The Three Musketeers

[holtzchick]

Wow that's pretty cool.

I don't want to stress you out but when's the last time you took Houdini to the vet? Perhaps that's why him and bandy aren't getting along sometimes bonds will fall out due to underlying health issues.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Michelle, yeah that´s a thought, they haven´t been since they had their neuter in October but he´s actually quite perky now and has been eating some of his pellets and is now nomming on hay....I might well take them all for a check up just to see how they´re doing. It´s Snowy and Houdini who aren´t getting on...poor Bandy is the piggy in the middle or the Lamb Chop in the middle lol.

 

[holtzchick]

Ah okay!! I didn't know it was after their neuter! That's actually probably it!

Oh wow I didn't realize it was snowy and Houdini.... I feel dumb :/ sorry!

 

[Chrisdoc]

No, it is confusing but Bandy has the sweetest disposition and he´s never had a go at either of them and sometimes Snowy has a nip at him but he just ignores it and continues whatever he´s doing and he is bigger than both of them.

I have been a bit obsessed the last few days with poops and food and hay and everything but I suppose they all have off days but they seem fine and none of them have been boxing me although they do sometimes grunt if they´re not happy with what I´m doing.

I laid on the floor for a while this afternoon, i just love it when they walk all over you, Bandy actually laid down on my back for a while and Houdini was vaulting over me...I think it´s one of the times when I enjoy them most.

 

[holtzchick]

Lol Awh Sounds like snowy and Houdini are the dominant buns and bandy is the submissive bun, perhaps thats why their bonds work. If hippo was slightly more submissive I think he and Phoenix would get along in a heartbeat she grooms him and everything but when she goes to nip him he freaks out instantly. I need to teach her not to do that

 

[Chrisdoc]

Yeah, sounds like he´s not totally submissive so doesn´t bow to everything. If remember when I videoed them grooming each other and they changed every minute, my head, your head, my head, your head...it was quite funny.

I´ve just actually videoed another flop where snowy was at the other side of the cage....I´ll upload it probably tomorrow but Houdini is a great flopper and he´s just so cute. You can see them interacting through the bars and it´s not agressive so that is, in itself, a great sign.

I still have great hopes and know that it will work out with time and patience, I just can´t rush it.

the hipster and phoenix are just great so I´m sure that they also will work things out in time....some engagements are just longer than others but then the marriage usually lasts longer lol.

 

[whitelop]

Every morning when I get up I almost dread going into the kitchen, because I'm always scared Ellie's going to be dead or something! But every morning she's at the cage door trying to say hello. Then I check the litter box to make sure the poop is okay. haha. Being insane my head is not a picnic!

Lisa, its terrible what we do to monkeys over here! People are like "oh they're my babies! I have to dress them up!" but really what it is, is a tiny monkey that has no teeth because they have to pull them out because when they bite they do MASSIVE damage because of their crazy large and WILD teeth! Its horrible. As human beings we're very cruel and we torture everything we can get our hands on.
I love those barbary monkeys, they're amazing.

I'll be honest, I just wrote out this whole long thing about barbary lions but I deleted it because it had nothing to do with anything. It was the history of the barbary lion! haha. I only wrote it because of where you are in the world, its near where they lived, Morocco. lmao.
And now I'm done.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

Monkeys are adorable. I would never want one as a pet. Just not a smart idea.
My stepmom was telling me tat she went to Japan and they cut the head off one and opened that sucker right up just to get the brain. Then they cook it up and sell it :0 *bleh* her coworker ate one and didnt know what he was eating until she told him and he threw up. That's sad though. They just cut their head off while they're alive and still kicking around.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Hi guys, missed a few days here, have been really bad with a bug I´ve caught and I´ve been in bed since Saturday until this morning. My poor little boys have been left on their own...I did feed them but I couldn´t get up yesterday to let them out as I couldn´t keep my eye on them so I´ve let them out now and they´re like crazy. I felt so guilty as when I came in to feed them I got this sorry look and sad face and it´s been really hard. I´m not feeling 100% today but I have things to do. First meal today since Saturday, hoping that it stays down.

I laughed Katie about the monkey brain, reminded me of the Indiana Jones film...that was gross and why would you want to eat something like that yuk.

I don´t know why people would want to keep monkeys as pets, they are wild animals and you can never tame a wild animal, it can turn on you at any time. I´ve read so many incidents of that in the last few months that I do believe the it will always be true, I remember reading about that woman who had her face torn off by the chimp.

Lisa, thanks for the encouragement, sometimes it´s difficult to just take things easy as you really want them to be back as they were but I don´t want to ruin things again either so we´re going to do it real slow.

Morgan, I panic about that as well, going in to the living room and finding one or all of them ill or dead...how morbid is that. I´m so happy every morning to see their furry little faces looking up at me.

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Aww, I hope you get well soon!

 

[Chrisdoc]

Thanks Elise, I´m doing a few things now and will try and have a lie down later. I hate being ill

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

Yes, I feel a bit down myself. Its certainly not fun being ill.

 

[whitelop]

Oh Chris! I'm sorry you're sick! Its always terrible when women get sick, because nothing gets done! LOL. I'm sure your boys have been fine with not getting out, they just go a little stir crazy in their cages, but its not the end of the world! haha.
I bet they were pretty funny when you let them out though, probably zooming this way and that.

I hope you feel better soon!

 

[Chrisdoc]

Morgan, I hate being sick but I haven´t been this sick in quite a well, literally I couldn´t get out of bed yesterday, a terrible throbbing headache but my whole face ached as well and I felt as though I´d been run over by a freight train...well you know what I mean, not that I know what it´s like to be run over by a freight train lol. And I hadn´t been able to eat since Saturday lunchtime as couldn´t keep anything down so I´m starving as well. I´ve just had some fish and potatoes for lunch and so far so good. But I´m just so tired, slept really badly last night but the boys are behaving themselves now.

House looks like a bomb´s dropped on it so I´ll have some serious cleaning to do later on this week when I´m feeling better.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

A random thought I had when you mentioned the chimp eating the woman's face: I was watching a series featuring people who are obsessed with keeping wild animals in their home and ended dying because of it, and I found myself thinking "wow, I'm glad I have a bunny. Because if I somehow fell ill or died in my apartment, she'd eat all of the furniture before she'd even think of eating any part of me. Hell, the refrigerator door would be torn off, too."

 

[Chrisdoc]

So right Missy, no chance of the bunnies feasting on you when there are veggies in the house. Always reminds me of my friend who has four dogs and lives alone....doesn´t bear thinking about.

 

[whitelop]

There have been stories of cats eating their owners who have died in the house. I would be totally screwed. lmao.
I think I know what show Missy is talking about, about people keeping the animals. I saw one where this woman was obsessed with feeding bears around her house. She would feed like 10 black bears! It was AMAZING! She would feed them by hand and from a bucket, she would feed the cubs, they relied on her for food towards the end of the their feeding season before they hibernated. It was so cool! I would feed black bears in a heart beat! Please, someone drops some bears off in my yard, ohmygod, I would roll around with them...then you guys would hear about me on the news, "young completely insane woman gets mauled to death by a herd of hungry black bears that she had been hand feeding. The food ran out and they were pissed!" haha. That would be a badass way to die though. Anyway, in the states, its illegal to feed bears like that, we're not supposed to interfere with nature and have them depend on us the way those bears did. So she got put in jail for feeding the bears and she also got removed from her home and property for several years, so she wouldn't feed the bears anymore. She would go back though after she got out of jail and look for them but I think after that long period of time, they had moved on.
I told my husband when we watched it that I would be LIVID if someone took me away from my home for feeding bears. I would still feed them, knowing the consequences. lmao. But then again, I am little on the cooky side. HA!

 

[Chrisdoc]

Lisa, it was awful as there was nothing there so I had a real pain in my sternum like you get when you´re doing sit ups lol. It wasn´t funny actually but probably a combination with the coughing as well which I´ve still got but is´coming off my chest so I´m hoping ít´ll be gone in a couple of days. I just felt awful leaving them on their own as their little expectant faces when I went in the living room just tears me apart...they´ve been out a good while today and are enjoying it.

Worst was the headache, never had one like this, my whole head ached, forehead, cheekbones. jaw, teeth. I was so desperate and thinking that if I put pressure on the points it would lessen it that I tied a scarf tightly around my head last night for bed. I looked like Jeronimo....it did help a bit but it kept loosening so it was making things worse so I gave up in the end but you have to try everything.

I think these stories are great and to see wild animals and humans interacting is great but you always take that risk that they can turn anyday. I´ve seen so much stuff on the telly like the magician with the white tiger which nearly killed him and a bear on Russian telly that nearly killed the presenter...great idea in theory but not so great in practice. But they´re always great stories.

Morgan, I can just imagine you doing that kind of thing, I´d probably be the opposite and absolutely terrified.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

Ahahaha Missy, you're so right. That and Rosco would alert the whole world, Chris would hear his cries all the way over in Spain lol. People that are on top on Mt Everest would hear it too. And maybe even the NASA guys in space. He would be distraught. Lol. He's such a mamas boy ha.

Chris! Get better soon! Drink lots of fluids!

 

[JBun]

Ah, I hate having stomach bugs! I hope you're feeling all better soon. Our rabbits may not like it when we disrupt their schedule, but they survive just fine. And sometimes they are even a little more appreciative when things do go back to normal