{"id":375,"date":"2010-07-12T21:15:55","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T20:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/?p=375"},"modified":"2010-07-08T21:46:02","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T20:46:02","slug":"bunny-money-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/12\/bunny-money-saving\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunny Money Saving: How much is your lawn worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How many rabbit owners cut their grass, throw away the clippings, and then go out and buy hay for their rabbit?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-377\" title=\"rabbit grass or hay\" src=\"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_1905b.JPG\" alt=\"rabbit grass or hay\" width=\"550\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_1905b.JPG 550w, https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/IMG_1905b-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the left of the picture is a bowl of grass &#8211; I&#8217;ve been cutting one each day since the grass started growing this spring. It&#8217;s totally free. On the right is a bag of hay, it costs \u00a32.25 and the rabbits usually go through one of these about every 10 days. However I&#8217;ve noticed the last bag I brought is still half full and checking back I got it a month ago. Eating more grass means they eat less hay.<\/p>\n<p>With a little bit of maths that means the bunnies hay budget has dropped from 22p per day to 4p. In other words that bowl of grass is &#8216;worth&#8217; about 18p. That doesn&#8217;t sound like much but it adds up, that&#8217;s \u00a35 per month (i.e. the cost of getting pet insurance) or if you prefer \u00a365 per year &#8211; more than enough to cover vaccinations and some new toys.<\/p>\n<p>So <a href=\"http:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/22\/rabbits-eat-grass\/\">grass is good for your bunny<\/a> and good for your pocket &#8211; are you convinced? What will you spend your savings on?<\/p>\n<p>Note: Don&#8217;t forget to introduce grass gradually if your bun isn&#8217;t used to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How many rabbit owners cut their grass, throw away the clippings, and then go out and buy hay for their rabbit? On the left of the picture is a bowl of grass &#8211; I&#8217;ve been cutting one each day since the grass started growing this spring. It&#8217;s totally free. On the right is a bag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21],"tags":[30,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therabbithouse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}