Janesta's Tribe

[lionheadbunny21]

My name is Janesta, first of all I'm a wife to an amazing husband. We were a blended family before we had our two children. So we have 5 children. 3 boys and 2 girls. Our 3 older are 8,9,10 and the younger 20 months and 5.

We recently decided to have pets and I found that they ALL make our family so much more complete. Our family friends think we're absolutely crazy, probly because we already have 5 children. But we all help out with the bunnies and our household chores as a family should

We went to Petsmart opening here in our little town so our kids could check out the pets. They love looking. I grew up with dogs and thought we could eventually get a small one. EVERYONE has dogs LOL, I guess I like to be different. My heart breaks for the bunnies that are at the University getting brutally killed and in my heart I've always wanted to catch one and take it home with me. Ok, so we were at the Petstore "looking around" and we were contimplating what pet we should try and take a go at. We were there for well over an hour. We went from a fish, to a bird, to a BEARDED DRAGON (my husband and older boys) to a Guinea pig We broght home Gizmo. We later went back (week or so) for her friend I named Hammy (yes girls LOL) My son is 20 months and he calls all our pets Ham LOL. Love it. Even the bunnies.

We had them for a month then I said lets look at the other store for.... ?? can't remember. Of course we looked at the pets too. My husband seen the sign that said Lionhead $50.00. She was full grown pretty much and he could not take his eyes of her. He did not want to leave the store without her. He would not put her down. He's never really been a pet person (except the bearded dragon).So we asked our kids and they were jumping for joy.

We brought her home and she was our first bunny. She was (is) finicky and never liked being handled! The boss pretty much. I've been working overtime on her cage to make her happy and accessorizing. She is just now starting to come to us and run around andI seen her first Binky last night.. I scared everyone in the house I was so excited about her first binky. So we're all A HAPPIER house with Fluffy being Happy (I didn't have a chance to name her at all).

So Fluffy was not kid friendly, so my then 4 year old asked to go back to the Petstore for the Happy Bunny. We went back and I seen they had 3 black lionhead babies. 2 month old. I went back on the Friday and there was 1 left. AGAIN meant to be So we brought her home, I wanted to name her Chase but my daughter said she's happy and when I brought up naming her Chase she said she would then change Hammy name to something else too.. OMG... Reverse psycholgy LOL. So she's Happy. They are in the same cage and doing very well


I'm not a petstore supporter, I know a lot of people are against it. But that's how we got ourpetsand they are hereand loved allt he same


I'm going on and on forever. I'll write about our newest addition another time (it's breakfast time...Mmmmm Omlette made my the husband) and updates on us


Thank you for reading my first blog

 

[kirbyultra]

Hi Janesta. Sounds like you have a wonderful family. Your fur kids are very lucky When are we going to see pictures of your lionhead beauties?

 

[lionheadbunny21]

Here's my girls. Happy (black) and Fluffy (brown)

My kids are extremely happy with all our pets. They say we have a pet house

 

[Amy27]

Ahhh your lionheads are adorable! I have a lionhead also and I just think they are so cute.

 

[lionheadbunny21]

Thank you I have a few other pictures I took as well. I'm soo happy with my bunnies And the rest of my family. Garage Sale tomorrow I hope. Depending on the weather I guess. I moved Fluffy the older bunny upstairs because I thought she was being a little too rough with Happy but I guess that's how they play. Happy looked so sad and lonely when Fluffy was upstairs for those two dreadful hours. I was worried Fluffy would get too rough and I was scared she would hurt Happy while no one was home. But there is usually ALWAYS someone home with them, except short amounts of time.
So we brought her back with Happy and they were snuggling right away. I don't know what possessed me to think they weren't getting along, I guess I just had to make sure. I'll never seperate them again Poor babies.
I'm still very new to all of this and had to make sure. Happy will go to the top level when she wants her own time. Fluffy RARELY goes to the top level and when she does, it's only to sniff around or get alittle excersize.
So I found out today, I have a good bonded pair. Now to see what's in store when they reach adolescence. EEEEK!

My husband really wants a bearded dragon. I feel bad because I keep getting what I want. Well our first BUnny (Fluffy) was his, but still. I really wanted a bunny, he helped me get one fast because he fell inlove with FLuffy. I really want to get him a bearded dragon. He actually held one today. And I'm thinking of looking on used.com locally for the tank and accessories. I would never touch one. Maybe I would eventually, but the thought is a little creepy. That's where I am today. Contemplating a beardy
Time to play some MW 2 ONLINE. The babies are sleeping, it's me and the husband time.. We are big kids. We love kid movies as much as our kids - Shrek, and those kind of movies.. KUNGFU PANDA was hilarious.. + we work with kids and have 5.. Soo ya, we can always be ourselves where-ever we are.. BIG KIDS at heart ALWAYS!

 

[hln917]

Welcome to the forum Janesta. Your bunnies are adorable and you can keep bragging about them here, of course with pictures included!:biggrin2:

 

[lionheadbunny21]

Happy

My beauties (daugher and Happy)

My son with Happy.

These were taken yesterday. We don't usually handle Fluffy as much as we should but we are starting to more because she is getting more and more used of us. I don't want to put her into shock, she was in the Petstore for 6 months I'm quite sure she was not handled that much. She was Happy's age when she got there. OMG!! She was at the Petstore for 6 months, then THERE IS NO WAY she is 3-4 months.. OMG!!!!!! She is about 7 months. I NEVER EVEN THOUGHT ABOUT THAT!! I'm choked. It's not a big deal but I totally believed them when they told me and never did the math. WOW! Once they said she didn't get out of the cage very often to run around, we were sold. Hmmm.. My sweetie Girl, I love her no matter how old she is. She's getting me and more used of us now. I'll upload the cutest picture I took of her yesterday. I LOVE THIS FORUM. Friendliest

 

[lionheadbunny21]

So I concluded Fluffy is 7 months old. I wondered how she was SOOO much bigger then Happy when they would be 1 and a half months apart or so. Fluffy seemed to have a more reserved personality and I thought it was territorial but I guess it's more mother instincts. I tried to seperate them and found them to be more sad than anything when they were apart. Fluffy comes to me more when I go in the pen area to clean the poops or check them out. Speaking of that I better clean out thier cage.

I moved our guinea pigs into another cage. It's not a cage made from grids but it's the same size as a 3 x 2. I can move them around more and more. I like to move things around a lot. So I love the cage for the piggies so I can move them downstairs every now and again. I was really missing them squeeking around for food everytime I went in the kitchen and open the fridge.

Since I made the bunnies cages bigger the guinea pigs cage went upstairs because I haven't adjusted it so I can put the guinea pigs on top the cage yet. I'm not sure if I'll do it now, with thier new cage. Fluffy and Happy have a 3 x 2 x 3 (high) + 3 x 3 x 2 pen. And it's spacious; the bunnies like it. The other bun upstairs has a 5 x 2 x 2(high) She needed her own space as well and not enough room downstairs. It's nice to have the piggies mobile again and nice to see them down here Now to fix up my lop's living space. She's been here 2 days now. I think we are ALL decided on Lily My daughter wanted to name her Dora but she likes Lily now too. Loves saying it as well

So we're accomodating everyone in our home and making sure everyone is happy. I actually got the guinea pig's cage for a good deal at a feed store. I'm going to put a loft area on there as well so they can still use thier tunnel as a ramp to get up and eat

 

[hln917]

Not only are your bunnies adorable, so are your kids!

 

[lionheadbunny21]

Thank you so much. They absolutely adore the bunnies. I love how my son calls all of the 3 bunnies and 2 guinea pigs Ham. We have a guinea pig name Hammy, so ya, all of them are Ham

 

[lionheadbunny21]

So I enjoyed my LONG weekend. I work in a school so I get the same days off as my kids. Which is AWESOME!! I LOVE IT!
I didn't do what i wanted this weekend. I've been occupied on this Forum LOL!!! :bunnydance: I had this awesome plan to have a garage sale so I can gut out my outside storage and my laundry room. Didn't happen.. But I did get some gardening done with my daughter, she was soo proud she did her own potters And I cut up and put all my salads for the week in their containers :goodjob
I made Lily's cage. I'm thinking about moving her down stairs with us until she is totally settled. I'll post pictures tomorrow. It's nothing too special but it's her own space and she can binky

I'm back to work tomorrow and I'm not too enthused. I'm not sure anymore about my job. I work with kids and my main priority are the highrisk/behavioral children. I love my job and I love the kids but there has been a lot of unprofessionalismandalmost everyone of our staff has lost a love one (includingme) that I realize I want to go home for a while to be with my dad and family.

Plus I am fully qualified to work with children and families and I don't get that recognition nor do I get paid as qualified. Makes me mad. :XBut it's a job and it pays the billsandthe kids adore me:biggrin2:
I sent a resume up to my home town to work for the Summer.


My husband and I worked at the same place but he quit for a few reasons, so he's able to be home with out children and bunnies I'm ok it, but it is starting to get straining. Come September we'll both be doing the same thing again. I want to move into an actual house where we can have a backyard for our pets and more space. We have a nice size townhouse but it's not a forever home, not for us.
Anywho, back to work tomorrow *thinks to self* there's only a month left, there's only a month left, there's only a month left......

 

[kirbyultra]

Sorry about your job. I know that knot in your stomach when the job isn't treating you as you should. Hang in there - it's almost summer!

 

[lionheadbunny21]

I find more and more reasons why I love this forum :big kiss:

I've been going through a lot of life lessons (me and my husband) He was adopted as a baby and we're now 28 and 27 and we found out in September 2009 who his biological family was and it was emotional for the both of us. He had grown up closely with this family and as well the sister (who was adopted out as well) worked with him the prior year at the school. Anyways there were other sisters as well that were from a prior wife of the biological dad and they kind of came into our lives as well. My husband reached out to the sister he worked with and asked if it was true and she said it was. Well everything was going fine and dandy for a few months then one of the sister twisted something I said and told the other sister I was talking badly about her and that I didn't even like her so that stirred a lot of things up. I was really bothered by this because I was really happy to have these new people in our lives. I have a HUGE family but so far away So I thought I found my reason for staying here in my husband's hometown. I work things out with the other sister and we decided to not have anything to do with the other sister if all it was going to do was bring negative to us. Things were great until a few weeks ago when the sister we still got along with, brought her 3 boys over and were all inlove with the bunnies. They weren't being very nice and I was starting to get upset saying very calmly "please don't scared them I don't want them to be scared of people" (We had just brought Happy home the day before and Fluffy home the week before) I was stressed because they kept scaring them and trying to trap them in a cotainer and I had not handled Fluffy so much, so I couldn't grab her to put her back in her cage. So when my husband came home, I said YAY so he can grab Fluffy and put her in her cage, and the sister's son took it that I was happy they were leaving. And she just wouldn't let it go. She ended up starting more trouble, with work, with my marriage (tried), and with my friendships. I work with half the communitie's children so it was really bothering me. She was saying EVERYTHING she could possibly say about me. I kept my head up, buried my life in my family and bunnies. I can't keep stressing over someone that doesn't want us in her life. And it's funny because when the other sister was putting me through this, she had even said to her (because the other sister was so upset by her brother cutting her out of out lives) "that she can't talk to me the way she did and expect him to be ok with it" Sooo .. IDK!! It still bothers me, I absolutely LOVED her boys from the get go!! I worked at the school with them and they stole my heart 2 years before I knew they were my husband's blood related nephews I wish it didn't happen but then again I don't want to "be careful" what I say to this women. I even said sorry and that I would never want any of her kids to think I did not want them here and that I was sorry to ever make them feel that way and she said it's a new day and she didn't want to feel bad for defending her kids, I told her I wasn't mad at all for sticking up for her child and his feelings and that i would do the same.. Hmm.. We tried to get on with our lives and pick up then she started saying I was calling her a lier it was just more to fire and more and more.. we backed off after she called us ungrateful and told my husband she waited 28 for NOTHING!
If it didn't happen now then it would have eventually happen. So another reason work doesn't feel as great..Stress.. I was questioning a lot about me and if I was a bad person.. I worry about what people think about me and I need to stop that..

So my life lesson is that I can't change people's opinion of me nor can i make everyone love me! I'm me and I'm always going to be me no matter what anyone says. I'm glad I have an amazing husband to stand by my side.

I'm a very kind hearted person, i think everyone who has bunnies has to be a kind hearted person, Just look at them :inlove:

 

[lionheadbunny21]

I am going to add more to my bunnies' cage today at some point. My fluffy is starting to binky with the more space she has and it's AMAZING TO SEE I'm also going to move the litter box to the corner that she poos and pees more and ziptie it because she always moves it to the middle when I put it there, so I'll try ziptie for now until they get the idea.
I think I have 42 grids so I'll see what I can do with that. I just love seeing them happier with more space. They seem to be the most livelies at night (say around 11-1 am) LOL.. My husband has been abruptly woken up a few times this week LOL! I just stay up to watch them binky, run around and jump up and down the levels Precious!
They are starting to come to us more and more and I LOVE IT!!!! *sighs* the joys of being a Bunny mom

 

[cheryl]

I just love how your son calls all the pets ham..i think that is just the cutest...your children are both cute..and the bunnies are just adorable..

 

[lionheadbunny21]

Thank you so much. I love how he calls them all Ham too We went to visit an Animal Shelter yesterday and he was calling the bunnies there Ham as well; too cute.

He watched Diego and he likes to make the noises the eagles or Hawks make on there it's soo cute. He'll say "Mom, mom, mom" And when I look he goes "Eeek Eeek Eeek" His eyes are lit up and his head is bobbing back and fourth. It's adorable.

I'm going to bring Fluffy to the Vet today to get her bald spot checked out. Hope everything's ok. I hope the price isn't crazy but I really need her checked out.

 

[lionheadbunny21]

So I found out today that the Lionhead bunnyI was initially going to wait for (before I got Happy) is ready to join our family June 8th. She is just ADORABLE! I was a little worried about having another bunny but at the same time I am SOOOO happy with the joys they bring. I revolve my day around my family and they are a part of my family, along with my guinea pigs and soon Bearded Dragon.



I can't wait to meet this little sweet heart. Our bunnies now have been seperated. We were trying them out in the same cage and Fluffy (our older one) was the more territorial one, now seems she isn't getting to eat as much. Happy eats everything before Fluffy can get to it. I had 2 of everything. And I added to their cage and now the upper part was not at all used. So I just thought they should have some time apart until I make sure they are both eating what they need. Fluffy seemed very sad today for some reason and I don't know why. She has a vet appointment for a spay but I think I'll just get them to do an exam and make sure she is healthy and schedule a spay in a week or so.



My life has settled down for now! I am counting down the days for work. I really think it's time for a change. Our car broke down so I'm bummed about that. Me and my family always make it tho. I really don't mind walking. Stress relief for me I am not sure what I am going to do in September but maybe it will be easier to go back after a MUCH NEEDED break.



I wanted to post pictures of my guinea pigs because they are soo adorable. I've lost my camera so it's a picture when we first got them. Still as cute. It's only Gizmo for now. Hammy's didn't upload. And there's one of my new Lionhead darling.

I love when I go into the kitchen and my girls start squeeking away for food.

My husband always appologizes when he's wrapping something up and they start squeeking LOL!!

A little update.

 

[lionheadbunny21]

This is their cage and they are quite happy with it. I just added the ramp you can see on the left of the cage so Happy can come and go when she pleases. Fluffy is on the bottem. They love the box. They haven't chewed at it so it's ok so far. This is from today

 

[lionheadbunny21]

Oh and I am not going back to my job:biggrin2:I am done now so I'm a stay at home bunny mom. My chldren's daycare is paid for already so they're going to finish off this month.

I changed the bedding to the bun's litter so they don't have stuff stuck to their fur all the time (mainly Happy)

I love to write, it helps me with my stress so I'm a writing machine

 

[mistyjr]

lionheadbunny21 wrote:

She sure does look like my lionhead..