The Fabulous Life of Dotty!

[JadeIcing]

Hehe I miss Elvis being free range.

 

[mouse_chalk]

HAHA!!

Lol you guys.... No, sadly she can't jump on the bed yet. it's a bit high for her, bless. But she does wake us up frequently by putting her paws on the side of the bed, and pulling at the duvet! She woke me up at 5am this morning for noserubs! And she woke Steve up a couple of times during the night the same way lol. It's kinda scary, really. You wake up, open your eyes, and all you can see is this huge pair of ears and a big nose right in your face!

I think she must have really missed the company at night because she woke us up so much.... and I'm sure she didn't sleep, just hopped round the room all night!

Crazy bunny!

 

[BethM]

I have two 5 lb bunnies who like to be in the litter box together, so I use a rubber maid container for their litter. It's the one that is called a "sweater box" and is supposed to be stored under the bed. So it's pretty large, but not very tall. Might be just what Dotty needs!

 

[kherrmann3]

Is Dotty always going to be a lone bunny, or were you thinking of trying and getting her a friend? Or maybe introducing her to one of your other pairs? Just curious!

 

[mouse_chalk]

kherrmann3 wrote:

Is Dotty always going to be a lone bunny, or were you thinking of trying and getting her a friend? Or maybe introducing her to one of your other pairs? Just curious!

It's a very good question! We don't exactly know yet. I don't want her to always be alone, that would be selfish of me. She's very bonded to us already, but I don't want to deprive her of other rabbit company. However, she can't really be caged, I don't think it would be fair given her size and that she's free-range and used to it already. But, saying that, none of the others are free range! We could think about a friend for her, but that would have to be in the future when we clear out the spare room for the friend to live until they bond, and in case they don't ever bond. Or when we move later in the year. Or, we could try and bond her to Barney and Snowy and they can all be free-range, but I don't know if that would work space-wise or not... At the very least, our plan is to get her to be able to socialise with the other buns, so that she could maybe play downstairs at the same time as Barney and Snowy, or Mouse and Chalk, so she can have bunny interaction. And then still live upstairs maybe. I don't know exactly how it will work out!!

For now though, she's completely seperate, just to make sure she doesn't have fur mites, and probably will be until she's spayed, which we hope will be in January sometime....

 

[kherrmann3]

Until then, you'll just have to "deal with" her spooky nose/ear wake-ups! lol

 

[Bo B Bunny]

hehehe I can just picture the ears peeking over the side of the bed..... little nose and eyeballs ..... "mama, need some lovin'!!!"

 

[kherrmann3]

There is no snooze button on a rabbit that wants nose rubs!

 

[mouse_chalk]

Heehee.... YAY! I don't mind if she wakes me up.... It's much MUCH cuter than any alarm clock! :biggrin2:

 

[Bo B Bunny]

I'd wake up in a better mood if a bunny woke me up! LOL!

 

[mouse_chalk]

Bo B Bunny wrote:

I'd wake up in a better mood if a bunny woke me up! LOL!

This morning she decided to wake us up by flipping her food bowl up, tipping the left over pellets out all over the floor and eating them, and then dragging her bowl all round the bedroom floor until Steve sat up and said 'Dotty, are you trying to tell me something?' And got her breakfast lol!

We're going to get her a bigger heavier food bowl tomorrow when she shops re-open....

 

[mr_mouse_chalk]

The wake up calls are cute, but the worst bit is when she wants attention as I go to sleep. I fall asleep with my arm hanging out the side of the bed giving her nose rubs. Wake up the next morning, or when Dotty feels I've had enough sleep and can't move it...

She is amazing though. Soo crazy and affectionate. She just plays, plays, plays.

 

[mouse_chalk]

Just testing something....

The Fabulous Life of Dotty!


Edit:


Ok, so that worked. But for the life of me I can't work out why it wont link in my blog properly. I've done it like a million times now! :X

 

[mouse_chalk]

I have new Dotty pictures uploading!!! :biggrin2:

She loved treat time last night. I went up with a dried pineapple ring and she went crazy!! I got pictures of her eating the pineapple...

I woke up at 5am and couldn't get back to sleep. I have been awake ever since. At about 6.30am, Steve woke up and blew his nose. It's pretty loud at the best of times lol, but this was particularly loud. Dotty thumped SO hard, I thought the ceiling would collapse!! Steve was half asleep and just laid back down again. I asked if he heard the thump, and he just muttered 'was probably Dotty' and started snoring again lol... She tried to wake him up for noserubs, including trying to pull the duvet cover off of the bed, but he wasn't budging! Poor Dotty had to come round to me for her morning noserubs!

We went out yesterday and got her a new litter tray. It's HUGE! In the end we just got a plain square one because we kind of had to do something in a hurry to stop our floor being soaked LOL. She was just missing the tray and letting her bum hang over the edge, and the floor underneath was getting soaked :? This one is so big you could fit 2 Dotty's in! We got her a new heavier food bowl as well to stop her from tipping her pellets out all over the bedroom floor and then eating them LOL :?


Pictures are actually uploaded already but I have Barney and Snowy ones uploading now, so I can't get to the album I want. They wont be long!

 

[Elf Mommy]

So, is the new litter box working out? Did she take to it?

Oh, and you mentioned in my blog that you have the foam flooring as well...how do you clean it? water? soap and water? I was going to take it up between her run times, but my boxer is loving it so much that I've left it down a few days. Now it's a bit dirty.

I'd love to see your buns running on theirs!

Minda

 

[mouse_chalk]

Elf Mommy wrote:

So, is the new litter box working out? Did she take to it?

Oh, and you mentioned in my blog that you have the foam flooring as well...how do you clean it? water? soap and water? I was going to take it up between her run times, but my boxer is loving it so much that I've left it down a few days. Now it's a bit dirty.

I'd love to see your buns running on theirs!

Minda

The new litterbox is working great! She's using it, and sitting right in the middle! :biggrin2: No pee on the floor at all! Touch wood lol.... :bunnydance:


We just clean our mats by wiping with the good old vinegar and water solution! I find it comes clean really easily, and any dust comes off if you give it a good brushing with a dustpan brush. I did notice in your pics that you have yours up the other way to us- I don't know which is the right way though lol- and I think the smoother surface is easier to wipe, but I think either way they come clean quite nicely!

I have some videos that I've uploaded! I'll try and post them later

 

[mouse_chalk]

Ok, I've been battling with Photobucket on and off all day. It just refuses to upload my videos :X I am getting quite annoyed with it now!

So because I've been doing that, I've not been able to post the pictures, because my account has been busy! :X

Sooooo.... here they are! Finally!

Firstly, here is her new litter pan, and bigger food bowl:

Getting treats!


Hey!

Have you got something for me?

HAVE YOU?!

Give it!!

I need more!

And after she had a hop around on me:

'Hmmm, nommmm!'

Hi mummy!

Licking my hand to get the smell of the dried pineapple off!

Then a flop to guard the 'door'

More to come, but I don't want to make this post too long!

 

[mouse_chalk]

More pictures!!

inkelepht:


So, after she flopped down by the gate, it was of course time for noserubs


'Well? Where are they?'

'That's more like it!'

Look how big her head is compared to my hand!!

Why did you stop? Meanie!

I'm not talking to you now....

Hmm, ok, maybe...

Nosey closeup!

Shoving her head under my hand for noserubs!

Having a run down Steve's side of the bed. The blue mat is where she sits and demands her nightly noserubs!

Oh, yes, that's right... It's noserub time! AGAIN!

Look at her happy little face here:

BYE!!!

That's it for now! I really hope I can workout the Photobucket videos.... I think iMovie is putting them in a weird format, but I don't know how to change it or figure it out....

 

[SOOOSKA]

Jen she's BEAUTIFUL. I can see why you and Steve love her so much.

What kind of dried pineapple do you give her? I've only seen driedpineapple that has extra sugar added to it.

Also what kind of camera do you have. You take such great pictures.

Susan

 

[mouse_chalk]

Thank you Susan!

We buy dried pineapple either in rings, or in pieces in our local supermarket over here.... it has nothing else added in- just pure dried pineapple. It's fairly hard to find, and not always available, so we snap up a few bags whenever we can lol!

As for my camera, I have a Canon EOS 400D. I believe it's called a Canon Rebel XTi in the US, not sure about Canada. It was a birthday present from my parents! Some of those pictures are a little out of focus but it's fairly dark in our bedroom and we all know how fast bunnies move and at the most inoppurtune moments lol!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed the pics!