I think Ellie may already weigh more than Snowy! haha. A kilo is like 2.2 lbs, roughly. I think she weighs around 2 lbs. She doesn't look that big, but when you pick her up she has some heft to her! hahaha. The dutch breed standard is like 3.5-5.5 lbs, so I think she'll probably stay some where around the 3.5 lb range. She could surprise me and get huge or something! haha.
I need to put some pictures up. I haven't taken any of her in a few days. I might do that later this evening, but you guys don't hold your breath for it! hahah.
The other day when I cleaned out Ellie's cage, I moved her elephant stuffie out of the box, because she's bigger now and it takes up a lot of room in the box. I put it so she could still get into the corner she likes. I've noticed the last few days, that she hasn't really been sleeping in her box now, she is sleeping in the corner of the cage next to the elephant. Its like she likes to sleep next to the elephant, no matter where it is. I didn't realize she liked it that much or had any sort of attachment to it. I put it back in her box after I change the blanket and it just stays where I put it. Its still in the same place that I put it in the cage, she hasn't messed with, only laid next to it. She is sleeping in the box at night though, I guess because its cold or something. But she takes up a lot of the box now! When I got her, she fit in a corner and now she lays in it and takes up most of the box. haha. She's definitely getting bigger!
She is off the kaytee pellets. She doesn't seem to mind the Sherwood that much. She eats a good amount of pellets. But I won't say that she is "completely" off the kaytee, I still give her like 3 pellets to get her into her cage at night. haha. I let her sniff them and drop them into her bowl loudly enough that she knows they're there and she goes right in! hahaha. One day she'll probably catch on, but until then, its an easy way to get her into her cage at night!
The other night I said something about her playing fetch with me with the dog food. I didn't really talk about what she was doing, I was on my phone and its so hard to type anything out on my phone, my keyboard gets delayed, blah blah. Anyway. I was sitting against the washing machine and I had been there for a while. She went to the dog food bowl, sniffed it and then took a piece. I was a little shocked. She walked up to me and I grabbed the piece from her mouth, she let me take it. I threw it back into the bowl and she waited a minute, then went back and took another piece. Same thing, she let me take it. I threw it back and she went and got another piece! She did it like 5 times, then she got bored. I wonder if she was really playing fetch or if she just really wanted to eat a piece of dog food? I think if she wanted to eat it she would have gone the other direction and not come up TO me. Foo would run across the kitchen with a kibble in her mouth just to eat it! haha.
So yesterday I went to the feed store and bought two 40 lbs bags of pelleted pine litter. Thats like a years worth of litter! haha. I bought so much because the feed store I go to is getting out of the feed business and they're just going to be selling horse tack and consigning tack. (I might actually consign my saddle, but thats another story) So I don't know how long they'll have the pine pellets left. I don't know if they'll order more of those. The cool thing about them is, they call me once a month and ask me if I need chicken feed and put me on the order list if I do, I just have to go in and pay then pick up. They have like 6 personal horses and they have to order feed every 2 weeks.
I asked her when the first cut hay should be coming in and she said anywhere from late March to early May. Thats the rye hay that grows in the winter. I don't know if I should get a bale of rye or not. Can she even have rye? The coastal I have is yellowing and I'll need a green bale soon enough. But I don't know if I should get the rye when it comes in or wait until like...June or July, and get the first cut OTHER grass hay. I guess it depends on what she gets, or I could go somewhere else. Hmmm decisions decisions. I talked to a lady yesterday who was giving hay to her horses, she had the greenest hay I've seen this time of year. I forgot where she told me she got it, but it was GREEN! She paid like 4.50 a bale, thats pretty good and it looked great. Its hard to find green hay this time of year.
I'm having a really hard time with my cats. They're slowly killing me. I feel my hair graying because of them right now. Okay, as you guys may know. I don't have cat litter boxes, because my cats didn't use them. I haven't had litter boxes in almost a year. One would use them and the other two would not. Pain in my ass. They go outside during the day for a while to go potty, then come back in to nap. I put them out at night to potty and sometimes they stay out all night or sometimes they come in. So now, they're using Ellie's big litter box, thats outside her cage! Its MAKING ME NUTS! What doesn't make any sense to me, is when I actually had CAT litter boxes I used the same sort of litter. I used store brand feline pine. Same thing as the horse stall pellets. The only thing that is different NOW is that the litter in most of the box is covered in hay. I think the cats like the hay. Its like they didn't like the pine pellets and they like the nice grassy feel of the hay, so they're using the hay to crap in. I'm not happy at all. Every morning when I go in there is cat poop in the litter box. I have to change it all the time. I'm going through a lot of hay and a lot more litter! As much hay as I have, I don't want to run out or anything. And the litter box is bigger anyway so I'm already using more litter.
PLUS, I don't think Ellie being around cat poop is okay. Cat poop is DISGUSTING! To me, I think of rabbit and horse poop as being 'clean' poop, since they only eat grass/hay and veggies. Cats and dogs on the other hand eat meat and processed food, their poop is gross. It doesn't help or fertilize anything. Sorry for the gross poop talk.
I just don't really know what to do to get them to stop going in the rabbits litter box. I guess I need to put it on top of Ellie's cage at night or somewhere they can't get to it. But one night, one of my cats actually WENT INTO ELLIE'S CAGE AND POOPED IN HER CAGE LITTER BOX! Can you guys believe that?! I was freaking shocked.
Ughh, I sort of just don't like cats anymore. I mean, I love my cats, but once they die off I'll probably never get another cat. If I ever get anymore animals, they'll be rabbits. haha. Instead of the being the crazy cat lady like everyone predicted, I'll be the crazy rabbit lady! They definitely wouldn't test my patience like a cat does.
Last thing, I force loved Ellie again last night. My husband and I started watching Sons of Anarchy, since we don't have cable we've missed it all, but now we have the netflix we can watch it from the beginning. Its a great show, if you love the violence and stuff like we do. But we wait until after my son is in bed to watch it(we watch Parenthood while he's up, haha.) But I didn't feel like sitting in the kitchen, even though I can see the tv from there. So I went and got Ellie and put her in my robe and sat with her in my robe/top of my tank top for like 30ish minutes; until she got a little antsy and I put her back in the kitchen. She did pretty well. Her little nails are SUPER sharp though. She also smells a little weird. haha. Her fur is so soft, because its baby fur. I wonder when she'll molt? I think she'll have 'fall back' fur? Is that what its called, when you rub it one way and it falls back to where it was?
Anyway, I'm done now. I've rambled on quite a bit today. Last, last thing! hahaha. I started taking my vitamins again today, I needed to. I'm having a hard time this winter. Its been raining for a few days now and I'm like totally wiped out. My son got the second part of his flu shot yesterday and he took a LONG nap, from like 12-3ish. I took the same nap with him! I slept that long in the middle of the day! Then I fell asleep on the couch at like 10. I've been sleeping way too much and I'm still so tired! I think its lack of vitamin D, sunshine and heat. I hate it. I can't wait for it to be 112* outside, that will be really nice! I can't wait to get my hands dirty in the yard and get a serious tank top farmers tan, because it happens every year! haha. I'm doing a super garden this year and I'm so excited to get out there and do it! So when I actually go to sleep at night, it will be because I'm exhausted from manual labor not just from lack of sunlight! lmao.
Now, I'm done. Happy Wednesday! And yes, I did just write a book.
A little bit of paper is probably fine, even for a small bunny. Monty goes all out eating bits of paper and cardboard all the time (never an amount larger than a couple square inches in a sitting). She has eaten all four corners off the paper with instructions for assembling her carrier, rendering it pretty much useless 
