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I've had my English angora for about 2 years. I've always brushed her weekly like the breeder told me to. I've noticed that on her back the fur is much thinner than on the rest of her body. You can see it from a distance, that's how much of a difference there is. Anyone have any experience...

Hi, I have a two-year-old angora rabbit. I've noticed that near her vent (is that what you call it?) she has something that looks like a swollen bubble. Also, how do you clean a rabbit's bottom? I usually cut off the dirty fur, but I'm afraid to cut too close, so there are some areas of her...

This forum has been very helpful for my puzzling rabbit questions. :cool: Here is another thing I can't figure out. My lone rabbit (English Angora doe, almost a year old, unspayed and not bred) seems to have built a nest. She has a two-level hutch in my fenced backyard. There are two litter...

I like to give my pet angora rabbit some run around time in the fenced backyard when the weather permits. Sometimes she grazes on the grass, weeds and clover, but most of the time she just digs. There are a few places where she's been digging where I haven't stopped her much because she can't...

We already got up to 90 degrees fahrenheit here yesterday and I'm debating whether or not I should trim her hair shorter. I keep her for a pet, not wool production, so I don't need to use the wool (although I save clean wool that I brush out.) Her hutch is in the spot of the yard that gets the...

Hi All, I've been saving wool from my angora rabbit for the last few months. Since she's like a litte dustmop, it's impossible for the wool not to have bits of hay and grass in it, although I try to take as much out as I can. Can the wool still be used by someone for spinning or felting even...

My English Angora doe seems to have these mood swings. She's on antibiotics, so I have to take her out of her hutch 3 times a day. She just went through a cycle of a couple of weeks where she would make a squeaky wheezing grunting sound every time I came near the hutch and bite and box at me...

Now that spring is here, I'm planning on moving the rabbit hutch from our unheated porch to our fenced in back yard, where it was in the fall. I'd really like to give the hutch a thorough cleaning when it's outside and I can get it wet and have it dry in the sun. What can I use to clean the...

Unfortunately, my English angora has a recurring case of the "sniffles". This is her third round of antibiotics, and this time I have to medicate her for a whole month. She is OK about taking her eyedrops, but she hates taking the oral antibiotics. She seems to be more stubborn this time...

OK, I know it can be spun into yarn. But where do you find someone who can do that? I have no idea what the process is. Every week I brush my English angora, and have a pile of nice, soft white fur. I've been throwing it away, but I know it would make nice yarn because that's what they're...

My English Angora doe, who is about six months old, has become kind of "fresh" lately. I let her out of her hutch every morning when I clean her ltter box, and let her run around. I had been taking her out every night and putting her on my lap to feed her greens. She seemed to not mind being...

Does anyone know what it means when a bunny hops around your feet in a figure eight pattern? My bunny does this a lot when I take her outside. I had a male bunny twenty years ago who did it when he was young (and unneutered) also.

I don't have a horse, but my 7 y.o. daughter has been taking pony riding lessons for several months, and loves it. They started her on a miniature horse, and have moved up to a bigger pony. Being around a lot of horse people, I have to ask, are you ever scared? Everyone who works with horses...

Does anyone here have experience getting their purebred rabbits registered? My English angora came with papers from the breeder. Do you get to pick a weird registered name for it, like with dogs? I'm hoping to be able to show her someday, but I'm assuming she'd need to be registered. Anyone...

My angora rabbit is now about 5 months old, and has grown a lot. I groom her to the best of my ability every week, and spend some time every night picking hay and grass out of her fur. She's in a hutch with hay-filled litter boxes, and I try to let her run outside in the yard a little each day...

I like to spend some time every day sitting with my angora rabbit, looking for mats, and taking pieces of hay and grass out of her fur. A lot of times when I have her on a towel in my lap, she'll start "digging" in the towel. She also likes to chew on the zipper of my jacket. She's about three...

I had always heard that female rabbits should be spayed if not bred, due to an astronomical rate of uterine cancer in unspayed does who were never bred. My vet told me that the study it was based on used only a few rabbits, and that the risk of cancer in these rabbits is greatly overstated...

Hi Everyone, I got my angora rabbit a few weeks ago. She's now a little over 2 months old. When I was handling her today, I noticed a patch of fur around one eye had some parts that were hard and stuck together. It's been very rainy here all day. Is that what happens when angora rabbit fur...

I'm wondering- is it usual to buy a rabbit from a breeder just based on a picture? Or do you usually see them in person before you buy? I want to purchase an angora. The pictures of the rabbits look very similar. They are young, so I'm not sure their personality would be obvious anyway. What...

Hi All, I just joined this forum because I'm considering getting an angora rabbit. I do have a lot of experience with pet rabbits, but my other rabbits were indoors. This one would be outdoors in a rabbit hutch. If anyone who raises rabbits outdoors has any feedback to this plan that would be...