October 17, 2009 - Buns revolt
When I woke up I found the buns with poops everywhere, and Toby's pen was just a disaster:
Toby: No hay in the rack. Litter box stuff all ripped up, food dish with no pellets....
Kirby: Bits of chewed up hay stems all over the floor, willow hay rack all chewed up to pieces, poops all over the ramp and floor.
Why?
Because I didn't learn from last week's folly and woke up at noon. The buns had probably gone without food for about 3 hours. There was some hay lying around all over the place but clearly no bun of royal blood would eat off the floor. Heavens, no.
The slaves need to be punished!
ullhair::foreheadsmack::tantrum::baghead:dunno
Me? I slept for over 12 hours and my cold feels much better (I can finally breathe! sorta.) but whenever I sleep so much, my body kind of aches and my head doesn't feel right. I think I needed it though. Buns a-blazin' or not. lol
Side note: I'm dying for Kleenmama's shipment to come!!! I'm down to maybe my last 10 lbs of Oxbow and I'm up to my eyeballs in haydust. The Rubbermaid bun is like 40% dust, 15% root material, brown pieces, 45% edible. I have to sift through the bin strand by strand to pick out edible hay for my babies. I have to wear a mask to do this or I'll be sneezing to high heaven. It's just so much work for so little hay (takes me 30 minutes to get enough hay to last them 1 day).
And Kirby, having eaten bluegrass, just chews up the Oxbow timothy and dumps them on the floor. All I see are stems in 2 inch pieces, all over! Toby will eat it but he has a habit of tearing down all the hay from the rack into his litter box and peeing on all or some of it, then he won't touch it anymore. I can't ever give him enough hay to eat it seems, and picking through it every day is such a pain.
The 50# box of Oxbow seemed like a good buy at the time but now that I'm down to the last few chunks, I'm frustrated and angry with it. I really hope Kleenmama's shipment is better (I got 30 lbs). It is supposed to arrive on the 21st. I'm dying to throw out all the remaining Oxbow!!!
:dutch
