Billy is a lazy bunny.
He still binkies and does bunny 500s, but he also seems more content to loaf in his cage. His binky sessions are shorter now, and consist of about five binkies followed by a flop. After a minute or two of being flopped on the bed, he will get up and do five more binkies, then flop. I've used this flop time as an opportunity to harass Billy by petting him
Over the past month or so, I've been petting Billy daily to get him to be less skittish. His starting point can be seen in the "Cute, Not Cuddly" video I made a while back. At that time, I thought that if a bunny didn't want to be touched, I should leave them alone...which is what I did with Billy. He seemed to be more annoyed than scared when I reached out to pet him, but now I see that maybe I was reading him wrong. In actuality, I think he was scared that I was going to try to pick him up or hurt him so he'd shy away whenever I reached out my hand.
So after many days of reinforcing petting, Billy is finally at the point where he tolerates it. I took some video, mostly while he was flopped because it's easier for me to hold the camera still in one hand and pet him with the other that way. One funny thing that he does towards the end of the video is shove my hand out of the way when I put it in front of his face. As many of you know, if you put your hand in front of a rabbit's face it's like saying "groom me now," and the rabbit will often comply. But Billy either doesn't understand this concept or just plain doesn't like me, so he shoves me out of the way when I do this! He's a bossy bunny though, and has been known to shove people and objects when they are in his way
Anyhoo, here's the video...and although I talk to the bunnies in the weirdest of voices while the camera is off, I wouldn't be able to handle listening to that on playback so I always make a conscious effort to be ever so quiet while filming :lipsrsealed:
