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Spots 6/11/11

SPOTS

SPOTS, THE SET

Waiting for A Train

Tyler and Sydney 04/30/2011

Grooming

Tyler and Sydney 04/21/2011

Spotlight on Spots

Tyler with one of his heavy friends 04/12/2011

Detail from above; Sydney in the bunnel 04/12/2011

Random

Random last minute night time shot; batteries were recharging earlier.

Sydney and Tyler 03/31/2011

Bun Phone

Tyler and Sydney 03/26/2011

Today We had Rain

There was a lot of rain today, and the power was out for quite a while. During a brief break in the down pour some light of sorts shone from the sky.

Tyler and Sydney 03/24/2011

Tricky Day

Sydney (foreground) and Tyler 03/23/2011

Today We Had a Tsunami

Tyler and Sydney 03/12/2011

Today we had a Tsunami, you can see all kinds of footage of it all over the web. Although this warren was quite safe we were treated to a day of helicopters. The Santa Cruz Harbor is now basically toast and Santa Cruz is declared a disaster area by the Governor. Of course you know that Tsunamis are caused by earthquakes and you also know that animals can sometimes predict earthquakes. You also know that it was posted on this blog that there was some pretty rowdy behavior yesterday by certain rabbits here. It should also be noted that none of that behavior was present today, in fact every bun was quiet and snuggly. Did rabbits in Santa Cruz sense an earthquake hours and miles away? Can rabbits only predict earthquakes and not Tsunamis? Don't they care about Tsunamis? Why should they care? Who are these rabbits, really?

We send our best wishes to the people of Japan and fervent hopes that the damaged nuclear plants don't melt down.

Spots

Sydney and Tyler 3:45 P.M. 02/20/2011

Monday Bunday

Two sides to every question or when is a box not a box?

Tyler foreground, Sydney background 02/07/2011

Sydney foreground, Tyler background 02/07/2011

Have a wonderful week everybun.

Monday Bunday

Bunnies in charge.

I was unsure about the placement of this small bookcase. It seemed like it would be a cramped against the wall, but then Sydney tried it out and seemed to like it.

Then Tyler joined in. You can't see in the picture unless you look very, very closely, but they are so fast asleep that their little bunny mouths are twitching. The bookcase will stay where it is....

Tyler thinks that a second story would be just fine, he will be happy to design the structure and demolish it as well.

Saturday Night Special

Be sure to read to the end, there's a give-away you can enter!

Today when I got home from the Farmer's Market I was mugged by two bunnies wearing rabbit masks.

They held me up at bun point and took the green stuff right out of my bag .

A couple of real toughs, as you can tell by the belly of this beast.

I recently participated in a print exchange and much to my surprise produced too many not too bad tiger prints, so I'm giving away 4 (one from each of my lagomorphic supervisors). If you would like to enter the drawing let me know in the comment section. We will pick the winners in a week and the lucky commenters will be announced on Bunday, June 28th.

Saturday Bunny Dating Update

Amelia shows how mellow a California Bun can be.

We had a 3 p.m. appointment with a professional rabbit bonder in the bonding room at the Rabbit Haven Adoption show. However on returning home from Ba Gua I found that BF had, in an uncharacteristic showing of thoughtfulness, to rabbits fed them lots of greens stalks, cut from his lunch vegs. On any other day this would have been absolutely fine. On this day it removed any leverage I might have with Tyler and Sydney. Satiated, they could not be coaxed, cajoled or bribed into the carrier. The upside of having lots of rabbits is that that was fine. Amelia and Harriet were perfectly happy to go for an outing. OK, that's not quite true, but they both allowed me to insert them into their carriers. We listened to some bunny friendly jazzy atmospheric selections on KZSC, 88.1 fm during the car ride. At Pet Pals a highly proficient young woman in a bunny print smock took care of nail trims, gland cleaning and brushing. The Rabbit Haven offers this service on a donation basis. I like it because if my bunnies don't like it they won't blame it on me directly. Amelia was very well behaved, better than the last time and it was remarked how relaxed she was. Good girl! Harriet, too, was well behaved.

Keep your bunnies glands clean or have someone else do it.

The bonding started with a ride around the store in a comfortably padded shopping cart with a professional Bonder at our side. We took frequent breaks to put their heads side by side and cross pet so that their scents mingle and they are comforted by the closeness and feel of the other. Our Bonder kept a constant stream of bonding advice and helpful hints and suggestions. We also did floor time in a pen. Here Amelia showed her confidence by checking everything out, while Harriet preferred to crawl into and stay in my lap. It is not for nothing that one of Amelia's names is "Miss Check It Out". I learned a lot, it is different having first hand tutorials as opposed to reading something. Some key things are the side by side smoosh and cross pet; shorter more frequent sessions are best; don't worry about nips that's how bunnies communicate; girls are harder to bond than boys; end on a good note, even if you have to make it happen with a smoosh and cross pet; treats only when the bunnies in bonding are together; start to trade spaces so they can mingle smells, this can also be started by trading towels, blankies, toys. The Bonder didn't like my gloves, because of the feel to the bunny and suggested a kitchen splatter screen instead. The Bonder also thought it would be better to bond the girls and then bring in the Spots one at a time for sessions. There is another show in two weeks, so we can use the room then and have another tutorial. Tyler and Sydney seemed just the teeniest bit put out at not being at the Bunneh Partay. They will be undergoing reeducation for better carrier manners which will involve being fed only the the carrier......

Monday Bunday

Abstract

Distracted

Extracting

Monday Bunday:Fennel

One of the many bonuses of going to the Farmer's Market is that you can get Fennel with the tops intact. These tops you can bring home to your rabbits, who like the Fennel very much.

Tyler: Fennel can be grabbed and pulled, pull as much as you can to get maximum harvest from the shopping bag.

Sydney: Fennel can be eaten while your brother grabs more and then you can take some from him. It's OK to do that because he is your brother and has taken food from you.

Tyler: Fennel has soft and crunchy parts, it is not just a food but a total mouth experience. If you have a rabbit get that rabbit some Fennel.

Bunnesday

Tyler in the Furniture Forest.

Sydney refusing to kiss Tyler.

Fresh hay eat it all night long.

Amelia's salad dish catches blue Autumn light.

Monday Bunday

Random scenes from around here.

Rabbit with dreaming eyes.

Tyler chinning Mint lest anybun think it is theirs,

moments later, just to be sure of ownership, he ate the same stalk

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Busy Rabbit.

Amelia simultaneously grooming

and re-calibrating the Earometer.

Sticky Buns.

This would appear to not be such a special picture, the Spots snuggle all the time, what you don't know is that a split second before they were in opposite ends of the room and suddenly flew together like highly magnetized furry jigsaw pieces. And now you do know.

Dusk rabbit.

Amelia loves to go out at night, the outdoor bunnex is part of her patrol. On the night of the big rain she insisted on being let out though she seemed surprised by the rainwater rinse that she got.

Monday Bunupdateday

Amelia again shows her expertise with the 

Earometer method of measurement.

It has been a rather hectic week between trying to be a good daughter and the hard drive going south, bundates have been somewhat limited. I got tired of Sydney always chasing Amelia and so have had to give her a little talking to about playing nicely and how there is enough love to go around and all that. I've also been supervising more closely and  creating  diversions when Sydney starts taking a run at Amelia. I've seen no more Amelia/Tyler grooming, though I have seen her asking oh so very nicely.

Tyler takes a taste to be sure the produce 

is up to his high bunstandards.

It is expected that California's Central Coast will be rained on to the tune of 3-6 inches on Tuesday so I harvested the rest of our red pumpkins. Of course these had to be inspected by the Rabbits3. As you can see Amelia measured with her Earometer, Tyler tasted and Sydney hopped over to record  the findings on the chalkboard.

This looked like a lot of fun and I don't really mind a few chews here and there, 

so I let them be rabbits, bundiscipline is not my strong suit.

 It seems to be in the Spots nature to rampage and pillage, so I wasn't a bit surprised when I heard a small crash and found Tyler and Sydney in the middle of a box of papers. Although Tyler was the one to make his way onto the plant shelf and eat part of an Orchid (toxic plant, but it didn't bother him a bit), I'm not sure if it was Sydney or Tyler who ate part of a silicon muffin cup, but I am sure it is Sydney who has it in for BF's couch, now covered with throw rugs, cardboard and a couple wooden boards. The resulting curious structure is functional only from the standpoint of keeping Sydney from her apparently appointed mission in life, but not from that of human usage. Ah, well, a lose/lose situation, maybe we should just let her have the couch, at least somebun would be happy.

We send Rabbits Guy and Fats wishes for healing and wellness. 

PS Interview with me here. Sorry it's a treasure hunt to find the interview, go to link, click on the offered Printsy link, page to the bottom, click on older posts and voila`.......