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Depends whether you want a rabbit with 6 legs, one ear and no eyes.
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Inbreeding has positive as well as negative effects; in general if a species has a high reproductive rate [wie rabbits] than it will incest quite well. Large litters [wie rabbits, nix cows] are also helpful, as it allows thr bad genes to be weeded out without destroying all young. Besides, this is only one generation.
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Not really. They may be able to keep it going for a little while longer than humans, but eventually it will make them more vulnerable to certain diseases and stuff, causing all of them to be wiped out when an epidemic hits. Other animals have just as much benefit as humans when mixing the populations now and then.
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This assumes there is no natural mutation, after all, all lions are descended from one proto lion, so there should be massive inbreeding there too right? Provided a species mutates enough and has enough young to allow bad genes to dissapear, its all good.
Labrats have been bred about 300 generations from ONE small captured sample in the early 18th century. They are now technically a seperate subspecies of rat.
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Therefore, Spaz and Lori would probably have handicapped babies.
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Assuming no prior inbreeding and simalar genetics to humans, the possibility is less than 1 in 200 of a serious defect. Most likely they'd be spazzy.
So in summary Spaz + Lori = Let em do what comes naturally!