J&J Bunny Page

Welcome to the J&J Bunny Page. You must be wondering what is J&J? J&J stands for Jessica, me, and James, my little brother. This page is especially created for our rabbits Snow and Peter, and their kids, if any, in the future.

My brother and I love rabbits very much. We had two little rabbits last year, but they soon died after grazing on the grass downstairs. We suspected that the grass was sprayed with some kind of pesticide to rid off mosquitoes and the like. Since then we always wanted to have our pet rabbits again, but our father refused to give in, until now.

A Gift of Rabbit for the Year of Rabbit

According to the lunar calendar, every 12 years is a cycle, and each of the years is given an animal name: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. The next lunar year, after February 14, 1999, is the "Year of Rabbit". (Here are some newspaper reports on rabbits). It happened that my friend Anmin had to give away her Mother Rabbit who had recently became mother of four. Now the baby rabbits are independent, the rabbit family has to split. We were overjoyed to "adopt" Snow, the Mother Rabbit. We took this as our "New Year's Gift". We call her Snow because she is purely white, like snow.

Snow Got A Boy Friend

The following day, mother went to the market and bought Snow a "boy friend". James named him Peter. Peter is gray and white colored, looks a bit smaller than Snow. But Peter is very cute, always alert. And he bites, too, if you attempt to hold him. He only subdues to my Dad. Sometimes they fight, well, I guess that's playful fight, and most of the time, they are quite "loving" for each other, as soon here in the picture on the left, photographed in our living room.

 

Took Over One of Our Toilets

We first sacrificed our balcony to accommodate Snow and Peter, but it turned out not working well: the odor was too strong to be at our entrance. So we moved them in our guest toilet, letting them have the whole space: they only go back to the cage to ease themselves. They eat, sleep and play in the toilet area. We used a board to fence them in, thus leaving the door always open for easy observation. But this board was later removed because Dad trained them to stay only in the space intended for them, not coming out to the living room or other rooms, unless taken out. Snow comes out occasionally to investigate the kitchen, and then goes back her territory.

 

Keeping Them Clean and Odorless Is Tricky

Yes, rabbit's urine smells bad, thus keeping the rabbit clean and odorless is extremely important if we keep them inside the house. The usual newspaper way does not help much though newspapers are absorbent they cannot deodorize. Dad thought out a good way: instead of using old newspapers in the litter pan which is slid into the lower portion of the cage, we use water. Then we just dump the pan into the toilet two or three times a day. This way, the urine is greatly diluted thus the odor is reduced quite a lot. But still, it could get smelly when the urine concentration gets up or the water/urine mixture is disturbed during cleaning. Then Dad came up with another ingenious idea: put some color cloth bleach powder in the water to get rid of the odor. This works great!

In case you have to let the rabbit stay in the cage all the time, it may not be a good idea to use water because the humidity maybe too high and cause arthritis in the rabbit. In such a case, my Dad suggests an improved "newspaper way": pour some bleach power on top of the newspaper. This work just fine.

Feeding The Rabbit Is Simple

 Dad and Mom go to the vegetable whole sale center once a week to shop for our vegetables. There are plenty of fresh vegetable leaves that the vendors strip off to dump. So each time we pick up two bag-full of Chinese cabbage leaves, and other green leaves. We also buy them carrots and rabbit food (pellets). They love carrots. I think they like the pellets most, but the pellets are expensive, plus, they need vegetables to keep fit. They need hay also. But that's a problem: we don't know where on earth we could get hay in Singapore!

 

 

Rabbits Are Very Curious

Yes, rabbits are very curious, and could be quite cute, too. Don't you believe? Take a look at the photos below, do you agree now?

 

"I wonder what's up there?" ===>>

<<== Making a speech

 

 

 

Baby Rabbits!

In anticipation of her labor, Snow prepared her "burrow" tirelessly: dragging the old clothes we torn up for her in the burrow and pulled her hair, lots of them, to make bed for her young. It was really moving to see the mother sacrificing so much for her babies: a fluffy rabbit now becomes almost a pink rabbit --- lots of her hairs were gone and the pink flesh revealed. What a maternal love!

The baby rabbits were born on 27th March 1999. The doe gave birth to five racks --- we didn't know how many until on the seventh day the racks craw out of the "burrow" Dad made for them out of two milk cuttons

<<== Shown here is Spotty on her 13th day of birth. Quite cute, right? Note that Spotty is so much like her father Peter (pictured above, making a "speech"). Of the five racks, two resemble their mother --- being completely white, perfect snow white, and three take after their father, but Spotty resemble him most.

 

 Shown below are Spotty's brothers and sisters: Philip or Fifi with a long white patch on the fore head, Paper with a white diamond patch on the fore head, and all white Snowy and Whitney. To be honest, it is very difficult for us to tell Snowy from Whitney: they are just too much alike except Whitney is a bit smaller.

As you can see in the picture here, they started to try on vegetables as early as seven days old. But then it was really a trial, not really taken. Then, gradually, a few days later, around 10 tens old, they started to feed on vegetable leaves. Snow still breast-feed them, but at gradually reduced frequency, evidently to encourage them to learn to eat pellets and vegetables to be eventually independent. But babies are always babies, whenever there is a chance, the racks would squeeze down under their Mom's tummy and start milking. Then "Mom" will just run away if she thinks that is not the feeding time.

By the time we update this page, they are 24 days old. But they can really grow fast and they are so energetic and extremely naughty. Dad fenced them in the bathroom with a board of more than half a meter tall, but one night, they all managed to jump out and scattered all over our house. It is quite a pleasure watching them dash across the living room, back and forth, and some time, slip and fall, and, jump up and turn while still air-bore before landing... 

 

(This page is updated on 21 April 1999)

 

 

 

 J&J's Rabbit Page

J&J Bunny Page

Welcome to the J&J Bunny Page. You must be wondering what is J&J? J&J stands for Jessica, me, and James, my little brother. This page is especially created for our rabbits Snow and Peter, and their kids, if any, in the future.

My brother and I love rabbits very much. We had two little rabbits last year, but they soon died after grazing on the grass downstairs. We suspected that the grass was sprayed with some kind of pesticide to rid off mosquitoes and the like. Since then we always wanted to have our pet rabbits again, but our father refused to give in, until now.

A Gift of Rabbit for the Year of Rabbit

According to the lunar calendar, every 12 years is a cycle, and each of the years is given an animal name: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Pig. The next lunar year, after February 14, 1999, is the "Year of Rabbit". (Here are some newspaper reports on rabbits). It happened that my friend Anmin had to give away her Mother Rabbit who had recently became mother of four. Now the baby rabbits are independent, the rabbit family has to split. We were overjoyed to "adopt" Snow, the Mother Rabbit. We took this as our "New Year's Gift". We call her Snow because she is purely white, like snow.

Snow Got A Boy Friend

The following day, mother went to the market and bought Snow a "boy friend". James named him Peter. Peter is gray and white colored, looks a bit smaller than Snow. But Peter is very cute, always alert. And he bites, too, if you attempt to hold him. He only subdues to my Dad. Sometimes they fight, well, I guess that's playful fight, and most of the time, they are quite "loving" for each other, as soon here in the picture on the left, photographed in our living room.

 

Took Over One of Our Toilets

We first sacrificed our balcony to accommodate Snow and Peter, but it turned out not working well: the odor was too strong to be at our entrance. So we moved them in our guest toilet, letting them have the whole space: they only go back to the cage to ease themselves. They eat, sleep and play in the toilet area. We used a board to fence them in, thus leaving the door always open for easy observation. But this board was later removed because Dad trained them to stay only in the space intended for them, not coming out to the living room or other rooms, unless taken out. Snow comes out occasionally to investigate the kitchen, and then goes back her territory.

 

Keeping Them Clean and Odorless Is Tricky

Yes, rabbit's urine smells bad, thus keeping the rabbit clean and odorless is extremely important if we keep them inside the house. The usual newspaper way does not help much though newspapers are absorbent they cannot deodorize. Dad thought out a good way: instead of using old newspapers in the litter pan which is slid into the lower portion of the cage, we use water. Then we just dump the pan into the toilet two or three times a day. This way, the urine is greatly diluted thus the odor is reduced quite a lot. But still, it could get smelly when the urine concentration gets up or the water/urine mixture is disturbed during cleaning. Then Dad came up with another ingenious idea: put some color cloth bleach powder in the water to get rid of the odor. This works great!

In case you have to let the rabbit stay in the cage all the time, it may not be a good idea to use water because the humidity maybe too high and cause arthritis in the rabbit. In such a case, my Dad suggests an improved "newspaper way": pour some bleach power on top of the newspaper. This work just fine.

Feeding The Rabbit Is Simple

 Dad and Mom go to the vegetable whole sale center once a week to shop for our vegetables. There are plenty of fresh vegetable leaves that the vendors strip off to dump. So each time we pick up two bag-full of Chinese cabbage leaves, and other green leaves. We also buy them carrots and rabbit food (pellets). They love carrots. I think they like the pellets most, but the pellets are expensive, plus, they need vegetables to keep fit. They need hay also. But that's a problem: we don't know where on earth we could get hay in Singapore!

 

 

Rabbits Are Very Curious

Yes, rabbits are very curious, and could be quite cute, too. Don't you believe? Take a look at the photos below, do you agree now?

 

"I wonder what's up there?" ===>>

<<== Making a speech

 

 

 

Baby Rabbits!

In anticipation of her labor, Snow prepared her "burrow" tirelessly: dragging the old clothes we torn up for her in the burrow and pulled her hair, lots of them, to make bed for her young. It was really moving to see the mother sacrificing so much for her babies: a fluffy rabbit now becomes almost a pink rabbit --- lots of her hairs were gone and the pink flesh revealed. What a maternal love!

The baby rabbits were born on 27th March 1999. The doe gave birth to five racks --- we didn't know how many until on the seventh day the racks craw out of the "burrow" Dad made for them out of two milk cuttons

<<== Shown here is Spotty on her 13th day of birth. Quite cute, right? Note that Spotty is so much like her father Peter (pictured above, making a "speech"). Of the five racks, two resemble their mother --- being completely white, perfect snow white, and three take after their father, but Spotty resemble him most.

 

 Shown below are Spotty's brothers and sisters: Philip or Fifi with a long white patch on the fore head, Paper with a white diamond patch on the fore head, and all white Snowy and Whitney. To be honest, it is very difficult for us to tell Snowy from Whitney: they are just too much alike except Whitney is a bit smaller.

As you can see in the picture here, they started to try on vegetables as early as seven days old. But then it was really a trial, not really taken. Then, gradually, a few days later, around 10 tens old, they started to feed on vegetable leaves. Snow still breast-feed them, but at gradually reduced frequency, evidently to encourage them to learn to eat pellets and vegetables to be eventually independent. But babies are always babies, whenever there is a chance, the racks would squeeze down under their Mom's tummy and start milking. Then "Mom" will just run away if she thinks that is not the feeding time.

By the time we update this page, they are 24 days old. But they can really grow fast and they are so energetic and extremely naughty. Dad fenced them in the bathroom with a board of more than half a meter tall, but one night, they all managed to jump out and scattered all over our house. It is quite a pleasure watching them dash across the living room, back and forth, and some time, slip and fall, and, jump up and turn while still air-bore before landing... 

 

(This page is updated on 21 April 1999)