Scone went to his first Cub Scout meeting tonight, and he was a big hit!
The local HRS asked me if I could contact the Scout groups in my district to see if they'd make hay tubes for the bunnies in the shelters in this area. I posted the idea to our district website, and one of the Cortland packs asked me to come in and talk to the Cubs about it.
I had a circulating PowerPoint slide show running, showing pictures of Scone and other bunnies of as many different breeds as I could find (lots of LL bunnies, plus many from different rabbit shows). Once the Cubs settled in, I carried Scone around and let the Cubs pet him and feel how soft his fur is. Then I told them about rabbits, and they asked a lot of good questions. I explained that bunnies need to eat hay, and that they love to chew on cardboard, so they were going to make up some bunny toys. Then I turned them over to the Pack leaders. I had half a dozen different kinds of hay, and various flavor extracts to paint on the tubes - banana, strawberry, maple, mint, etc. (a suggestion from my contact at HRS). The Cubs went at it with a will - there was soon hay and spilled flavor extracts everywhere. In the end, they made up a large box full of stuffed hay tubes painted with a dizzying variety of flavors - the drive back home was aromatic, to say the least.
Meanwhile, I stayed with Scone and talked to the individual Cubs who came over to pet him and feed him parsley and kale and pieces of hay. Once the food started coming, he got over his nervousness quickly, and he really seemed to enjoy all the small hands petting him.
I had a bunch of flyers to hand out, and also made some posters of the rabbits the Upstate NY HRS had for adoption - you never know.
Once I got home, Scone ran under my bed to decompress, but it didn't take long for him to come back out and look for a handout.
Don't know about Scone, but I can't wait to do it again.
