It wasn’t a tough decision to get bunnies, the difficulty came when looking online and seeing all those little furry faces looking back at me. They are all so sweet, but I couldn’t have them all. I wanted bunnies that were young so I can train them right from the start. Even though older bunnies are less mischievous, young bunnies are playful and ready to learn.

I had the words “don’t get bunnies from a breeder, get them from a rescue” playing around in my head, but all the rescues were too old to start training. They were 2-years and older, so they are set in their ways. I also had no idea about their history. For me, rescuing bunnies was not what I wanted to do, this time.

I decided that I wanted young, 10 – 12 week old kits. I had a mental list of the kind of bunnies I wanted, which definitely gave me less options to consider. So, I scoured online sale sites, and found exactly what I was looking for.

On the 2nd of August, I picked them up from Narre Warren, a suburb of South East Melbourne, and with them came a clump of cauliflower leaves. I thought that giving baby rabbits cauliflower leaves was strange, but I went with it because I didn’t know I could question it.

My sister and I put them in the carry box, and she had them on her lap as I drove home. We checked them regularly. They crouched in the back of the box, scared, but they were comforted because they had each other.

Once I got them home, we found that they were so hungry that we couldn’t fill them. I didn’t want to over-feed them, but their hunger was ridiculous. I had been dry-food, pellet, litter and hay shopping at the local pet shop before picking them up. I found that even though there was a wide variety of bunny related items, none of the food and pellets had the best nutrition for them. I had to make do with what I had until I could find the most healthy, nutritious foods that gave them everything they needed.

Both bunnies were very scared and hid in the back of their carry box that we had rested against the crate. They hid in there, scared of the world because everything was different, smells, sounds, food, life. It’s all very scary.

It’s important to give them the best nutrients and vitamins so their bellies are full and they are content.

After a couple of days they settled in and started sleeping like a door-snake – long and sausage-like – with back legs poking out (it’s called a sploot). That was a great sign, that meant they were comfortable and relaxed. What was super cute about it was that they cuddled up to one another.