Diana's Zoo 09/10

[Pipp]

:wave: :big kiss:

:thanks:

 

[Wabbitdad12]

Your bunny's are so cute!

 

[LoveMyRabbit0910]

Wow, you have LOTS of animals! They ALL look SO cute!! I'd love to get a rabbit like Newt and Pookie!

 

[Wabbitdad12]

I like the anti poo eating dog deterrent, how successful is it?

 

[YukonDaisy]

Hi Sas! :wave::hug:

Thanks Gina!

Thanks Dave. Yes the pooh-eating dog deterent works, mostly because Yannik's not really into eating kitty box crunchies and Daisy's just to old to go through the bother.

:biggrin2:

~Diana

 

[kherrmann3]

Too cute! :hearts:

 

[YukonDaisy]

Thanks Kelly! :biggrin2:

 

[YukonDaisy]

Ok, I've had Newt for like two years now, plenty of time for the rabbits to settle in and get used to each other.
Plus, they always lay like this:

And they groom through the bars. So, I figured I'd give bonding another shot, for real this time, lol. Every other time I "tried" I'd put them together and Ookpik would just attack Newt and I'd just give up.
It's been over a year, I'm sure, since they'd last been together without grids seperating them.

So I put them in the tub together:

*sniff* *sniff* Hello?

Omg, it's Ookpik! I'll just stay still and maybe she won't notice me...

No such luck...if heturned away from her, she'd doa grunt and lunge at Newts butt.

Then she'd demand grooming from him... I think she needs to work on her method. But at least she wasn't biting him!! w00t!!!

"Groom me."
"No."

"Groom me."
"No."

"Groom me."
"No."

Then I put them in my laundry basket and put them on top of the washer which I put on spin.

They didn't really care, so I carried them around in the basket and shook them a bit. Ookpik got a little nervous with that, but Newt didn't care. They were just sitting there so I put the basket back into the tub so I could put them away one at a time. But first I took some pictures of them and Ookpik had enough and jumped out and away!

Now they're in their respective cages ignoring each other. Newt's giving Pookie the butt and Pookie's laying in a loafover by her water dish.
I took some videos, too. In one you can see Ookpik's grunt and lunge, her grunts were kinda loud, lol. I can't upload them atm because youtube's doing maintenance. All in all, I think this session went *really* well. Ookpik didn't bite or chase Newt at all.

:highfive:

TTFN!

~Diana

 

[YukonDaisy]

Here are the videos, yay!

[flash=425,344]http://www.youtube.com/v/qDV25sa6KPE&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

[flash=425,344]http://www.youtube.com/v/uQHhloxvzYc&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

Both videos are horribly dark now that they're uploaded. Boo!

Now I really should get some sleep. I might try putting them on photobucket tomorrow to see if that improves the brightness so that you can actually SEE what's going on. lol.

TTFN!

~Diana

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

i love your cats, of course cause i have a thing for black and white cats,lol. of course the buns are too cute too!!!!

 

[YukonDaisy]

Hi everyone!
If you're on my fb, you know my computers' motherboard crapped out so it had to get sent in and be replaced. Thank goodness itwas still under waranty.
Anyways, I'm back now. Still jobless, though. My sister and her three daughters, aged 14, 12 & 2,came to visit this last week. We hadn't seen each other in two years, so that was nice.

Ok, on to pictures... I grew some cat grass for the cats...

Then I let the bunners out for a run around... they liked the cat grass, too.

Bunny tongue!

Binky landing, lol.

I had to pick up the grass before she nom'd it all up!

TTFN!

~Diana :biggrin2:

 

[YukonDaisy]

Kitty-kins!

Ahhhh, sunshine!

Iwas sitting on the floor putting away some dvds & looked up to see Kagome watching me...

Watching Newt...

Missy-Mouse!

Bunners!

I gotta start letting them out earlier, Ookpik comes out too late to get the good light! She mostly stays in one of her hideouts, though.


Newt binkies!


Ookpik binkies!

TTFN! :biggrin2:

~Diana

 

[Wabbitdad12]

Great pictures!

 

[YukonDaisy]

Thanks Dave!

 

[YukonDaisy]

Hi everyone,
Not much to report here, things are all pretty much the same.
Yesterday I let the buns out together at the same time, they get along great with bars between them, so I thought I'd give it a shot. Before I let them out, I explained what I was doing and that that I didn't want them to fight and that they'd get more time out if they would get along, lol. Lo and behold, it went pretty darn good, Newt even groomed Ookpik a bit. But there did end up being a chase, but no real violence. After their afternoon quiet time, I'm going to let them out again.

Here are the pics:

Bossy Pookie demanding Newt groom her.

Having a showdown, lol

"Ookpik, your presence doesn't bother me at all, see how relaxed I am?"

"You cheeky monkey, I'll bite your butt!" (she didn't really, she just sniffed him and ran off.)

Newt kept insisting on being in Ookpiks' cage and eating from her dish. Then she came along to use the litter box, I was like oh no....

I thought it was ok, because they were both in the cage for a while, but Pookie did eventual box Newt out and then they chased each other around the living room. I stopped them and Newt went BACK into Ookpiks' cage! She was mad about it, so I picked him up and put him on his own side before they could fight about it. Talk about a brat!

Now they're laying against the bars together having an afternoon snooze and I can't wait to let them out again! Ookpik usually runs back to the bedrooms to hang out for a bit. Newt, on the other hand, does not like walking on the vinyl flooring at all, so he hops to the living room and stays there. So that's good they can have time out at the same time, but not be together.

TTFN! :biggrin:

~Diana

 

[YukonDaisy]

So, it's been three days that I've been letting Ookpik and Newt out together. They're doing really well, but I think the title of curmudgeon is going to be passed on to Newt, lol. He's been the bratty one starting tonight, humping Ookpik's head and he ripped out a chunk of her fur, too. Ookpik doesn't seem to mind the humping much and she'll just hop away once she's had enough, so I haven't been interfering when he does it. Ookpik's also been acting all silly, jumping over Newt, racing up and poking him and zipping off again, it's pretty funny. I didn't take any pics tonight, but here's one from yesterday:

Here's Yannik, he was laying there watching the rabbits. Tonight, he didn't like Newt humping Ookpik at all, he'd rush over and poke at him with his nose and sniff around at Ookpik, lol. Newt didn't even care, he was focused on only one thing.

This is after I FURminated him last night, I could have kept going and got more, too. I was going to give him a bath today, but I ended up with a migraine, so I didn't do anything at all, boo!

TTFN!

~Diana

 

[Wabbitdad12]

Puppy to the rescue! How cute.

 

[YukonDaisy]

lol, thanks Dave! Yannik has appointed himself Ookpik's guardian, he puts himself between her and Newt. I don't know why, maybe he just doesn't understand what's going on, I'll talk to him about it when I get home. lol

Last night, l couldn't get Ookpik into her cage, so I just left her out. She used to be pretty much free range before Newt came along, so I wasn't worried about it. Well this morning I get up and walk to the bathroom... the door is closed. I think, that's weird and push the door open and there's Ookpik hunched on the bathmat! Poor Pookie locked herself in sometime during the night, lol!

I have some pictures to post when I get home.

TTFN!

~Diana :biggrin:

 

[YukonDaisy]

Here are pictures from yesterday and today.

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A groom me duel, lol

Hey! Where'd you go? Get back here and groom me!

No! You won't groom me back!

Oh... I can't resist you...

It always looks like he's trying to naw her eyeball out, lol

I would never do such a thing!

I thought she was finally going to groom him, but she didn't.

This was just after I let Newt out of his cage. He was hopping around and went to my desk and jumped on it. I said "Newton, stay away from my desk, get down." and he did! Then I said "Why don't you go see Ookpik? She's sitting over there by the tv." and he DID! :shock:lol

They've just been hanging out in this spot. It's probably because it's warm today, 20C/70F. Which is sooo nice, I have all the windows open.

TTFN!

~Diana :biggrin:

 

[YukonDaisy]

NEWSFLASH!

Ookpik has groomed Newt. My bf and I both witnessed it. w00t!! :biggrin2: