usawan
Well-Known Member
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hello everyone ! well i finally decided after much deliberation to actually sit down and start writing a bunny blog. i figure maybe people would be curious about how somebunnies (and their humans) live in different parts of the world, so, here goes nothing !
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to start things off, i guess i should talk a little bit about myself. my name is sebastian, and i'm originally from california but have been living in tokyo for the past year as a student. i got my first bunny just after new years on a total whim (and some not so subtle coercion from my friend), and about a month later brought my second bunny home. i must say, after living alone for almost a year, it's really nice to have someone in the house other than yourself to talk to.
for those who are curious, my username 'usawan' is after a character here in japan that you can win in UFO catchers (claw machines for those in the US). it's a cross between a rabbit (ã¦ãµã® - usagi) and a dog. in japan a dog goes ã¯ã³ã¯ã³ (wan wan), and so when you combine the two, you get an USAWAN. here is a picture of one that i won a while back:
the tag says (roughly):
USAWAN
slightly big mascot stuffed animal
spring color pastel~
when eating only spinach grass, the child becomes grass green color...
the ããããã(mogu mogu) is the sound that a rabbit makes when eating spinach apparently
they come in several different colors, but i only have the white one.
well enough about me, here are who you REALLY came here to see
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SHUSHU (ã·ã¥ã·ã¥)
baby shuu. the second photo has been known to make every woman within a five mile radius squeal at a pitch which can shatter glass.
shushu is a tortoise american fuzzy lop. however, her ears never fell, so she just runs around looking like a slightly deformed dog. in japan, a 'shushu' is what you call a hair scrunchie. she is my absolute princess, and she knows it. her favorite pastime is chewing on everything within reach, be it cardboard, plastic, 4 phone chargers, my books, my clothes...
some more recent photos of shushu:
she is well known for appearing to not have a face.
FUAN-CHAN (ä¸å®ã¡ãã)
fuan-chan is also an american fuzzy lop, but a broken blue. she, unlike shushu, has proper lop ears. about a month after i got shushu, the same pet store got her in, and because she was the same breed (i love fuzzy animals, it's a weakness) i immediately had to have her. in japanese, ä¸å® (fuan) means 'stressed', as in to be stressed out. because she has red eyes, she 'scans' to see, and sways her head side to side. a joke between my friend and i was that she seemed really stressed out all the time, and so the name just stuck. ã¡ãã (chan) is a suffix that is used for girls as a term of endearment. i'm often told by japanese people that 'stress' isn't a real name for an animal
she loves to be held, and i often just walk around with her in the crook of one arm, or hold her while at my laptop. she absolutely LOVES to dig, currently a box that my mother shipped me some american goodies in has become her favorite toy. (she flattens herself out and crawls inside, and digs at the bottom) one day she'll dig straight through back to the US
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well that's it for now, more to come later !
ãµã¨ãã©ã!
-bas
:biggrin2:
hello everyone ! well i finally decided after much deliberation to actually sit down and start writing a bunny blog. i figure maybe people would be curious about how somebunnies (and their humans) live in different parts of the world, so, here goes nothing !
---
to start things off, i guess i should talk a little bit about myself. my name is sebastian, and i'm originally from california but have been living in tokyo for the past year as a student. i got my first bunny just after new years on a total whim (and some not so subtle coercion from my friend), and about a month later brought my second bunny home. i must say, after living alone for almost a year, it's really nice to have someone in the house other than yourself to talk to.
for those who are curious, my username 'usawan' is after a character here in japan that you can win in UFO catchers (claw machines for those in the US). it's a cross between a rabbit (ã¦ãµã® - usagi) and a dog. in japan a dog goes ã¯ã³ã¯ã³ (wan wan), and so when you combine the two, you get an USAWAN. here is a picture of one that i won a while back:
the tag says (roughly):
USAWAN
slightly big mascot stuffed animal
spring color pastel~
when eating only spinach grass, the child becomes grass green color...
the ããããã(mogu mogu) is the sound that a rabbit makes when eating spinach apparently
they come in several different colors, but i only have the white one.
well enough about me, here are who you REALLY came here to see
---
SHUSHU (ã·ã¥ã·ã¥)
baby shuu. the second photo has been known to make every woman within a five mile radius squeal at a pitch which can shatter glass.
shushu is a tortoise american fuzzy lop. however, her ears never fell, so she just runs around looking like a slightly deformed dog. in japan, a 'shushu' is what you call a hair scrunchie. she is my absolute princess, and she knows it. her favorite pastime is chewing on everything within reach, be it cardboard, plastic, 4 phone chargers, my books, my clothes...
some more recent photos of shushu:
she is well known for appearing to not have a face.
FUAN-CHAN (ä¸å®ã¡ãã)
fuan-chan is also an american fuzzy lop, but a broken blue. she, unlike shushu, has proper lop ears. about a month after i got shushu, the same pet store got her in, and because she was the same breed (i love fuzzy animals, it's a weakness) i immediately had to have her. in japanese, ä¸å® (fuan) means 'stressed', as in to be stressed out. because she has red eyes, she 'scans' to see, and sways her head side to side. a joke between my friend and i was that she seemed really stressed out all the time, and so the name just stuck. ã¡ãã (chan) is a suffix that is used for girls as a term of endearment. i'm often told by japanese people that 'stress' isn't a real name for an animal
she loves to be held, and i often just walk around with her in the crook of one arm, or hold her while at my laptop. she absolutely LOVES to dig, currently a box that my mother shipped me some american goodies in has become her favorite toy. (she flattens herself out and crawls inside, and digs at the bottom) one day she'll dig straight through back to the US
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well that's it for now, more to come later !
ãµã¨ãã©ã!
-bas
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