My Heart's on Fire for Elvira

[whitelop]

So I made a video of the hutch idea I have, its a kitchen cabinet. I'm trying to download the video right now, but its taken like 6 years to get it to go. Hopefully before I'm old and gray the video will download to photobucket and I'll be able to post it. I tried to put it on tinypic but it wouldn't load. It was even more slow than photobucket.
Please ignore in the video my sniffling. I also sound to be out of breath, but I wasn't hahaha. I was squatting down and I've been very shaking all day and very clogged up in my nose area. The dust doesn't help that I stirred up taking everything out of the cabinet. And excuse the way that Ellie's corner looks, I hadn't had a chance to clean everything up yet. She likes to drag everything around and her cage is filled with poop. LOL. Thats what her corner looks like everyday and I'm pretty sick of cleaning it up. hahaha.

Chris, to answer your question about the rugs, no I didn't get a rug. I went to look at them and I found a rug I wanted for my living room and got some ideas for what to do with my son's room and also for our bedroom upstairs. Hopefully in the next week or so, I'll be able to go get the rugs. We just had our car and not my FIL's big suburban, so we couldn't fit rugs in the car anyways. I hope to get the rugs soon though. I'm looking forward to the one in the living room, its an oriental style rug that is the same color as my dog, so it will hide a lot of the fur! hahaha. Is that wrong that I'm so excited about being able to hide fur? I just hate having to vacuum all the freaking time. It sucks.

I took my dog to the groomer and he is getting the de-shed treatment! How wonderful is that?! He's getting a bath and the treatment, hopefully he'll come home smelling pretty good. I'll take him back in a few weeks and give him the next de-shedding treatment, its like every 6 weeks. I hope that it gets all the fur out of him, his undercoat is a killer!

VIDEO: Freaking finally. It literally took an hour to get it on photobucket. After I hit submit on this post, I'm throwing this piece of crap out the freaking window! I'm pissed.
Just click the picture I guess, I don't really know nor do I care right now. AHHHHH! Hopefully it works.

 

[Chrisdoc]

I just love people turning pieces of furniture into the rabbit´s home. It would be fantastic as long as you put enough open sides to let the light in and flooring that´s comfy for her and protection so she doesn´t chew but it sounds like a good size and she is only lickle. She looks just adorable, I just so love her colour and she´s such a good girl.

Can´t wait to see you start on your project...it´s gonna look so cool and I´m sure Ellie will like it much better than her current home. Well done Morgan, you go girl. Ellie is such a lucky bun :blushan:

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

I like the cabinet hutch idea! In addition to being big enough, and her liking it already, I like the idea of something that doesn't have a "footprint" of its own because it's something that has already existed there as a part of that room. It almost reminds me of blue eyes's living room hutch that's made from a cabinet-like thing.

 

[JBun]

I LOVE videos!!! It was so cute to see Ellie hopping around you and the cabinet, trying to see what was going on

I think that cabinet should be plenty big. It looks at least as big as her cage. One thing about using linoleum, is that it can be a little slippery. I have linoleum in Baby's cage and she was always slipping on it, so I ended up putting a vinyl fabric over it that is a little less slippery. I prefer low pile carpet for my non chewing rabbits. Zeus gets carpet cause he doesn't have pee accidents or chew, but Baby chews on everything. So she could only have the linoleum until I found something else that would work. There are these flex tiles that I may try one day, but they're a little bit more expensive. I've just tried so many surfaces for my rabbits, trying to find the perfect thing, and have yet to find it. The flex tiles look like the best thing so far. I considered a rubber matting, but thought that Baby would be able to eventually dig at it enough to tear it up and start chewing it, so I never tried it.

So do you think with the washer right there, that it would make it noisy in the cabinet when it's running. You could maybe put up plywood on the side and just the hardware cloth on the front. I know it wouldn't give her much airflow. That shouldn't matter much right now with it being winter. I don't know if it would be a problem in the summer though.

I'm excited to see how it turns out, and see how Ellie likes it

 

[Katielovesleo3]

I agree I love the idea and cages are so unsightly. Wish I could do something creative too.

 

[whitelop]

I think the cabinet cage is going to be great! I'm going to work on supplies this week and hopefully begin my project this weekend. It should only take me Saturday and Sunday. I still have to figure the flooring out 100%.

I am pretty sure my hen is going broody! Ughh, its my fault. I'm really bad at collecting eggs in the winter, so there are like 10 in the nest. She has been spending a lot of time in the house and the rooster is sad. Yesterday i watched my rooster walk around with his tail down, looking like someone kicked him. He isn't the same without the hen by his side. I looked out to see him laying in the door of the coop, so i walked out to check them. I threw some food out and the hen came out, super puffed up and bitchy. Lol. So she sitting on about 10 eggs and I'm not going to mess with her, i hate being attacked by chickens! I may put a heat lamp out there to help her keep them warm. Its definitely the wrong season for broodyness, but we'll figure something out. Why must they torture me with difficulties?

 

[Chrisdoc]

Morgan, I try and picture you with your hens and the rooster...it really brightens my day.

The cabinet is going to be so good. You´ve given me the bug now and I´m looking at my TV unit which is quite big as as new home for my bunnies. First though I need to buy a flat screen TV I can hang on the wall....maybe it will have to wait a little while

 

[whitelop]

My rooster was actually quite sweet when i went out a few minutes ago. The only time he is friendly is when the hen is on eggs. He spent the whole day in the house with her, keeping her company. Its been in the 70s today and beautiful, but he decided to stay in the house. He really loves that hen!

I can't wait to start the cabinet project! I think it will be nice. My husband said he wasn't going to help me, so hopefully i can do it all! That's why i have power tools!

 

[holtzchick]

My rooster was actually quite sweet when i went out a few minutes ago. The only time he is friendly is when the hen is on eggs. He spent the whole day in the house with her, keeping her company. Its been in the 70s today and beautiful, but he decided to stay in the house. He really loves that hen!

I can't wait to start the cabinet project! I think it will be nice. My husband said he wasn't going to help me, so hopefully i can do it all! That's why i have power tools!

Awh thats so cute, the rooster soudns like a sweetheart

HAHA, that sounds like my boyfriend.... I always want to do some sort of project for the bunnies and I never dare ask him for help because he whines and I know if he does help me he will whine while helping me!! Men are such children sometimes!

By the way, I'm going to go back and read earlier posts but I'm assuming that the "cabinet" project is for Ellie?! Best of luck! Can'/t wait to see it!

 

[whitelop]

Michelle, yes the cabinet project is for Ellie. I made a silly little video to explain it better.
Speaking of the cabinet, i don't think i could have planned a cage in that cabinet more perfectly as she LOVES that cabinet! She gets in it and stretches out. I can't wait to build shelves for her and fix the cabinet up.

She has been getting on top of her cage as of late. I find poops on the blanket up there. I never see her, but she's sneaky! I don't think she knows she's a rabbit. I'm sitting in the floor with her eating chocolate cake and she is fighting me for the cake! She wants it so bad. She's nuts!

Hopefully tomorrow we will be getting a new computer! I've been doing most posts from my phone and that's getting super old. Plus, having a crappy computer has really hindered me from posting new pictures because i can't be bothered with uploading them to the computer!
I'm going to talk my husband into it! He's going out of town for the weekend and i need the new computer to share the progress of the cabinet hutch! Hahaha.

Tomorrow I'll share a recipe of these twice baked stuffed potatoes that i made tonight. They were great!

 

[JBun]

Lol, I swear rabbit's can smell sugar from a mile away. I used to have this rabbit that if she smelled me eating candy or heard the crinkle of a wrapper, she would jump up onto my bed(which was at least 2 1/2 feet high) and she would be right in my face trying to 'share' whatever sugary delight I happened to be eating. I had these whole fruit morsels that she just LOVED! Too bad for Ellie that chocolate cake isn't on the 'approved' bunny food list

That's good news Ellie has ok'd her new living quarters. Now you can start construction, and I'm sure she'll be right there supervising the whole remodel, haha.

 

[whitelop]

I'm glad you like hearing about the chickens Lisa. You'll probably be hearing a lot more about them in the next 21 or so days, until the chicks hatch out. Then more when i have chicks! I can't wait. The chicks didn't make it last year, so hopefully they male it this year, and maybe I'll have another hatch this summer too! It looks like i need a bigger chicken coop! And if my genetic calculations are correct, about 99% of the chicks should be the light blue variation of the blue giant color. My hen is black and the roo is white, so that makes light blue or light blue splash. Technically, the roo is a splash.

Enough chicken talk for now! I think Ellie spent the night in the cabinet. We're going to get the supplies tonight and possibly the computer!

Would regular screen, like for a door, be okay to use? Instead of hardware cloth? I only ask because the screen does have sharp edges to worry about. I'm going to cover the edges anyway, but if they don't start out sharp, that's even better. Would she get enough ventilation with the screen? I keep my windows open until about mid June and there is a window right above her.
I just wonder if she would scratch or tear the screen? Hmmm...decisions, decisions.

 

[JBun]

Regular screen might work if she never decides to chew on it, but if she does chew, then she could easily chew her way out. With hard ware cloth, you can put a wood furring strip to cover the sharp edges if they are going to be on the inside of the cage. Or folding the last 1/2 inch of the edge to the outside of the hardware cloth so that there will be the harware cloth, then the folded edge sandwiched between it and the cupboard, if that makes sense at all. I could post a picture of what I'm thinking of if you want me to. Let me know.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

With the hardware cloth, you could cut strips of fleece like Imbrium showed when she used it for windows in her hamster bin cages. I have one edge of Monty's cage doorway wrapped with fleece so I quit ripping open my head when I bonk it on that edge, and she stood up to investigate it once, but didn't chew. It remains unscathed. Even if she does chew it, fleece is less harmful for them than woven fabrics.

I'd figure most buns would eventually scratch or chew a regular screen since it's softer. I've also seen Monty karate-kick her cage when she bounces around, and she also kicks the front of the stove. A smaller bun doing that motion could definitely shred some screen without even trying.

 

[whitelop]

I was going to put pieces of wood around all the edges of the screen or hardware cloth. That is a good idea about the fleece though, i forgot that Jennifer did that.

New computer tonight! My husband called on his way home from work and said we could go get it! Yay!

 

[whitelop]

I AM ON MY NEW COMPUTER AS I TYPE THIS OUT! I'm so excited! :dancingorig:
It is a GoogleChrome Book. So its just google powered things. Which is great, because google is my love child. I love google! It doesn't have windows or all that other crap on it. It doesn't do fancy things, it just does what I need it to do and I love that. The mouse pad thing is a little odd, but I'll get used to it. It has like a 10 inch screen and its like 1/2 inch thick. The keys feel nice, even though they have an odd amount of space between each key. hahaha. I like it.

After we left best buy, we stopped at this store called Freds. Its like a smaller and much cheaper walmart. They have everything! EXCEPT screen stuff and hardware cloth. Thats what I went in for. I came out with a lilac bush. hahah. I paid like $4.50 for it and thats a pretty good price. I can't wait to plant it. "My husband was like "ummm, thats a completely different item than you went in for. Not even close!" LOL. My husband hates this time of year, because I start buying flowers and going nuts. We've lived in this house for 2 years and last year I made and filled up the flower beds in a summer. My house in the winter, looks like an avocado colored poop; but in the summer it looks like a little green oasis. Its so great in the summer, with all the trees that hang over the pond, the water grass and all my flowers in the beds around my house. You won't even be able to see my house this year because the butterfly bushes and the rose bushes are going to take over! That was the plan.
Sorry, I just went way into left field whilst dreaming of summer. It can not get here quick enough.

Anyway, since I didn't find any hardware cloth at freds, I went to lowes. I got a roll of 10 feet x 24 inches tall at 1/4 inch squares. I paid like $14 for that roll! It was much more expensive than I thought. I should have probably gone to TSC and gotten a longer roll, so I could chick proof my chicken coop with it. I'll use the left overs on the coop and the left over chicken wire that I have. I have to keep those little buggers in once they hatch out! hahaha.

So Ellie spent most of the day in the cabinet. I hope she still likes it as much when it doesn't have the stuff in it and when it doesn't have a solid door. It will stay sort of dim, not dark but not super bright. I'll put a little house in there for her and she'll have like her own little cave.

I just hope that after I move her cage out, she doesn't decide that she wants to potty where the cage used to be. She's already losing blanket privileges, because she keeps peeing on the blankets in her cage. Its making me nuts.

So I haven't figured out what I'll use to make the shelves in her cabinet. I think I have something in the shed. Even if I just get the one side closed off and the door opened and covered with hardware cloth, then I'll feel like I accomplished something this weekend. Thats if I can't make the shelves. It sucks that my husband won't help me! hahaha.

The good thing about this computer is, I can easily upload pictures! I haven't tried yet, but I hope that it will work! I'm going to try now!

 

[agnesthelion]

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[JBun]

Yay, a new computer!!! Can't wait for pics

Wow, the 1/4 inch is pretty small mesh. I've used some of the half inch. The only thing I don't like about it is the buns can't stick their cute little noses through the wire to look at me. I like my cages with one inch spacing the best, as long as the buns don't try and chew on the wire.

 

[whitelop]

There always seem to be roosters up for adoption. People get the 'easter' chicks or chicks from auctions and don't know they're getting roosters and they don't want them. There have been times that I've looked at my big boy and wanted to take him to the chopping block. But those times are when he's cut me open with his spurs or chased me. haha. Well, they're loud and mostly mean, so I don't blame them for not wanting them, but it does suck. Also, you can't have more than one because they fight. My roo is only nice when the hen is in the house and he doesn't feel the need to protect her. Like yesterday and today. haha. He's a big sweetie when she's not around, he follows me and coo's at me. Ughh, chickens.

YES! It does mean more pictures! As soon as I'm able to get them off my SD card and onto my googledrive. Its being a pain in the ass, but I think I've mostly figured it out. Since its not windows powered, I'm having to take extra steps, but hopefully it works out. It doesn't help that I have like 500 pictures on my SD card. I had such computer issues for so long that I didn't want to put them on the computer then delete them from the card and have the computer crash. So I kept them on the card and now, since I'm putting them on my googledrive, I'll be able to access that from my phone too. It is also google powered. haha. I am not a tech savvy person. I got this basic little netbook because I don't know much about computers. I chose to live in the dark ages, hell we just got the internet like a year ago. The most tech savvy thing I have is my phone and its still not great. Its smart but not SUPER smart. LOL. We don't even have cable. We JUST got a PS3 for Christmas and we didn't even buy it! hahaha. We're sad. But we don't want to spend like hundreds of dollars every month for our own entertainment purposes.
The pictures are loading into my googledrive right now. I hope it doesn't take forever!

And yes, I'll take some pictures of my house this summer. When everything is in full bloom. We have neighbors across the street, four houses. They're all family and ancient. There is a neighborhood that is on the other side of our woods, its about 300 yards from our back fence. The pond is directly in our back yard, like 15 feet from the back door. So yes, its our private pond. haha. It only has 2 snapping turtles and some minnows in it though, other things don't survive in there because of the snappers. But it does attract a lot of other wildlife. We have a blue heron that frequents and the hawk pair and owl pair. And my favorite one footed vulture. He's pretty cool, he has two legs but only one foot. He hobbles along and he'll almost let me touch him. They're pretty tame birds for wild birds. Then there is a flock of crows that come and go, they like this one tree in my yard and they congregate in it. They're loud. The rooster does not like other birds in the yard and will attack. haha.

Is it wrong to put a cat in a kennel?

 

[Katielovesleo3]

arGH!!! I just wrote a book and it deleted it! POOOOOOO!!!!!!

Ok so here it goes again, in happy you are getting anew computer we are excited for more pictures, we need them to stay aliiiive! :] hahaha attack rooster it made me smile.

Elvira! Can't believe you peed on your blankets! Shame shame!

We got a ps3 also and Leo loves it...he is on it right now playing call of duty black ops. I bought Star Wars games and mortal kombat for myself and beat the star wars ones but have no more time so can't play mortal kombat.

Easter used to be very exciting for me, I love candy! I'm worse than Fez from that 70s show lol. I never wanted a rabbit or chick I just want my candy lol. My parents got me stuffed rabbits and chicks to put in my basket and I still have them all. Now parents go out and buy their irresponsible children colored rabbits and dyed chicks! Ahhhhh!!!

I remembered something from a while back when we were talking about the hair dryer. I was scared of something crazy when I was little too. I forgot what age but quite young. All they'd have to say is "want me to get the toothbrush?!" ...yep, a toothbrush. On the opposite end there was a rabbit head with a smile and big teeth, if you press the teeth button is plays three little tunes! And I was terrified of it. I tried googling it but to no avail. My mom still has it lol. Can't believe I was scared of it. If they pulled it out I would cry and run away and hide hahaha!