Hopping Through The Forest With Bunny Foo Foo

[Imbrium]

glad to hear Foo's new diet is going so well! I wish I could do something like that for chubby little Gazzles, but Nala needs pellets 'cause she barely eats any veggies.

 

[holtzchick]

I wish I had that problem.... Phoenix will gobble all her pellets and veggies down but will not eat any hay anymore... Maybe only a few bites :/

 

[holtzchick]

I wish I had that problem.... Phoenix will gobble all her pellets and veggies down but will not eat any hay anymore... Maybe only a few bites :/

 

[whitelop]

holtzchick wrote:

I wish I had that problem.... Phoenix will gobble all her pellets and veggies down but will not eat any hay anymore... Maybe only a few bites :/

How much pellet/veggies is she getting in a day?

I would cut down on the pellets a little and the veggies just a little too. Don't cut them out completely or anything, but just enough to make her want to eat more hay. I would also get a new type of hay for her to try so she'll have something new and special to munch on.
I did that with Foo's hay, because even as I was cutting her pellets down she still wasn't eating enough hay it seemed like. But I got her some orchard grass, that prompted a little more eating, then I got her some botanical hay and she went NUTS for it!

 

[whitelop]

I will also share that Foo spent another whole day roaming the kitchen yesterday, from 6am to 12am. She had ZERO pee accidents! I was amazed! She only pooped 5 poops in the floor and that was in the evening and she was playing and binkying around, so I didn't really expect her to go back to the litter box to poop. I don't know what changed for her, but she has had such a great few days with the potty habits, I'm so impressed with her.

As I was sweeping my bathroom today in preparation for Thanksgiving tomorrow, I found a stalk of hay in there. I don't know how this hay gets everywhere, but I swear I find it in the most random places. Its like it just floats around and puts itself around the house.

Now, I'm off to finish the pumpkin pie making process and to make some cornbread for tomorrows stuffing. I'm so excited about tomorrow!

 

[holtzchick]

Hmmm I tried giving her botanical... She hated it... I tried Timothy, and orchard, she liked the orchard somewhat...but still not too much... I did cut her pellets down to 1/4 cup per day and shes still not fond of it which is why I started giving her 2 cups of veggies a day .... Stubborn!!

Wow that's great that there are no pee accidents! Are you being persistent sweeping her poops up as soon as she goes? I have been very very persistent with that and they have dramatically decreased but it could also have been the last of her hormones after her spay that dramatically decreased...

Happy thanksgiving by the way

 

[whitelop]

So Thanksgiving in our household was great! It was just me, my husband, my son, my mom and my dad.
I got up at 7am, made some cinnamon rolls for my husband for breakfast and then started cooking Thanksgiving dinner at 8am. I made a 5lb turkey breast, with dressing, broccoli casserole, mac and cheese, succotash, mashed potatoes, yams with marshmallows for dinner. I also made two pumpkin pies and a banana pudding for desert.
My dad wanted the banana pudding for desert. Thats like his specialty for deserts. I went to walmart on Tuesday night to get the things I needed, when I got there the bananas were green and the vanilla wafers were mini. The ONLY box left out of store brand and name brand, were the mini ones! I got them. I waited until Wed. to get bananas, they were still green even from another store. haha.
Right before I started making the pudding, I asked my dad if he wanted to make it or if he wanted me to, he said I could make it. I spent a lot of time making the pudding, but it was well worth the effort. Wednesday my dad and I were talking about the banana pudding and how his mom used to make it. They were very poor when he was growing up so they didn't get many treats in life. But my grandmother would make banana pudding by hand on occasion for them to have something sweet. His grandmother would make pudding from scratch too and I guess she taught my grandmother how to make it too. My grandmother passed away long before I was born, but my dad kept on making banana pudding. He always uses the boxed cook and serve pudding, so I made it from scratch. I think it was like when he was a kid. He said it was the best banana pudding he'd had. I'm glad that I could make that for him and make it so well, because it was really really good. I'm so glad it came out right, me and pudding cooking don't usually get along.

Anyways, right before we ate dinner. I was putting everything on the serving dishes, my mom was helping me. Foo had just gotten up from a nap and come out from under the blanket. She didn't like the smell of the dinner cooking. My mom turned at looked at her and was like, "what is Foo going to eat?" So I gave her a huge salad to eat. She got some green leaf, about 4 shredded romaine leaves, almost an entire bunch of cilantro and a few papaya bites. She also got a huge handful of hay mix. She was so happy. When we got done eating and I took the plates back into the kitchen, she was flopped out in a bunny food coma. I'm glad I could make her Thanksgiving salad so well! hahahaha. She is so funny.

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving meal with family and friends!

 

[agnesthelion]

Wow Morgan quite the spread! I'm sure you all didn't go hungry you seem like such a good cook and hostess for your age. Not that you are super young but I wasn't cooking like that in my early 20's! My hubby and I moved in together when I was 20 and back then we ate alot of hamburger helper and spaghetti, hehe.
So glad you all, and foo, had such a great thanksgiving!

 

[holtzchick]

Lol at Lisas comment about the hamburger helpers

That does sound tasty but that was actually such a sweet story with your father and the banana pudding and I also thought it was sweet for your mother to ask what Foo was going to eat

 

[whitelop]

Here are some pictures of Foo, from today. She was enjoying her Gourmet Phone Book Salad lunch.

^She took her piece of romaine back to her little rabbit fur rug to eat it. How cute.

^I know this one is blurry, but I still like it.
I can never get a picture of her face, she always walks away from me or like this one, moves her head. She is so difficult sometimes!

I gave her that phone book to shred, but she doesn't care about it. She will hop on it, eat off of it, try to push it around, but she won't tear into it.
I don't know why, she loves just plain sheets of paper and paper towels. She has gotten more picky about the things she chews on. She doesn't chew on her box house, she really only chews on tp/paper towel rolls. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, but its strange she has just stopped chewing on a lot of things. Maybe she's going through a phase.

I got her some oat hay and she doesn't really like it that much. Maybe she just needs some time to get used to it or something, but she doesn't seem to be a fan. She still has botanical and timothy. I didn't want to get the orchard because I think I'm allergic to it. haha.
Speaking of food, she is still really obsessed with the cat/dog food. I can hear her right now, trying to get the cat food thats on top of the chicken feed container. She's searching for cat food, that can not be normal.

Edit: I tried to get the bottom picture to behave, it just refuses to resize. Sorry if its a little big, it doesn't seem big on my computer but it may be large on others. Maybe? Stupid pictures.

 

[Imbrium]

aww, Foo's such a cutie! I don't think there is such a thing as "normal" when it comes to bunnies - they're such quirky little creatures!

 

[whitelop]

Thank you Jennifer! I think she's pretty adorable.
I think in general, "normal" is a relative term.

 

[agnesthelion]

Omg I love that she takes the lettuce over to her blanket to eat it. Reminds me of when dogs take one piece of kibble out of their bowl to eat it in another place. Lol.
She is too cute!!

 

[whitelop]

Last night I had a weird dream about Foo. In the dream we were in my kitchen, but there were like 30 rabbits in there. All different breeds and colors. I was sitting in the floor and they weren't paying any attention to me, then I see Foo walk u to this HUGE white New Zealand and she LICKED him on the head! hahaha. So I walked over to him and picked him up and all the other bunnies disappeared. I put him back down and Foo went up to him and flopped next to him, then he flopped next to her, so they were like spooning.
Then I woke up because my cat got onto my face. lol.

Do y'all think thats a sign that she wants to be bonded? Were all the bunnies like her going on bunny speed dates? I feel like I need to look on the shelter website and see if they have any white NZ because I may have found my new bun through a dream!

That or I'm COMPLETELY NUTS!

 

[agnesthelion]

I think dreams can be weird like that. I can't really explain it but maybe it's your subconscious telling you she wants to be bonded?? Or maybe a prediction of some sort? I recently had a dream abput a person that I hadn't seen or thought of in years. I woke up wondering why in the heck I dreamt of her. Sure enough, I ran into her unexpectedly like a week later! totally creeped me out. It was a wacky dream too. I didn't tell her about it because she'd probably think I was nuts too

So I dunno, I can't explain it but maybe it's something you should pay attention too

 

[whitelop]

Well I looked on craigslist and there are a lot of NZ for sale right now, but they're all young and they didn't look like the NZ from my dream. The one in my dream had a black spot on its back, it was a small spot but it wasn't a pure white bun.
Hmmm...I'll have to keep my eyes open.

 

[whitelop]

So, tonight I've eaten almost a whole bag of mini marshmallows. I sat in front of my wood stove with a fork and roasted like 30 mini marshmallows. I'm a little ashamed of myself. :embarrassed:
I put up our small Christmas tree, and we'll be going sometime this week/weekend to get our big real one, I'll finish doing the rest of decorating tomorrow when I can actually use a hammer and its not 10pm and I'm not in a sugar high! lmao.
Speaking of Christmas. We had to stop by walmart tonight to get something, I just let my husband go in and I sat in the car with my son. I never realized how much my husband dislikes the people who stand outside with bells, for Samaritans Purse(?) I handed him some change to put in the bucket and he was like "no! I don't trust those people!" Then he got out of the car mumbling things to himself. I had no idea he felt so strongly about the people with the bells.

I was petting Foo earlier and I noticed she felt a little thin. I could feel her spine and hip bones a little more than usual. She hasn't eaten as much hay today as usual, so I don't know whats going on. I think its because I took away her orchard grass and she hasn't gotten used to the oat hay yet, and I don't think she really likes it. She is still getting her regular timothy/botanical. I think I'm going to have to get her some orchard again to see if that helps. Maybe today just wasn't a big eating day. She's eaten her salad just fine though, and she HAS eaten hay, but I've only filled her box up once.
I think I'll give her a little more greens and maybe a pinch of pellets, to give her some extra fat/calories. I bet I could sprinkle some oats on her dinner salad and she'd be fine. I'll get some oats tomorrow.

Now I think I'm going to clip Foo's nails and check her butt. She went without the grid on her litter box for a few days or so and her butt is stained AGAIN! Its amazing how quickly it happens. I really just don't think that other people with white bunnies deal with this! I could probably get some different litter, but I don't want to spend the extra money on it, I'm SO cheap! Or I could not be a lazy butt and make sure the grid is always on her box. I think the latter would probably be better.

Edited: To apologize for all the rambling, its the many many marshmallows talking.
OHHH and I wanted to add that my husband will be in the new merchandise catalog for his work, he is modeling a shirt. He came home super excited, someone at work told him he was pretty and now his head is HUGE!

 

[whitelop]

I found this picture of my husband asleep on our dog and I wanted to share it with everyone. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it resized to a normal size, because photobucket hates me!
I hope y'all enjoy.

Oh freaking-a photobucket! Why do you hate me so?! Yeah its really big, oh well. I'm not editing it anymore.

 

[Imbrium]

whitelop wrote:

So, tonight I've eaten almost a whole bag of mini marshmallows. I sat in front of my wood stove with a fork and roasted like 30 mini marshmallows. I'm a little ashamed of myself. :embarrassed:

lol... reminds me of the time I got chewed out 'cause my mom caught me using our gas fireplace to roast marshmallows/make s'mores in the middle of summer. not my fault it worked really well!

I hope Foo's back to normal tomorrow... hopefully just an off day.

 

[whitelop]

hahahaha. Well thankfully, we use the wood stove to heat our house anyway.
But when I was a teenager my friends mom caught us making s'mores on their gas range with all four burners, also in the middle of summer. She was not happy. But it was SO worth it! Her mom also busted us deep frying everything in their freezer for her brother and his friends in the middle of the night!