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enquiry: what animals are in demand at the moment?

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  • 06-06-2010 11:46pm
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    gailbecker
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    Hi Boards! I am new to the forum and i have a dwarf rabbit and was thinking of breeding him,how do i go about doing it? and what other animals are people looking for at the moment?
    Gail.


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    boomerang
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    Hi Gail,

    Our sanctuary is full of healthy, neutered, vaccinated, sociable rabbits that we are unable to find homes for. At last count we had about thirty rabbits seeking homes - of all breeds . Please don't contribute to the problem is my advice. The market is vastly over-supplied as it is and decent homes for rabbits are few and far between.


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    scudzilla
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    gailbecker wrote: »
    Hi Boards! I am new to the forum and i have a dwarf rabbit and was thinking of breeding him,how do i go about doing it? and what other animals are people looking for at the moment?
    Gail.

    Just because certain animals are 'In Demand' doesn't mean that you should start breeding them.


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    meoklmrk91
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    As a former breeder I have to agree with Boomerang, the amount of rabbits in animal sanctuary's across the country is staggering, and a lot of these will have come from former breeders. Due to the over saturation people have a hard time trying to sell their bunnies, sadly most don't make it to sanctuary's, most end up in pet shops, dead or worse used for breeding. There is no money to be made in breeding rabbits and considering how many there are looking for good homes there really is no reason to breeding at the moment even if you are a responsible breeder.


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    gailbecker
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    ok.thanks for the replies! I love my animals and just wanted to know what the market was for rabbits, but i love them enough not to have any looking for homes as it saddens me to see an animal without a loving home.
    I have a male chihuahua mix, i was thinking of breeding him as a friend is selling her beautiful female and i don't want to breed them unless there is a loving family out there for the pups, is there a demand for them?


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    scudzilla
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    gailbecker wrote: »
    ok.thanks for the replies! I love my animals and just wanted to know what the market was for rabbits, but i love them enough not to have any looking for homes as it saddens me to see an animal without a loving home.
    I have a male chihuahua mix, i was thinking of breeding him as a friend is selling her beautiful female and i don't want to breed them unless there is a loving family out there for the pups, is there a demand for them?

    There may be A loving family out there that wants a pup like this, but you may be looking at finding 8+ loving families.


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    andreac
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    Please do not breed your dog. Its a mongrel and cross breeds should not be bred from at all and the kennel club do not allow crosses to be registered and only full, healthy pedigree dogs should be bred from, not mongrels or cross breeds.

    There are thousands of unwanted cross breeds in the pounds and rescues at the moment without adding to the numbers.
    Thousands of dogs are pts every year in ireland so please, do the best thing for your dog and have her neutered sooner rather than later. Its also healthier for her and reduces health problems in the future.


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    Andrew33
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    Maybe I shouldn't even post here, I am the very proud guardian ( I hate to call myself his owner but he'll be in this house til he dies of old age) of a Shih Tzu who had been rescued from a dreadful situation, I love him and he loves us but I'm really starting to develop a strong feeling about people who breed animals for profit (and it ain't a positive feeling). I recognise a need for breeders because otherwise we'd end up with a homogenous dog and probably (ultimately) a homogenous people but never ever people or dogs for profit.


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    morganafay
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    Is your dwarf rabbit purebred, like is he a breed like a Netherland dwarf, or is he just a mixed breed dwarf rabbit? Because the thing is that there is no demand for mixed breed rabbits and it'd be very hard to sell them. You'd have to give them away probably. Even if you were breeding purebred rabbits, there's no money to be made if you look after them properly. They cost a lot to look after, and the mothers will eat about 3 times the normal amount while pregnant and nursing the babies, then the babies eat loads too, and you have to use much more bedding too because the mother eats more, she poops loads more. And you have to spend loads of time socialising the babies too to tame them.

    There is a demand for purebred animals, and I think there has to be some good breeders to stop being buying them from pet shops or bad breeders, but there's no money to be made from it (unless you're a puppy farmer or something).

    With the chihuahua too, it is a mix, so there wouldn't really be a demand for the puppies.

    If you're really serious about breeding, because you love animals, not for money, then I'd suggest doing loads of research and finding out what animal and breed you want to breed. Then you have to fine a good breeder to get your animals from. Really think about it a lot, because it's hard work raising baby rabbits, not to mind puppies :)


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