Rabbit Care - How to Handle Your Rabbit
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How to Care for Your Rabbit
Rabbit Care - Basic Health Considerations for your Rabbit
Rabbit Care - How to Give Medications to your Rabbit
Rabbit Care - Proper Housing for your Rabbit
Rabbit Care - Choosing the Proper Diet for your Rabbit
Rabbit Care - Spaying or Neutering your Rabbit
Rabbit Care - Social Needs for your Rabbit
Rabbit Care - Grooming Tips for your Rabbit
Rabbit Care - How to Bunny Proof Your Home
Rabbit Care - How to Handle Your Rabbit
Rabbit Care - How to Relax Your Rabbit
How to Find a Veterinarian
How to Care for Your Ferret
How to Care for Your Rabbit
Photograph Your Pet
Veterinary Needs
When to Select a Veterinarian
Selecting a Veterinary Hospital
Questions to Ask when Selecting a Veterinarian
Ferret Care - Proper Diet
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About me:
I first got introduced to rabbits as pets when a dear friend and fellow pet devotee Kris Ratliff helped me adopt my first rabbit, Mokona. She herself was going through vet school, and was a vet assistant at a local pet hospital in MD. Her experiences, and my own from there on out helped me perfect the basic forms of rabbit massage shown in a video here on Monkeysee.
With a music therapy background, I knew that therapeutic goals are accomplished in many ways, some that might not always be viewed as successful as others. I believed that rabbit massage as therapy, and a connection between a rabbit and it's owner would not only increase happiness, but work on health related goals at the same time. This strive to achieve has been shown over the years with hands on demonstrations with my own rabbits, and with countless others. I believe the stronger connection between the pet (be it dog, cat or rabbit), the better the quality of life, and the closer connection between pet and owner.
I started my work with Friends of Rabbits back in 2000 and have assisted in numerous spa days, educational events, fundraisers and overall activities.
About the group:
Friends of Rabbits is an independent rabbit rescue and welfare group based in Maryland, DC, and Northern Virginia. Our goal is to rescue homeless and abandoned domestic rabbits and to promote the adoption and welfare of domestic rabbits through education and example. Domestic rabbits have been created through human intervention, and are dependent on us for survival. It is therefore our responsibility to care for them.
Friends of Rabbits believes that all rabbits are valuable as individuals, regardless of physical attributes, personality or health.
Friends of Rabbits does not condone the exploitation of rabbits for profit or medical research.
Friends of Rabbits is not licensed to rehabilitate wildlife. All wildlife rescue cases will be referred to licensed rehabilitators.
Friends of Rabbits believes all domestic rabbits should live indoors with humans.
We believe all domestic rabbits should be neutered or spayed, except in case of other overriding medical concerns, and they should receive the same level of veterinary care as other companion animals.
Friends of Rabbits believes all rabbits deserve a quality life, including toys, exercise, mental stimulation and social interaction with humans and other animals. These are as essential to ensuring a healthy life as food, water and shelter.
Although our goal is to ensure all rabbits in our care are spayed or neutered, live indoors and receive appropriate medical attention, we also support sanctuaries that shelter abandoned, abused and unadoptable rabbits that may not always be able to meet these standards. Friends of Rabbits also recognizes other legitimate rabbit rescue groups, humane societies and animal shelters. Friends of Rabbits respects the privacy of its members and does not share its membership list with any other organizations.
Rabbit Care - How to Handle Your Rabbit
Rabbit care expert Aileen Kara Hudspeth discusses rabbit care and how to handle your rabbit.
Transcripts
Aileen Kara Hudspeth: Hi, my name is Aileen Kara Hudspeth I am here with friends of Rabbits. We are talking about how to care for your rabbit. Now we will be discussing how to handle your rabbit. Today I have as my willing participant Jenny. Jenny is going to need to be supported when I pick her up so I want to make sure that I follow the proper procedure. Proper procedure would not be pulling on her ears and trying to pick her up by her ears, trying to pick her up by her scruff which is not going to happen because really she doesn't have a lot here, not like cats would for example. I am not going to pull her by her tail because that's definitely not anything that's going to make her feel like she is being supported.
The proper way to pick up your rabbit is to make sure that they feel secure at all times and they will kick if they don't feel secured and they really do not prefer to be picked up. So what you want to do is you want to put your hand around the front and one hand under the back and you want to make them feel secure. I am holding firm and tight, but I am not squishing her and I am not squeezing her. So I can feel her and she can feel me. When I put her down, I want to be just as gentle putting her down as I did when I picked her up. That's how to handle your rabbit. Next, we are going to talk about how to relax your Rabbit.
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Way to get hurt. by marjorum at 03/09/11 04:42AM Flag
Used to have an 1,800 doe rabbitry and the method demonstrated for picking up a rabbit is good only for a rabbit that is very used to being picked up. I had an employee who attempted to use the method demonstrated to pick up a rabbit with the result that 40 stitches were required to close the wounds on his hands and lower arms. Use the scruff--it keeps your hands and arms away from the rabbit's hind legs. The majority of the rabbit's weight is on your other hand on the rabbit's body just abo
helpful rabbit tips!! by hareeshsrk at 08/18/09 06:36PM Flag
thanks a lot for the video...it helped me a lot!!! very much thankfull!!! keep updating..i hope its helping so many !!
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