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.
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...
Rabbits are killers, plain and simple; bloodthirsty and vicious. They should be banned! Think of the children!
If it saves just one life...
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!!
