AmberNBuns
Well-Known Member
Thank you all for your friendygreetings! Finally I have found a rabbit forum with some activity. Yes, it has been 3 years since I lost my first 2 bunnies, and it doesn't seem that long ago.
My name is Amber, and My Fiance's name is Nick. We started out with a pit-bull/sharpei/??? puppy 2 years ago. Her name is Little Lady (After her mother, Lady)
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Last November, Nick's mom found a rabbit in her yard, and amazingly, it was SO TAME that it let her catch it. She called us up and offered him to us. I was not expecting to want him, just because it was so hard to lose my rabbits before and, to tell you the truth, I didn't think there was a chance that any other bunny could be as wonderful as Benny and Thumper.
Well it was definitely love at first sight. I was so impressed by how well he tolerated being handled. And he was really affectionate. So we took him home that night.
Nick wanted to call him Stew. I said no way, but we did decide to name him Kibbles, as a compromise, I guess. We almost called him nuts, because he has an underdeveloped testicle - For a long time we thought he had just one. heh heh...
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So this was the new love of my life. (second to Nick of course ) We went to the pet store to get all the necessities, but we couldn't afford a cage at the time. So we put kibbles in the bathtub. He seemed pretty comfortable in there, with a towel spread out so he didn't slip. It was nice because it ensured that I didn't ever neglect to visit him, even on my busiest of days.
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[align=left]One day he discovered he could jump out of the bathtub. So we allowed him the entire bathroom. He hadhis food and water and box in the tub, but he would hangout on the mat all day. We just kept the lid down and the door closed, with a "bun on the run" sign on the outside of the door. Our friends think we are strange or something.[/align]
[align=left]I moved him to our bedroom for a while, but it was a bit too much space for him to have if we wanted him to keep his litter training. (He is not neutered yet) But it was fun for awhile. We had a couch right next to our bed and Kibbles would jump on to the arm, and then do a bounce bounce plop move across both of our heads and down to the floor on the other side. Every Single Night. Drove us nuts. Back in the bathroom he went...[/align]
[align=left]I began to notice that he was not seeming too happy. One day I was out and about with my sister, and we stopped in at the pet store. OMG there was the cutest little bunny in with the guinea pigs. He is a Netherland Dwarf, I believe. I picked him up and he was pretty calm about beinghandled also. I just didn't want to leave. I didn't think Nick would go for another rabbit, but I asked them to hold him anyways. We went home, and I told him that Kibbles was sadand I could make him better for $30... He was surprisingly unopposed to the idea. I think by now he had been bitten by the bunny charm... We went down right then and picked him up.[/align]
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[align=left]We decided to call him Theodore, because he looks like a little chipmunk. We introduced Kibbles and Theodore, and it didn't take 10 seconds for Kibbles to figure out what to do...:shock: So I was a little disappointed, though not surprised, that it was going to be a while before they can become friends.[/align]
[align=left]Kibbles was just in love with Theodore. We put Theodore in the tub, and put wire across the top with a door in the middle. Then we put a shelf on each end of the bathtub. Kibbles would sit up there and watch Theodore all day.(I had to give him a stuffed animal so he wasn't too frustrated...)[/align]
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[align=left]Kibbles was a whole new bunny. He was friendly and social again! He started approaching people and soliciting attention when the went in the bathroom by pawing up their leg. I thought this was just great![/align]
[align=left]Well a couple of weeks later, Kibbles started spraying. I have never seen a rabbit do so much! I was able to tolerate it for quite a while. I would just cleanup every single day. Well, we went out of town for 3 nights last weekend and my sister was checking up on them each day.Apparently, while we were gone, Kibbles had made the most grand masterpiece of them all in our bathroom. (I didn't know we had such an acrobat) And it seems that Theodore was just about fed up with all this. We came back to 2 grumpy bunnies, one with a big bite in his nose.[/align]
[align=left]They say that Netherland Dwarf Males can have temper problems. They are obviously right. Kibbles probably put his nose down for a nuzzle and gave Theodore a chance to express his displeasure. I took him to the vet today and his nose should be fine, but I don't think it will completely come back together the way it was. Needless to say, Kibbles is in a pretty bad mood now. I was worried that he would stop eating because he kept bumping his nose on his pellets, but to my relief he is eating his pellets. He just started cleaning his face again yesterday. We moved him back into our room for now, and he has an appointment with a pair of scissors next Thursday.[/align]
[align=left]So that's the story (most of it) of AmberNBuns.It is nice to meet all of you. Finally I have a place where I can blog about my rabbits and there will be someone interested enough to read it. I will post more pictures if you guys like. I have a ton. Not just of my bunnies either. I have an addiction to bunny pictures and I save most of the ones I see on the Internet. (That's where I found my avatar) They are just the most amazingly cute intriguing and beautiful animals I have ever known.[/align]
[align=left]What can I say? I am one of you guys... [/align]
My name is Amber, and My Fiance's name is Nick. We started out with a pit-bull/sharpei/??? puppy 2 years ago. Her name is Little Lady (After her mother, Lady)
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Last November, Nick's mom found a rabbit in her yard, and amazingly, it was SO TAME that it let her catch it. She called us up and offered him to us. I was not expecting to want him, just because it was so hard to lose my rabbits before and, to tell you the truth, I didn't think there was a chance that any other bunny could be as wonderful as Benny and Thumper.
Well it was definitely love at first sight. I was so impressed by how well he tolerated being handled. And he was really affectionate. So we took him home that night.
Nick wanted to call him Stew. I said no way, but we did decide to name him Kibbles, as a compromise, I guess. We almost called him nuts, because he has an underdeveloped testicle - For a long time we thought he had just one. heh heh...
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So this was the new love of my life. (second to Nick of course ) We went to the pet store to get all the necessities, but we couldn't afford a cage at the time. So we put kibbles in the bathtub. He seemed pretty comfortable in there, with a towel spread out so he didn't slip. It was nice because it ensured that I didn't ever neglect to visit him, even on my busiest of days.
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[align=left]One day he discovered he could jump out of the bathtub. So we allowed him the entire bathroom. He hadhis food and water and box in the tub, but he would hangout on the mat all day. We just kept the lid down and the door closed, with a "bun on the run" sign on the outside of the door. Our friends think we are strange or something.[/align]
[align=left]I moved him to our bedroom for a while, but it was a bit too much space for him to have if we wanted him to keep his litter training. (He is not neutered yet) But it was fun for awhile. We had a couch right next to our bed and Kibbles would jump on to the arm, and then do a bounce bounce plop move across both of our heads and down to the floor on the other side. Every Single Night. Drove us nuts. Back in the bathroom he went...[/align]
[align=left]I began to notice that he was not seeming too happy. One day I was out and about with my sister, and we stopped in at the pet store. OMG there was the cutest little bunny in with the guinea pigs. He is a Netherland Dwarf, I believe. I picked him up and he was pretty calm about beinghandled also. I just didn't want to leave. I didn't think Nick would go for another rabbit, but I asked them to hold him anyways. We went home, and I told him that Kibbles was sadand I could make him better for $30... He was surprisingly unopposed to the idea. I think by now he had been bitten by the bunny charm... We went down right then and picked him up.[/align]
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[align=left]We decided to call him Theodore, because he looks like a little chipmunk. We introduced Kibbles and Theodore, and it didn't take 10 seconds for Kibbles to figure out what to do...:shock: So I was a little disappointed, though not surprised, that it was going to be a while before they can become friends.[/align]
[align=left]Kibbles was just in love with Theodore. We put Theodore in the tub, and put wire across the top with a door in the middle. Then we put a shelf on each end of the bathtub. Kibbles would sit up there and watch Theodore all day.(I had to give him a stuffed animal so he wasn't too frustrated...)[/align]
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[align=left]Kibbles was a whole new bunny. He was friendly and social again! He started approaching people and soliciting attention when the went in the bathroom by pawing up their leg. I thought this was just great![/align]
[align=left]Well a couple of weeks later, Kibbles started spraying. I have never seen a rabbit do so much! I was able to tolerate it for quite a while. I would just cleanup every single day. Well, we went out of town for 3 nights last weekend and my sister was checking up on them each day.Apparently, while we were gone, Kibbles had made the most grand masterpiece of them all in our bathroom. (I didn't know we had such an acrobat) And it seems that Theodore was just about fed up with all this. We came back to 2 grumpy bunnies, one with a big bite in his nose.[/align]
[align=left]They say that Netherland Dwarf Males can have temper problems. They are obviously right. Kibbles probably put his nose down for a nuzzle and gave Theodore a chance to express his displeasure. I took him to the vet today and his nose should be fine, but I don't think it will completely come back together the way it was. Needless to say, Kibbles is in a pretty bad mood now. I was worried that he would stop eating because he kept bumping his nose on his pellets, but to my relief he is eating his pellets. He just started cleaning his face again yesterday. We moved him back into our room for now, and he has an appointment with a pair of scissors next Thursday.[/align]
[align=left]So that's the story (most of it) of AmberNBuns.It is nice to meet all of you. Finally I have a place where I can blog about my rabbits and there will be someone interested enough to read it. I will post more pictures if you guys like. I have a ton. Not just of my bunnies either. I have an addiction to bunny pictures and I save most of the ones I see on the Internet. (That's where I found my avatar) They are just the most amazingly cute intriguing and beautiful animals I have ever known.[/align]
[align=left]What can I say? I am one of you guys... [/align]