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I thought my rabbit was going to be perfectly healthy on a diet of hay and fresh greens. How many cups of coffee should he be drinking daily to be safe?

Adopt a rabbit!

Dude! Congrats on the new bunny! As much as I love robots, and I do, rabbits are much more entertaining to date although Wowwee's Roboquad is really cool.

I don't know what you know about rabbits but there are many misconceptions about them.

First one great fact is that your rabbit can be litter trained! Our rabbit Dasher was trained only to use a litter box when we got him from the shelter.

http://www.rabbit.org/faq/sections/litter.html

Cedar bedding is bad for your bunny! Fill his litter box with news paper, shredded newspaper mulch and, hay!

Don't keep your rabbit in a tiny wire cage! The wire bottom hurts their feet!

Rabbits like a lot of space! If you make a condo for your bunny he will be so happy!!
http://rabbitcondo.com/
http://www.rabbitnetwork.org/articles/NIC.shtml

Over time you can get the bunny comfortable enough that you can hold them.

Hay is the best thing for your bunny (and they love it!!) you can't feed them too much hay. (Oxbow Timothy Hay is the best!) Everything else needs to be fed in moderation. In fact many foods that you might think are good for bunnies are actually bad for their health.

www.busybunny.com has a lot of special untreated wicker chews that bunnies really love.

Untreated grass mats that can be found at World Market are great to put on the floor of any bunny condo or anywhere a bunny decides he wants to digg (your wifes brand new carpet).

Bunnies can spray pee if you don't get them fixed! Wow. We only witnessed this once with Dash when he was near a female bunny he had a crush on.

Man, I shouldn't surf the Slash when I'm drinking!

Cheers.

Not all cat litter is safe for all animals.

http://rabbit.org/faq/sections/litter.html

That happens more frequently than you would think. Rabbits love cords, especially phone cords, and somehow manage to eat through them without killing themselves. Plastic cord wrap (from Radio Shack, etc) is invaluable if you have pet rabbits.

Oh, good idea. Recommend animals that MUST chew on things to prevent their teeth from growing too long. I don't know about chinchillas or hamsters (which I guess you normally keep in a cage), but rabbits chew on everything within reach of their nasty sharp pointy teeth. Might be some good advice for the cat as well here: Rabbit-proofing

Rabbits can be litter-box trained quite easily.

One of the hats I wear is volunteer for the House Rabbit Society (Michigan chapter). We get hundreds of calls every year from people who get a rabbit for whatever reason -- gift from girl/boyfriend, Easter gift, parents bought to teach kids "responsibility," or like this case, someone who took a stray into his home instead of calling his local animal control facility.

Probably 95% of these calls are dump calls. People get sick of an animal and want to "get rid of" it -- and yes, those are the exact words they use, almost every time, "get rid of."

Most of those are just people who don't know how to take care of the damn thing. For cripe's sakes, people, when you get an animal, go buy a book and read it. Rabbits are not dogs or cats. For starters, they chew. And maybe I'm just in a bad mood but how much of a genius do you have to be to turn a chewing animal loose in your home without protecting your precious computer cables? Baby gates, plexiglass and cable wrap -- this is not rocket science.

How much of a genius, to not realize that an animal that chews through a power cord will very possibly kill itself?

And how much of a humanitarian, to blame the animal for your own fuckup, and dump it on a shelter?

(If you have a rabbit, by the way, we recommend the House Rabbit Handbook because it's simply the best guide out there.)

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