Flower and Thumper
Our first dwarf bunnies, Mars and Jupiter, had given us a taste for house rabbits when we had moved home and our new garden wasn’t ready for them to move into. They had spent several months living in the house, while the garden was made safe for them. Although Mars and Jupiter were very happy to move back outside, we missed having rabbits in the house and so Flower and Thumper joined our family.
Thumper was an agouti netherland dwarf bunny, the only one in the litter, and when we saw him we couldn’t resist. The rest of the litter were Sable Martens and Flower was the only other boy. As we wanted a pair of male bunnies our choice was made for us.
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We have created a free screensaver that features our first netherland dwarf bunnies, Mars & Jupiter. There are fifteen pictures of our little bunnies enjoying themselves in their garden.
Please feel free to download the screensaver and let us know if you enjoyed the photos of our dwarf bunnies.
The screensaver runs on Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Vista.
You can download it free here: DwarfBunniesMJSaver1.exe
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This is a short story inspired by our dwarf bunny, Fern. Like most dwarf bunnies she has a lot of personality in a small body. Fern lives outside during the day, though she was meant to be a house bunny. Fern has too much sense of adventure to live in the house, and she spends her time chasing our two cats, finding places to explore that a bunny really shouldn’t, climbing on us, our plant pots and even a picnic table!
As you can see from the picture of Fern, she is a natural agouti dwarf bunny cross. We adopted her from a animal shelter where she was named Fifi. Seeing her outside playing and showing off her wild streak it is hard for us to believe she is a domestic rabbit. No matter how bonkers and wild she is we love her dearly and we share a very special bond with our little rabbit. This story was written out of love for Fern and was inspired by a family joke that she is really a wild rabbit.
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Mars and Jupiter Out in the Garden
Our first bunnies were Mars and Jupiter, who were netherland dwarf bunnies. They were brothers and while they looked very much alike as babies they had very different personalities. Jupiter was the calm and considered one, he was a lovely gentle bunny. Mars, on the other hand, was a bit bonkers. He was very unpredictable, one minute he was all sweet and lovely and then he’d growl at us and sometimes lunge at us too. He was never vicious, and he never actually bit us, but we did keep our distance when he was having one of his grumps. He was sometimes rather grumpy with Jupiter too, but Jupiter never seemed to care.
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Flower & Thumper - Dwarf Bunnies Together
Dwarf bunnies, like all rabbits, are very sociable creatures and they enjoy the company of their own kind, in fact they thrive on it. A pair of ‘bonded’ bunnies will appear inseparable, in that no matter what they are doing, be it sleeping, eating, running around or just lazing in the sunshine, they will be together. One of the best things about dwarf bunnies is that their size makes it so much easier to keep them in pairs.
Why Bunnies Are Happier in Pairs:
Mutual Grooming
Bunnies need a companion to help them clean hard to reach places on the top of their heads, behind their ears and around their eyes. While mutual grooming is part of the bunny bonding process it is also necessary for a bunnies overall happiness.
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