My Heart's on Fire for Elvira

[Katielovesleo3]

Y'all comment too fast and by the end of the day I have to read three pages full lol. So for this page I have to say, I love your rants lol. I feel the pain about the cats, when I was little I loved cats but now I'm older and I dislike them, I do still have one cat I got when I was 10 and he is so old now. Poor guy, I don't want to take him to get out down bc I have never had to and I'm scared the people will judge me bc he might have another year of life left, however it's hard to tell, he's getting so skinny. Anyway, off topic. But yeah men never wanna do anything they NEED to do. Like mine OMG, he won't put a new hand towel on the holder and it drives me absolutely mad! I've told him a thousand times and he won't do it. I'm devising a plan though.... >:}

 

[Katielovesleo3]

Sometimes, my boyfriend and I actually enjoy nagging each other and bitching back and forth with insanely rude comments so that a few minutes later we get a hilarious laugh out of it!

Ahhh my fiance and i do that too lol

 

[whitelop]

Y'all comment too fast and by the end of the day I have to read three pages full lol. So for this page I have to say, I love your rants lol. I feel the pain about the cats, when I was little I loved cats but now I'm older and I dislike them, I do still have one cat I got when I was 10 and he is so old now. Poor guy, I don't want to take him to get out down bc I have never had to and I'm scared the people will judge me bc he might have another year of life left, however it's hard to tell, he's getting so skinny. Anyway, off topic. But yeah men never wanna do anything they NEED to do. Like mine OMG, he won't put a new hand towel on the holder and it drives me absolutely mad! I've told him a thousand times and he won't do it. I'm devising a plan though.... >:}

I unfortunately, have taken my fair share of animals to be put to sleep. It comes with always having a lot of animals. Its a very sad thing to do, but sometimes its the best for the animal. The people in the office don't look at you any differently, they don't look down on you, everyone understands because sadly most people have been there.
At my vets office(regular animals, not rabbit), my vet has always walked me out the side or back door, so I don't have to walk back through the waiting room in tears. He also gives me a big hug to make me feel better.
Its hard to do, but you know, sometimes it has to be done.
I have 2 cats that are 12 and 13 and they're time will be coming soon enough, all too soon.

My husband has a problem with hand towels too. He will put one on the rack, but instead of using the regular ones he uses the "for guests only" ones that are REALLY nice. He puts those out for everyday use and it makes me so angry!

 

[Katielovesleo3]

Sounds like a very good veterinarian. I need to do it soon. :nerves1 it's just some days he acts so spunky and full of life and I don't want to rob him of any time that he still has left. Ehhh. Decisions like this give me headaches.

Lol, sounds like something mine would do after I train him to put the hand towel back on lol. Then he would probably go work on a truck and get it all black and smudgey haha. men men men

 

[whitelop]

I just had to force love Ellie! I picked her up -small struggle, i put her in my lap -major struggle. I force petted her for like 5 minutes and now she's cleaning her whole body where i touched her!
I feel so unloved by her. She binkys around me and flops her ears, but god forbid i try to touch her!
I hope she starts to come around.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Morgan, I´m sure she will, Houdini hated being picked up when he was smaller, he used to wriggle and struggle like hell. Now, it´s not his favourite thing but he lets me cuddle him for a few minutes and then sort of nudges my hand to say...that´s enough lady...and I have to put him down.

I must find that book as well, sounds really good.

 

[JBun]

All my babies but Roo were like that, from about 4 weeks old, when they really started to be active and wiggly, til about 4 months old. Oh, they just HATED me picking them up, or trying to pet them while they were more interested in exploring and playing. I would try and give them nose rubs, cause you know, all rabbits are supposed to like nose rubs, right? All of my other rabbits do. But NO, they weren't having any of it. I would try and give a nose rub, and they would wiggle their heads around and try and get away. I totally feel your pain, lol, I felt sooo unloved too! Why didn't my sweet little babies that I HAND RAISED AND LOVED, and took such goood care of, not want snuggles and love. I mean, geeesh, really! But, no, Roo has been my only hotot baby that has wanted snuggles, and I think it's a personality trait that he was born with, cause when he's with the other bunnies, he's always wanting grooming from them too. So about a month ago, at night after I feed everyone, I also give all the big bunnies nose rubs, cause they are all begging for them at night, I know THEY love me But anyhow, I started getting each of the babies out of their cage and started holding them and petting them for a few minutes, and a few of them have actually started to like it a little, like Libby and Jake. Toby, no, not even a bit. He HATES being held, has since just a little baby. That's just his ADHD personality. He's just squirmy, wiggly, and too active to want to be held too long, but I also found the trick to be able to pet him. I pet him almost like I'm roughhousing with him, and he likes it! He'll actually sit there and let me roughly pet him instead of wiggling all over the place. He just doesn't have the attention span to want to sit still for anything that is going to be slow. He just needs lots of stimulation to not get antsy. And Riley, I'm working on. I didn't hold him much for over a month because of his injured leg, so now I do it a little bit and he's getting better and more comfortable with it. So just wait Ellie out and try different things. You may find she only likes being petted a certain way, like Toby(who is back to his normal wiggly self, by the way ), or you may just have to wait a little bit til she is a little older and settles down enough to want the pets and will enjoy them. In the mean time you could try and see if she is one of those rabbits that like you to play games with them. None of my bunnies now does, but Dash used to like me to kind of play a scary monster with her like I was going to get her, and she would run and hide then come, turn to see if I was coming after her. But Baby didn't like chase games AT ALL! She's more nervous about some things so she found that kind of thing scary. Just try different stuff out and you may hit on something that she likes.

 

[whitelop]

You're right Lisa, she might calm down, but I think its going to take a while. She's SO smart and she is so hyper! She is also A CHEWER! Oh my god, what am I going to do with a chewer? I can't handle that. She is shredding the cardboard and it looks like she's looking for other things to sink her teeth into!
Even is she never settles down and never wants me to pet her, I think I could be okay with that. She shows me how much she likes me by binkying around and flopping her ears. So I think that she DOES like me, but doesn't like to be petted. She likes to be near me though, she hops over my legs and takes food from me and follows me around. I think when I'm there she feels more brave. I was in the kitchen with her last night and she went up to one of the cats and sniffed the cat! How exciting is that?! Thats a HUGE step for a little rabbit! Since it was the biggest cats she went up to, 15 lbs and 9 lbs. BIG compared to her!

Jenny, I'm glad its not just me! I'm glad that its just a baby thing...kind of. I sort of wish she had inherited the 'sweetness' gene like Roo did! But it will be okay if she's not like that. Maybe its just her baby behavior. I feel like maybe I should spend more time with her. I only spend a small amount of time with her compared to the large amount of time she's out. I go into the kitchen a lot, but the amount of time I sit in the floor getting to know her is small comparatively.
But at night is one of the only times I can actually sit down with her, after my son has gone to bed. I need to work on it!

 

[Chrisdoc]

Oh Morgan, the more I read about Ellie, OMG she could be Houdini´s twin. He is exactly the same, smart and hyper and a real chewer, he´ll try to eat anything. But although they are not touchy/feely buns, they will suddenly surprise you with something they do that says that they really do love their mom. Although he´s not keen on being picked up, if I lie on the floor he´ll come over and walk all over me and sniff everywhere and when I´m sitting on the sofa, he´s the first to jump over and suddenly he´ll lick my hand and then jump off again. In comparison to Snowy, it´s so little but for him it´s quite a lot. Ellie will find a way to show you how much she cares, they´ll be little things but you´ll come to recognise them. And sometimes, he just looks straight at me in a certain way when I call him and that makes me feel so good that he knows who I am.

As for the chewing, I¨ve just had to get used to it and adapt to meet his requirements. Lots of toys, lots of hay and somewhere to get rid of all that energy.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

I came outside and his "nasty leg" looked bad, he has a wound and I would clean it and he would get better. Scab up. Heal up. Then he would get another one a couple days later, same procedure then it would heal. Week later same thing would happen again. I assume he is chewing his own leg up I really don't know but didnt want to take him to the vet bc I'm broke as a joke right now, hes not an indoor cat and chews any bandages off, and I didn't want them to put him down, but this wound has been around for too long now, yesterday I thought there was hope and today it is the worst I have ever seen it and he seems real bad, he meows real bad like an old man, and so I was well buddy I have to call the vet. And wtf?! They're closed on Saturdays?! Like animals don't get sick on weekends. So i asked my dad and he said we will go Monday. So Monday I'm going to call and schedule an appt.

I think Ellie will come around with time. She sounds like a little ball of cute and crazy hehe!!!!

 

[whitelop]

I CAUGHT A FREAKING FLOP ON CAMERA! I GOT A PICTURE OF IT!

Nope, its still not edited, lol.
Also, ignore the part of wall that isn't painted. haha. We sort of purposely didn't do it, so we could laugh about it. I don't know. hahaha.

Look how adorable she is! And her wittle feets! Look, they aren't as stained anymore.

 

[holtzchick]

Lolololol!! That's so cute and funny since I'm looking at Hippo and he's in the exact same position !! Wow I can't believe how much she's grown, ah, the fur kids grow up so quickly!!

 

[JBun]

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!

Lucky! I have yet to see Roo flop. Cuddle, yes. Flop, no.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Awww, she´s adorable and those little white socks are so cute....she looks lovely and so comfortable in her house now. I don´t mind the photo being enormous as I can see so much more of her. I just love seeing them so comfy that they can flop like that. Bandy was flopping last night with his head raised on the cushion in the corner of their xpen. I picked up the camera to get a shot and then kicked the plant pot on the floor and ruined everything as he jumped up....I was so annoyed as it looked lovely. They just look so chilled out when they flop that I love seeing them do it.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

Cute little footsies!!!!!!! She looks so dainty with her bitty legs stretched out.

 

[agnesthelion]

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[whitelop]

I'm so exhausted from such a long day, so ill tell about the expo tomorrow.

I just wanted to share that Ellie was just flopped out like Monty with her legs straight out behind her! It was adorable! Now she keeps nipping my shirt and she's getting skin and it HURTS! Unfortunately she had to spend the whole day in her cage and i don't think she was very happy. I filled up her water bowl this morning, but i don't know if she drank much from it today. When i let her out she went to her out of cage water bowl and drank like crazy. I'll just give her cage bowl a good cleaning tomorrow, maybe she didn't like that i didn't clean it this morning.

Oh, is it okay if she ate a little paper? I gave her the paper from my husbands shoe box. Its just white newspaper feeling stuff. There wasn't a silica package in the box at all. Well, anyway, she loves this big piece of paper and she's pulling it apart. I noticed she's spitting big pieces out, but possibly eating some of it. (As i typed that, she picked up 3 dog kibbles and i had to take them from her. I think she is trying to play fetch with me, no joke!) So a little paper won't hurt her right?

 

[JBun]

A little paper shouldn't be a problem. I think it's when they eat a big gob of it that isn't good. Haha, that would be so funny if you taught her how to play fetch. Not a lot of rabbits will do that kind of thing.

I wonder if the nipping is from being in her cage today :? I think it's so funny when they get this attitude cause of something we did or didn't do, that's upset them.

 

[agnesthelion]

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[whitelop]

I feel much better after getting a semi-good nights sleep.

The expo yesterday was...overwhelming. To say the least. BUT we had a really good time!
There were so many people there, oh my. Like thousands of people, it was insane. We walked past vendors and they would ask us if we had a venue, DJ, photographer, cake person, blah blah blah. There was SO MUCH cake and definitely NOT enough wine! hahaha.
There were more cake vendors than anything else. There was cake everywhere. I ate so much cake yesterday. And all of them only sell the same kinds, vanilla, chocolate and almond. Now, I'm not a fan of almond because most of the time the almond is overwhelmingly strong. But I ate this one almond cake yesterday that had like hint of almond, like just a whisper. It was perfect! hahaha.

We wandered around and it was so hot. There were so many people in there and we were all crowed together, I must have gotten my butt touched 1000 times. hahaha.

BUT THEN...I FOUND THE WINE VENDOR! I bought a $5 glass of wine and it was SO freaking worth it! I was drinking red wine at 1 pm and god was it amazing! Once I got a glass of wine and my friend and her fiance got a beer, we felt SO much better. All of us have a bit of large crowd anxiety and that little bit of alcohol made it so much better. As we walked though, like 10 people asked where we got our booze! hahah. We told them, and they were so thankful to get their hands on some drinks. haha. I'm glad we were the only ones who needed a drink!

She found her DJ which is great. We didn't stay the whole time, which was even better! haha. Got measured for dresses, those will be here in 3 months. They're purple and they should be really pretty. I won't be able to wear it anywhere else, but oh well.

Before the expo started we walked across the street to this green area. It had all kinds of things in it. Charlotte is a big art city and there are all kinds of sculptures and things all over the city. They do funky things with the buildings and all that. But this green was in the middle of this really chic shopping area, the city's library which is beautiful in itself and a used-to-be Catholic church thats now a Fuel pizza. I didn't get many pictures of the green but I would like to go back and get some more. It did have these HUGE steel books. They were massive. I got a picture of my friends fiance trying to get Wuthering Heights out of the stack. ahaha. (that happens to be one of my favorite books too!) I got a picture of the Charlotte sign too, it points to all the Charlotte's in different states and in different countries. Its pretty neat.
The county that Charlotte is in is Mecklenburg, and it is a sister city to Mecklenburg Germany and named after said city. Just a little Charlotte history for you.
I'll post the pictures in a different post after I download them. I took a lot of pictures of the couple to use for their 'save the date things'. But I plan on going back to the city to walk around a bit, so much has changed since I was a kid. I used to live a few blocks from center city and they've added and changed SO much. Now that I'm an adult I can appreciate it more! hahha. I'll take pictures when I go and share them! Maybe it will be warm next Sunday, because Sunday is the day to walk around down there, lol.

Anyway, we had a good time. We were all just exhausted after walking miles and miles in the basement of the convention center. Then we came back to our town in SC and ate some delicious cheeseburgers and cheese fries and went to get measured for dresses! lmao.

I am now watching Blues Clues with my son. Its original Blues Clues, with Steve, season 1! hahaha. Thanks netflix. Oh and remember me telling you guys about Tonka Chuck the truck with the mind of his own? Well, he has his own tv show! He's freaking irritating, but my son really likes them so I tolerate it. hahaha. The things we do for our children. But with Blues Clues, I just want to scream at Steve, that BLUE WANTS ORANGE JUICE WITH HER SNACK TODAY! But I'll contain myself. Time for coffee!