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We are thinking Peter and I want to get him a little blue jacket. 
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Thank you for helping these bunnies! 
I had a bunny when I was a kid. His name was Bun (creative- I know..)
He was sweet but did have quite a bit of sass. I used to walk him outside with a harness and leash. He was a gray dwarf bunny. He was so cute.
I had a bunny when I was a kid. His name was Bun (creative- I know..
)He was sweet but did have quite a bit of sass. I used to walk him outside with a harness and leash. He was a gray dwarf bunny. He was so cute.
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Peter in his new hutch. It just got set up today. The upstairs has bedding, food and water while the downstairs is grass and a chew block. During the daytime the bottom door is open and he can run around an area about 30 square feet. His neuter will be on halloween.
that's a lovely hutch for Peter!!! 
he really is a very good looking boy!
he really is a very good looking boy!
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Peter is really loving the hutch. It seems his favorite time is morning zoomies with the cats. They dash around the yard and he follows their moves inside his area. Link usually goes over at some point to pat him through the bars. Rocket dashes up to the bars then runs away as soon as Peter hops to where she is.
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This is what an annoyed bunny looks like....
Peter got neutered today. Rabbits are prone to bad reactions to anaesthesia and medications in general. But Peter did beautifully and just has after surgery groggy head.
He gets to keep the cone of shame on for 2 weeks. He is very unhappy about it and showing it. The cats are unhappy about the intruder in their house. But we need to have an eye on him for the next 48 hours to make sure he is eating.
Peter got neutered today. Rabbits are prone to bad reactions to anaesthesia and medications in general. But Peter did beautifully and just has after surgery groggy head.
He gets to keep the cone of shame on for 2 weeks. He is very unhappy about it and showing it. The cats are unhappy about the intruder in their house. But we need to have an eye on him for the next 48 hours to make sure he is eating.
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I am glad this rabbit is being taken care of. Thank you.
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Peter's cone turned into a yoke. The cone he took off so many times and was annoyed with. The yoke is a tube of cloth wrapped in tape and then taped around his neck. He can (and has) chew through it but it stays fairly well. It Let a him groom his face and side but not his surgery site. He also can eat, play and move well with it on. It's been long enough that he can go back outside but the yoke stays one still. He's been happy hopping around despite the yoke.
I want Peter to teach a medication class to other animals. You put his syringe within a foot of his face and he runs to it. He happily licks up all his pain meds and then antibiotics before nudging us for more. Why couldn't my cats be so good?
I want Peter to teach a medication class to other animals. You put his syringe within a foot of his face and he runs to it. He happily licks up all his pain meds and then antibiotics before nudging us for more. Why couldn't my cats be so good?
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- You must be a magician. A bunny and a Snowshoe in the same house together? That's like putting Anwar Sadat and King Farouk together in a lifeboat.
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Kieka
- You must be a magician. A bunny and a Snowshoe in the same house together? That's like putting Anwar Sadat and King Farouk together in a lifeboat..
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I am starting to think Peter might be a color point rabbit. He's changing color...
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Very cool! I didn’t even know that there were colorpoint rabbits!
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I didn't either but he is definitely changing color. Either color point or poor nutrition left him snowy white. In the rabbit world they apparently call it frosty if their eyes aren't red, if I am reading things right.Very cool! I didn’t even know that there were colorpoint rabbits!
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Very cool! I didn’t even know that there were colorpoint rabbits!
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- Marguerita Goforth chose the name, "Himalayan," for her original registration of her cats with the CFA in 1957 naming the new breed after the Himalayan Rabbit (Lepus nigripes), noted in natural history books in English at least from early 1861 [Magazine of Natural History; Volume 37; January, 1861, page 421] forward..
Aw, such a beautiful rabbit! I don't understand why people just dump pets. Animals are sentient and have feelings too. How would the owners like it if someone dumped them somewhere?
I'm glad you've taken the rabbit in. I think Snowdrop would be a cute name! Or Thumper, as in Disney - I've always thought that would be a cute rabbit name.
I'm glad you've taken the rabbit in. I think Snowdrop would be a cute name! Or Thumper, as in Disney - I've always thought that would be a cute rabbit name.
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We ended up going with Peter. He can be a handful at times so it's a fairly good name for him. Just this afternoon he threw his food dish down the stairs in his hutch. I am fairly certain it's because I dared be a day late cleaning the hutch. As soon as I changed bedding and hay in his den he calmed down.
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Peter Update: Peter discovered digging. He's a rabbit. Rabbits dig. So we are not upset but the placement of the hole was problematic. Mainly his apparent desire for a back door out of his hutch which would mean predators could come in. Not the best idea, but A for effort on his part.
He had been making an indent for a while. Right under his ladder and he would cover it with his wooden check blocks whenever we checked it. But then in the last week the bun went crazy with the digging.
I just love his dedication to spread out the dirt from the tunnel nice and evenly in a huge arch along the fence. He is such a character and so determined.
But his tunnel broke through the surface outside his hutch so it had to be handled. This was his "I ain't doing nothing" face as I poked at the hole to see how deep it was. Notice the extremely dirty face?
So of course, we had to fortify his hutch. In filling in the tunnel we found his wooden grape toy and a carrot he was apparently saving. He really does portion out his fresh food each evening so that he has something to much on all day long (he has plenty of hay and pellets too but he loves kale, romaine, parsley and cilantro).
He was really (really) not happy about the floor. He was slamming his wooden blocks around in protest for a good while. He is also moving hay downstairs to cover the ground. Something I just noticed tonight so I will give him some extra for downstairs.
I also gave him freeze dried strawberries and bananas tonight as an apology. Which he absolutely loved and didn't even save any so I may have been forgiven.
We are planning on expanding his area and since he desperately wanted a tunnel we are thinking of making a two section thing with a tunnel connecting them. Just have to figure out the details and make sure the spot will work.
He had been making an indent for a while. Right under his ladder and he would cover it with his wooden check blocks whenever we checked it. But then in the last week the bun went crazy with the digging.
I just love his dedication to spread out the dirt from the tunnel nice and evenly in a huge arch along the fence. He is such a character and so determined.
But his tunnel broke through the surface outside his hutch so it had to be handled. This was his "I ain't doing nothing" face as I poked at the hole to see how deep it was. Notice the extremely dirty face?
So of course, we had to fortify his hutch. In filling in the tunnel we found his wooden grape toy and a carrot he was apparently saving. He really does portion out his fresh food each evening so that he has something to much on all day long (he has plenty of hay and pellets too but he loves kale, romaine, parsley and cilantro).
He was really (really) not happy about the floor. He was slamming his wooden blocks around in protest for a good while. He is also moving hay downstairs to cover the ground. Something I just noticed tonight so I will give him some extra for downstairs.
I also gave him freeze dried strawberries and bananas tonight as an apology. Which he absolutely loved and didn't even save any so I may have been forgiven.
We are planning on expanding his area and since he desperately wanted a tunnel we are thinking of making a two section thing with a tunnel connecting them. Just have to figure out the details and make sure the spot will work.
