I'm writing this the seeds of a cunning plan are germinating in my head!!
Trying to change his water, feed him, or clean him out is an ordeal, an ordeal which leaves muggins here with an array of scratches on my hands and forearms. Yes, you've guessed correctly, I've been reluctantly pushed forward as rabbit monitor!
But the scratches are only part of it. If I actually go to get him out for my son to play with he goes berserk, and that's when he'll attempt to bite too!
Here's the deal though, once he's out he'll play quite happily with my son. He'll sit on my wife's lap whilst she pets him, he'll even play with the dog quite happily.
We took him to the vets and they recommended he had "the operation", which would calm him down. So the blasted vet took our money, cut his balls off, yet here we are months later with the same psycho rabbit, with me anyway, no one else!
One rule in our house regarding the rabbit is never to leave it's cage door open, or have it out when the cat's around, because my Diego will absolutely nail the damn rabbit.
As I'm writing this the seeds of a cunning plan are germinating in my head!!
Hello; Let me clear up the story a bit. There was intended to be a male and a female rabbit, not two males. Somehow my grandfather got two males and brought them home two boxes. They were OK until someone put them together. My recall is fuzzy as to how a female was obtained as my concentration was centered on my hurt hand.
I do not know all that much about wild rabbit societies in terms of dominance fights. Afraid my imagination has been colored some by the book WATERSHIP DOWN.
Actually, we did raise rabbits...for the table...when I was young. Like almost any animal, they are capable of fighting amongst themselves viciously at times...and, as is the case with almost all animals, attempting to stick one's hand into the melee to separate them is foolish and will result in bloodshed.
Watership Down is a wonderful book, but not one that should be used as an animal behaviour textbook. If you think you might be doing that...well, absolutely do not read the outstanding "Duncton Wood" books by William Horwood. It's cast of characters is a population of moles; you won't ever walk out into your yard after finishing even the first book.
Esox, I posted in your thread about cat-people vs. dog-people; it was a comment on how perceptive animals are and how trustworthy their assessments of people they meet seem to be. So...your rabbit loves your son and wife, but turns into a ravening monster when you touch it?
Hmmm....
Watership Down is a wonderful book, but not one that should be used as an animal behaviour textbook. If you think you might be doing that...well, absolutely do not read the outstanding "Duncton Wood" books by William Horwood. It's cast of characters is a population of moles; you won't ever walk out into your yard after finishing even the first book.
Esox, I posted in your thread about cat-people vs. dog-people; it was a comment on how perceptive animals are and how trustworthy their assessments of people they meet seem to be. So...your rabbit loves your son and wife, but turns into a ravening monster when you touch it?
Hmmm....
Esox, I posted in your thread about cat-people vs. dog-people; it was a comment on how perceptive animals are and how trustworthy their assessments of people they meet seem to be. So...your rabbit loves your son and wife, but turns into a ravening monster when you touch it?
I don't like the dog, and as you said, they are very perceptive, so I get it that the dog doesn't like me, and that's why it takes the p*ss out of me on occasion.
I love my cat, Diego, and he is also very perceptive, and he is a right daddies boy.
The rabbit is a bit of an enigma though. I actually like the rabbit, he's a beautiful variety. But I'm guessing rabbits aren't particularly perceptive, because the feelings are certainly not mutual in the rabbits case.
My Diego loves the rabbit too, but for a whole set of different reasons!!
Aaaah, I see...you're "guessing"...
I'm not suggesting rabbits are Mensa candidates, but perception and intelligence are two different things. Rabbits are, like dogs and most other "proper" animals, invariably perceptive. They don't require intelligence to act upon their perceptions, they simply feel something and act upon it.
They don't necessarily dislike you because they think you dislike them; they just simply dislike you...period.
The cat? Well, hell...it's a cat, for crying out loud...
