I haven't updated this blog in forever! :tongue
Me & my sister (BSAR) have been taking the bunnies out everyday for the past few days (except today, weather wasn't nice.) We just finished building :constructionan exercise kennel system on Thursday night, and decided to try it out then, and it worked well. We were able to bunny-proof it, too. All the pens are 2x3 NIC panels, except for Savvy's whose pen is made out of the top of cages, and then Autumn's pen is a mesh kennel type thing. They still work well, and we were just happy that we are able to put all 8 out their at a time - with supervision of course! :happybunny:
Well, yesterday was wonderful out, and we decided to take the bunnies out for some play time.
- I'm putting a treat into Savvy's cage!!
They sure loved it! We put everyone in their certain pens (Sippi's pen is tall so he can't jump out) and all the bunnies had a couple toys, a chew block, a frozen water bottle, and a hay cube each, as well as a treat!!! Talk about spoiled! :biggrin2:
Bruce loved being in the pen next to Willow and he wouldn't leave her side at all! He was totally in love with her....and when he wasn't cozying up next to her, he was cooling off with his bottle or digging for pellets in his treat-ball, which he loved. He only gets pellets in the morning, so any extras sure are a special treat!
All the bunnies loved digging in the dirt and trying to tunnel to other bunnies' cages, and we couldn't help but laugh when Ray took his dirty paws and wiped his face!
Can you see the dirt on his face?? (on photo below):biggrin2:
Ray was a little frightened at some the fireworks that happened to go off, but I'm sure it helped calm his nerves for last night.
(When we were watching the fireworks at the races, I thought the sheep might be thinking "The aliens are coming for us!" lol. They were perfectly fine this morning though, hehe. :nod
Amanda (BSAR) came up with the idea of Punishment Guidelines for when the bunnies didn't behave. If they jumped out of their pen, they got a warning. Warning 1 was back in their ex-pen, Warning 2 was 5-minute timeout in their cage, and then Warning 3 was a 7-minute timeout. Ray stayed with a warning 2 the entire time! After his time-out he didn't dare jump out of his pen! Magic was another story, though. He ended up with a level 3 and a timeout that lasted more than 7 minutes because he wasn't in the mood to come back out...
He did try giving me a soggy kiss as an apology- after he had drank from his water dish; he had water dripping off his lips! hehe! :inlove:
Mississippi was a relatively good boy as well, but he did pull some fur from Autumn's head, even though we had tied some barriers in-between their cages so he couldn't get to her!! :?She's fine, just she had a noticeable bald spot on her face!
- Sniffing the carrot
He did try and bust down the barrier's between Magic's & his cage ^^^...and it worked....luckily I had Magic out for training when it happened, or he would of been smushed :shock:. We heard a crash and turned around and this is what we saw:
He's lucky he's so adorable!
And of course he didn't get tired until everybun else had gone in and he was the last one out there!
All of the bunnies were having their lazy day at some point during their 2-hour exercise time yesterday. I think we got a snapshot of every single one of them, except for Magic.
- That's the closest-to-laying-down photo we got all day! hehe.
- Chillin' next to the ice!
Magic was loving his box though. We had given it to him when we saw some hawks flying over the field next door and he thought it was perfect! (Note the barrier that is seen above in Sippi's demolition picture is up in this one - because this was before that one!)
And he wanted to see what was on the other side of the barriers (these are the same ones Sippi knocked down!)
- What's ova here?
Mandi took Willow out for a while so she could run around the yard and she loved running around the back end of the property and hanging out under the tree, which is her fave. spot!
- Under the tree!
After Willow got put back in her ex-pen, I took Magic out of his cage, and harnessed him up and he went for some jumps!
- Jumping the oxer!
- Running towards the water jump!
- Jumping the straight bar
- Landing the water jump!
And I just happen to have to throw in this pic. for you all! It was taken on Thursday, but is the latest one we have of him laying down and I just think it's too cute:
I love the the light reflects off of it!
Savvy of course just enjoyed her normal self. She spent her time running back and forth between her two-cage pen, and watching the other bunnies and of course pigging out on the hay rack! She was having a good 'ole time!
Lily couldn't stop spending time with the tunnel! She even fell asleep in it, too! She absolutely loves the tunnel! It's her fave. all-time thing! And she also flirted with Magic a little too! :hearts:
- Don't he know im marreed?
- My tunnel....pwease leave! :wiggle
- I was sleeping...now you disturbed me!
I'll update more the next time we have them out and are doing things with them!
Enjoy!
eace