Monday Night Open Thread – Bunny Take Over Edition

I was working on my next Trench Crusade entry when, during yesterday’s thread, Gumbygirl indicated that she would like to see an update on the bunnies!  So as our Empress has requested, an update on the A&H bunnies.  If you have not seen any mentions of mine about the rabbits, we have 4, a pair upstairs who roam around a gated section of my office.  The other pair are in the kitchen/breakfast nook area and on days above 40 F we let them out onto the screened in porch.

Out oldest is Noir and he is 7 years old and has some arthritis, so movement and self cleaning are a bit harder.  Not sure if him bonding with Orson, a 1.5 year old female who is very, very active, and will eat anything in huge amounts (hence the name).  Noir is the solid black lop-ear and Orson is the salt and pepper lop.

Both are fun and dance together when I come up in the morning and give them their fruit for the morning.

The downstairs duo, Flan and Snickerdoodles are both about a year and a half old.  Still pretty aloof, but Flan will allow you to pick him up and snuggle him, Snickers will try and flee the entire time, but like any true Diva will just stand on a table and let my wife give her a hair cut and brush her hair.  Before the last styling, she was looking more like a small yip, yip dog.

Unlike a certain Mr. Meathook, I suck at taking pictures, mainly because I never think about taking pictures and usually do not have my phone at hand.  But I got lucky on the pic on the right, the little dude is hilarious and loves to climb up and “sun” himself.  She just likes to be really high up to look down on the plebian human servants.

So these two just love banana chips, the ones we had been giving to them are very hard, which is wonderful for the rabbits.  Well, in trying to replenish the supply, I accidentally got dried bananas, which are not hard, shit, they aren’t even firm, they are limp and slimy (just like in Deanna’s nightmares).  I could not stand to touch them so we now use tongs and hopefully they will be gone soon as of course the rabbits loved them.  Dried mango is not slimy, more leathery, and I think Flan would cut you for some.

Recent vet visits for all for physicals indicates all are healthy, with Noir just having arthritis.  Been getting a little concerned as he has started to stick extremely close to me, laying beside my feet as I work, and or anytime I am sitting where he can be near me.  Do not want to think about that nope, nope, nope.

So there you go, Empress Gumbygirl, may your reign and high last for a very long time.