Q: My two young grandchildren are visiting this Easter, and I’d like to get them a special gift. Do you recommend a bunny or a couple of chicks or ducklings? A: I have a better suggestion: baskets full of marshmallow Peeps, chocolate bunnies and plush toy animals with synthetic fur. Depending on their ages, your grandchildren may also enjoy robotic or virtual pets. Giving live gifts requires your grandchildren and their parents to make a lifelong commitment to the animals that join their family. Too often, the novelty of Easter pets wears off after a few weeks and the children become bored with them. When this happens, the pets are taken to a shelter or, worse, abandoned to fend for themselves in the wild. Since bunnies, chicks and ducklings are domestic animals that don’t know how to find food or defend themselves, they suffer before they die. Rabbits are the …