One of the most important aspects of properly caring for your pet rabbit is providing him with a healthy, satisfying, and well-balanced diet. Fortunately, doing so is relatively easy, since there is general consensus about what is good for rabbits and a wide range of great food pellet options. Rabbits can also eat many of the fruits and veggies that you probably have on your dinner table every night (see below for recommendations and portions).

Hay

Hay is an essential component of a rabbit’s healthy diet. One reason why is that feeding a rabbit hay on a daily basis seems to reduce rabbits tendencies to pull out and consume or chew on their own hair, which leads to (sometimes very dangerous) hairballs.

Buy high-quality leafy grass hay, timothy hay or clover hay. Avoid alfalfa hay, as it can sometimes be problematic and has been shown to increase the risk of bladder stones.

FRESH Water

Like all creatures, rabbits need fresh water in order to survive. Change water daily or at least every two days. When you change the water, also wash the water bottle or dish thoroughly to get rid of bacteria.

You may want to use a water bottle that can hang on a cage, as this can reduce the messiness factor. If you prefer to use a bowl, make sure it is sturdy and heavy enough so that your rabbit won’t overturn it.

Yogurt?

Although it may sound funny, rabbits can actually benefit from yogurt just the same way that humans do. Yogurt is proven to reduce the bad bacteria in the body, balancing out the good bacteria in the process. Many pet rabbits seem to like yogurt and accept it as a part of a balanced daily diet.

Chew Toys

As you will quickly learn as a new rabbit owner, bunnies love to bite and chew on things. This is actually essential for good dental health, but the trick is to give them good substances to chew on so they won’t be tempted to eat up your furniture or other, more dangerous substances, like wires or electrical cords.

A dog’s chew toy (on the smaller side) can be a great alternative, one which most rabbits seem to enjoy a great deal. Two more natural options are a large bone from a piece of boiled meat, with the bone marrow taken out, or some apple tree branches (the twigs are great roughage and help keep the bunny’s intestines clean).

Rabbits tend to be quite sensitive when it comes to changes in their diet or feeding schedule. In fact, if there is a sudden change or interruption, a rabbit may lose his appetite or become ill.

Therefore, it’s important to be consistant. Establish a feeding routine that is easy for you to stick to each and every day. Set your timer and fix the feeding schedule into your own everyday routine. Make sure you have enough rabbit food (whether hay, pellets, veggies, etc.) on hand so that you don’t run out unexpectedly.

Feeding your rabbit a consistent, balanced and healthy diet is one of the best ways to ensure that your pet has a long and happy life as your prized companion.

by Andrea Austin,
http://www.rabbits-n-bunnies.com

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Are you tired of the gasoline prices? Are you spending $85.00 to fill up your mini-van or $95 to $115.00 to fill up your SUV? Is this causing you to start having to charge this on your credit card rather than to pay for it out of your ATM Debit Card? Are you no longer volunteering to drive and letting someone else drive instead? Are you tired of the supply and demand of the market getting in the way of your quality of life? Do you feel helpless to it all?

Have you considered different driving techniques? Have you noticed yourself using cruise control more and gently pulling away from stop signs? Have you noticed yourself punching the gas peddle a lot less now? Have you noticed yourself coasting more to the stop signs and signals? Have you noticed others no longer doing jack-rabbit starts as soon as the light turns green? Interesting how much difference the gasoline prices make in our daily decisions from the way we drive, what road trips we go on how often we decide to leave our homes isn’t it.

Indeed America has altered their lifestyles to make-up for the high gasoline prices. And you know what this is exactly what you can do to lower prices too. If the demand is less and the supply is there, then the price will come down a little. We must conserve fuel, if for no other reason than just to save a little money for the better things in life. Think on this.

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It all started when Uri (some say, “Uro”) lost his leg after an injury incurred during an early spring hunt. He was gored by a mastodon. If it were not for Oldred, The Witch, he’d be dead.

He could no longer move at the speed of the clan hunters.

No hunter trusted Uri with the women while they were out on the hunt. The clan decided to sent Uri packing with two young clan women and his teenage son who everyone called for short “Ugly” which in clan language meant “Boy, is he ugly!”

There was no proof that Uri was the father of Ugly, but it was a pretty good guess because of Ugly’s thick red hair and buck teeth.

Ugly fished and hunted to supply food to the foursome. But Uri sired several children and Ugly could not supply enough food to keep everyone in tip top shape. Uri realized that his little sub clan would perish if he did nothing. He sent Ugly back to the clan with the women and children. This all occurred between 130007 and 130012 before Ziglo the Idiot.

Uri traveled south until he found a better climate and sufficient food and water for his needs. He found an uninhabited valley near the river called “The Big River.” He fished and dug roots and caught some small animals in traps and snares.

One spring Uri caught some young rabbits. He had made a big mistake in building a trap. It did not kill the rabbit but caught it alive.

Uri built a cage for the rabbits by weaving reeds from the bank of The Big River. At first he fed his bunnies by pushing grass into the cage, but he learned he could take the rabbits out of the cage and let them feed at his feet. They never ran too far away and they always came back.

Uri was a strong observer as were all proto-humans at that time. He noticed that some of the grain from grain-yielding grasses he fed the rabbits fell under the rabbit cage. That was where the “raisins” from the rabbits fell too. The newly seeded under-gage grasses grew taller than those which grew wild.

Uri spread rabbit “raisins” in some of the areas where the wild grain grasses grew. After all, he soon had many rabbits and plenty of rabbit raisins. He got a higher grain yield than from wild grass.

One day Ugly visited Uri. He saw that Uri had rabbit meat, grain, and rabbit fur. Uri looked very great in his rabbit-fur sports coat.

Ugly saw that survival was possible living with Uri. Uri said he could bring the women and children back to live with him. He told Ugly, “I don’t have to hunt for rabbits anymore. I raise them by the gritchfuds!”

The women were good at making tightly woven baskets. Zeegla could make pots by rolling clay into long snakelike strips on the inside of her bare thighs. (Ugly liked to watch her do this.) She could build a pot by circling one strip on top of another and then molding everything together with her wet hands. Zeegla made the clay hard by first drying the pots and then building a fire over the top of them. She decorated the pots too, so you could sit and look at them all day.

The containers kept the rodents out of the grain.

Uri became famous. Hunters came to him to trade furs for grain or live rabbits (which they could carry home without spoiling). Although, the clan had been cave dwellers, they knew how to make temporary shelters from whatever was available. Sometimes they built such shelters when they visitied Uro. Uri strengthened some of these shelters and used them to store grain and skins.

Gradually clan members left the clan and moved to live with Uri. It was Oldred, the witch, who suggested a structure large enough for clan meetings and s

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