Coco and the Carrot Car...among other bunny escapades
I'd better update this thing before Mary starts to think we did something to Piglet.He's fine, as you can see. He is absolutely crazy about my room, messy though it is. When I let him out in the morning, he tears around like a madman, binkying. Between zooming sessions, he often pokes around in places he shouldn't. His current favorite is behind his cage, where he digs at the small piece of the carpet he can reach next to his rug. The small piece of carpet is behind my desk where many cords are also located. Piglet doesn't seem interested in cords, but I supervise him anyway. I can hear the cords moving around back there, but I think he's just digging them with the carpet.
His other new favorite place is behind my N64, which is located in a small alcove of my entertainment system. He's not the only animal that's been squeezed back there -- Ginny also thought that alcove was pretty neat when she visited in the past.
So Piglet seems fairly happy, even though he kind of likes to push the limits. And when we have to put him back in his cage, he tries to outrun us, but when we finally get him back in there, we generally get both the bunny finger AND thumping. Silly rabbit.
Then there's Anna the Naughty Lop. That bunny is hilarious. I've seen her jump up and climb her fence like a monkey. She's made it over the fence this way AND gotten on top of her cage. For a while, she would only escape intermittently, but that changed the other day. See, one night I was watching TV in my room, going out to check on Anna at every commercial break. Once, she was standing on the back of the couch, trying to break into her pellet bin sitting on the table. Smart rabbit! I put her back in her pen, where she stayed for most of the show. Then, about five minutes from the end of the show, I heard this crinkling sound. I dismissed it, but then heard it again. So I went to investigate. Anna was not in her pen. Nor was she in the den. When I heard the crinkling sound again, I followed it to find her in my sewing room, in the dark, standing on top of a pile of old pattern versions I had drafted. She hopped on out of there when she saw me, and I let her run around for a while before putting her back in her cage for the night.
Fast forward to the next morning. I fed Anna her pellets, then went to my room to let Piglet out. Anna devours her pellets and veggies as soon as I put them in her pen, so I knew I had at least ten minutes to let Piglet run. When I heard a crinkling sound, I figured it was my imagination. A few minutes later, I heard it again and this time I went straight into my sewing room to find a very naughty bunny who had pooped EVERYWHERE. She'd even peed on one of my pattern piles (but they were old drafts that I'd made, so they would've gotten thrown out anyway). When I got done laughing, I put her back into her cage.
Fast forward to that evening for veggie time. I was sitting on the couch where I could supervise that escape artist lop. She escaped while I was sitting there, and I watched her hop down the hall to my sewing room. Fortunately, I had remembered to close the door, and she kind of dug at it, all, "Damn, I can't get into my favorite room!" I let her run around for a while again, then put her back. But she would not stop jumping out of her pen. It was time to change things around.
Yesterday, John built the fence up higher around the majority of the pen. Anna was not happy with this -- she repeatedly tried to jump up and test the fence, not unlike a velociraptor. We found a few weak points, thanks to Anna's testing, and it appears to be lop-proof...for now. Anna was very happy that she got to come out of the cage, though, and she did a ton of binkies to show it.
Lops.
Anna also destroyed her girl scout cookie box -- here are some pictures of the process:
"Pulling my head back in..."
"Cardboard is yummy!"
And of course, the usual lop laziness:
"The whole front of my cage is empty, but I'm going to squeeze back here anyway."
Flop!
A couple of weeks ago, we went to JoAnn's where they had a sale on their Easter stuff. Naturally, we stocked up on stuff. Including a plush Easter basket for Alicia and Coco. These pictures show why we got the thing:
"I'm gonna run you bitches down."
"Seriously, I hate you guys."
Poor Coco! But how could we resist?
This entry is already way too long and I'd like to have time to do other stuff today, so I'll close with some Cinnapics.
Another cottage death!
This is pretty pathetic.
Teeth and floating paws.
That is one lazy lop.
Hope that makes up for the long break!
