Rabbit are they good pets?

If so why do some people eat them. I love the way they look. They're cute as a pet. Not to eat.
Answers:
I had rabbits as pets
I thought they were great.
I could never eat an animal that i am on a first name basis with

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no , in a house u should have a hamster or a little cat

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ya they are there very nice and they are so cute

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I had a pet rabbit. He was a wonderful pet, much like a cat but also somewhat like a dog. He was litterbox trained like a cat but would cuddle and lick you like a dog. As for why people eat them, I never could but they do populate themselves relatively quickly and as far as economics go it is understandable that they would be cheap food. I guess it really depends on how you are raised to think of what is normal to eat.

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rabbits are nice as pets her are some facts
Rabbit Facts
Rabbits are not rodents but belong to their own order called lagomorphs. The evolutionary split between rabbits and other living mammals probably occurred about thirty million years ago.
There are twelve species of rabbits in the United States with the eastern cottontail being the most widely distributed.
Cottontails vary in color from gray to brown and have large ears and hind feet and fluffy tails. They average about a foot in length and weigh 2 to 3 pounds.
Cottontails are generally found in brushy hedgerows and the edges of wooded areas with dense cover, but also do very well in suburbs and urban areas. Rabbits feed on leafy plants during the growing season and the buds and bark of woody plants in the winter.
Famous for their reproductive abilities, cottontails breed from February through September. Gestation is about 28 days. Three or four litters of four or five young known as kittens are born each year. Young are born helpless in a shallow depression lined with grass and mother鈥檚 fur, but they grow rapidly and are weaned when less than half the size of the adult.
Mothers nurse their babies for approximately 5 minutes a day. The milk is very rich and the babies fill up to capacity within minutes. Mother rabbits do not sit on their babies to keep them warm. Baby rabbits are often "rescued" by well-meaning humans who think that they have been abandoned. Fewer than 10% of these babies survive.
Cottontails may live to two years in the wild, but where predators are numerous, they seldom live more than one. 85% of the rabbit population dies each year. This includes at least one out of every three babies that are born per year.
Many mortality factors affect rabbit populations. Weather is a major factor in nest mortality as ground nests are susceptible to flooding in heavy rains.
Problems and Solutions
Cottontail damage is usually caused by the rabbits feeding on flowers and vegetable plants in spring and summer and fruit trees and ornamentals in the fall and winter. You can tell that rabbits caused the damage by the cleanly cut plant remains and the presence of pea-sized droppings scattered around the area or sometimes left in small piles.
The most effective permanent protection for gardens subject to rabbit damage is a well-constructed fence. Chicken wire supported by posts every 6 to 8 feet is strong enough to exclude rabbits. Such fences normally need to be only about 2 feet high but it is important to make sure that the bottom is either buried 6 to 8 inches or staked securely to the ground to prevent rabbits from pushing their way underneath it. Some gardeners prefer to construct movable fence panels that can be stored as sections (2 x 8 feet) and set out to protect the garden right after the first planting when damage is likely to be most severe. Some years the panels might not be needed at all given the ups and downs that occur with the rabbit population.
When rabbit presence is only sporadic or occasional, new plants can be protected by using 1-gallon plastic milk containers that have the bottom cut out and placed over the seedling or with commercially-available "cloches" which can be purchased in garden supply stores or ordered from the