House Bunny

Here are some pics of bunny (yep, that’s the best we can do for a name – LOL). The one with Tom is just days after bunny came to live with us, and the other one is with my old girl bunny Pooh, who has crossed over the bunny rainbow bridge.

We’ve had so many bunnies that I don’t name them anymore, and even when they did have names, they ended up being called nicknames. I know, you are saying “who would live with a rabbit in their house?” and then do it again?!? We are kinda silly. And don’t just fall in love and go get one, they can be a real problem – like when they chew the cord to your sewing machine foot and you can’t sew or quilt until it’s repaired.

First overnight stay at grandma’s house

Audrey stayed overnight at gramma’s house and we both had so much fun! She played a full day of “keep gramma running from room to room” and she had a great round of air-sparring with bunny.

Audrey’s idea of fun was to run to wherever the bunny was, every 3 minutes, hollering out “bunny” at the top of her lungs. When she located bunny (who has only 3 or 4 hiding places and isn’t used to being searched out) she would do her “bunny dance”. This consists of hopping from foot to foot while pointing at bunny and hollering “BUNNY!” and laughing.

After about 5 hours, bunny decided to take action. He advanced on her by a foot! Ohhhhh, did she squeal! And she backed up exactly 1 foot. Hehehehehe, betcha you can see where this is going. Bunny backed her up, through the hallway, the kitchen and into the living room – 12 inches at a time. I about peed my pants laughing so hard. Bunny advance – Audrey squeal – Audrey dance backwards 1 foot – repeat.

But wait, you don’t think bunny won do you? She won round 2 when he went back to his room, thinking himself victorious and parked in his favorite spot – the doorway. She danced down that hallway and touched him on the nose!

Ha ha ha ha ha! Bunny jumped a foot into the air and took off to hide behind the bed! Ding. Round three is the weekend of January 19th when Audrey comes back for another weekend. Let’s see who wins this time!

Rabbits

We have a lot of rabbits! We have one that live indoors with us. He uses a modified cat litter box for his potty and he’s very, very tidy about using it. He has the run of the first floor of the house, but he’s afraid of the stairs going to the basement so he just stays upstairs. He’s a grey and white spotted lop that was rescued from a cat’s mouth at just a few weeks old. We’ve made a *lot* of modifications in the house because of the rabbit’s need to chew and our American desire for electricty that runs through cords that rabbits like to chew. For more info about indoor rabbits as pets, please visit www.rabbit.org

There is a lot to learn before jumping into having a bunny as a pet.

We also have many rabbits living on our undeveloped property about 7 miles outside the downtown Seward, Alaska area. They have burrowed a huge nest under a firewood storage shed and they have the run of the property (2 acres that we own and they invade the neighbors’ property too). We feed them, but because they run free they are at the mercy of predators like dogs, wolves, bears and eagles. And yes, we’ve seen them hunted and killed by the neighborhood dogs and by the eagles. Bears will sometimes get into the rabbit food but although there are wolves around, we’ve never seen them – just the tracks. So this is one of the hard parts of life. We love the rabbits but we lose a lot of them and when we get attached to each of them it’s hard when they don’t show up to be fed anymore. Basically, we’re idiots.

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