Rabbit Training Word Definitions

Companion Rabbit Training

Rabbit Training - Word Definitions:

Certain words used the Informed Farmer rabbit articles need explaining for improved communication between editors & readers.

Companions:

Those who share a home and consciously interact with each other (a “family”). Companions do not “own” each other (a false notion encouraged by words often paired together such as “pet” and “owner”). “Ownership” is a position of a living being with respect to an inanimate object. Companions usually enjoy mutual benefits of their relationship, but not always at the same time, or to the same degree.

Caretaker:

Caretaking is a role played by one companion with respect to another, primarily for the benefit of the other. Any companion can be a caretaker of any other in some respects, but in this article, the term will be used to refer to companion (human)s who have accepted companion (animal)s into their family, thereby incurring responsibility for them. The scope of that responsibility is based on the relative abilities and needs of each, especially in those areas where breeding and human control have taken the ability of independent survival from a species.

Training:

An activity in which a companion (human) seeks to understand the needs of companion (animal)s in the home, and interacts with them in a manner that makes it possible for all of them to live in harmony with each other with everyone’s’ needs met.

Respect:

Recognition that companions of any species are entitled to be what they are, without coercion from other species, and that decisions that can only be made by one on behalf of another impinge on future decisions of that one (e.g., an animal would not choose to leave a family after being part of it, so respect requires one who has brought an animal into the family, to maintain its relationship within the family throughout its life).