Marrie
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I adopted Powder near the end of April, he was living in the humane society shelter since October 19th! Poor baby. They had no luck placing him because the kids who came in thought his eyes were scary.
They gave us a carrier to bring him home in and it took him 15 minutes to come out. He started exploring the house and even gave us a few sniffs. The slightest noise set him off back into his carrier though.
He met Thanos, our crazy cockatiel. Thanos tried to bite him when Powder gave him a sniff, scared the poor bunny!
(that is a picture of Thanos as a baby, he has since lost the pearls since he is male ... and grown back out his tail feathers so he isn't a duck butt anymore! And don't worry the straw was clean since the cup had just been brought home.)
First day Powder spent under our bird cage. He was scared and not quite sure about us. The lady had asked if I wanted to hold him at the shelter, but I declined as I didn't want his first experience with me to be a bad one (since bunnies hate being held).
Second day he started exploring more - he discovered the hallway with hardwood floors, but didn't want to get off the carpet.
By the third day he was out of his shell and sleeping under my computer chair. He began following me about the house, if I walked I had a rabbit underfoot. He started doing binkies the first day, but really started doing binkies and bunny 500s by the 3rd, he was going nuts with freedom!
From day one he was using his litter box, so he had full run of the house. We were putting him to bed in a cage at night, but as of a few nights ago we stopped that. He is cage phobic and I see no reason to stress him out nightly. I am trying to get him used to the cage in case he ever needs to be restricted for health reasons, but he is now allowed to sleep in our bedroom. He's quite happy about it.
This morning we were sleeping and Powder came running into the bedroom and jumped right up on the bed at 7am, on a Sunday. Argh. He was jumping around the bed like "wake up, wake up, it's time to play!" ... he got down and we went back to sleep and 15 minutes later he was up again. Gave up and just got out of bed. lol
When Powder gets his veggies now, I put a smaller pile to the side so he and the cockatiel can eat together. My tiel tries to preen him, but Powder runs like he's been bitten, think my tiel pulls out his fur when preening (given, when he preens my hair he pulls out my hairs).
And anywhere I go, I have a bunny with me. He follows me everywhere around the house, he even chased me into the bathroom for my shower this morning. He is independent enough to sleep in his room during the afternoons though for a nap and he doesn't get destructive if I have to go out.
He will be neutered soon and then we hope to adopt a second bun for him to bond with, after some thorough research on bonding!
I will get some pictures of the bird and bun eating their salads together when I get a new camera up and running. My camera battery stopped holding a charge... it was 6 years old so I need a new one anyway!
They gave us a carrier to bring him home in and it took him 15 minutes to come out. He started exploring the house and even gave us a few sniffs. The slightest noise set him off back into his carrier though.
He met Thanos, our crazy cockatiel. Thanos tried to bite him when Powder gave him a sniff, scared the poor bunny!
(that is a picture of Thanos as a baby, he has since lost the pearls since he is male ... and grown back out his tail feathers so he isn't a duck butt anymore! And don't worry the straw was clean since the cup had just been brought home.)
First day Powder spent under our bird cage. He was scared and not quite sure about us. The lady had asked if I wanted to hold him at the shelter, but I declined as I didn't want his first experience with me to be a bad one (since bunnies hate being held).
Second day he started exploring more - he discovered the hallway with hardwood floors, but didn't want to get off the carpet.
By the third day he was out of his shell and sleeping under my computer chair. He began following me about the house, if I walked I had a rabbit underfoot. He started doing binkies the first day, but really started doing binkies and bunny 500s by the 3rd, he was going nuts with freedom!
From day one he was using his litter box, so he had full run of the house. We were putting him to bed in a cage at night, but as of a few nights ago we stopped that. He is cage phobic and I see no reason to stress him out nightly. I am trying to get him used to the cage in case he ever needs to be restricted for health reasons, but he is now allowed to sleep in our bedroom. He's quite happy about it.
This morning we were sleeping and Powder came running into the bedroom and jumped right up on the bed at 7am, on a Sunday. Argh. He was jumping around the bed like "wake up, wake up, it's time to play!" ... he got down and we went back to sleep and 15 minutes later he was up again. Gave up and just got out of bed. lol
When Powder gets his veggies now, I put a smaller pile to the side so he and the cockatiel can eat together. My tiel tries to preen him, but Powder runs like he's been bitten, think my tiel pulls out his fur when preening (given, when he preens my hair he pulls out my hairs).
And anywhere I go, I have a bunny with me. He follows me everywhere around the house, he even chased me into the bathroom for my shower this morning. He is independent enough to sleep in his room during the afternoons though for a nap and he doesn't get destructive if I have to go out.
He will be neutered soon and then we hope to adopt a second bun for him to bond with, after some thorough research on bonding!
I will get some pictures of the bird and bun eating their salads together when I get a new camera up and running. My camera battery stopped holding a charge... it was 6 years old so I need a new one anyway!