Tonight I left the cleaning of the bunny cages a bit late. I figured it wouldn't take too long...Yofi's did need a full cleaning, but Anna's only required a scooping out of her litter box. All told the entire thing shouldn't have taken me more than say, 15-20 minutes.
9:15 - Cleaning begins
Strip out Yofi's cage...remove his dishes, hay rack, then sweep excess litter/hay from the top of his pet bedding before removing the clamps that hold it in place. Yofi runs in to see what I'm doing.
"Yofi! Let go of the whisk!" geez
Go back to sweeping out the mess. Hear noise behind me. Turn around...Yofi's digging at the garbage bag I'd brought into the room.
"Yofi! Drop the garbage bag!"
Crawl back into the cage again and resume sweeping. Suddenly...
*chomp*
"Ow!! Anna...don't bite my rear when I'm doing the cage!"
Go back in, haul out Yofi's litter box. Begin scooping the litter from it. Anna runs over to see what I'm doing.
"Anna! Get out of the litter box, please! Move!"
Back to scooping again. Hear noise behind me.
"Yofi! No! Don't dig in the pellet bin!" (This is the bin I have that contains the clean pelleted bedding, not yet used.)
Finally, clean Yofi's litter pan, refill it with new litter, then go to Yofi's cage and begin cleaning the bottom of it. Suddenly...
*CHOMP*
"OWOWOW!!!!! !@$%! Anna!!!!"
Finish cleaning Yofi's cage, put clean pet bedding, clean, refilled litter pan and cleaned dishes back in cage. Take Anna's litter pan out of her cage and begin scooping it.
Hear noise behind me...like some sort of machine whirling through wood. Turn to look.
"YOFI!!! NO!"
All of the clean, new litter in Yofi's clean litter pan is now catapulted everywhere...all over the clean pet bedding, in the clean water of his cleaned water dish. And...as I turned to yell at Yofi, the entire scoop full of dirty, urinated-upon bedding that was in my scoop goes flying. All over the carpet.
*sigh* Go over, sweep out contents of now Yoficized cage and get it straightened out, again. Return to Anna's litter pan, sweep dirty litter from carpet and resume cleaning her box.
Hear something behind me...
"ANNA!!!! NOOOOO!!!!!"
Paper towel (used for cleaning said dirty cages) is now being shred and deposited all over the floor of the room.
Pick up shredded paper towel. Get the scoop and start scooping Anna's litter pan again.
Hear noise behind me.
"YOFI!!! NOOOO!!!"
Hole approximately the size of Kansas has now been chewed in garbage bag containing Yofi's used litter pan contents.
Go and get new bag. Insert old bag into new one. Sweep up contents of first bag that bled all over the floor.
Hear noise behind me.
"YOFI!!! NOOOO!!!"
Anna's cage in the back, where the litter box sits, was spotless...a clean towel protruding from beneath the pet bedding, to cover the spot the bedding didn't quite reach, has now been thoroughly saturated. Compliments of Yofi's neverending bladder supply.
Remove towel. Look for clean one. Replace soiled towel with another clean one. Finish scooping Anna's litter pan and add clean, new pelleted bedding. Put litter pan back in Anna's cage.
Stop.
Look around me.
No bunnies ready to bite me.
No fresh litter strewn everywhere.
No holes in garbage bags made by ravenous rabbits.
Everything is cleaner, tidier, and smells nice.
Quickly grab the turmoil twins, toss them in cages, gather their food, toss that in too, and run from the room.
Look at clock. 10:20
I'm going to bed.
:thud:
