Mike Walker, M&Y News Agency
Ralph, a Continental Giant rabbit, eats about $15 worth of food a day, says his owner Pauline Grant. The bunny consumes Weetabix cereal, crackers, apples, carrots, cabbages, toast, sweetcorn and huge bowls of rabbit food. Grant told the U.K's Sky News that she's still awaiting official confirmation of his stats, but she's hoping he will make it into the Guinness Book of World Records.
If his size is confirmed at 42 pounds and 4 feet in length, he'll knock his own mother out of the record books. According to the folks at Guinness, Ralph's dam, Amy, was listed in 2008 as the world's longest rabbit" at 2 feet, 8 inches.
Known for being a larger breed than most, Continental Giants typically weigh between 12 and 16 pounds. The minimum length of a show rabbit is 25.5 inches.
As long as Ralph continues with his voracious appetite, Grant says she'll keep feeding him. How long do you think this record will last?
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Now there's a bunny for Easter Basket!! Just try to bite ears off him!!
That's one big Bunny Wabbit!
Funny, I had a rat named Ralph, also huge (think small kitten) and about the same color. Must be something in the name.
ralph is going to die, this idiot is over feeding him. and the wrong foods anyway.
I'm glad someone else realizes this. If they are feeding a heck of a lot of carrots (which you shouldn't do despite what the cartoons show you) it would be a big reason why he's so overweight. Carrots contain a lot of carbs that without a lot of exercise the rabbits will just store which makes them just keep getting fatter and fatter and fatter. Carrots should be limited. Where exactly is the hay in all this? It seems to be they aren't feeding it any and hay is a HUGE part of rabbit diet. It should be the majority of what they eat! If they continue to feed lots of carrots and no hay, Ralph's GI tract will simply shut down and he will die. Cereal is also very bad. It contains grains and has lots of calories (another reason why he's fat) and grains are NOT a natural food for the rabbit. The cabbage is a poor choice as well because it can cause severe gas. So good, the rabbit possibly won the world record for the world's most obese rabbit but thanks to these morons' care he will probably die from either GI stasis or heart failure. Congrats to them.
My thoughts exactly. We have 3 rabbits --- timothy hay, greens and some pellets is what they get, with some canned pumpkin for fiber, and fresh herbs as treats, as recommended by vets and rabbit periodicals. This person is too consumed with getting this rabbit in the Guinness Book of World Records that she is providing the poor thing with the wrong diet to up his weight. Would like to see more concern for the bunny (who doesn't look too happy to be held the way he is) than for the stupid record. Very sorry to see Paw Nation report on this -- it seems irresponsible to glorify this.
I agree with you guys, too. But did you see how LONG he is? He might not be as overweight as we think. He's a really big boy. Besides, I don't think he's 40 lbs. And the diet, yes I agree with what you guys said, but in the UK they feed their rabbits differently. They haven't quite gotten the knack of feeding a bunny as a pet. The foods that are mentioned would be what they would feed a rabbit who (please forgive me) is for the stew pot. Pet bunnies should be fed completely differently, just as you guys have said. But I would just LOVE to have a bunny like that.
I hope you realize that this is actually just a case of Gigantism. There's a cow that has this too. Fat bunnies, like most living creatures, get round in the middle when feeding. It doesnt affect how LONG the rabbit is. I've known VERY fat cats and the only thing big about them is their tummies. It didn't make them bigger than any other cat length-wise. This thing looks perfectly capable of hopping around. It's just a big friggen bunny rabbit. It happens, just like it happens in humans. People tend to get overzealous in animal rights. work
Yeah....I'm going to agree with what Lynnia said. Look at the rabbit. It looks like it might be a little overweight, but he's not just fat. He's much longer and taller than typical. Sometimes animals are born without the restrictive genes that are supposed to make them stop growing when they hit adulthood. There are people like this, too, who grow to be about 7 or 8 feet tall.
For your information i also have a rabbit and a book that tells you what they should and shouldnt eat. yes hay is a part of their main diet, but so are fruits and vegetables. they need to have a variety in their diets because each thing helps with different parts of their body. and this rabbit is a giant because that is the breed he is. if it was a dwarf rabbit or mini lop it would be a completly different story.
Hay, this rabbit could kick my dogs butt, but i also have a rabbit and the one in the picture is like ten times his size. i know this is sick but i wunder how big his poop is. This rabbit is so big he weighs more than my two dogs put together, and i bet if he wanted to he could kick everyones but. i wunder sence he is so big if he has troubles doing what a reguler rabbit does.
I love his looks, he's a beautiful bunny, but I really think the owner should bring him to a good Vet and have the Vet decide an appropriate diet because we all know what obesity can do and in this case, it could really shorten the life of this bunny, so why do that? Get help in putting him on a proper diet and soon!
He is JUST ADORABLE!!
I assume this rabbit or breed is very mellow. Because one bite or kick and it is going to hurt like heck. I imagine the poo must be a lot bigger too. That is the positive about owning rabbits, g. pigs, etc - their cleanup doesn't even smell.
Their "poo" doesn't smell??? But their pee does and you can't have one without the other.
MMMMMMMMMMM Stew!
Delish!
Call Elmer Fudd!
That's what I was thinking.....a lot of good eating!
ya,i bet he can eat half a cow. I wunder what that owner was thinking.Feeding him all that food. Around here people are so crazy they would probley eat that rabbit. lol! My rabbit is so rowdey i was wundering if you knew anything about neutering. Will it calm the rabbits dow or will they stay the same?