I took this photo of Tigger and Shadow earlier today. They were enjoying a bunny brunch of some parsley and carrots. Shadow is showing part of the personality that earned him the name Shadow. Tigger is showing just how scruffy a pretty bunny can be when she decides to seriously shed some fur. Shadow seems to be recovering nicely from Snuffles, but Tigger is only slightly improved on her tummy and appetite issues. She will eat her greens, but isn’t really eating her hay as she should.
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Treasury Thursday – 72 Hours Mystery
This treasury is part of a Nonteam Challenge that runs each week from noon on Thursday until noon on Sunday. Everyone creating a treasury must build it around one challenge item. This week it is The Reading Tree by Emerald Town Raven photo in the top.
Looking at Emerald Town Raven’s shop, I saw some beautiful photos of cats. I was thinking about the length of time for the challenge, 72 hours. The idea of cats, the mystery of them and 72 hours combined together into a who done it mystery show feel for me and I went looking for items that would go along with that.
I loved using the muscadine grape-vine chews from Magic Happens Rabbit Rescue. It looked like a group of potential evidence with its “B” crime scene label marker in place. All in all, this was a lot of fun to create.
Invitation to International Rabbit Day
Okay, so yesterday I said today I would have a bit of a surprise. Surprise, I goofed when I created this yesterday and it was released on Etsy from the wrong user account instead of Rabbittude as I had intended. Then I almost forgot to post it today. So, doubly embarrassed rabbit here. While I was getting this post ready, I was surprised when a leader on the Etsy Rabbits team pointed out that Etsy has the day listed on their dates to remember for September as being, Sunday the 25th.
So isn’t that just the way with event planning. Two coordinators check dates with different people or sources and the next thing you know, you have people being notified about two different dates. For Etsy we will make it the International Rabbits Day WEEKEND, September 24 – 25th.
Whoo Hoo! We will get ready for a two-day party of rabbits bouncing around and into view as much as possible as we treasure the days by creating lots of treasuries to promote the now over 100 shops of the Etsy Rabbits team members.
Colorful Etsy Rabbits Today
Today brings another colorful treasury of items created by Etsy Rabbits team members. Check out what the rabbits have to offer. Here is a link to the team blog: http://etsyrabbits.blogspot.com.
Treasury Tuesday – Color Me Woodlands
Today a beautiful treasury of items with a woodland feel. After the storms and tornado sirens last night, I needed the feel of a quiet walk in the woods which is always a stress reducer for me. All items in this treasury have been created by members of the Etsy Rabbits team.
A Treasury of International Rabbits
Commence bunny hopping! This will be the first of six treasuries to highlight both International Rabbit Day and the active Etsy Rabbits Team shops. This treasury is items from international team members. The team currently has members from 14 countries and about 100 active shops.
Team Space on Etsy: www.etsy.com/teams/7580/etsy-rabbits
Team Blog: http://etsyrabbits.blogspot.com
I Wish I Had A Picture …
So Friday, Shadow started showing a move from allergies into Snuffles issues. Tigger is currently symptom free. However, when Shadow saw the vet yesterday, it was discussed whether Tigger should be treated too. In the past if one got sick with something like this, even if the other started out symptom free, they would pass it back and forth until both had been put on antibiotics to clear them both up. So Shadow and Tigger are both being treated from the start this time.
I am guessing that the medication prescribed has a really nasty taste or that the flavoring I smell is not anywhere on their tasty list. That is because in more than ten years with Tigger, I have never seen quite the face or way she looked at me after we gave it to her. It was the most disgusted peeved aggrieved look. She didn’t even get all of it either, she was drooling a bit out as we tried to syringe it in. When I put her down, she hopped around the room and thumped at least five times. And we have twice a day, times two bunnies, for two weeks to look forward to. Sigh …
There will be a pretty Etsy treasury coming later this afternoon.
Head Pet Radar
Shadow bunny has the finest tuned rabbit radar when it comes to head pets. It’s a given that if you start to pet Tigger, no matter where he might be in the house, Shadow will show up in less than a minute.
Treasury Tuesday – Its Raining Purple Rabbits
So I overdosed today on two of my favorites to create this treasury, rabbits and purple. If I ever find a way of combining purple, chocolate and rabbits, I may just need to be resuscitated.
Enjoy!
Commence Thumping …
Tigger is a very pawsitive bunny. She punctuates with her paws. She arrives in a room, thump. She arrives on a floor of the house, thump. She is about to hop underneath the dust ruffle on the guest bed, thump. She isn’t happy to be picked up. So, when you put her down, thump. You scared her with that noise / movement / whatever … thump.
The pathway of her life echoes with all the little thumps along the way. You can tell where Tigger is on and off throughout the day as she announces herself on her journeys around the house with thumps.
Tigger is a very bossy bunny. I had always read that bunnies use thumps as danger signals to other bunnies. That has always made me wonder if her little thumps really are a danger signal to the other bunnies in the house, Shadow and for a while Portia. Is it her way of playing tough bunny and saying, “You better stay out of my way!” Or is it the way of HRH Princess bunny to announce herself as she enters, “You better pay attention HRH Tigger is in the room!” or “How dare you pick up HRH Tigger.”
There was one really bad thumping occasion. We have a lot of storms here that cause power surges and everything electrical surges off and then on again. One of those times, the security system for the house was set off by the surge which then fried the electronics in the on position. There was an awesome thunderstorm with lightning going on outside, the security alarm was going off inside and Tigger took off under the guest bed and was thumping off the bunny alarm. For a full half hour the storm raged, the alarm blared and Tigger thumped while I was trying over the phone to hear enough of what the security company was saying to be able to find out how to shut the system down until it could be fixed.
This evening, all is quiet. The bunnies have been running around all day and are now settled in and bedded down for the night. So will it be a quiet night? It depends. If something in her cage isn’t to her liking, Tigger has another way of thumping at night for emphasis. She picks up a corner of her litter box with her teeth and drops it, repeatedly.
So at night if she isn’t happy, her thumps become whumps. You can hear them up a flight of stairs through closed doors. So just for you Tigger baby, how about a variation of the Hokey-Pokey called the Thumpy-Bunny …
You put your right paw in,
You put your right paw out;
You put your right paw in,
And you thump it all about.
You do the Thumpy-Bunny,
And you hop yourself around.
That’s what it’s all about!
Continue on for more verses switching out right paw with left paw, right side, left side, backside, and whole self.
Good night sweet thumpy bunny, a quiet night pretty please …
Sharing A Bunny Rabbit Comic Strip for Sunday
Outdoor bunnies …
Indoor bunnies … Doesn’t matter … Bunnies will be bunnies … Click on the image at the left or the link |
Sticky Buns
I was so proud of myself this week. I finally got all my supplies properly organized into containers and used a label maker to put nice clear permanent (I thought) adhesive labels on the containers.
Then Shadow decided to show me a completely new rabbit trick yesterday evening. He hopped up to one of the plastic containers, grabbed the adhesive label somehow with his teeth and ripped it off. I had to grab him and wrestle the label away from him immediately so that I wouldn’t have to find out how bad an adhesive label might mess up a rabbit’s digestive system.
What on earth was he thinking and why would he go after those labels? Shoot, now what am I going to do? If I take all the labels off, I am back to not knowing what is in the containers. If I leave them on, Shadow now knows he has something new to mess with.
Arghhh! Clearly as long as the he is still breathing, Shadow will continue to find new ways and means of getting into things I would never have dreamed of! The labels weren’t even on a week. Does he notice new things or what?