Babbitty Rabbitty and his Cackling Blog

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Ooo, you look great in that Santa picture. Thank your human for me, for looking into it.

And Imbrium, I can't wait to see pictures of your bunnies obstacle jumping. I will definitely go to your blog and look at the stuff you made .

 

[Kipcha]

The human looked into where to buy jumps and has come to the conclusion you would probably save (A LOT) of money just making them yourself. It seems like most of the places that sell any of them are overseas in Europe. It really is quite easy to do, it shouldn't take you long to make a jump, particularily if it is a simple design.

Here is a link to the most common seller she could find,
http://www.deemillen.co.uk/index.php?cPath=195_196

Anyways, hopefully everyone had a good Christmas, I know it was pretty busy here for the humans! All us buns got gifts varying from beds, treats and little name tags for our cages (Courtesy of Korr_and_Sophie).

Other then the holidays, not much interesting has been going on. There was a bit of a cold snap for about a week (We hardly got above -20, some days dipping to the -30's) so we haven't been travelling or going outside, not that we want to after seeing the human come from outside all cold and shivery!

There were some mishaps with the humans gigantic rabbits (AKA, her horses) where the boarding facility where they are at had their automatic waterers froze and the horses didn't have access to water. Of course, the people who run the facility are away and they have someone temporarily taking care of the horses until they get back, so it's been a constant effort bailing water out to the horses. Thankfully the weather finally warmed up and the waterers will thaw.

Either way, that is none of my concern. I just know that I was safe, warm and happy in the house!

See, here are the human and I watching TV... Well, she's watching TV, I'm just basking in the affection!

And here are some cute pics of me... Just for the heck of it.

 

[ldoerr]

SOO cute That is REALLY cold. Where I am from we only get a couple of days a YEAR of freazing weather and when it does freeze it barely gets below 30*F. I can not emagine -20*. We were at Lows the other day and the person checking us out said that they were suprisingly not busy for a Saterday. Her reasoning was that it was under 50*F and nobody wanted to go out in the "cold". I have NEVER been to an area with temps like that while I was there. Not even when we went to Alaska/ Canada for a cruise.

 

[Kipcha]

The human is jealous, those temperatures sound heavenly! Alberta usually has pretty good summer weather (We get between 20-30 C in the summer), although we do get a lot of thunderstorms, but for the most part summer's pretty beautiful.

The winters here can be pretty harsh, the only perk is that we get chinooks so it breaks up the cold, thank goodness for us having mountains nearby.

The human has some recent pics of our winter wonderland...

Keep in mind that the white on the branches is frost, not snow.

Frost on the fence where the horses are.

The field further back is the pasture Ben, the human's Arabian, is in. If that doesn't look cold, I don't know what does!

Luckily there hasn't been TOO much snow this year, but man, it's been cold!

Luckily, even with the snow, the horses don't seen to mind. Heck, the Miniature named Kipcha loves the snow, but she looks more bear then horse right now.

 

[ldoerr]

Where I am we do not get snow EVER!! I think that it has done a fake snow thing (were it does not even stick) 1x in 10+ years.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Lol a horse that likes snow . We have six inches of snow here :shock:.

 

[Imbrium]

The human looked into where to buy jumps and has come to the conclusion you would probably save (A LOT) of money just making them yourself. It seems like most of the places that sell any of them are overseas in Europe. It really is quite easy to do, it shouldn't take you long to make a jump, particularily if it is a simple design.

Here is a link to the most common seller she could find,
http://www.deemillen.co.uk/index.php?cPath=195_196

I really wanted to be lazy and just buy the agility stuff so I wouldn't have to figure out how to build it (and because I thought it would be a lot harder than it was), but made my own due to lack of availability.

I've never built anything other than a NIC condo and hamster bin cages all by myself before, and I found it quite easy to throw together a little agility course. for around $75, I made an A-frame, a teeter-totter and two jumps and for another $7, I could have two more jumps. if the course will be used inside, you can shave about $10 off the cost (I bought a can of spray stuff to use on the wood to make it resistant to water and weather because I use my course outdoors). if you just wanted jumps, you could probably make two of 'em for $10-13.

I went off the instructions on the Canadian Rabbit Hopping Club site (http://www.canadianrabbithoppingclub.com/HTML/equipment.html )... if anyone wants more detailed instructions, here's the part of my blog where I explained how I made everything: http://www.rabbitsonline.net/f18/nala-gaz-70961/index29.html#post949514

btw, I still LOVE Babbity's little "eeyore" face! I can't get enough of that cutie - I just wanna scoop him up and snuggle the hell out of him!

 

[Kipcha]

Whoo, finally getting my newest post up here, the human has been absoloutly useless the past week since she's had the flu. She's been nothing but a hacking, boring mess.

Anyways, I decided yesterday to cheer her up and it devolved somehow into a photo session... Dunno how that happened, it seems like I'm always having photo sessions, not that I am complaining!

Running to the human.

Laying on the human's knee.

Comforting the human... With the dog trying to steal my limelight. Away dog!

 

[ldoerr]

You are such a good boy Babbitty Hope that your human gets better soon

 

[Kipcha]

Yikes, the slave was promising not to let this blog fall behind and what does she do? Lets it fall behind. Honestly, you cannot find good help these days!

Not that there has been too much to report these days, there hasn't been a whole lot going on. The human is getting excited though since the busiest time of the year for the hopping club is coming up. Many of the Pet Expos and such are upcoming, and we do do a fair number of events for Easter. The humans are always sure to post lots of "Make Mine Chocolate" posters and to mention not to get us real buns as Easter gifts!

We also did an event at Children's Hospital a few days ago, which was a lot of fun. As per usual, I did fantastic, the kids seemed to really enjoy it. There was a larger number there then normal, there were quite a few patients in attendance, but the news has been saying that the hospitals are overrun right now.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Aww, your soo cute Babbity!

Has anything new happened?

 

[Kipcha]

There had indeed been things happening, the human has just been quite lazy about posting them...

We went to Strathmore Pet Expo February 9 and performed there for the day (Somehow, we wound up with more bunnies that day going home then we went with! Another rescue gave us Alice, the New Zealand girl that is in the Rescue Me thread). It was a pretty fun day, although the humans weren't impressed with set-up/take down since it was quite cold and icy outside. But I didn't care, I was perfectly happy in my x-pen.

I was pretty on that day, performing rather well if I do say so myself!

But I did get pretty tired after a while so I retired to my room for a break... After I made a mess of the place.

Then we performed at a Senior's Home where we did a demonstartion, then went around to the different residents and met with them afterwards. They always love it when we bunnies come and we have a good time meeting with them!

Unfortuanately I cannot post any pictures of me actually meeting with the residents due to privacy issues, but I assure you they are adorable

 

[Tauntz]

Hi, Babbitty! I've enjoyed your thread/blog. You are quite the bunny athlete! Thank you for sharing your links & videos with the information on "how to" train your bunny & make props. I think your agility course is a great way to exercise & increase the human-bunny bond! We are just starting our training with my 2 Jersey Wooly does. We will be looking for your posts! Nice to meet you Babbitty & your human!

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Aww glad to hear you had fun, Babbitty! Can't wait to hear more about your adventures!

 

[Kipcha]

Whoo, can't believe how long it has been since this has been updated! I'll do a more in depth post here soon, here are some Babbitty pics to tide you over...