Bunny!

So here is my update on my new bunny! I already posted this picture on facebook, but I am putting it here as well because he is so cute. :)

So Saturday Greg and I went to go look at some bunnies for sale. The place we found was about an hour drive. When we got there we met the woman who raises them and she was very talkative. She said she has about 60-70 rabbits. There were a couple rows of cages in the yard. Some of the rabbits had very new babies that we saw; she showed us one that had died when it was a couple days old. (I am not sure why she showed it to us. It was pretty sad.) Anyway, she didn't have anything between a few days old and about 10 weeks old which was too bad. I was sort of hoping for something around 6-8 weeks old. But she showed us a couple that she was willing to sell--she had only a few specific ones she was willing to part with--some of the nicer and prettier ones were not available. But she showed us this little guy. He was really skittish and hard to catch because he ran back and forth in his cage so quickly to get away. This made me nervous because I wanted a friendly one. However, when I held him he didn't seem too scared and didn't try to escape. The only other place we knew of at the time was about an hour and a half away and I didn't really want to keep driving (or to make Greg keep driving as he was not terribly enthusiastic about the trip.) So I decided to give him a try.

He has bright blue eyes which is rare for a rabbit. Greg actually thinks this makes him look creepy, but I think he looks like a husky. :) I named his Rorschach because of his ink-splotchy back. Also, because it amuses me to imagine him using a really creepy voice.

We brought him home and he was very unhappy the entire drive. When we got home he just stayed crouched in a corner of the cardboard box we brought him in and would not come out or move at all. It was a really long time before he would even eat or drink anything and I was afraid he would die from being too stressed out. But eventually he did decide to take a drink and try some hay and he cheered up after that. He still wasn't very happy to be picked up or petted, Greg and I are pretty terrifying. He slept in the bedroom the first night but woke us up at 6am chewing his wooden blocks. Sunday I set his box up in the kitchen and introduced him to his litter box. Most of Sunday he went to the bathroom all over the place. Also, he still didn't want anything to do with us, if possible. He staked out a post on the Wii fit under one of Greg's chairs and watched us from there.

It is too bad he lived in a cage all his life, he is taking some time to adjust. He wasn't curious at all at first, he just wanted to sit on one place, I guess like he did in his cage. It was really funny watching him on the hardwood florrs though, he was slipping all around at first. A couple times I saw him lay on his belly and push himself backwards with his front feet. It was pretty adorable. =D

By Sunday night though he was finally getting a little bolder. Greg and I were watching a movie and he came up and sniffed Greg's feet. Later, he snuck over to the tv which has built in shelves. Greg keeps his video games there. One of them had a "used" sticker on it that was kind of sticking out. Rory crept over and grabbed the game by its sticker and tried to run off with it. Greg had to chase him and take it away. It was really funny. =D

Monday morning I got up for work and went to check on Rorschach. He had jumped over the plywood walls I used as a gate for him and was in the living room. I was afraid he would have left us stinky presents all over. But I was very surprised not to find any. Also, although there were some accidents on the newspaper near his food and water bowl, he had also used his litterbox for the first time. So I cleaned up the newspaper and Rory watched me. Then he came over and used his litter box again! What a good boy! I cleaned that out but left a couple poos in it so he would get the idea and went to work. Greg got up later for work and he didn't find any accidents.

When Greg got home for work in the early afternoon he said Rory had used his litter box a few times and still no accidents. When I got home Greg said he dropped two little poos under his favorite chair but then ran and finished in the litter box. That is the only accident he had all day.

We have had this bunny 3 days and he is already litter trained. He is the smartest bunny ever!

Now if only he would get used to us and learn to enjoy cuddling . . . we got some alfalfa sprouts so maybe we can bribe him into loving us soon haha.

Update

Hmm, been a while since I've updated. I guess some things have happened.

First the bad parts:

-My great-grandmother died. She was my last living great-grandparent. It seemed pretty sudden, too. It was around Thanksgiving that we found out she had cancer, and then she died a couple weeks ago. So that was kind of a shock. I couldn't make it to the funeral or anything either as it was in Maine during the week.

-My parents have officially sold their house. Unless something really unexpected and crazy happens, they will be moving to Kansas in May. I cannot begin to express how unhappy this makes me. Also, it is possible that my mom might be pregnant again. That makes the fact that they are moving even worse as I would pretty much never see this new person. Probably I would meet it at Christmas or something and that is it. But we don't know yet.

Anyway, there are some good things too:

-I met my mentee last night. I have been waiting for TWO MONTHS for this to happen--there was so much waiting and training etc. But I finally met her last night and she is really cute. Also, she has a dog, two cats and a rabbit. I am super jealous. :) We are going out for the first time on Sunday. I don't know what we are going to do yet, I will have to think of something fun.

-My job at the hospital has been going really well. Everyone pretty much likes me here, and I have been enjoying it, especially the security part. It has been really, really hard to pay for school. I feel awful because I keep having to borrow money from Greg to pay my bills. (They are always really short term, like a week long until the next pay check, but I was *always* a week or two behind.) I have only very recently caught up and been able to start saving a little money. (Which is important since when I start student teaching I won't be able to work at all and I will still have to pay tuition. I really can't even think about that.) Anyway, I was starting to get nervous because it was only going to be full-time until the end of this month. However, today I found out that it got extended! I am now full-time until the end of May! Two more months with a steady pay check. I am extremely releived. And finally . . .

-I am getting a bunny! I have been too long without a pet. =P Technically, no pets are allowing in our apartment. However, Greg saw that someone else in the same unit has a cat. (It was peeking out the window.) He finally decided we can just get a bunny and hope the landlady doesn't find out. I don't see why she would, it isn't like they make any noise, and the landlady pretty much never comes unless something needs to be fixed, and then they give us plenty of warning. At some point they will have to come fix the shower, but even then we can probably just leave the bunny in the bedroom and lock the door. We'll have to wait and see after we get him how much noise he makes in his cage.

Also this weekend I am going to build his cage! I am very excited, I think it will be a fun project. (Even though I still haven't finished building my shelf . . .) It is hard to find a baby bunny in Vermont though. I keep reading the online Uncle Henry's (this is a periodical that comes out every Thursday in Maine and is filled with nothing but classifieds) and being sad that I don't live there anymore. There are *so* many bunnies for sale in Maine. I don't know how people sell and trade things in Vermont, I honestly don't. I've been looking primarily on Criagslist--the local paper has next to no classifieds at all. There are two people I have found in Vermont with litters of bunnies, but both are over an hour away and one of them only has medium sized rabbits, not dwarf ones, which would be better. The other place hasn't gotten back to me yet, I just left a message.

Anyway, those are the big developments of my recent life. Other than that there's been plenty of school which is going only sort of well. (I really hope this is my worst semester. I can really only imagine it getting better after this.)

Anyway, soon I will post pictures of the awesome bunny palace I build and then of my awesome bunny baby once I actually get him. :)