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Rabbits

For My Rabbit Loving Friends

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Sarah sent me this video and I just love it – it’s too funny to not share 🙂 If you read my blog regularly you will know that we have had pet rabbits for years and they have free run of the house. Occasionally we’ll take them outside in an enclosed area to run and play and they are better entertainment than anything I know except babies. Enjoy!

The video comes from this blog by Sweedish a farmer who made the video at a friend’s farm after they told him about their “sheep herding bunny”. The bunny’s name is Champis and I believe he’s a Netherland Dwarf breed. He’s just adorable!

Bunny Helper

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Spoiled HouseBun likes getting in the way


I haven’t shown any pics lately of our bunny. Here he is on the painted concrete floor in Arizona, when I was making myself another custom quilting table.

He likes to play in Audrey's dollhouse

He loves fresh oranges!

Sacked out on a hot day

Bunny Update

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bunniesMy friend Ferne reminded me that I haven’t posted about the bunnies lately – thanks for the reminder Ferne!

We have more bunnies.  Our neighbors called a few weeks ago and said that they were rescuing some baby bunnies that had been separated from their mother by someone who traps the rabbits and takes them far away and releases them.  This jerk (I wrote dumbshit but took it out) took a female rabbit 10 miles away and a few days later found out that there was a litter.  She just figured on letting them die.

My neighbor Jean decided otherwise.

Jena called Tom and I to ask what the baby bunnies needed to survive.  We gave her some supplies, lots of advice and offered to help.  Jean kept them for about 5 weeks and then ran out of room and time (travel away from home) so we took them in.  Tom build a pen in the back yard, away from the roof construction, gave them an old truck canopy to hide under, and they have been in bunny heaven ever since!  Bunnies LOVE dandilions and rasberry leaves and they have been pigging out on that plus pellet food, frolicking and playing, hiding and sleeping.

Jean still visits them and brings them treats  🙂  There are three white ones and one tan one.

And, such a happy ending, I recently bumped into my two favorite tan bunnies on 4th Avenue as I walked to work – it was such a treat to see them again because I had not seen them for 3 weeks and I was afraid that they’d been trapped or killed AND last night my favorite black bunny (he’s very old and not healthy) stopped by for some carrots and pellets!  What a great day.

doneOh, and the roof is DONE!

Spring in Seward, Alaska

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Yes, this is spring in Alaska. See the pretty flowers; the sunshine? Me neither! LOL Someone please remind me why I live here?


If you look closely you can see Tan Bunny just to the right of the feeder that Tom built. It sits across the alley from his house, on Barb’s property. She loves rabbits too, so she said it was okay to put the feeder there. Bunnies love her big trees 🙂

Snow for Martha

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Compare this one to my photo of Mt. Marathon from the 4th of July! This is for Martha in Louisiana 🙂 This next one is of the trees across the alley, just outside the garage door. My bunny friends hang out there, but right now there’s a black bear living there (no kidding!). Bear has been getting into the garbage cans at night. Don’t worry about bunny, she’s tough and she’s faster than this black bear. I saw her last night & she’s fine. My portable quilting table is set up by a living room window that looks out over the alley and the trees next door. I’m going to try and get a pic of bear.

Empty Nest

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At what point does “whew, I am so glad I don’t have to clean up after them anymore!” turn to “Oh, how I miss the pitter patter of their little feet…”?

My answer – -‘not yet’! LOL 🙂 Hehehehe

The baby bunnies went back to their outside home, as healthy as I can get them, my 22 month old granddaughter is home in Anchorage after spending the weekend with me and Tom is fishing in Homer (a long way away). I am……home alone!

Let’s see if I can finally be productive. You should see my ‘to do’ list. I was remembering quilts that I need to finish in my sleep last night. Then there’s some painting I’ve been putting off, cleaning out more stash, scanning photos & backing up computers….

My little helper got me started yesterday before she left….

Baby Bunnies

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On July 5th Tom brought home 2 baby bunnies that each had conjunctivitis in one eye. It just broke my heart. I didn’t post about them, or take photos, because I was sure that they were going to die. They were very, very infected, starved and barely 10 days old. The only hope I had was that they moved around and wanted to eat. So, we regularly soaked and cleaned their bad eyes, painstakingly cleaned up their fur, fed them alfalfa hay, fresh dandelion greens, ground pellets and goat’s milk (by eyedropper). They lived.

They are still under “clean up” care in my living room but they are eating, playing, grooming themselves and each other and their fur is almost totally clean. I believe that they will both be blind in their infected eyes, but I am not positive. The white rabbit’s bad eye almost looks normal now. I just can’t figure out how to give an eye test to a bunny! Lol 🙂

Almost Spring

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I begin to believe that spring is almost here when the daffodils start coming up. We still have several feet of snow in the yard, but around the house it’s melting out.

The poor things have to fight their way through the masses of snow we received this winter – but up they come!

I can hardly believe that they push up through the snow pack!

There were even some dandelion shoots and I picked a few for bunny. His first spring treat 🙂 He just loves dandelions!

Just outside the garage door…

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Is an ugly garbage can rack that is built up off the ground to perfect bunny height. These are semi wild rabbits that come from a long line of abandoned Easter Bunnies. The scrounge for food throughout the downtown section of Seward (although almost every subdivision now has rabbits) and most of the gardeners are fit to be tied! I, you will note, am not a gardener. I grow dandelions because bunnies love dandelions.

These 2 are my pals, they know the sound of my voice and they come around just at dusk, when it’s safer for rabbits to be hopping about. They have a route that they travel, of the houses that put food out for bunnies. I believe my house is stop #1, I put out pellets and fresh carrots or apple. Every year the bunnies change…some are killed by cars, some by eagles. I still put out the food and they come keep me company.