How to convince my wife we need to get rabbits?

[JInSouthMS]

Thanks everyone for all the suggestions but I think I'll have to give up on ever getting rabbits. My wife is just dead set against it. rabbits are too cute.

 

[currycomb]

guess she has never been attacked by cute little rabbit. had one very aggressive doe. would attack anyone silly enough to put a hand in her cage. that rabbit wasn't cute!

 

[JoieDeViveRabbitry]

Find some rabbit meat locally and cook her a nice meal. You might be able to convince her like that.

 

[dipence71]

Wow, I use to be like that many yrs ago. But now I am the one who had to convince DH I was getting chickens last yr.
Then this yr he says he wants A pet rabbit. I said NO.... If we get rabbits we will get some that will bread so I can have meet rabbits and he looks at me like I am insane. (use to I wouldn't even eat deer meat. I have become quit a "farm" girl over the yrs lol. Now I am raising 9 meet chickens, 12 layers, 1 rooster, I have 6 adult rabbits and 4 babies at present. I have a bunch of eggs in the incubator and more on the way to go in the incubator.

I am the one who has to take care of all the critters and I have come to the point if I feed them they better feed me LOL... Unlike our 2 dogs he had to have that he doesn't take care of I do LOL.... You know where this is going WE get the critter and I take care of them .....

Don't give up things may change.
? would you take care of the critters or would it fall to her?
Just one thing she may be thinking that if she has to take care of them it will be a hassle.
Good Luck

 

[freemotion]

When I was a teenager we raised rabbits for meat. My dad hunted once or twice and we had wild rabbit and it was NASTY! But the ones we raised were very much like white, lean chicken.

I didn't want to eat them at first, either. I disobeyed and decided to make the does into pets...put my hand in the cage and got it sliced open by sharp rabbit teeth!

I was happy to eat them after that.

My mother did NONE of the animal care chores except bottle feeding baby goats. Nothing else. And she stayed inside with the music blasting on slaughter day. And the rabbit meat was not allowed into the house until it was cut up into pieces that no longer looked like a rabbit and were ready for the pan. If it had been available, she probably would've required dad to bring it in on foam trays, shrink-wrapped and labeled!

Whatever it took. We ate quite well at our poorest....

 

[Citylife]

I grew up in a big family whose parents made no money and it was in the 60's-80's as there were 6 of us. Whether we liked it or not, we got quartered animals that originally came from my aunts farm. Those animals were treated quite well compared to how our food is treated today. I have a nice small set-up designed for two adult humans and 4 dogs. Us humans in my house want to eat humanely treated rabbits that have a very good life.
Now, do not get me wrong........ my better 1/2 would not have rabbits if I was NOT around. As I am the one who does the deed and butchering. It sounds to me like the only part she will be involved in, is cooking them. She does not have to go out with you to feed them. She does not have to name them! Or care for them... she pretend, they are in styrophome and plastic wrap.
Show your wife how baby back ribs are treated before they come into your house. She may appreciate raising some food after that.

Remember... pigs are more intellegent then ANY dog out there. I did not believe that until I rescued one and worked with it.......... wow! I have also trained dogs for over 5 years.......... my partner over 10 years.
Youtube unfortunately has EVERYTHING on it. all I did was type in pig abuse... chicken abuse is horrible, dairy cow abuse is discusting.... the bull calves are worth NOTHING!

This clip is graphic, but this is one thing that makes me want to raise as much of my own food as I can. I realize raising your own food is not for everyone. But, I do believe we should not be blinded and not know where the food at the grocery store comes from.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKMhd9dTN9o



My meat rabbits have a great life. They eat good, get excercise and have a lot of fresh air and enrichment. They live a healthy life and they have one to two bad seconds EVER. Much better then the styrophome meat we buy at Wal-Mart, Price Chopper, HyVee, Safeway, Albertsons and the list goes on............. I know how my food lived and what it ate.
To us........... it is similar to gardening, but I am the one who butchers and takes care of that end. It is nice if you can come to an agreement on who does what. And, if you want the benifit of low cholesterol meat, less fat, smaller portions as they fill you up better, and low cost to raise........... we are talking less then 3-5 bucks a meal depending on what breed you're raising and the size of family you have.
I understand being skiddish..... no doubt and they are cute. But, so are calves.
It is also quite satisfying to know one doe can give me over 100 lbs of meat per year.
Yeah!

good luck to you

and go buy her some rabbit and cook it up for her so she knows how good it is........ that may help sway her.


the lady w/4 dogs, 4 city chickens, 4 meat rabbits, their kits and a lizard

 

[PureSnowChic]

Just do what I did...


Introduce the idea of meat rabbits slowly over a month or two... so they can get used to the idea. (Bf was dead set against getting ANY MORE ANIMALS!) LoL


Show up one evening with 3 show quality meat rabbits and say they are the breeders, for selling the babies and making money, and if one or two babies happen to end up at freezer camp, eh... he didn't have to do it.


It helps that I 100% care for and pay for all the animals...


He wasn't too mad...

 

[annanicole18]

If it would help the San Juan rabbits are kinda normal rabbit looking. So if you hunted it would look similar to the wild hunted ones.