My House Rabbit's Blog » annette edwards http://www.myhouserabbit.com/blog Celebrating House Rabbits Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:22:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 World’s Largest Rabbit Dies http://www.myhouserabbit.com/blog/2009/05/07/worlds-largest-rabbit-dies/ http://www.myhouserabbit.com/blog/2009/05/07/worlds-largest-rabbit-dies/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 17:02:09 +0000 My House Rabbit http://www.myhouserabbit.com/blog/?p=458 Amy, a Continental Giant rabbit, who measured 4 feet and weighed in at 42 pounds, died the night before a scheduled appearance on an Italian TV program.  Thought to have died of a heart attack, the enormous rabbit had packed on pounds with a diet high on starches and sugars: two apples, a handful of carrots, half a cabbage, fresh hay and a dog-sized bowl of rabbit mix every day.

Although Annette Edwards, Amy’s owner, insists that Amy was not overweight and was fed a proper diet, I think Amy would have benefited from a more fibrous diet with limited starches.  Hopefully, Ms. Edwards will learn from this experience and give a proper diet to Amy’s offspring, of which there are 32.  But the outlook is grim, as Ms. Edwards speculates that Amy’s daughter Alice will set a new record for largest rabbit. According to Edwards, “We think Alice is two inches longer.”

For more info:
The Telegraph
The Sun
Natural Environment Blog

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