It has been eight months since we moved to our new home in South Surrey/White Rock area in Vancouver, life seemed quite good so far. For the past few months I have been feeding some apples, pears and bananas to the local wild rabbits, it's professional name and breed just so happenedto be Snow Shoe Hare, very cute name, if you ask me. I've noticed they got two sets of layers of fur, brown for base and gray wisps for top and only their tails are white. I once read on a book saying that the colors are brown and gray is because of camouflage and their white tails are for warning other hares when danger's near. Of course, the two layers of fur is for cold winter.
Now that I've been watching those hares for sometime now, I've started to gather some information about them. They love apples and pears of all sorts, but they seem to not take any interest in strawberries, which surprised me, since at least to us humans, strawberries are good to munch on. I guess every
species is a bit different in their way. it's like grass is rabbit's main diet, so they take plenty of it and they also nibble on twigs for filing down their teeth, but it doesn't mean that us humans think grass and twigs are good.
Now rabbits can start mating when they are around 3 months old and a female can mate again within the next 24 hours after giving birth. Of course, being pregnant all the time isn't going to be healthy for any females, so if letting female rabbits to have babies, it's best not to let them give birth more than twice a year.
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