Save money mowing your lawn

pennyforthem

If you have a safe closed off lawn, you could get a rabbit to keep your lawn short, saving electricity/petrol.

Did you know that rabbits only poop where they eat, so you can keep them indoors as long as their food is situated, so their bottoms are in a tray or something while they eat, your floor will remain unharmed.

You can also have them on your laps in the winter to keep you warm and pet them to de-stress while you watch the news.

When you have them nicely fattened up, you can dispatch it, skin it reserving the brain to treat the hide and put the meat and organs in the pot. If you cook it on a wood fire and burn the bones, that will be a great feed for your garden.

I feel like I might have taken money saving too far at some point....and possibly illegal.

Apodemus

pennyforthem said:

 rabbits only poop where they eat, ... as long as their food is situated, so their bottoms are in a tray or something while they eat...

Utter nonsense!  As a past owner of a house rabbit, I can attest to the fact that they are very clean animals and excellent pets.  They adapt well to having a dedicated "poop tray", but they should be provided with a separate, clean eating area.

pennyforthem

Apodemus said:

pennyforthem said:

 rabbits only poop where they eat, ... as long as their food is situated, so their bottoms are in a tray or something while they eat...

Utter nonsense!  As a past owner of a house rabbit, I can attest to the fact that they are very clean animals and excellent pets.  They adapt well to having a dedicated "poop tray", but they should be provided with a separate, clean eating area.

Your complaint confuses me, given you are just agreeing with what I have written?

pennyforthem

Or to put it another way, the points I was trying to make was that you can use a rabbit to cut your lawn, saving money, another use is as a lap warmer. It was not to go into how great bunnies are as pets, or how to train your bunny so that you can have it free-range and a clean home, I had hoped that I hit the right balance between letting people know this was possible whilst letting them decide if they are interested enough to learn how to do it for themselves! I don't believe I made any suggestion towards them being disgusting, and I certainly did not want to encourage people to just go out and get one, as they are prey animals to have one freely running around your home takes compassion and thoughtful actions among other things.

The question should really be can we only post if we are only willing to put a full manual on the subject?

twopenny

Your post made me chuckle - at least to start with.

While seeing it through to the end is actually practical it did make me wince.

I used to like a cat to keep me warm but a rabit would be more useful 
How do they get on with hedgehogs?

mjm3346

just use a proper manual mower for the best cut along with all the health benefits of the exercise, no need for rabbits, possible vets bills or needing to tread "carefully" on the lawn 

in_my_wellies

I kept two Guinea pigs in a 4' square pen on the lawn. I moved it round the lawn a few times a day and they would keep the lawn by the house short and fed all summer. I never needed to mow it. 

*They died of old age and are buried under the apple tree 

Apodemus

pennyforthem said:

Apodemus said:

pennyforthem said:

 rabbits only poop where they eat, ... as long as their food is situated, so their bottoms are in a tray or something while they eat...

Utter nonsense!  As a past owner of a house rabbit, I can attest to the fact that they are very clean animals and excellent pets.  They adapt well to having a dedicated "poop tray", but they should be provided with a separate, clean eating area.

Your complaint confuses me, given you are just agreeing with what I have written?

I'm not agreeing with you.  They don't poop and eat at the same time.  They don't want to poop where they eat and if that is the way you keep them you are not allowing them to express their normal behaviour (look up the five freedoms of animal welfare!).  They should be allowed to have a completely seperate areas to poop and to eat, not "bottoms in a tray or something while they eat".  Rabbits are wonderful pets, but sadly one of the most abused in terms of animal welfare.

ariarnia

having their food bowls in a large tray or on a mat might be useful as they can be quite messy eaters. not because of poop.