Grumble! I had a post halfway written and I hit backspace and my browser went "Back" and I lost the whole post. Blargh. Boo!
Ok, starting over - We decided to name her Phoebe! Lisa Kudrow has forever tainted the name Phoebe, but I think my bunny can make it work
Phoebe is the biggest eater I have ever met. I woke up yesterday and saw that she had eaten every last piece of hay in her litter box. ALL of it. Yikes! :shock::shock::shock:So I gave her a quick handful to tide her over until I could wash up and dive into my morning bun routine. I came back and saw that she finished the whole handful of hay. :shock:There's no stopping this girl!
She is a real drinker too. She slurps up a whole big bowl of water every day. When I am pouring pellets into her dish, she eats them in midair as they are falling. You'd think I never fed her! She is the first to finish her salad too. Usually within a couple of hours, the big plate of greens would be gone. She's not greedy about it, she just likes to eat. She poops big ones :biggrin2:
I rushed to Ikea to get her a hay rack like my two boys have. I attached it to the side of her litter box so she'd always have some excess hay to chew on. But er, she fails to understand that she should go IN the box to eat the hay in the rack. She stands on the side and eats from the rack outside of the litter box. And of course, then she poops where she stands... well, you get the idea. I took the rack away because of this... I might put it back one day when she is better litter trained. For nowI'm just going to give her tons of hay in the litter box instead.
I've been having trouble with her peeing everywhere. It was really frustrating me. She was peeing on the floor several times a day. It wouldn't be such a big deal but I have a layer of flooring over my hardwood floor and she likes to pee just over the edge of the flooring so it seeps underneath... and spreads! One small puddle of pee spread into about 4 sq feet of wetness under the flooring... and I had to clean it several times a day. I was getting pretty sick of it and there was no reason for it. I got her a big litter box and she was peeing most of the time in there. Some of the time she just decided to pee outside the box. :grumpy:
She might be marking the territory but she might also be doing this because of the sheer amount of space she has now. She had the whole rectangular shaped8 panel puppy pen to herself, more space than she's ever had before. She was thrilled. But I had to managethis situation... I shrunk the pen to 6 panels and made it more like a circular shape so she'd have more space. She seems no less happy about it and it's still more space than she had before she came home with me. And guess what? She stopped peeing all over the place. She went in the litter box all day today since 11:30am when I made the size change.
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Edit to add: The feel of her fur is kind of rough. She has a patch of fur that is downright tough! I don't know what that is about, but overall her coat is kind of ehhh... I think with some time and good care her coat will improve. It was funny because I was petting her and then I looked over at Kirby. Kirby's coat is so shiny and beautiful. He is absolutely gorgeous (I can't help gushing over him, sorry!). Then I looked at Phoebe and her coat just looked kind of sad
On top of that she is molting... or she was molting? She has a line where the old and new fur has divided on her body and it doesn't look like it's moved much. I haven't gotten to brushing her yet but we'll get there. She'll be beautiful-er one day!
