the Prairie Clan pets blog

[itsazoo]

my mom measured the bunnies to make sure they could stick their heads in easily and thats it, so no worries! Jenny did take to jumping on top of the box though to see if it could be used as an escape route lol

 

[itsazoo]

so..where are all these "lazy" rabbits I hear about? ya know "let them out 4 hours a day because they dont do anything for most of it" type I read about, because Jenny and Peepers are both loony toones, neither has a lazy bone in their body..quite the opposite, they never stop moving! its always go go go, running and leaping at top speed from morning till night, then when locked up in their large cages for the night, acting like its the end of the world and they MUST come out and run some more or surly they will die a slow and agonaizing death.

 

[Flash Gordon]

hehe thats how my buns were when they were younger...crazy unstoppable maniacs!!.especially when they were under a year and half.....Peepers i want that bunny!!

 

[tristaw.]

I LOVE your blog. love it! what awesome pics..Peepers straight on..sigh...kiss that sweet face for me..

 

[itsazoo]

lol Peepers is young at 7 months, but Jenny was already older when I adopted her 2 years ago! I go through veggies like you would not believe to make up all those calories lol I added up 42 cups of veggies a week I go through, for a total of 6lbs of rabbit(Jenny is 4lbs, Peepers is 2lbs)

lol Peepers is the bestest, she is so funny, she loves to play, she's totally fearless, loves to cuddle and hang with her peeps, ashe is sooo curious, anything I do she has to come check it out. I am very impressed with her breeder, I have never seen such amazing temperments! Peepers has been this way right from the start, nothing phases her, I mean she was hopped in a truck with a bunch of other rabbits and dogs, taken to a dog show, picked up from the dogshow and taken to a totally new home, filled with strange creatures everywhere, and she didnt even bat an eye, then when she went to the vet, kids with shoving their faces in her carrier, every random person was running in to touch her and hold her etc..(because she's so darn cute lol) and she didnt even blink..actually she walked right up to the little kids to say hi lol

 

[Flash Gordon]

good then Peepers wont mind the flight to my house in Arizona ...hehe..i have a bun that aint skeered of nothing too.. Hercules Hercules is the most laid back little guy ,..he even rode in my cuda in no carrier with loud exhaust when i rescued him and he was calm and koooool.
i think part of Peepers poker face has to do with the black around her eyes..its tough to read their eyes when u dont know where their eyes stop and the black starts...shes just so feminine looking .
and about ur veggie output...i think i got ya on this one...i have 9 house buns...2 of them are giants...they eat and eat and when u think their done ..they eat some more...im not gonna count the cups of veggies i go thru in a week cuz im in denial on the cost of all these bunnies and i wanna stay that way..hehe

 

[itsazoo]

Peepers is very expressive with sounds more then looks, she is a very LOUD rabbit, virtually always making some noise or other, she has one noise for when she is curious and checking something out, enother for when she is nervous, she has a sound when she is angry and another for when she wants to play, and when she sleeps she snores lol. aside from thumping when she's angry, Jenny doesnt make any noise, and neither did Kari, it took me a while to get used to Peepers noises, and how to interpret them lol

 

[Bunny parents]

Hello wow what a wonderful blog you have... All your pets are gorgeous. and yes, indeed ! You're right, Peepers doesn't have to do anything to be cute. He's superrrrr cute !

 

[MiniLopHop]

Peepers is so cute! I have a talkative one too, which I think just adds to the cuteness.

How did you introduce the gerbils and bunnies? I would like them to play together but I'm not sure how to go about it.

 

[itsazoo]

how did I intro them? I didnt, I just had Dylan out one day and Jenny came to say hello, and I let them lol

 

[mistyjr]

Hello,

I see that you also raise Gerbil's. I have some of myself. I was wondering what do you give them to chew on, to hide,ect. I give them toilet paper rolls, boxes and they chew them up in about less then 3 min each.. If you would answer that would be great.! :biggrin:

 

[itsazoo]

I give them boxes and tubes mostly, also paper, if you scrunch up newspaper(the ink these days is usually non-toxic) and pile it in their cage they LOVE to climb through all the little creases while chewing it, phone book pages too, crumple them up and the gerbils loves carrying them around while chewing, if you get paper bags in the mail(or paper bags from the dollar store) and open those up, they LOVE those. we give them jars to hide in, just tuck the jar under the bedding(bedding should be deep). go to hardware store and such, PVC pipes are great, metal pipes from the car sections are great too, their like the habitrail pipes but not plastic lol

 

[mistyjr]

Thank You.!

 

[MiniLopHop]

For "permanent" furniture in my gerbil cages I got a couple pieces from the office supplies store. A post-it note holder turned up side down works great as a stand for their dust bath. A letter holder turned on it's side makes a great stepper so they can get to their wheels (I attached them to the top of the cage so they wouldn't get knocked over). I don't have anything plastic in the cages, just the metal or ceramic. I also got a kabob that has wood pieces that they like to chew on. Their main entertainment is from boxes. Anything from the kitchen or klenx boxes with the plastic liner torn out. The people I work with humor me and give me their empty klenex boxes and paper clip boxes (add a rain for a prize!) so I bring home something almost every day.

:threadhijacked: I hope you don't mind....

 

[itsazoo]

gerbil piccies

Quaker(Argent Cream)

Adrian(LCP Agouti)

Adrian

Timber(Polar Fox)

Phoebe/Gumpy pups-2 Burmese, 1 Siamese, 1 PEW/DTW

some of the Morgan/Mimas pups-they had 3 black, 2 lilac, 2 dove

and the Munchkin/MiniMunch pup

 

[MiniLopHop]

They are all so cute, but I am in love with MiniMunch! :inlove:

 

[itsazoo]

pssst MiniMunch is his daddy the pup has no name ATM, but he looks just like Munchkin and MiniMunch. a spunky little fella he is too lol

 

[itsazoo]

few more

Pirate with the Schimmel pup

DEH pup(going to Edmonton with the Schimmel pup above when old enough)

and get ready for the cutest pic EVER lol

 

[itsazoo]

I dont think Peepers need any cookies for a while.... I had a whole baggie of bunny cookies just filled from the freezer on top of her cage, went to my staff party, came home, and found her cookie bag EMPTY..she had climbed on the stuff in her cage, reached through the top bars, got a hold of the cornor of the bag, pulled it through the bars, chewed a hole in the bag and at ALL the cookies! there was like 30 cookies in there! talk about spoiling her supper!

and as I was typing this, she found the bag use for spot cleaning her litterbox and was rooting through it, no doubt searching for more goodies! and here I thought Jenny was a pig..she jumps IN the treat drawer as soon as I open it unwilling to wait for me to fish out a cookie for her lol

 

[itsazoo]

jeeze Peepers just doesnt stop! she was playing with her hay box today..my mom commented that she took the lid off her hay box, I was like oh, whatever...then I went over to let her out of her cage and I was like "where IS she?" thats, since she had been playing with her hay box I moved the litter box from in front and out she pops...she was stuck! the hayback in backed into a corner, Peeoers, ever the curious bun, moved the one side she could get to just a luittle bit, crawled in under the box...but then could not turn around and there was no other way out! she must have been like "well...what the heck now??" lol