Cardboard...the bunny tamer

People who have never owned or been around a pet bunny always think they are so cute but in all honesty they can be little monsters sometimes. Luckily we’ve weaned Sawyer and now Sophie for the most part from chewing on everything. I’ve bought all kinds of toys for them to play with but of all things their favorite by far is a cardboard box with toilet paper tubes being a close second. I find myself trying to scope out boxes at work to nick for the little boogers. Kent threw away their box on Sunday because they had made a hole in the bottom and had literally stripped the rest down to the outside paper. I put out a new one and I normally cut holes in the boxes and but his time I just turned it on its side and in just a few days they have already made a mess of it. Last night they were making such a ruckus you could hear it over the TV and of course that is the first place they headed after I let them out this morning. Gladly the cardboard is a great way to deal with bunny curiosity, aggression, O.C.D. or whatever it is. I’m going to have to break down and replace the box that we have their tunnel connected to too. We added it to keep the tunnel stable because every time Sophie ran through it, it would roll around on her. We have turned that box on all four sides and I noticed last night that even with the box on the end the tunnel as gotten wobbly, it no wonder if you look at how much of the box is left. The only thing really holding the whole thing together is the little thin piece of paper on the outside of the box. I’m not complaining though, I can get cardboard for free and that keeps them out of trouble.

Bunny Kisses!

The past couple nights I have been laying in the floor reading a paperback. One to be closer to the bunnies and two I was tired of sitting up to read. Sunday night they both came up to me and tried to take a nibble of my book. Sawyer learns quickly and after I told him no he didn't try it again either Sunday or last night, Sophie on the other hand has to be told no many times before she will ever give up. So last night I was in the floor with my favorite throw that I knitted thrown over me reading and Sophie tried to take a taste of my book again. I didn’t move quick enough so she got a nibble. When I started telling her she should eat other people’s books while they are reading them she started sniffing my face and actually gave me a little kiss on the nose. Sweet little thing, I told her thank you and she ran off to play with Sawyer. She may be a little terror sometimes but deep down she’s as sweet as Sawyer.

Raisins?

Last night Kent sat down on the couch with a bag of chips and got the bunnies all excited. They heard the bag rattling and thought “Raisins!” Their lifted their heads, got this excited look in their eyes and looked around waiting to see who was going to give them a treat. We always sit down in the floor and rattle the bag when we give them treats so they relate bag rattling to getting treats. I had already given them raisins early but as soon as they heard Kent’s bag they were looking for more treats. It was funny, you could almost see Sophie trying to get him to help her find the treats. She even kind of kissed him aka tried to steal whatever he was eating only to find he didn’t have a treat either. Sawyer just stared at us for a few minutes until he realized we weren’t moving down to the floor so he wasn’t really going to get a treat. Poor Sophie kept looking for treats and only after Kent offered her a smell of a 3 Musketeers, which she was completely offended by, did she finally give up. These two are spoiled rotten!

Bunnies are such little angels…when they are sleeping!

This morning Sawyer thumped at me again. The last time was the other night when I threw a blanket on top of him and Sophie. Sophie loved it but apparently Sawyer wasn’t in the mood so he ran out from under it, stood next to the cage, looked and me and thumped. This morning he did it after I moved their cage to the other side of the living room. I have to have a door to hook one of my exercise contraptions on and the only place I can is a few feet from their cage. I hadn’t let them out yet this morning so I thought I would just move their cage for a little while and would let them out to play after I was done. Sawyer didn’t like it so after I had set everything up I looked over to the cage to see him staring at me and watched the little booger thump at me. I ended up pushing the cage into the kitchen so that I could get my routine done. Afterwards I put the cage back and let them out. Sawyer didn’t even give me a chance to put the carpet down on the ramp before he was out and flicking his heels at me like he wasn’t happy with me.

He’s calmed down and he and Sophie have spent most of the day in one of their favorite spaces, under their cage. It funny, Sophie has this thing where she will see that Sawyer is laying up against the wall under the cage and she will run over and somehow flop her way in between Sawyer and the wall. Sawyer doesn’t seem to mind though, he just lays there with her wedged between him and the wall. He is such a sweet bunny when he wants to be.

What ya doin?

I normally put Sawyer and Sophie up whenever I work out but this morning they seemed so cozy taking naps under the cage that I figured they probably wouldn’t be the least bit concerned with me. Wrong! As soon as I put the exercise mat on the floor they were immediately on it sniffing, it’s not one of those ones that smell to high heaven so it looked like they took a liking to it. I put the DVD in and turned around to find two bunnies sitting on the mat looking at me. I shooed them off and started my workout. Sawyer sniffed, nudged me a little bit, chewed on my hair for a second and then ran off to play in one of the boxes. Sophie on the other hand stayed with me most of the time. She sniffed and nudged me too but seemed more interested in the mat and my exercise bar than me. Bunnies are so funny, you think they are sleeping and oblivious to what is going on but as soon as you put something new in the floor they are suddenly all noses!

Baby Sawyer

Today I though I would share a few more baby pictures of Sawyer, well he was actually three months old at the time but he was still a baby to me.

As you can see in the last picture he didn’t start out with the freedom that Sophie did. The fencing was only about a foot tall so once he figured out how to get out a second time we let him have most of the living room as a play area. The first time was probably the worst for me because we had left him in the pen and left the room. When I came back he was no where to be seen and my biggest fear was that he was chewing on something he wasn’t suppose to because since we had been keeping him in the pen I had yet to bunny proof anything. Of course the last place you think he’d be is where you find him. I had bought a rolling drawer thing to keep all his toys and such in and some how he had squeezed himself behind the thing. The second time he got himself in an even more impossible space, he apparently wiggled behind the entertainment center and Kent found him on the bottom part starring at him through the glass door.

Luckily for the most part he’s a good boy and with Sophie around he‘s even more well behaved.

New friends!

Sawyer and Sophie made a few new friends last night. Kent’s family stopped by last night and his nephew and niece, Ryan and Erica finally got to meet the little buns. Sawyer and Sophie have never been around kids before so I was interest to see how they would react. Surprisingly Sawyer was the more outgoing of the two last night. Sophie was a lot more cautious than usual while Sawyer seemed to like the attention and after a few raisins Ryan and Erica both got to pet the little ones. I’m proud of Sawyer and Sophie, I figured they would spend most of the time under the cage hiding out because they are not use to the commotion but they we actually curious and social. Buns will surprise you sometimes.

Poor Sophie!

Last night Kent came home late so I set the little ones plate of parsley out while I was fixing dinner. When I got home I didn’t realize that I was out of carrots so I just added some extra parsley to the plate, figuring they’d be ok for one day without them. After Kent got home and we set down to eat, I saw that Sophie had made a huge mess. There was a little bit of parsley on the plate and the rest was spread out in a radius of at least a foot around it. Luckily they are like little vacuums when it comes to parsley so there wasn’t really much to clean up. Poor little Sophie must have been determined to find a carrot, I guess I will just have to make sure that I don’t run out again.

Miss Grunty Pants!

Last night I thought I would lay in the floor with the little ones. Sawyer was off playing in the cardboard box and Sophie ended up laying about a foot away, facing me so I thought I would kind of scrape the carpet with my nails to see if she would come to me. Well ends up that she didn’t like it at all. I did it several times and she would kind of lunge at my hand. Kent urged me to keep doing it, of course it wasn’t her hand that was at risk! It wasn’t until he muted the TV that I heard her actually grunting at me when she lunged. The only other time I’ve heard her grunt was at Sawyer when they were having all of their issues. Though the grunting sound was kind of cute I really don’t want to get bit again so that’s the last time I try that!

Easter Bunnies

So I thought I would share a few Easter Bunny Pics!

First carrots, now apricots!

I am so glad that Sawyer has the patience of a Saint! Kent gave him a dried apricot last night and Sophie the little stinker pulled the whole thing out of his mouth. Thankfully Sawyer has started sticking up for himself and took it right back. She probably would have gotten it back from him though if Kent hadn’t have gotten her her own apricot. The funny thing is we did think she even liked apricots. On Sunday we clipped their nails and afterword we gave them apricot as a treat. We knew Sawyer liked them but we had never offered any to Sophie. I was kind of surprised when she didn’t seem to have any interest in the treat. So either she didn’t want it because she didn’t want anything to do with us because we just clipped her nails or she just wanted it because Sawyer was eating it. Well at least I can add apricot to her like list.


The other day I tried to give them a few new things to eat which ended up being pretty much a no on all of it. I bought a couple of lettuces, romaine and something else that I can’t remember the name of, and I thought I would share some of my fresh pineapple with them too. The lettuces got a so-so reception, the highlight being Sawyer stepping on the romaine to get to the parsley, the pineapple however was a complete bomb. I’ve tried giving Sawyer pineapple before and he just licked it and turned away, this time however he seemed to have an aversion to it worse than Sophie has to banana. Not once but twice he came up to me and sniffed it and the quickly ran under the cage. The second time was after I had fed the two a few raisins and as soon as I put the pineapple under his nose he ran away, poor thing. It’s been kind of discouraging though, trying to get them to like new things. Regardless of whether I put one new thing on the plate or two or three they always leave the new stuff, eat the parsley and carrots and leave whatever else is left. Oh well, there’s nothing to do but keep trying.