Sunday, January 11, 2009

the dust eaters

note: rabbits like eating dust. and probably the remains of spiders' webs.

sometimes i find it worrying cos they're eating dirt and what if the spider left some... toxic stuff or something on it?? but even dependable (seems like it to me anyways) bunny sites think it's normal... so i'll believe them.

anyways. time to introduce the namesake of this blog!
(with some habits of theirs which i've noticed)

mimi (i still don't really like their names..... oh well. not like i call them that often anyways...more like "go go go go go go go!" when i 'round' them up like sheep so they go back into their hutch and close the doors before they walk out again) drinks more than bernie.

when bernie drinks, mimi likes shoving her head under his to ask for some grooming. i thought i found this annoying, but bernie thinks so too. sometimes when he's really thirsty he puts both forelegs on her head and pushes it aside (ie. squashes it to the ground).

after i open the hutch doors to let them out, bernie flicks both his back legs towards the cage. or maybe me. signalling his hate for it. or me.

they like the litter tray probably since the sides form a kind of "bedroom wall" and they can rip the newspapers in it to make a nest, so they sleep in it instead of toilet-ing there. which means i have to go through more newspapers everyday. just after i've found that the large telegraph papers can be ripped in half and fit exactly in the tray, removing the need for overhanging and hence wastage of valuable materials.

they like chewing - like all rabbits do. and a few weeks ago, i found two pieces of wood that looked kinda important to the structure of the hutch hidden under the newspaper. but i still don't know where it came from, since all the supporting frame bits were still there when i checked the obvious spots...

anways, here they are. this is a rare moment of both of them eating carrots from my hand. (and look at bernie's big ears and long tail!)



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