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Finding a new home for any pet can be a traumatic and difficult experience, especially if it is and old, well loved animal. You want what is best for your pet, a home where it will be loved and properly cared. Almost everybody knows how to care for dogs and cats, people have had them as pets for thousands of years. With a rabbit, that can be a real problem. How does one find a new home for the pet rabbit?

First, don't just think it can be taken to a remote area of the woods and let lose. While the rabbit can find its own food and water if released in a wooded area, it cannot avoid predators and illness. There will be foxes, coyotes, owls, and even human hunters that a domestic, to which a pet rabbit will soon fall prey, safety is a learned trait. It will also not have immunity to diseases and parasites found in the wild rabbits. and if you find the ideal place for it there will be other rabbits in the area! One would be better off to have the pet euthanized by the veterinarian that abandoned, it is a less painful death.

Finding a good home means finding a place where the rabbit can be safe, adequately fed, given good health care, and loved! Hopefully this means a home similar to yours, so look at your home. Was the rabbit raised around other rabbits? Are there children in the house? Was it allowed to run free or kept in a pen, where it felt safe and hidden from danger? This will tell you what to look for in the new home for your pet rabbit.

Two of the best types of homes are either with a retired person or with a family full of young children!

The retired person will have time for the pet and it will give them something to do, but not take as much effort as a dog. They will love and care for the rabbit, but not push it, they are best for a home for an older rabbit. Old people and old animals often understand each other very well.

Young animals need attention and exercise, they will get both in a family with children. The children may actually be too much for and older animal, but young ones of all species tend to play and get along. A home with teenagers or of young people may not take the time needed for the pet rabbit.

Remember, when searching for a new home for a pet rabbit, look for what it has been use to and where it will be safe, well fed and loved!

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