Izhang
Active Member
Hi all, I'm Iris and I live with my boyfriend Evan and my bunny Shadow. We're both college students finishing up our Finance bachelor's degrees at the University of Florida, although I still have a year to go.
I got Shadow about 8.5 years ago when I was a little girl in middle school. He's had quite the life to say the least! I was naive and not very informed about bunnies then, so he lived in a very small cage back when we still lived in a small condo. He did get free roam time but after he chewed up wires (the first sign of mischief) I was only allowed to bring him outside.
We moved into a larger house in 2003. Shadow was given the run of a walled-off part of our backyard, where the previous owners had kept two pitbulls. He was still brought inside in his cage at night. The same year, we brought home a German Shepherd puppy, but unfortunately Lupin and Shadow were never to become friends. When my grandma moved in after 2007, Shadow's area of the backyard was converted to a garden. Sadly, Shadow never did get his own place to run after that, and was confined to a small cage for most of the time.
When I started my Junior year at college, I decided to bring Shadow with me. I couldn't bear to see him trapped up all the time, because I knew at heart he was extremely active and curious. So in 2009, we packed him up, and I set up a little place for him in the hallway of the condo we share with 3 other roommates.
To give you a little idea of how incredibly mischievious and what a fighter he can be, here's a brief list of stuff he's been up to:
I got Shadow about 8.5 years ago when I was a little girl in middle school. He's had quite the life to say the least! I was naive and not very informed about bunnies then, so he lived in a very small cage back when we still lived in a small condo. He did get free roam time but after he chewed up wires (the first sign of mischief) I was only allowed to bring him outside.
We moved into a larger house in 2003. Shadow was given the run of a walled-off part of our backyard, where the previous owners had kept two pitbulls. He was still brought inside in his cage at night. The same year, we brought home a German Shepherd puppy, but unfortunately Lupin and Shadow were never to become friends. When my grandma moved in after 2007, Shadow's area of the backyard was converted to a garden. Sadly, Shadow never did get his own place to run after that, and was confined to a small cage for most of the time.
When I started my Junior year at college, I decided to bring Shadow with me. I couldn't bear to see him trapped up all the time, because I knew at heart he was extremely active and curious. So in 2009, we packed him up, and I set up a little place for him in the hallway of the condo we share with 3 other roommates.
To give you a little idea of how incredibly mischievious and what a fighter he can be, here's a brief list of stuff he's been up to:
- His front paw was broken when he tried to zip through the door to the backyard while my dad was closing it shut. He recovered with no problems.
- Once in 2004 he escaped his metal-reinforced enclosure in our backyard by digging a hole through the other side. He wound up in the house down the street and we searched frantically for two weeks!
- The German Shepherd had gotten to him three times. The first two times was just rough play and Shadow was fine. I really thought I'd lost him the third time when he screamed while being thrashed around in Lupin's mouth! But he got up the next day like nothing happened!
that's so good he survived all that! (i keep my bunny and dog seperated for this reason, just in case! both my dogs are hunting breeds!) what a little toughie 
