False Pregnancies in Rabbits

Are you aware that female rabbits, referred to as does, sometimes experience false pregnancies? The first time I experienced a pseudo-pregnancy in a rabbit was so disappointing, the rabbit had to be slaughtered later that afternoon. Anyone who keeps rabbits knows that rabbits are some of the fastest reproducing animals. We had been waiting for the doe to give birth for about two months, as we assumed that we had gotten the dates wrong at the beginning. This was going to be the first litter of kittens. Every two hours someone would check the hutch and return with a report. Usually, the story would be that the doe looked extremely tired and that it was still pulling its fur and eating a lot more than we considered normal.