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Follow Friday – The Bad Bunny List

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Hairy Beast - Bad Bunny
Using the Twitter idea of Follow Friday, I am going to share two things today that I love and recommend.

Here is the intro provided on the site for my first,  
The Bad Bunny List:

The Bad Bunny List (241 kB, 24 pages) is a list of phrases rabbit ownees should get their naughty pets to write on a blackboard a la Bart Simpson. If you could get them to write…

I found this list just after we brought Tigger home 10 years ago in mid May.  I was searching online for help in dealing with our new baby bunny’s destructive tendencies and her ability to manage to get everywhere we were trying to keep her out of, off of, or away from.

This list had me in tears laughing.  I think the humor of dealing with a house rabbit can be greatly appreciated by all animal lovers.  However, if you want to check out their other bad pet lists, here is the home page link: http://www.badpets.net/BadPets/index.html. 

As a brand new rabbit parent after a long period without the thump of bunny feet around the house, the list was instructive.  Tigger was already showing herself to be over the top with her desire to get into things and way beyond my experience to keep up mentally with what she might try next.  I needed serious help in bunnyproofing to keep her safe and maintain my sanity dealing with an animal who seemed to have a suicidal streak. 

Reading this list, I would laugh and then look at Tigger and think, “You just might try that and I better find a way to deal with it!”  The Bad Bunny list provided me with so much information on things I could not have imagined a rabbit might try. I was much better prepared to deal with rascally rabbittude rabbits after reading the list.

Later today, I will share an artist I like to follow.

How Many Bunnies Can You Fit Into a Half Bath?

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Half Bath BunniesThis is something that the children of friends find to be fascinating when they visit.  We have quite a bunny rabbit collection in our half bath.  There are stuffed rabbits, figurines, pictures on the wall, a folded baby blanket as a shelf runner, a fleece bunny rabbit cover for the keenex box …

Counting them all is really quite tricky:

  • Do you count just the whole number of rabbit themed items?  37
  • What if one figurine or picture contains more than one rabbit?  One figurine has a rabbit family of eight
  • Do you count all the individual rabbits instead of the whole number of items?  72, not including the baby blanket /shelf runner
  • What if the items don’t have visible rabbits? The nesting rabbit doll has two rabbits hidden inside the outer one and that folded baby blanket has dozens of whole and partial rabbits – what part of a partial bunny counts as a whole? 
  • Do you count the two live rabbits that are running in and out of the half bath as you are counting? 1, no 2, no 1, no 0, no 2

It is a fun exercise that doesn’t have a clearly definable answer.  It is somewhere between 37 and 150, depending on how you count them.   Without realizing what I was creating, my half bath has become the essence of bunnyness.  Rabbits like to come and go, now you see them and now you don’t.  Sometimes they are in plain view but hidden from clear observation.  In the wild they live in large groups and multiply rapidly.

Welcome to Rabbittude!  Now don’t let the rabbits distract you too much from the task at hand, please flush and wash your hands before exiting.

Rabbits Eye View

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Shadow as Art - Bunny Boy Blue

Shadow as Art - Bunny Boy Blue

Shadow hopped into the office and around my feet and sat up on his hind legs looking at me.  He wanted me to follow him.  He led me out onto the landing and just sat there looking up at me, so I sat down on the floor and after a minute laid flat on the floor on my stomach to get closer to him and be able to see him eye to eye. 

That is when Shadow began his game of ring around Mom.  He would hop around me in a circle, stop at my head and look me in the eyes.  He hopped around me a number of times.  Sometimes when he stopped at my face he would just look  me in the eyes, other times, he would hop closer and give me a kiss.  I would pet his head and then he would take off again on his hop around me.  He played this game for several minutes before racing off to other bunny pursuits while I returned to work.

Most people picture having a rabbit as a snuggle bunny to pick up and hold and walk around hugging.  Estimates by rabbit groups are that only about 5% of rabbits like to be picked up and held.  The others react as if the eagle has swooped down and captured them.  They fight for dear life, kicking, scratching and biting.  As a baby, Tigger was like trying to hold a twirling Tasmanian Devil.  I could hold on to her barely as she somersalted and whirled around feverishly in my arms, leaving scratches everywhere her paws connected.  I would come away looking like I had been mauled and she was just a two and a half pound baby bunny. 

I shared this story of Shadow to show how wonderful the interaction with a rabbit can be if you learn to read their body language and put yourself on their level.  The relationship and mutual understanding shared then is just so fun and loving.

Shadow Turns 10!

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Shadow loves the sunshine

Shadow in his favorite place, soaking up the sunshine.

Ten years ago, sometime between now and the first week of May, Mr. Shadow was born.  We brought him home on Independence Day when he was two months or so old. He bounced into our lives with such joyous abandon.  He always keeps us smiling.

He still runs around like a crazy bunny, but not as often or fast.  He still wants to hop onto everything and leap from furniture piece to furniture piece.  The bunny spirit is very willing, but the body can’t keep up anymore and he has started to miss the mark.  We aren’t fond of looking at bunny x-rays at the vet.  So we keep a close eye on his activities. We relocate him as a distraction when he is clearly thinking about training for the bunny Olympics one more time.

Celebrate International Carrot Day

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International Carrot Day Treasury on Etsy

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Seriously, as rabbit lovers,  this was irresistible.   Twitter users started sharing the link over the weekend for International Carrot Day, April 4th. Logically, an Etsy treasury devoted to carrots had to follow, with a few carrot loving rabbits too.

Here’s a carrot fact from Bugs Bunny cartoon history. The voice of Bugs, Mel Blanc, hated carrots. They tried all kinds of fruits and vegetables to see if biting in and crunching something else could sound like a carrot. Nothing but a carrot sounded like a carrot. So Mel would bite in and crunch on the carrots and then spit them out.

Sorry Mel, but for us it is time to pause and get our paws on some lovely carrots!

April Fool’s Day Fun and Silliness

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Silly Rabbits & Friends Etsy Treasury for April Fool's Day

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At Rabbittude, we are always up for a good laugh year round, so we would wish for more than one day dedicated to silliness, laughter and fun.  Ah, well, that is why we have bunnies to keep us going with foolishness in between.  We will make do with the day we have to be our completely quirky, wacky selves today.

Here is a treasury I created of wonderful lighthearted fun things made by Etsy artisans:  Silly Rabbit’s & Friends for April Fool’s Day.

Great Blog Post Alert!  The Rabbittude Get Off My Tail bumper sticker has been included in this wonderful Feature Friday blog by Frostings sharing humorous Etsy items for April Fool’s Day: http://tncakes.blogspot.com/2011/04/feature-friday-april-fools-day.html.  It is wonderful to be included here, but I am not posting it here just to brag (okay, bragging just a little bit).  I think this is a great list of Etsy items, they all made me laugh and smile.  I am really partial to the take off on Keep Calm and Carry On created by Sad Little Crown, Fling Yourself on the Bed and Cry Uncontrollably.  It reminds me so much of Despair.com’s parody of beautiful photo art motivational training posters.  Sometimes the motivational stuff just really doesn’t do it and you have to let it all out and then move on.  ~Rebecca Pullin

Tigger Turns 10!

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Tigger Turns 10

Tigger getting into her food. This litter pan is completely filled with oat hay and being used as a food bin. You can see she enjoys her food now!

Sometime in early March 10 years ago, little Miss Tigger was born.  It is hard to believe that she has been with us for almost 10 years.   We brought her home in mid May when she was still a baby, just two and a half pounds of pure trouble looking for a place to happen.

Over the years Tigger has slowed down some.  Our anorexic model bunny retired a few years ago and has really put on some weight.  She now really enjoys her food instead of us begging her to eat something.  Now we can call her chubs.