bengal77
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Date: Thursday January 28th, 2010
It has been almost two weeks now since Lily joined our family. Lily is a sable point small lop mix who I rescued from a local rabbit rescue. She loves to eat parsley, mint, and hay. She absolutely loves apple, banana, and dried cranberries and will sit in my lap for a treat. She has settled in nicely to her now home and new cage. I spent hours researching different cages and finally decided to build a C&C cage. It took me about 6 hours from start to finish. Her cage is a simple 2 x 3 x 2 design using the 14 inch NIC cubes, cardboard, and vinyl kitchen shelf liners. She has a ledge and a step up instead of a ramp and she loves to sprawl out underneath the ledge and take short naps. I want to give a big thank you to the person who wrote detailed instructions on building a litter box cover using the white grid fluorescent lighting panel and crazy glue. I love that she can sit in her litter box and munch on hay while keeping her feet clean as she goes potty.
Iâm so surprised that Lily is completely fine with the dogs and cats. The dogs are elderly and leave her alone for the most part but one of our cats, Gigi, likes to sit outside of the playpen and watch Lily playing with her toys. Itâs so cute when the cat goes up to the pen because Lily will come over to her and theyâll sniff noses for a few seconds before Gigi gets bored and wanders off to go do other cat things. And Lily is such a curious little thing. The way that I have her cage set up is that her C&C cage is against the wall and an 11 panel animal play pen is hooked to each side so that it encircles half of it. That way I can simply open up her cage and Lily can come and go as she pleases. To make cage cleaning and daily maintenance easier I have two plastic storage tubs inside of the playpen and against the wall. The bottom one contains the Yesterdayâs News Litter that I use in her litter pans, and the top one contains her food, toys, treats, and bags of hay.
Well, today Lily discovered that she can jump onto the lid of the bottom container. So far she hasnât figured out how to escape the play pen, but Iâll have to keep a careful eye on her during play time. My mother and I had bought some cord protectors from the hardware store and today we decided to start our bunny-proofing. Since Lilyâs cage is in the living room we have to be extra careful that every cord is wrapped and taped in case she manages to escape one day. I donât have any plans of letting her be a free-roam bunny because of many factors, but I like to be prepared. You donât plan on having accidents, but it doesnât hurt to prepare for the worst. We got most of the cords wrapped but weâll have to buy more later today. Which is fine, we needed to make a trip anyways.
I believe that Lily is quite happy in her new home. Today she decided to binky around in her play pen. She did this for several minutes and it was just about the cutest thing that I have ever seen. Since her cage is on tile we spread out a blanket but she still couldnât get much traction without sliding around. She looked more like she was having an epileptic fit while jumping but she seemed to be enjoying herself. I certainly know that we had a lot of fun watching her dance around amongst her toys.
On another note, Lilyâs spay surgery is scheduled for Monday. I donât know why Iâm worried since Iâve been through this before with our dogs (the cats came spayed/neutered). I guess itâs because sheâs so small, only 4 pounds. Iâve been reading up on post op after care and there is a lot of conflicting advice. E-collars seem to be a heavily debated topic. Some of what Iâve come across has been helpful, though. For example, Iâm going to ask for internal dissolving sutures and external surgical glue. Since Lily is so new to our household and she doesnât like being picked up or held and I donât think that Iâll be able to check her stitching every day like you are supposed to. She isnât much of a chewer, though, so I probably shouldnât be too worried. I also watched some videos on how to administer medication and hide pills in treats. I feel like I am fairly well prepared. Iâm glad that Lilyâs foster mother will be available to come over if I need help. She only lives 20 miles away so itâs a quick drive if I need help.
Anyways, here are the photos that I took of her on her first night home. Her cage has since then changed a bit and had a few additions and substitutions. I will take more recent pics and upload them as soon as I can find my camera charger or buy a new one.
It has been almost two weeks now since Lily joined our family. Lily is a sable point small lop mix who I rescued from a local rabbit rescue. She loves to eat parsley, mint, and hay. She absolutely loves apple, banana, and dried cranberries and will sit in my lap for a treat. She has settled in nicely to her now home and new cage. I spent hours researching different cages and finally decided to build a C&C cage. It took me about 6 hours from start to finish. Her cage is a simple 2 x 3 x 2 design using the 14 inch NIC cubes, cardboard, and vinyl kitchen shelf liners. She has a ledge and a step up instead of a ramp and she loves to sprawl out underneath the ledge and take short naps. I want to give a big thank you to the person who wrote detailed instructions on building a litter box cover using the white grid fluorescent lighting panel and crazy glue. I love that she can sit in her litter box and munch on hay while keeping her feet clean as she goes potty.
Iâm so surprised that Lily is completely fine with the dogs and cats. The dogs are elderly and leave her alone for the most part but one of our cats, Gigi, likes to sit outside of the playpen and watch Lily playing with her toys. Itâs so cute when the cat goes up to the pen because Lily will come over to her and theyâll sniff noses for a few seconds before Gigi gets bored and wanders off to go do other cat things. And Lily is such a curious little thing. The way that I have her cage set up is that her C&C cage is against the wall and an 11 panel animal play pen is hooked to each side so that it encircles half of it. That way I can simply open up her cage and Lily can come and go as she pleases. To make cage cleaning and daily maintenance easier I have two plastic storage tubs inside of the playpen and against the wall. The bottom one contains the Yesterdayâs News Litter that I use in her litter pans, and the top one contains her food, toys, treats, and bags of hay.
Well, today Lily discovered that she can jump onto the lid of the bottom container. So far she hasnât figured out how to escape the play pen, but Iâll have to keep a careful eye on her during play time. My mother and I had bought some cord protectors from the hardware store and today we decided to start our bunny-proofing. Since Lilyâs cage is in the living room we have to be extra careful that every cord is wrapped and taped in case she manages to escape one day. I donât have any plans of letting her be a free-roam bunny because of many factors, but I like to be prepared. You donât plan on having accidents, but it doesnât hurt to prepare for the worst. We got most of the cords wrapped but weâll have to buy more later today. Which is fine, we needed to make a trip anyways.
I believe that Lily is quite happy in her new home. Today she decided to binky around in her play pen. She did this for several minutes and it was just about the cutest thing that I have ever seen. Since her cage is on tile we spread out a blanket but she still couldnât get much traction without sliding around. She looked more like she was having an epileptic fit while jumping but she seemed to be enjoying herself. I certainly know that we had a lot of fun watching her dance around amongst her toys.
On another note, Lilyâs spay surgery is scheduled for Monday. I donât know why Iâm worried since Iâve been through this before with our dogs (the cats came spayed/neutered). I guess itâs because sheâs so small, only 4 pounds. Iâve been reading up on post op after care and there is a lot of conflicting advice. E-collars seem to be a heavily debated topic. Some of what Iâve come across has been helpful, though. For example, Iâm going to ask for internal dissolving sutures and external surgical glue. Since Lily is so new to our household and she doesnât like being picked up or held and I donât think that Iâll be able to check her stitching every day like you are supposed to. She isnât much of a chewer, though, so I probably shouldnât be too worried. I also watched some videos on how to administer medication and hide pills in treats. I feel like I am fairly well prepared. Iâm glad that Lilyâs foster mother will be available to come over if I need help. She only lives 20 miles away so itâs a quick drive if I need help.
Anyways, here are the photos that I took of her on her first night home. Her cage has since then changed a bit and had a few additions and substitutions. I will take more recent pics and upload them as soon as I can find my camera charger or buy a new one.
(i sew).
