Tips about owning rabbits
The House Rabbit Society developed these important points:
• Rabbits are not "low-maintenance" pets, and are a poor choice as a pet for children.
• Your home must be bunny-proofed, or Thumper will chew electrical cords and furniture.
• Rabbits must be spayed or neutered, or they will mark your home and reproduce.
• Rabbits do best indoors, as members of the family. To consign these sensitive, intelligent, social animals to life in a hutch outside is to miss the joy of sharing your life with a rabbit.
More information: The Hawaiian Humane Society's Web site, Animal Care & Behavior section:, www.hawaiianhumane.org. Basic information about caring for rabbits is also available by calling the Humane Society, 946-2187, ext. 223.
Other Web sites and books:
• www.rabbit.org (The House Rabbit Society)
• "The House Rabbit Handbook" by Marinell Harriman
• "The Essential Rabbit" by Betsy Sikora Siino
• "All About Your Rabbit" by Bradley Viner
• "Dwarf Rabbits: A Complete Pet Owner's Manual" by Monica Wegler, Monica Hegler, Elizabeth D. Crawford
• "Why Does My Rabbit...?" by Anne McBride
These book titles are all available through Amazon.com. Begin at the www.rabbit.org Web site to purchase a book and Amazon.com donates 5 percent of your purchase to House Rabbit Society.
