SnowyShiloh
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Time for a new bunny blog!
About us: My name is Shiloh. I live with my fiance, Paul, in Alaska with our 3 bunnies, 5 rats and 2 cockatiels. I'm 25 but still in college because I just had to go and switch majors! I'm going to be an elementary school teacher and love kids as well as animals. My favorite things to do, other than look at, spoil, and cuddle my bunnies, are to read, cook, grow plants, and do any number of crafty things. Paul and I are getting married on August 1st, 2010. He is my best friend and does a great job of putting up with the bunnies even though he claims to not like them. That doesn't explain why I "catch" him petting them every day!
My bunnies:
Rory, short for Rhiordan Blackberry Bean, has the nicknames Wowo, Beanie, Beanie Weenie Tooter Man, and about 5 billion others. It's no wonder none of my pets know their names! He is 3 years old and is a Mini Lop or something. We got him shortly after I joined the forum. When I joined, we were planning to wait a year or so to get a bunny, but a forum member sent me the link to Rory's Petfinder page and I convinced Paul that night that we neeeeeded him. How right I was! Rory is my grumpy, bunny and linoleum hating, ultra disapproving, binkying, licking, cuddling baby boy and is undeniably my favorite bunny. The birthday we decided on for him is March 17th because he's my little Irish bunny and the vet said he was probably born sometime in March.
Phoebe Mae, short for Phoebe Marigold MacBinky, has the nicknames WeeWee, Tinkette, and tons more. Stupid nicknames, I know. It's like I don't have any control over what nicknames they get! She is a 1 year old Mini Rex-Holland Lop mix and so cute. She's very athletic, very smart, very feisty, very sweet, very cuddly, and very long eared. I think she looks exactly like a Mini Rex, but has longer ears like a Holland Lop and she has the regular for of a Holland Lop too. Oh and her second birthday will be our wedding date, August 1st!
Ned's full name is Ned Zaccheus Doodle. For some reason he has even more nicknames than the others. Neddie, Neddo, Nedders, Doodlebug, Tootles, Neddie Z, Ned Z Doodle (Nedsie Doodle), etc. I honestly have no idea how old he is or what breed he is. He's at least a year and a half old. Sometimes I get the feeling that he's older than the other bunnies, but I hope not because I want him to be young and live a long time. Neddie's defining characteristic is that he loves FOOD. Boy will eat anything, except for the fancy shmancy bunny treats I ordered online. We think he was never fed anything but pellets at his previous home because the first couple times we gave him other food, he didn't know what to do with it. Aside from loving food, Neddie is a a super sweet, snuggly, very innocent, possibly not very smart, and very endearing little guy who likes everyone. He has a sad story though. His previous owners ditched him at the animal shelter (we saw his page on Petfinder but Paul said 'no'), and the shelter staff stupidly put him in a cage with a MUCH larger unaltered male bunny. The big bunny ripped one of poor Nedders' ears off and bit the tip of the other ear off. So sad. Then he got adopted, but his new owner changed her mind after a week because her bunny hated him. Called us, we figured out he was the bunny we'd seen on Petfinder a couple of weeks earlier, and he came home to us! Yay for happy endings!
Sweet Neddie on his birthday (May 28th) a few days ago (no, he doesn't normally get cheesecake!):
I have three angel bunnies, too. Cinnabun was my first rabbit. I got him when I was 10 years old. He was my first pet. I can safely say that I was a fantastic young bunny owner, though I feel guilty about some of my bunny keeping practices because that was 15 years ago and the guidelines about how to care for bunnies has changed somewhat. Regardless, Cinny was a happy, very loved Netherland Dwarf who lived to the age of 7 (May 7, 2002). I'll always miss my Cinny. He is responsible for my deep love of and affinity with rabbits. I had to wait 5 loooong years to get another bunny after he passed away.
Tallulah still breaks my heart. I had her for 5 short months, but fell hopelessly in love with her during that time. She had a lot of health problems. We finally thought she had grown out of her health problems when she died suddenly. She's been gone for 2 years May 29, 1008), but I still miss my baby girl and hope to someday have another sweet little loppy baby like her (she was a Holland Lop). We got Ned almost 1 year after she died and I assigned him the birthday of May 28th so that the time around the day she died would be happy instead of sad.
Skyler is my most recent angel. He just passed away on May 13th, 2010 at the age of 2 1/2 years. Skyler was one of a kind. He was the cutest Dutch ever born and honestly I think one of the cutest rabbits I've ever seen. He had the sweetest little Marilyn Monroe style beauty mark on his cheek! His personality was awesome- very sweet and snuggly, happy, loved food, and would let complete strangers hold him and pet him. He came from another forum member (JAK Rabbitry) and actually traveled over 5,000 miles to get to us. Unfortunately, he had E. Cuniculi which was diagnosed back in December 2009, and that's what killed him. His last few months were surprisingly happy though, which I'll always be thankful for.
Okay, I still have to talk about the birds and rats, but I think I've written enough for now!
About us: My name is Shiloh. I live with my fiance, Paul, in Alaska with our 3 bunnies, 5 rats and 2 cockatiels. I'm 25 but still in college because I just had to go and switch majors! I'm going to be an elementary school teacher and love kids as well as animals. My favorite things to do, other than look at, spoil, and cuddle my bunnies, are to read, cook, grow plants, and do any number of crafty things. Paul and I are getting married on August 1st, 2010. He is my best friend and does a great job of putting up with the bunnies even though he claims to not like them. That doesn't explain why I "catch" him petting them every day!
My bunnies:
Rory, short for Rhiordan Blackberry Bean, has the nicknames Wowo, Beanie, Beanie Weenie Tooter Man, and about 5 billion others. It's no wonder none of my pets know their names! He is 3 years old and is a Mini Lop or something. We got him shortly after I joined the forum. When I joined, we were planning to wait a year or so to get a bunny, but a forum member sent me the link to Rory's Petfinder page and I convinced Paul that night that we neeeeeded him. How right I was! Rory is my grumpy, bunny and linoleum hating, ultra disapproving, binkying, licking, cuddling baby boy and is undeniably my favorite bunny. The birthday we decided on for him is March 17th because he's my little Irish bunny and the vet said he was probably born sometime in March.
Phoebe Mae, short for Phoebe Marigold MacBinky, has the nicknames WeeWee, Tinkette, and tons more. Stupid nicknames, I know. It's like I don't have any control over what nicknames they get! She is a 1 year old Mini Rex-Holland Lop mix and so cute. She's very athletic, very smart, very feisty, very sweet, very cuddly, and very long eared. I think she looks exactly like a Mini Rex, but has longer ears like a Holland Lop and she has the regular for of a Holland Lop too. Oh and her second birthday will be our wedding date, August 1st!
Ned's full name is Ned Zaccheus Doodle. For some reason he has even more nicknames than the others. Neddie, Neddo, Nedders, Doodlebug, Tootles, Neddie Z, Ned Z Doodle (Nedsie Doodle), etc. I honestly have no idea how old he is or what breed he is. He's at least a year and a half old. Sometimes I get the feeling that he's older than the other bunnies, but I hope not because I want him to be young and live a long time. Neddie's defining characteristic is that he loves FOOD. Boy will eat anything, except for the fancy shmancy bunny treats I ordered online. We think he was never fed anything but pellets at his previous home because the first couple times we gave him other food, he didn't know what to do with it. Aside from loving food, Neddie is a a super sweet, snuggly, very innocent, possibly not very smart, and very endearing little guy who likes everyone. He has a sad story though. His previous owners ditched him at the animal shelter (we saw his page on Petfinder but Paul said 'no'), and the shelter staff stupidly put him in a cage with a MUCH larger unaltered male bunny. The big bunny ripped one of poor Nedders' ears off and bit the tip of the other ear off. So sad. Then he got adopted, but his new owner changed her mind after a week because her bunny hated him. Called us, we figured out he was the bunny we'd seen on Petfinder a couple of weeks earlier, and he came home to us! Yay for happy endings!
Sweet Neddie on his birthday (May 28th) a few days ago (no, he doesn't normally get cheesecake!):
I have three angel bunnies, too. Cinnabun was my first rabbit. I got him when I was 10 years old. He was my first pet. I can safely say that I was a fantastic young bunny owner, though I feel guilty about some of my bunny keeping practices because that was 15 years ago and the guidelines about how to care for bunnies has changed somewhat. Regardless, Cinny was a happy, very loved Netherland Dwarf who lived to the age of 7 (May 7, 2002). I'll always miss my Cinny. He is responsible for my deep love of and affinity with rabbits. I had to wait 5 loooong years to get another bunny after he passed away.
Tallulah still breaks my heart. I had her for 5 short months, but fell hopelessly in love with her during that time. She had a lot of health problems. We finally thought she had grown out of her health problems when she died suddenly. She's been gone for 2 years May 29, 1008), but I still miss my baby girl and hope to someday have another sweet little loppy baby like her (she was a Holland Lop). We got Ned almost 1 year after she died and I assigned him the birthday of May 28th so that the time around the day she died would be happy instead of sad.
Skyler is my most recent angel. He just passed away on May 13th, 2010 at the age of 2 1/2 years. Skyler was one of a kind. He was the cutest Dutch ever born and honestly I think one of the cutest rabbits I've ever seen. He had the sweetest little Marilyn Monroe style beauty mark on his cheek! His personality was awesome- very sweet and snuggly, happy, loved food, and would let complete strangers hold him and pet him. He came from another forum member (JAK Rabbitry) and actually traveled over 5,000 miles to get to us. Unfortunately, he had E. Cuniculi which was diagnosed back in December 2009, and that's what killed him. His last few months were surprisingly happy though, which I'll always be thankful for.
Okay, I still have to talk about the birds and rats, but I think I've written enough for now!
