Best Bunny Buddies:
Story and photo competition
In honour of this year’s Rabbit
Awareness Week, we ran a photo
and story competition to highlight
the importance of keeping rabbits
in neutered pairs or groups. The
winner of the competition was
Angie Golding who shared some
lovely photos and the story of how
Snowy and Cookie came to be
best friends:
“Snowy and Cookie have been
together for a year and they are very
much part of the family, Snowy is
the white and black Netherland
Dwarf, she is approximately 4 and we
rescued her from RSPCA West Hatch
along with her bonded buddy Lilo
in March 2013. Sadly Lilo became
ill and passed away in June 2014,
nothing could have prepared me for
the huge loss we felt at his passing.
We lavished time and affection on
Snowy during the weeks that followed
and she loved spending time with us
in the garden and would groom us! I
knew that she really needed a bunny
companion however and began to
search for a suitable friend for her.
In July we found Cookie, a gorgeous
tri-coloured lop at RSPCA Taylor’s
rehoming centre in Dorchester. I
quickly fell in love with him, he was
about 1 year old and had cataracts
but was otherwise a healthy bun.
There were a lot of ups and down
during the bonding process, Snowy
really wanted to be in charge and so
did Cookie, but after having some
marvellous help, Snowy and Cookie fell
in love and are now inseparable. They
have a lovely routine and love snuggling
up together, they have free run of our
enclosed garden every day and a huge
hutch outside plus free access to the
kitchen when we are home if they wish.
They love their hay and veggies and will
do anything for a nugget or fenugreek
crunchie, often working together to get
them out of enrichment toys and boxes.
Snowy often will groom Cookie until he
is so relaxed he does a bunny flop. We
all love them very much.”
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