Back to the UK for a few weeks....and now Rabbits!

I have been away from Bulgaria back in the UK for about a month now , I popped back to the UK to go to a few exhibitions and pick up another Van load of things I need.

And now I have Rabbits....I didn't want pet rabbits!

My 2 sheep dogs ( collies ) for the minute stay in the UK while I am away, every day when I'm back we have long walks in the local park around 6am and part of the walk we go through the cemetery to get there.

A few weeks ago in the cemetery I saw something strange out of the corner of my eye about 100 yards away....so dogs back on the lead and off we go to see what it is......

There was a large grey long floppy ear rabbit.....sitting under a tree, as I got closer a White and brown one bounced from behind me and sat next to the other one.

Just by them there was a cardboard pet carrier with the end chewed off so not escaped rabbits , some evil ba***rd had dumped them in an area with foxes and were local wild rabbits have myxomatosis.

Oh...I thought there are foxes here, loads of dogs etc ,local scum bags use the area for killing things with pitbulls to train tem for fighting
We have rescued loads and loads dogs from this cemetery over 30 years they tie them up and leave them, we have never had any rabbits.

We have had dogs, cats, birds as pets but never rabbits so I knew nothing about them apart from thee fact that foxes eat them and there are foxes living very close to were they were dumped.

Quick trip home with the dogs and back with a towel and a banana box.....wondering if rabbits bite?

As I returned a local dog walker said they had been there a few days and she couldn't catch them.

While these friendly rabbits would let me stroke them, feed them and hopped around after me, they didn't want catching.....

Rabbits are quite quick and slippery....I had soil kicked in my face from under  gravestone....I gave up on the box and used the towel, one at a time to carry them home.

Rabbits about 10 minutes after finding them, after feeding them a peach, who knew rabbits eat fruit?

This one was easy to catch...

This one is the most friendly rabbit but also the one that kicked me in the face while catching it!

Quick search on the net and a drive to collect......£200 later for the rabbit hutch with  large run straw, hay, food, water bowls etc they are now in the centre of the living room in a 3m by 3m ,2 story rabbit hutch...

After an hour or two they were quite happy and after a few days they were really at home. 

They are quite happy now a few weeks later, someone to look after them, maybe they will go to Bulgaria eventually as nobody would take them from me 3 weeks ago so it looks like we are now keeping them.

Very strange animals to be so popular abnd sold to children,,,to choose to give to a child a rabbit as a pet.....is strange they hate being touched, they look happy but are not , it can kill them being dragged round as children do....