The Bunhalla Bunnies 2011

[Dragonrain]

Thanks!!

No one can steal my Kitsune! He's my little shadow so they would be no sneaky way to get to him!

I groomed Kit last night - dremeled his nails, trimmed his hair, and gave him a bath. I ended up in the tub with him lol ah the joys of bathing dogs.

He had the funniest little mohawk looking thing going on with his hair after he dried...so I took pictures.

These are slightly older pictures but I thought they where funny. He stole a leaf of collard greens from bunnies and was happily munching away on it. He's so weird - he loves stealing greens from the bunnies and yes he always actually eats his plunder. I never knew another dog who would eat greens like this. Kit was a bunny in his past life

This morning when I went to check on the bunnies I couldn't find Barnaby :shock:

I was looking all over the room trying to figure out if he had escaped where he could have escaped from, because the baby gate was securely on their door. I was wondering why if he had escaped Kit wasn't following him around because Kit loves the bunnies and normally when one of them is out, Kit is mesmerized and doesn't leave them alone. So then of course I started to worry, that he was hurt and hiding or something.

Sooo then I'm thinking I have to start searching for him but luckily I was at least smart enough to search the bunny room before going through the rest of the apartment...because I found him sleeping inside the hay rack, covered in hay! Haha and he wasn't stuck or anything because when I finally found him he happily jumped out of the rack himself, he was looking at me like "Hey why'd you wake me up?"

 

[Myia09]

LOL you should have taken a picture! Lol!

 

[MiniLopHop]

Barnaby is a silly bun

I love the Kit mohawk. It make him look bad to the bone. LOL

 

[Dragonrain]

Lol doesn't it though? Kit is so hardcore.

I tried to take a picture of Barnaby hiding in the hay but of course he jumped out before I could get my camera. This is why I never have any good pictures of the bunnies. They do something adorable, but as soon as I get my camera they stop what they are doing and just sit there starring at me lol. So all the pictures come out looking the same and boring.

Berry is just about done molting now...and of course now Ziggy has started up. At least I'm glad they didn't both go through a big shed at exactly the same time, although a little break between sheds would have been nice. Barnaby never molts anywhere near as bad as the other two do - which is weird because his hair is way longer. Do lionheads normally shed way less than other breeds? I dunno! But Barnaby has never been a big shedder.

 

[kirbyultra]

Well at least you got a leg up on one bun! Mine have synched up their winter-to-spring molt this year and while it was a big flurry of fur for a while, I am glad it is all over. Last year it was a big 6 month drawn out thing because one would molt, then the next, then the next. It was awful.

 

[Dragonrain]

Ha yeah I know the feeling.

Barnaby may not shed much, giving me a leg up, but I also have a 15lb long haired dog who sheds. If I don't clean often enough we get all these fur tumbleweeds in our apartment, it's kind of funny.

 

[kirbyultra]

Dragonrain wrote:

...we get all these fur tumbleweeds in our apartment, it's kind of funny.

Uh huh, I know all about the tumblefur. It's quite a site! I've even considered buying a handvac to put in every room of the apartment just to catch them rolling by. But I know it's just a phase... just gotta keep it clean when it's happening. Sigh.

 

[Dragonrain]

Tumblefur lol.

Unfortunately with Kit around it's not a phase in our house. Kit doesn't have a big shed all at once like the bunnies do, but he sheds a little at a time year round. He has the longest softest snow white fur :hearts I love his fur, he's literally the softest dog I've ever met, by far. Everyone who meets him always comments on how soft he is and asks how I keep his fur so white. His silky soft fur is worth dealing with the fur tumbleweeds.

Today is my birthday!!
arty:

 

[MiniLopHop]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!!!!!!!!

:bouquet:

 

[myheart]

arty:Happy Birthday to You!!! :balloons::balloons:

I would sing 'Happy Birthday' but I know your computer has volume control.... lol

Hope you're able to relax a bit and enjoy the day.

 

[MILU]

I'll join everybody and say Happy Birthday too!! arty0002::boohoo::trioarty:arty:arty::bestwishes::balloons::birthday:jumpforjoy:

Your pets are really awesome, they're adorable!
But one thing caught my attention... that can of beer in the hay.. (!!!) and then you said you found a METEOR in the hay??? How come? That must be the craziest story I've ever heard about hay in my whole life! (even if it only had found the beer can that would have been crazy enough - but a meteor? LOL)
Tell me more about it, that sounds so .. from out of this world... LOL

Poor bunnies..

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks for all the birthday wishes!! :biggrin2:

Haha I do have a few crazy hay stories huh? The beer can was recently, it was all crushed up and looks like it must have gotten baled in with the hay somehow - it was probably out in the hay field when they harvested the hay for whatever reason.

The meteorite was from a bag of hay I bought at a pet store a couple of years ago, when we still had Zeus. We ran out of our regular hay so I bought a bag at a local pet store and when I got home to give it to the bunnies I took the hay out of the bag and it smelled horrible, very metallic. I dumped all the hay from the bag into a Tupperware container to see if I could figure out what was wrong with it and near the bottom I found a weird metal looking rock surrounded by hay...and the rock smelled really bad. Soooo I threw the hay out but I kept the stinky rock and showed it to one of my old college astronomy professors kind of as a joke, but he told me what it was. It smelled bad like melted metal I guess because of it falling from space haha, it must have landed in the hay field and also gotten baled up with the hay. After that I had to keep it...luckily after being out in the open air for a few days it didn't smell bad anymore. I still have it.

Don't worry about the bunnies though, I would never feed them hay or anything else if I so much as thought it was contaminated with something that could hurt them at all.

 

[JadeIcing]

Hay can be intresting.

 

[Dragonrain]

That it can!

Berry got me thinking last night...is digging a behavior that the females are more prone too? I mean...I've had in total 4 male rabbits, but only 1 female. It seems like a strange coincidence that out of the 5 rabbits I've owned the only one that digs like crazy is my 1 female.

I know males will dig as well, even my boys are not above digging in the dig box now and again. But they are nothing like Berry - she gets obsessive with digging sometimes...almost like she goes into a trance where all she wants to do is dig!

Now that all my litter boxes have grates on them again, Berry can't dig out the litter (thankfully!). At night I'll usually take the dig box out because she was keeping me up all night digging in it. But now with no dig box at night, she is trying to dig still...but digging against the floor or the litter box grate or whatever else she can.

Just a random thought I had last night while laying in bed listening to Berry dig like crazy against the bare plastic bottom of the cage. :rollseyes

 

[JadeIcing]

LOL Teresa digs like crazy.

 

[MiniLopHop]

Both of my girls love to dig. It would be logical that the dig urge would be stronger in females, even spayed, to dig a safe nest area. I would think it would be seperate from hormones because you would want a safe burrow before being pregnant.

 

[Dragonrain]

Yeah - it makes sense to me for sure! I don't know why I never thought of it before but Berry has been so fixated on digging lately. I wonder if it could have to do with the weather too - it's finally started to warm up and is starting to feel like spring here - and the nicer it gets it seems like the more she's intent on digging. Makes sense that maybe the females have a drive to dig around the time when they would probably naturally be getting ready to have a litter.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Haha I'm like 25% Irish...my dad is half Irish and his dad was completely Irish. So you can get an idea...our last name back in the day was originally O'Dea...then somewhere down the line the "O" was dropped and the Dea was changed to Day. Now you all know my last name. It's funny because whenever I go to the bank or something I say my last name and people ask me to spell it. It's not that difficult! I think people expect it to be spelled some crazy way or something?

Growing up with his Irish Dad, my Dad's family was always big on celebrating St.Patty's Day. Soooo of course my Dad carried on that tradition with my brother, sister, and I growing up. I always thought St. Patrick's Day was fun - my dad would blast his Irish records and make a traditional Irish dinner. But also I like it because it means Spring is on the way!

Since Chris thinks Irish food is gross lol, instead of making a big Irish dinner I'm going to make green cupcakes! And I'll make Chris suffer through a little bit of Irish music.

The bunnies will be celebrating the day with their new box of hay! Hey it's green right...sort of?

I was going to do a St.Patrick's Day photo shoot with each of the pets but I'm not sure if I'll have the time to get it done today.

 

[myheart]

My Siamese Satin, Callie, digs a little once in a while. I always think she is mad about something and it drives me nuts because I can't figure it out.Knowing how aggitated I get withthe little bit thatCallie digs, I can't even imagine howfrustrated you get with all of Berry's digging....

 

[Dragonrain]

Yeah ha Berry's so insane about it. I wish we had a yard I could take her out in, I'd love to see how much she could really dig out in the actual ground. I'm sure she'd make an impressive little den. However, living in an apartment with no yard access, she'll just have to be content to dig inside I guess, no matter how crazy it drives me.

 

[Dragonrain]

Happy spring!!

So yesterday was the official start of my favorite season, spring! Doesn't feel too much like spring today though, we are getting a hail storm this morning.

All the animals here are doing well. Kit's tummy was sick over the weekend but I think he must have just eaten something that didn't agree with him. The bunnies are doing well but their room is starting to stink a tiny bit so I'll have to spend a good chunk of time today cleaning their messy room.

I finally ordered a new cell phone! I've had the same cell phone for seriously like 4 years, which is crazy because normally I think they last about 1/4th that amount of time. Actually my phone still works just fine, but it's so old that it doesn't have any of the stuff new phones have now - no internet, apps, email, etc. I don't mind so much having just a basic cell phone but I'm interested in a lot of the apps and TMobile gave me a pretty good discount on a phone upgrade if I extended my contract with them. Sooo....hopefully in a few short days I'll finally have my new Android phone!! I hope I like it...I'm not a huge fan of the bigger bulky phones with the screens on the outside. I still like little tiny flip phones lol. But I think having all the awesome apps will make up for the phone not really being my style. Plus I'll keep the phone I'm using now for backup.