MILU
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Bilém was adopted on August 20, and that same night I got a new bunny to foster, her name is Carrot.
She was REALLY scared and shy when she first got here. She almost didn't eat, ran away when anyone got closer, and if I tried to touch her when she ran to hide inside the cage, she'd hit the cage walls trying to escape. Really sad.
This is how she was before:
Carrot when she got here:
I had put some mattresses next to the walls to make the bunny area warmer. My other bunny Bilém was a saint, she never touched them. They were still there when Carrot got here, but she decided to have some fun. The pics were taken after half the mess was already cleaned!!
Carrot is white and yellow. It seems like the yellow is actually her color too, I thought it was something else at first.. but she has patches of different fur colors and texture.
I thought it'd take forever to be able to touch her.. but I was wrong! She let me touch her this afternoon. She was still afraid, and would run away, but first she let me pet her and I could see she enjoyed it.
She was really quiet this afternoon, I only knew she wasn't sick 'cause she ate a whole lot of food. More than my fat Bilém used to eat. But this evening (last evening at this point!) she showed me she's not at all as fragile as I thought she was.
There's no door in the bunny area, it connects to the kitchen. I used a box (with a plastic table still in it) to close the door. It's as tall as half a door, it works fine. Not even fat Bilém and her troublemaker friend together could put it down, and they tried it. But my precious, little, FRAGILE Carrot did it. She's been breaking out of her area the whole night, I don't know what to do. I'm going crazy constructing and engineering barricades, she either puts them down or flies over them, it's unbelievable what this tiny little bunny can do! She jumps the box that is 3-4 feet tall!! I SAW IT twice, I was afraid she's break a leg, this bunny is crazy!! My fear is that someone opens the balcony door and she goes there and jumps from the balcony. I live on a high floor. That door is now closed, but people here always open it
I carried 5.2 water jugs to put in the barricade, heavy sheets of wood, a chair, etc, I add more and more items, she's STILL jumping it, she's just done it again while I write this! I'm desperate, don't know what to do anymore. Even if I decide to put a door there, it'll take some days, so I need another way to stop her.. and I'm afraid she'll eat the door and shred it to pieces like she's been doing to everything else. Ideas are more than welcome!!
On the good side, she already let me touch her (a little bit then runs away) and tonight she let me kiss her head, I kissed her even more than once.. awwww ! So sweet! I could hardly believe that little scared bunny would be so full of personality and strength!
I hope she stops jumping out of her area, she can get really hurt doing that.. I lost count of how many times she did it tonight..
My barricade keeps getting new stuff.. nothing seems to stop this tiny little bunny!!
Obsolete model of barricade (didn't last 20 minutes)
This is more or less what the "barricade" looks like now..
It feels like one of those cartoons in which characters runs really far from a Woody Woodpecker (or a ghost, whoever), they somewhere and put all sorts of stuff behind the door to block it, then realize Woody (or the ghost) is into the room with them... LOL they get crazy trying to figure out how that happened..
It's always seemed too "cartoony" or unreal to me, now I know where they got inspiration to write this kind of story!! haha
She was REALLY scared and shy when she first got here. She almost didn't eat, ran away when anyone got closer, and if I tried to touch her when she ran to hide inside the cage, she'd hit the cage walls trying to escape. Really sad.
This is how she was before:
Carrot when she got here:
I had put some mattresses next to the walls to make the bunny area warmer. My other bunny Bilém was a saint, she never touched them. They were still there when Carrot got here, but she decided to have some fun. The pics were taken after half the mess was already cleaned!!
Carrot is white and yellow. It seems like the yellow is actually her color too, I thought it was something else at first.. but she has patches of different fur colors and texture.
I thought it'd take forever to be able to touch her.. but I was wrong! She let me touch her this afternoon. She was still afraid, and would run away, but first she let me pet her and I could see she enjoyed it.
She was really quiet this afternoon, I only knew she wasn't sick 'cause she ate a whole lot of food. More than my fat Bilém used to eat. But this evening (last evening at this point!) she showed me she's not at all as fragile as I thought she was.
There's no door in the bunny area, it connects to the kitchen. I used a box (with a plastic table still in it) to close the door. It's as tall as half a door, it works fine. Not even fat Bilém and her troublemaker friend together could put it down, and they tried it. But my precious, little, FRAGILE Carrot did it. She's been breaking out of her area the whole night, I don't know what to do. I'm going crazy constructing and engineering barricades, she either puts them down or flies over them, it's unbelievable what this tiny little bunny can do! She jumps the box that is 3-4 feet tall!! I SAW IT twice, I was afraid she's break a leg, this bunny is crazy!! My fear is that someone opens the balcony door and she goes there and jumps from the balcony. I live on a high floor. That door is now closed, but people here always open it
I carried 5.2 water jugs to put in the barricade, heavy sheets of wood, a chair, etc, I add more and more items, she's STILL jumping it, she's just done it again while I write this! I'm desperate, don't know what to do anymore. Even if I decide to put a door there, it'll take some days, so I need another way to stop her.. and I'm afraid she'll eat the door and shred it to pieces like she's been doing to everything else. Ideas are more than welcome!!
On the good side, she already let me touch her (a little bit then runs away) and tonight she let me kiss her head, I kissed her even more than once.. awwww ! So sweet! I could hardly believe that little scared bunny would be so full of personality and strength!
I hope she stops jumping out of her area, she can get really hurt doing that.. I lost count of how many times she did it tonight..
My barricade keeps getting new stuff.. nothing seems to stop this tiny little bunny!!
Obsolete model of barricade (didn't last 20 minutes)
This is more or less what the "barricade" looks like now..
It feels like one of those cartoons in which characters runs really far from a Woody Woodpecker (or a ghost, whoever), they somewhere and put all sorts of stuff behind the door to block it, then realize Woody (or the ghost) is into the room with them... LOL they get crazy trying to figure out how that happened..
It's always seemed too "cartoony" or unreal to me, now I know where they got inspiration to write this kind of story!! haha
