The trials, tribulations and comedic moments of my bunnies lives

[Flashy]

Hi there, I posted the following bit in theintroductions bit, but it seems fitting to introduce the bunnies at thestart of the blog.

I hope to update it as often as possible with amusing anecdotes,stories, traumas, births (hopefully), deaths (hopefully not) and justgenerally note the lives of my bunnies. :bunnydance:



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This is Sky. He is 18 months old and our 'alpha' male, if you like. Asyou can see, we had to teach him how to do his thing, lol. He had a fewhilarious attempts until we showed him the book, and now he hasfathered a buck, and we are hopinf he will father some more this year.He has a beautiful temperment and him and I are pretty bonded. Hefollows me about when he gets the chance, only, I see him as a bunnyfriend, and he clearly sees me as his mate, but I assure you, it won'tbe me carrying his litter this summer :embarrassed:



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This is Cloud, he is Sky's only surviving baby, only he is not such ababy anymore at 9 months old. Even though he has nethie parentage, hesort of grew out of control and is a HUGE bunny. Guess we should haveshowed him what he was supposed to look like :foreheadsmack:. He is duefor the snip this summer, provided that Sky can father some babies, sopoor Cloud will be losing his maleness, but also his new foundviciousness, which is always a good thing.



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This isPogo and Polo, they are blue eyed whites, and 10months old. they are sisters and they do everything together...including trying to fall out their hutch.



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Sandy is a fairly recent addition to our bunny family. We lost threebuns in very unrelated circumstances, but in very close succession, soSandy will hopefully be able to raise a litter. She is really cheeky,and as you can see from the picture, feels very at home here, infact,this picture was taken on the second day we had her.



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Badger is also a recent addition, for the same reason as Sandy, otherthan he is guy, so won't be raising any litters. He is a totalcharacter and loves to give the *************, preferably all over myhead :crazinessHe loves people and is almost like a puppy, sotaking pictures is hard as he is always demanding a stroke. Thispicture is taken from above, bless him.



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Sunshine and Sweep are our dwarf lops. They are fairly old men now, at8 years old. They are brothers and they still live together and have anincredibly zest for life.



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So there we go. These are my beautiful buns. :bunnydance:

 

[Flashy]

Pogo and Polo

They spent all day lying down, one of them in particular, totally ontheir sides, all relaxed, except for at one time. The only time theywere not lying down was when I went outside to take a picture of themlying down. lol. Excellent.



Badger

Today Badger took a carefully timed shot and gave me the golden showerall over my freshly washed hair, and then later all over myfeet.ullhair:

 

[AngelnSnuffy]

Very interesting! Welcome to theforum! That Badger sounds like a character, check thebeginning of his name BADger, hee hee. Sky looking at thatpicture is priceless, how funny. I'll look forward tohearing mcu, much more!

 

[binkies]

Wow, tell Badger thank you. She just knew you were too clean.

They are all just gorgeous!

 

[TinysMom]

Love the photos - badger is my favorite...of course!

Keep the photos and stories coming!

Peg

 

[Flashy]

lol, seems like Badger is a hit.

Angelnsnuffy, we tried calling him 'Goodger' today, but he was likethis :nope:so Badger it is, lol. Oh, and bunny in your Avataris absolutely beautiful.


Sky


The oldest nethie we have, even though he is only 18 months.He is the most bonded to me, and hardly ever sprays me anymore. Heknows that I am his even when I am covered in others buns sprays (Thatmakes me sound so gross, but I'm not, I promise lol). Today, I walkedout to his hutch, and three whips of his tail later, I was soaked. Icouldn't BELIEVE it. Badger just sat watching me get wet, probablyinwardly laughing (Badger lives in the hutch below Sky).Sandy lives in the hutch next to Sky and recently Sky has started'visiting' that hutch again. Last time he had a next door neighbour heused to walk on the thin ledge across (of course my hands were hoveringjust there to catch him if he slipped) to Tubby (an ancient buck whohad to be put to sleep earlier this year. Sky has just started walkingacross to see his new girlfriend, Sandy, well, all things going to planthey will be parents soon, but they clearly like each other, which isalways a good start.




Pogo and Polo


Once again, they laid down ALL day. I was out in the garden and theystayed laying down, I went in and out and they stayed laying down, andI came out with a camera and they got up! contrary bunnies. SO helpful.




Sandy

Sandy came to us about 5 weeks ago. From the second week onwards shebecame very good at using a litter tray in her hutch, she was so tidyand easy to clean out. Then we moved her to her new permanent hutch(from her quarantine one) and everything went wrong. She decided thatshe didn't want her litter tray where it was, and repeatedly moves itaround. Today, I opened her bed area and she had clearly used thelitter tray and then flipped it on its side, because the urine wasrunning out. I wonder if this is as close as bunnies get to a toiletthat desposes of waste. lol

 

[AngelnSnuffy]

Thanks! The bunny in my avatar isAngel, a mini rex. I love her, she's my good girl.Very well potty trained too!

Your posts make me lol at work.

 

[HoneyPot]

heehee, your kiddies are suchcharacters. The twin girls are still totally myfavorites. They remind me of my girl Misty with her contraryways...

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Nadia

 

[Flashy]

HoneyPot wrote:

heehee, your kiddies are such characters. The twingirls are still totally my favorites. They remind me of mygirl Misty with her contrary ways...

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Nadia

aw, poor little Dopeys (as we call them). They are truly the densestrabbits that we have had. But it's good to know that they have afollowing, albeit a small one lol.

Sounds like your Misty is a bit of a character too, lol, bet she gives you loads of pleasure

(And angel, glad my random updates are keeping you amused )

 

[Flashy]

Dear My Beautiful Flashy

It's been 16 months exactly since you flew free.

I still miss you deeply. Everyday I fear losing your son because heis the strongest link I have to you, my best ever friend.



[align=center]Is it a kind of dream
Floating out on the tide
Following the river of death downstream
Oh, is it a dream?

There's a fog along the horizon
A strange glow in the sky
And nobody seems to know where you go
And what does it mean?
Oh, is it a dream?

Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes

Is it a kind of shadow
Reaching into the night
Wandering over the hills unseen
Or is it a dream?

There's a high wind in the trees
A cold sound in the air
And nobody ever knows when you go
And where do you start
Oh, into the dark

Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
Bright eyes

Bright eyes
Burning like fire
Bright eyes
How can you close and fail?
How can the light that burned so brightly
Suddenly burn so pale?
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[Flashy]

Cloud

Cloud is making me really sad at the moment. When hishormones are in check, he is so soppy, still sits in the crook of myarm and sleeps. But at the moment, with spring in the air, maturefemales around, and male competition, he is a vile, vicious littleman.

I love him socompletely that it breaks me heartthat he attacks me if I try and go anywhere near him, that I am havingto look for falconry gloves just to be able to pick him up to put himaway, or get him out of his hutch.

If I put my foot in the run, he attacks it, I have bitesall over my shins. If I Put my hand in the hutch I losechunks out of them. If I hold him to me, he bites my ****s. If I holdhim facing away from me, he tries to nip my fingers.

He is so special to me, he is Sky's one and only (so far)off-spring, which means he is the grandson of my beautifulFlash.

Cloud will be being snipped as soon as we can, but it istotally important to me to keep Flash's gene pool going. Preferablybreeding Sky and Sandy, but if something tragic happened to Sky (afterhaving so many tragic losses recently we are half expecting somethingto happen) then Cloud would be the one to breed, so we need a litterfrom either Sky or Cloud before Cloud can be snipped.

It just makes me cry that a bunny that I held from theday he was born rips me apart, all due to hormones.

I know that he will become much happier and friendlieragain when his hormones are gone, but until then I have to deal withthe hurt that he causes me, emotionally I mean, notphysically.

Sorry, I am aware of how totally pathetic thatsounds, but this is for the good, the bad, and the cute.

 

[Flashy]

Cloud

Cloud has been in his hutch all day, for the first time in acouple of months. He has been pretty calm. Dad got him out for me tohold, and it was like holding the baby Cloud again. I cradled him inthe crook of my elbow and he went to sleep, instantly. It's so weird.He's been soppy again today, which i have missed. Roll on thesnip.



The Dopeys

Polo made me laugh today. They are both all hormone filled,and either ready to breed, or be spayed, but we kind of want to breedso we are holding back on that. I moved Pogo to the run, went back forPolo, and Polo reared up on her back legs and hopped across the hutchto me like a kangaroo, but by the time she got to me she had forgottenthat she was hormonal and started sniffing my hand and let me pick herup easily.



Sandy

Sandylaid most of the day in the tunnel or next tothe tunnel (she was in a run) until the shade came off and she stood,like a meer cat, for ages, looking adoringly (ok, so she was justlooking, I added the adoringly) at Sky. They do seem to like eachother, which should make the mating easier.



Badger

Badger was in the run under Cloud's hutch, he provided mewith the ************* three times, but only my ankles, which is nottoo bad. I put my fingers through the mesh at the top of the run and hecame up to them, which I knew he would, I smelt of lady rabbit so hewas desperate to smell me, and got so excited, that he couldn't standstill and promptly fell over backwards. Bless him.

 

[binkies]

Oh wow! It sounds like you have a major handfull! You are obviously a more patient person that I am.

 

[Flashy]

lol, I can be patient when I want to be. I guessmy rabbits are my life so they get the best bits of me, which includessome patience lol.

 

[binkies]

Flashywrote:I guess my rabbits are my life so theyget the best bits of me, which includes some patience lol.

Ummmm, does that include flesh?

 

[Flashy]

Only if they (by'they' I meanCloud)think that my elbows, fingers, toes and shins are thebest parts of me, lol, otherwise, they just get parts of me

 

[Flashy]

Today dad is putting up hooks inour rabbit shed so that I can hang pictures of the bunnies that we havelost.

All our bunnies are pets, and very special to me. Werecently lost three in quick succession, and I miss themincredibly.

I originally wanted to talk about them all, but I can't,it wrecks me too much. There are 5 here that we lost within the past 16months, 4 of them were too young to die, by far. We lost them to anencounter where the cat groomed it and scared it senseless, labour, oldage, kidney problems, a bad reaction to meds. I hate losing friends


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Miss you all like crazy, think of you everyday.

Love you loads

Sweet dreams Bright Eyes

Tx

 

[Flashy]

General

I discovered today how hard it is to take pictures of mybunnies because they all come to me, so all come to the camera.



Sky

Sky was in the run next to Sandy today (One of our runsis a big run that can be segmented into two, or just kept as one bigarea). They were so sweet together. They were laying next to eachother, to sitting next to each other, or walking with each other. Theseare all good signs

He is a typical horny guy, looking for it everywhere andanywhere, but she was raising her tail to him, so this islooking promising.

I had the front off his hutch earlier, having a bit of aphoto session, and he decided to pay Sandy a visit (who lives in thehutch next door), and whilst the photo is sweet, it was not easy to bemaking sure he didn't fall, or jump, whilst taking a pic, lol. Not themost co-operative bunny.


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I swapped all their kabobs around today and this is Skyreclaiming the kabob. He had one from Cloud, and one from Sandy, solots of good smells for him to enjoy.


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Cloud

Cloud was mighty co-operative today. He went in his run,and when it came time to get him out, I put on my big boots, and wentin, expecting attacks from all fronts, and he came and sat in front ofme, like an angel and I picked him up.

He was an angel until I opened the front of his hutch awhile later to take some photos. Then he decided he was going to trashit. Duh, well done me.


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[align=left]I thinkwe are finallygetting there with Sandy and her litter tray. I have not had toretrieve it from all areas of her hutch for a few days, and she isusing it again. this is grand because when she has kits it will bebetter for her to be using a litter tray.[/align]

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[align=left]Well, what can I say about Badger. He takescute pictures, that's about all I can say. And that when I pick him up,to go anywhere, he gets so excited that he poos and wees everywherelol.[/align]

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[align=left]I got in their area today, and because Ismelt of Sky, and had already had the bottom of my jeans sprayed byBadger, they showed a great deal of interest in me. Bless them, theselittle old men are so sweet. Not really tame, they prefer each otherand were vicious when they were younger, but they are still friendlyand inquisitive.[/align]

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[wax32]

Great stories. Cloud sounds like a terror!

 

[Flashy]

lol, at the moment he is But that's what hormones do to a male bunny, so I'll just have to get used to it.