It's REALLY been a while!

So Mum apologizes for not posting anything recently, she says she's been going through some personal stuff. I guess that means Dad is sitting on her head while she sleeps, cause that's what it means when I have personal issues! Poptart will just haul on over and plop down ontop of me while I'm in a dead sleep. She always then procedes to sprawl out and shove her head under my chin. AS IF! I was asleep and now you're forcing me to clean you! Alright I guess...

Mum and Dad recently decided to try us on this new veggie called fennel. Of course I wouldn't touch it. Not at first anyways. Hey! Can you blame me? It was something new so I had to show my displeasure at the change in my routine. Where did the carrots go! (Even though Mum says carrots are bad for us and we don't get them everyday) Well Poptart dove right in (Do I have to teach her EVERYTHING!) and after a few days I decided I'd give it a try. Don't get me wrong it was no banana but it was good! Mum says I'm like Dad and I need to broaden my horizons and expand my palate. Whatever that means.

Mum says I should update everyone on my health status as a few of  you might know I wasn't feeling well for a while. Apparently Dr. Rowett suspects that I have something called Adrenal Gland disease. Mum says that its very difficult to test for right now because there aren't a lot of "normal blood values" for rabbits out there. She says there aren't enough specialty rabbit vets to know this kind of stuff so they decided to forego the test and keep me unmedicated as it's not affecting my quality of life. I'm still the same happy, non bouncy, lazy bunny. Other than than Dr. Rowett says he can hardly believe that I'm going to be 8 years old in April. He said if he didn't know that Mum had me since I was a kit he wouldn't believe it.

Oh.. he also said I was overweight and needed to lose weight/exercise more.

WHAT?????

- Twix

It's been a while!

Mum says she's been too busy to translate us for you but now she's not so it's all good! Our bunny lives are going on like normal, except for a little while when Mum forgot to buy us carrots. We were NOT impressed. I've got a little cold, and Poptart goes for her Spay surgery on the 2nd of May. I'm secretly excited for that. Mum says she'll calm down a bit and stop humping my head!

The other day Mum had to go work at the Animal Shelter and ran into one of our cousins there. Mum says her name is Millie and she desperately needs a home! She's a very friendly and loving bun who loves cuddles! According to staff at the shelter she seems to be very friendly with other animals including bunns and guinea pigs and would make a perfect companion for another bunny! I asked mum if she could live with us but Mum just laughed and said she had enough with the two of us.
Her profile can be found here:
http://ottawahumane.ca/adoption/petharbor_small.cfm

Many people want baby buns but we suggest adopting from local places prices may seem high to some people but by the time you include our vet visits and spay and neuter the price is double what the shelter charges!
Check out the following links for our local bunny adoption places:
http://ottawahumane.ca/adoption/petharbor_small.cfm
http://www.newmoonrabbitrescue.ca/

We would like to announce that we are also collecting pennies for charity! New moon rabbit rescue is doing a pennies for buns fundraiser and we obviously wanted to get involved. You can contact their rescue or Mum if your interested in donating!

Easter is Coming!!

As everyone knows it's that time of year again! Mum said the other day that she went into the pet store to get us some hay and she said that there was triple the amount of bunnies at the store! This obviously upset me, as I myself was brought in for this purpose. Many people every year see these cute little bunnies in the stores and bring them home as Easter presents thinking they'll make great pets for their children. What they don't realize is that the cages that are marketed at the stores are far to small for us once we grow up, that we CANNOT be fed just a pellet diet, and that we need a lot of attention and care! We cannot be left in a cage all alone all the time and ignored. We are very demanding creatures.

Rabbits must be fed a mostly green diet, supplemented with hay, and pellets and the occasional fruit. We need a large cage to stretch out with a litter box and preferably a place to hide. Wire bottom cages often hurt our feet and can cause orthopedic malformations which cause us lots of pain which often goes unrecognized as we like cats, tend to hide our pain. We need attention! We are social creatures that love to be around our owners, and we need to be carefully monitored because we get into trouble if left to our own devices! I myself love to chew on carpet, and Poptart enjoys chewing everything in sight!

I was bought as an Easter present, but Mum had had a bunny before so she knew what she was getting into. Mum thinks that Poptarts mom and dad were Easter bunnies as well. They were abandoned on the side of a road with other buns.

Every year several buns are surrendered to shelters, abandoned on roads, in parks etc because they are not wanted anymore. Children get bored of us because we get scared and are afraid of their rough handling. We cannot survive in the wild, we do not know how to scavenge or find water on our own! Many rabbits in shelters get euthanized due to the high numbers. Unfortunately rescues are often overwhelmed with rabbits and have to turn us away.

Please my family begs of you, if you are going to get a bunny this Easter, please do your research, find a rabbit savvy vet and adopt! Check out our local rescue http://www.newmoonrabbitrescue.ca/
As always please spay and neuter your bun!!

Bugger OFF!

Last night I barely got any sleep!
I was all cozied up in my corner getting ready for a good sleep to recover from the nap I took earlier, when Poptart decides to come up and mounted my head! Naturally I tried to tell her to bugger off, but SHE DIDN'T LISTEN! She kept doing it even after Mum gave her trouble. Mum said I did a pretty good job of letting her know where I stood. I don't even know what she wanted! She just kept it up for a good portion of the night. Mum eventually got Daddy to give us some Zukes bones and that quieted her up for a bit. This morning she started it again! Jeez woman! Get the hint and bug off! Mum says she'll be going to get spayed soon. Whatever that means. I just hope it stops it so I can get some sleep! Speaking of which I need a nap, Poptart is asleep in the house so I'm taking advantage of the quiet while I can.

Blizzard

Mom says we got a HUGE blizzard yesterday while she was sick in bed. Apparently she's going to bring us outside to play. I love to snow. I tunnel in it and dig. It's the best thing since Grandma's garden. Poptart hasn't been outside in the snow yet so mom wants to see what she does. Mom said she'll post pictures on Facebook for everyone to see.

This morning she did this odd thing to the skin on the back of my neck. She kind of pinched it and twisted it. Anyways I didn't like it but she said I'm mildly dehydrated and that I should take a lesson from Poptart and start drinking out of the water bottle. I was doing really well but then I decided to throw mom off her game. It's my favourite past time. She says today I get my revolution on the back of my neck and maybe a nail trim. I positively HATE the feeling of that stuff. It gets all kind of crusty if mom gets it on my fur and she always puts it somewhere I can't lick. She says if I ingest it it can hurt my tummy, which is already so sensitive. She's calling the vet right now to see if Poptart is big enough to get it too. HAHA I hope she does so I have someone else to be miserable with.

Gone? WHAT DO YOU MEAN!

Mum and Dad left this weekend and left me and Poptart with Auntie Bev and that terrible pug. She likes to eat my treats! She couldn't come downstairs though she's hurt mum says. Poptart has grown up and likes to get cleaned by me. She bumps me all the time for me to clean her. She doesn't understand I'm lazy! Sometimes I am so lazy I have to get mum to clean my bum for me! She hasn't had the joy of a bath yet. She is getting very wooly though. Mum says it's her adult coat coming in. We went to the vet recently to get our nails clipped. Poptart is really bad and gets scared. They had to bunny burrito her. She didn't like it at all. Mum says that I need to be a good big brother and show her the ropes but not to show her my bad habits. Too bad mum. I've already started.

WHAT WERE YOU THINKING MUM!

About three weeks ago Mum and Dad came home with this box... I didn't want anything to do with it obviously. Well... tough luck apparently that box was going to be part of my life... FOREVER. Mum and Dad brought me home a little sister AND a new cage.. At first I wasn't sure what to think of the new cage but I soon noticed it had far more room, but this little sister... She kept trying to get into my house.. At dinner time she kept stealing my salad and even ate all of my crackers!!! But it gets better, yesterday Daddy bought me a peach, the ultimate ultimate treat, AND SHE STOLE A PIECE! Naturally I let her have it and mum gave me a treat for it..

Speaking of treats the other day she stole one right out of my mouth! I grunted at her to let her know who was boss. I get some reprieve though Mum and Dad let her out to run around and of course I don't leave the cage very frequently. Sometimes when I do though its to trick mum into giving me a treat. She ALWAYS does thinking it'll encourage me to come out more often. HAHA good luck Mum.