The Bunhalla Bunnies 2010

[Dragonrain]

There are so many breeds of rabbits I want - but I think I'll try to space them out. Wait until my current rabbits get older than I'll maybe think of getting another. Then I'll hopefully never be rabbitless. But that's kind of depressing to think about, because I wish my current bunnies could just live forever!

Ugh no the laundromat didn't have AC. It was so gross. They had fans going but all the fans did was blow stinky dirty laundry air around. But I had to do the laundry because Chris ran out of clothes to wear to work. Then I went shopping which was good because the bunnies needed new litter again and greens.

Strangely I'm not really feeling tired. I don't know what's up with that. I'm just hoping I can fall asleep at a semi-normal time tonight.

 

[kirbyultra]

I made it past midnight. I'm beat, but my 2 Eye-Fi picture cards finally shipped today and I'm excited to set up my cameras with them to auto-download onto my laptop Toys to play, Helen will stay... Hope you're getting some sleep though.

 

[Dragonrain]

Haha yeah I didn't stay up ALL night last night. :biggrin2:

I didn't feel tired at all which was strange, but I finally went to bed around 1 and fell asleep pretty quickly.

I have to clean the bunny room today, not that I bought them fresh litter last night. I'll probably just clean the whole house so I don't have to do it over the weekend.

This is my last weekend home before my trip! A week from today, I'll be headed to MA, and then from MA to Maine to climb Mt. Katahdin - the highest mountain in Maine! It should be fun, but I'm very very worried about leaving Chris and my pets. Hopefully everything goes smoothly and is uneventful while Chris is watching the animals.

 

[Dragonrain]

I have come to the conclusion that you really have to have a good sense of humor to have pets.

Sometimes my pets do things...and I just have to laugh at the humor of the situation, sometimes just to keep myself from crying!

So you know how I posted this morning about how I was going to clean the house right? I clean the whole house - vacuuming, mopping, dusting...the whole nine yards! When I was finally finished, I decided to take a nice cool shower and spend the afternoon reading or otherwise relaxing until Chris gets home.

But my pets will grant me no such luxury. I get out of the shower and the first thing I see when I walk out of the bathroom, is a line of dirt going from my plant stands into the bedroom.

:shock:

The line starts at my plant stand in the kitchen, goes all the way across the kitchen floor, through the whole living room, and into the bedroom. I follow the trail to find the perpetrator, Kitsune, laying on our bed, which is completely covered in dirt, with a now empty flower pot in his mouth.

:laugh:

He carried a flower pot full of dirt almost as big as he is all the way from the kitchen into our bedroom, and apparently proceeded to dump the contents, or at least what was left of the contents minus what he had already trialled all over the floor, all over our blankets. Our blankets that I just spent like 2 hours at the laundromat cleaning yesterday! The gross smelly laundromat that had no AC in the almost 100* weather.

All I could do was laugh...hysterically, until I could barely breath anymore. And Kit was just looking up at me, from the middle of the sea of dirt that used to be our nice clean bed, with dirt stuck all over his cute little nose and a huge smile on his face. He looked so happy, like he was laughing too, like he just pulled off the worlds greatest praticle joke or something.

I couldn't bring myself to yell at him. I know I probably should have, because all I need is for him to think it was such great fun that he wants to do it again, but I just couldn't do it.

The whole thing was just really funny, but also frustrating! Now I need to completely reclean everything, including my little dirt stained trouble maker.

 

[kirbyultra]

Oh... My... God. Kit makes Penny seem like the clean princess. I can't believe you went through that!! And the laundromat, the blanket! Poor you!!!

 

[Dragonrain]

Yeah...if you think Penny is bad, don't get a dog! Seriously I love Kit insanly much, but he's way more work, and way messier, than any bunny I've ever met. It took me over 6 months just to get him potty trained 100% - and I'd much rather clean up rabbit waste than dog!

I had to re-mop the bedroom floor twice last night, and in the middle of doing it the first time my mop broke in half! I had to go out and buy a new one just before the hardware store closed. I still haven't really finished cleaning up the other rooms, although I did get most of the dirt off the floors. Chris was nice and bought me dinner since I had such a long day. I was cleaning up dirt until around 1am.

Barnaby was doing binkies at like 6am this morning. He woke Kit up and then Kit woke me up, so we went in the room to watch him run around. He's so cute. I wish I took a video, but I was too tired to go find the camra. We left him alone after 20 minutes or so and I could still hear him running around like an hour later. When I got up this morning, he was laying on the floor with his feet kicked back sound asleep. All that running around must have tired him out.

I cut all the bunnies nails last night after I cleaned their room. Berry and Ziggy weren't too happy about that, but Barnaby was a good sport. I really hate cutting their nails. I'm always afraid if I don't cut them short enough that they'll get sore hocks or something, but I'm afraid to cut them too short and make them bleed. Especially with Barnaby, because he has black nails so I can't see the quick at all.

 

[kirbyultra]

Chris is so great to you! You're a lucky woman

I feel like when your pet is your most loved, they could ruin everything in the home and you would forgive them, every single day. But if you are missing that special link, it's easy to be set off by a pet, dog, cat or bunny... Kit's lucky you love him so much :biggrin2: Agreed though, bunny poops are definitely child's play compared to doggie doo

 

[Dragonrain]

Yeah I know what you mean. Chris and I absolutely adore Kit. I think no matter what, I'd always be able to forgive him.

Don't get me wrong though, there are times he's really gotten to me and I have yelled at him pretty bad in the past. I always feel so horrible about it afterwards though. He gets so sad when he knows I'm upset with him and it kills me to see him sad. Luckily dogs are pretty forgiving and he gets over it pretty quickly. A "I'm sorry" treat or belly rub never hurts either!

But in general I do try not to get too upset with any of my pets, regardless to whether or not I feel like I have a close bond with them. I'm a pretty quiet laid back person, and I very rarely get mad enough to yell. I'm usually good at keeping my cool no matter what amount of trouble my crew gets into. Which is a good thing for Ziggy, because he especially has been driving me crazy lately with his lack of litter box skills and his attitude towards Barnaby. But with all my pets, I try to use more of a positive reinforcement approach rather than getting too upset with them when they're bad.

 

[Dragonrain]

Barnaby ran his bunny 500's again eaaarly this morning. He really seems to be enjoying his new out of cage schedule, which gives him 12 hours to run around the bunny room. I let Barnaby out at night and the other two out during the day. But it's not like any of them are ever really all that confined, since whoever isn't getting out of cage time has access to run around in a 12 panel Xpen.

The 3 bunnies snuggle a lot through the xpen bars. Even Barnaby and Ziggy. But still sometimes when I actually put them together, Ziggy will chase Barnaby and try to pull his hair. Ziggy is also marking the area around the edge of the xpen and around Barnaby's section of the cage with both pee and poo. The poo I don't mind so much - but he has been peeing all over one of the rugs in the room and it's really getting on my nerves.

I'm getting more and more nervous about my trip next week. It's going to be a lot of traveling and I'm going to miss my pets and Chris so much. Honestly I kind of wish I could just cancel, but I'm going with my family, and they have been looking forward to this for months now. I know I'll have fun once I get there, but I don't want to leave my pets!

 

[Myia09]

A week without my bunnies was brutal! But liveable! It is always nice to come home to them!

 

[Dragonrain]

Ugh yeah I'm going to be so worried! I'm actually more worried about Kit than the bunnies. Chris has watched the bunnies before and knows how to take care of them well, but this will be the first time he'll be taking care of the dog on his own. I usually take care of Kit by myself - Chris didn't even feel comfortable taking him outside for bathroom breaks until about a week ago when I made him start practicing for when I leave.

The bunnies will have plenty of time out of cage and stuff with Chris, but poor Kit will have to stay in his crate while Chris is at work, because we can't trust him yet home alone.

I should be gone less than a week. I'm thinking probably around 5 or 6 days, but things are kind of still up in the air right now. On Friday I'm taking a bus to MA where my family lives - about 6 hours of traveling. Then on Saturday nice and early we're driving up to Maine, first it will take 4 hours to get to my grandmas house there. We'll probably visit with her for a few hours for lunch and then it's another 4 hours or so drive from her house to the camp site where we'll be staying. It's going to be a ton of traveling. On the way home, supposedly my dad is going to give me a ride back home so I don't have to take the bus, but it all depends.

The thing that makes it even more hectic is that my sister's baby is due any day now. She'll be going to MA to stay with my parents for a few weeks after the baby is born. If she happens to have the baby and gets to my parents house around the same time I'm there, I'll probably end up staying a bit longer in MA.

Look at how spoiled this guy is. He has to sleep like a human, with a pillow and he always HAS to be covered with a blanket. That's his blanket, he drags it around in his mouth a lot until he finds a comphy spot to lay and then he covers himself with it. I got that pillow for myself, then went in the other room to get a drink, and by the time I got back this is what I found...

I don't have any new pictures of the bunnies, but I'll try to take some soon

 

[kirbyultra]

Oh my goodness, he sleeps like a person!! :hearts

 

[Dragonrain]

I'm almost certain he has no idea that he's a dog! I think he thinks he's some kind of weird half human half rabbit

One of my friends cat died this morning. The cat was really old and stuff, but I feel really bad. The kitties owner is like me - really really loves her furbabies and they are like children to her.

So I have been looking online for some kind of memorial gift to send her. I want something that I can have a picture of the cat printed on. I am thinking of maybe a candle holder or something like that. I have been wanting for a long time to get one with Zeus' picture, so I figured I can just get two at once to save on shipping. I started looking at some online, but it was so depressing. I probably won't get the gift out to her for a few weeks.

If anyone knows of any websites where I can get memorial gifts, let me know.

 

[kirbyultra]

Dragonrain wrote:

I started looking at some online, but it was so depressing. I probably won't get the gift out to her for a few weeks.

Sorry I can't help you on that as I don't have experience, but I remember looking at that stuff for no reason in particular one day and it scared me half to death. My heart quivered for days after looking at pet memorial type things... I'm so sorry about your friend's loss.

 

[Dragonrain]

Yeah I have a really hard time looking at that type of stuff too. Yesterday my friend sent me this big long email explaining what had happened to her cat. So I was on the verge of tears already, but trying to hold it together. Then I started looking at stuff to send her, and it just made me so sad. Sad for her because I know what she is going through, and at the same time sad because things like this make me think about my own pets, and the fact that someday I'm going to loose them too. I wish animals like dogs and rabbits could live longer. It seems like no matter how long we have to spend with them, it never feels like long enough.

 

[Dragonrain]

I just found my dream job! I have been working on my cover letter and am going to try to apply before I leave for vacation. I'm not sure if I'll get it though. They want someone with a year of experience and I don't have that really. But I figured it can't hurt to apply at least. Maybe my schooling will make up for my lack of experience.

If I don't get it, I'm still hoping that the dog boarding place will call me back once they start doing their 2nd round of interviews. Since the building won't be open until the end of this summer, that will kind of be my backup if I don't get this other job. Watch me not get either of them now ha. It's not a huge deal if I don't at least.

It's pouring out! It's so nice to get some rain after the crazy humid weather we've been having. Hopefully it helps to bring the temperatures down a bit. The thunder we where getting earlier this morning was crazy. It was funny because I could hear like 5 different dogs all start barking at the thunder at the same time, my dog included. I'm finally able to keep the windows open, which is so nice. I hope it doesn't just heat up again once the rain stops.

I started writing out some care sheets for my pets for when Chris is taking care of them. I know he knows already, but I figured it might be nice for him to have it written down somewhere he can look at if he has any questions. Normally he'd just call me to ask questions, but I'm worried about my cell phone service not working, since I'll be at a campsite on the base of a mountain out in the middle of nowhere for a few days.

I tried taking pictures to add to this post...but they are boring. Whenever I get the camera out, my bunnies always do the same things. Barnaby either just sits still in this one position or runs to his litter box, and Berry and Ziggy run up to me and stick their noises in my face begging for treats. I feel like all my pictures of them look the same. I try to catch them in candid cute moments, like when they are doing binkies or laying down cute or whatever, but as soon as they see me they always seem to stop what they where doing.

 

[Dragonrain]

I miss my Zeus, soo much. I want him back It's not fair he passed so young, he was my heart.

He passed away on Aug. 8th, 2008. So this August will be the 3rd anniversary of his death. He has been gone now for longer than he was alive.

You would think that after almost 3 years I would be more accepting about what happened, but I'm not really. I still cry when I think about him, sometimes. He was suppose to be with me for years and years to come, I wasn't suppose to have to live without him yet. My little blue bunny, I hope that wherever you are now, that you are happy. You will always be in my heart.

 

[kirbyultra]

Aw. :hug: I'm so sorry Toby's buntocks dug up these pictures memories of Zeus. He was such a handsome little guy. He's too cute with Barnaby in that basket. Little babies! I'm sure he is binkying because he was, is, so loved by his human.

 

[Myia09]

Aw I am so sorry
Zues looks like my pinball so everytime I read about him, I think about my loss as well.



it is always so sad

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks ladies.

He was such an amazing little guy. I think about him a lot still. Especially around things like his gotcha day, or the anniversary of the day he left. Those days are still hard for me, but I get by.

I feel like I have so much to do before I leave for my trip on friday! I have to apply to that job before I leave, do the laundry, clean the house, finish writing out the pet care sheets for Chris, not to mention that I haven't even thought about packing yet. I'll probably do that last minute.

I'm taking a bus from NYC to MA to get to my parents house for the first leg of my trip. I'm really REALLY not looking forward to it. It's a 4 hour bus ride, not including the time it will take me to get to the bus station in NYC, and then the time it will take me to get to my parents house once I get into MA.

I really hate taking this bus. The last time I took it, I got stuck sitting next to the creepiest guy ever! He didn't speak english very well but apparently he was a mechanic from somewhere in the city. He started showing me pictures of his family which wasn't too bad, but then he wouldn't stop asking me to marry him! Dead serious, he told me that I was perfect for him and he wanted me to marry him and have a lot of babies. Creepy!! Yeah he told me other things too that I did not want to hear, and tried to hold my hand. Needless to say that was a very uncomfortable 4 hours! Luckily I was able to switch seats with someone half way through the ride, but still a very awkward experience!