Bunny Care Guide: Can Bunnies Wear Clothes?
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Can you put your bunny in clothes? Yes. Wicket is modeling a little pink sports sweater in the picture to demonstrate just how amenable bunnies can be to wearing clothing. It's a natural human urge to want to dress our pets, no doubt an extension of the maternal or paternal instincts that make us want to clothe our children. Keep in mind though that there are a few common sense precautions that you need to take ahead of time.
Is Your Bunny Handleable? If you haven't handled your bunny much and it doesn't like to be picked up or stroked or played with at all, then you should not be putting clothes on it. First of all, you will stress the bunny out by doing this, and increase the chances of you hurting it by mistake. Second of all, it may be very hard to remove the clothes if something goes wrong if your rabbit is not accustomed to regular handling. If you haven't got to the stage of trust with your rabbit where you can handle it safely and comfortably, then you need to take the time and do the groundwork to make friends with your rabbit. This could easily take several months, but if you have the patience and the time, you'll find that it pays off in far more ways than one.
Find clothes that fit. Sounds a little obvious, but it's really tempting to put clothes that don't fit very well on bunnies just because they are cute. The problem is that loose clothing, clothing that bunches in the wrong place, and clothing that gets caught up around the legs is a disaster waiting to happen. Remember that some bunnies have been known to break their own backs just from struggling whilst being handled, and that having clothing put on it is quite a foreign sensation.
Make sure your bunny is happy. Rabbits that are used to being handled may have no problem at all with having a little sweater put on them, and hop about quite happily that way. Other more highly stressed bunnies may find it quite distressing. If your rabbit fights you hard on this, then abandon the plan for another day, or perhaps altogether. As cute as a bunny wearing clothes is, its not worth stressing and hurting your bunny over.
Do not leave your rabbit unsupervised wearing clothes. They can cause it to overheat, get caught up on something, and they prevent the rabbit from grooming itself naturally. It might be cute to do for short periods of time, but give your bunny a break and let it out of the clothing before too much time has passed. I personally don't put my bunny in clothes for any more than 10-15 minutes.
Good luck. Remember to put your rabbit's health and happiness before your desire to see them do 'cute' things, and you are sure to have lots of fun with your bunny.
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thanxs that alot of help
that helped so much thx alot !!!!!!!!! if you could say were i could find some bunny clothes that would help even more!
hey, ya I just got a pet bunny, about 8 weeks, and so did my sister (both bunnys are the color black). And I think your photo is really cute (: . If any one wont to c videos about animals, music, art and way WAY more go to www.youtube.com/yellowbunny449 thank you so much. (:
my bunnie licerish is an amican fuzzie lop and she loves to ware a outfit evry once in a wile
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Where did you get the shirt? Any good websites for clothes?
I am trying to find out how to make my bunny a sweater but can't find out how any good websites?I'm going to paint her nails and put a bow on each ear but I think she needs clothes too!!! If you know of a good website with knit or crochet patterns that would be great thanks!!!:)
Thank you so much I'm getting a bunny and I want to put her in a little shirt but I don't want the bunny to hate it or have people telling me it animal cruelty
Cool! I know where to find bunny clothes. But you need to buy them in X-Small or XX-small.
pink clothes for my bunny
i have a boy bunny his name is hoppy im makaila im 9
I have a bunny Leo, he is a boy and soooo cute ! :)
Of course, if your bunny has long enough hair you can always use a small dog hair bow to finish off the ensemble. My daughter buys hers at http://www.gwlittle.com in the small dog clothing section. The ones from Susan Lanci really hold well.
yes you are right.
Is it cruel to put your bunny is clothe? Do they like it? I don't want people to think I am so cruel to my pet! Thx!:)
My bunnies like clothes, I don't really have a hard time putting them on because my bunnies laydown for me. It's cute =^-^=
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i am getting a bunny
my mom thougt that bunnies can't wear clothlos
Can I get clothes at dollar tree for lionhead rabbit anyone giving away clothes for 5 to 1 dollars???
Nicola 3 years ago
You can buy bunny clothes from TOM & PENNY'S BUNNY BOUTIQUE!!
They also sell toys, treats, accessories & much more...
Check it out: www.freewebs.com/tomandpennys/