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Post by Andrea on Sept 8, 2007 16:08:40 GMT -4
Heck ya! Clean-er up and make a little running space I'm sure they would have great fun! I sometimes just sit on a blanket reading while my bunnies/degus/gerbils have a run of an area.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Sept 8, 2007 19:44:46 GMT -4
There is a corner down there I should be able to block off, one without hiding places. How long is enough? An hour? Every other day or what?
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Post by Andrea on Sept 9, 2007 2:35:39 GMT -4
All up to you, and how much time you have/want to spend. Really, rabbits are not all like the energizer bunny, they don't keep going and going. Watch them, and once they get board you'll know they've had enough. An hour a day could be enough, could be to much. It's different for each bunny.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Sept 9, 2007 20:29:53 GMT -4
I let her out today upstairs. She explored, and then found a nice corner and rested. After an hour I feared for poops and pee and put her back.
Poppy, my first bunny, when younger ran around like crazy and attached herself to me foot. Now, she just wants to hide. Maybe when I stop moving things around here she will get more confidence.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Nov 1, 2007 22:49:28 GMT -4
Just an update. Caerbannog is much calmer these days! There is a vast improvement. She seems healthy, too.
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Post by pinky on Nov 1, 2007 23:06:56 GMT -4
That's great!
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Post by Andrea on Nov 4, 2007 22:44:02 GMT -4
That's wonderful news. I was wondering how things were going with her.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Nov 4, 2007 23:32:01 GMT -4
My friend, Susan, has recently told me she can get a much bigger cage for her, too. I do let Caerbannog run around the apartment - but all she wants to do is run right back to her cage and hop in.
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Post by Andrea on Nov 6, 2007 17:33:14 GMT -4
Some bunnies feel safe and enjoy their cages. My Bo bunny got beat up by Spencer my foster bunny once when he was out, and now he never leaves his pen It may just take some time for her to feel comfortable outside of her cage, or it may take some really fun toys and things to do when she is out. Mine love the cat "crinkle tunnel" to play in.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Nov 6, 2007 20:01:32 GMT -4
>> the cat "crinkle tunnel" << Huh? Caerbannog surely needs more time and patience; the problem is the place I rescued her from - the folks who could not wait to dump her - kept her big cage and gave me one almost half the size. Susan, my friend and rescue colleague, has told me she can get me a bigger one. Whenever I put in chicory she attacks it with grunts! "Kill that chicory!!" I urge her on. ;D
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Post by Andrea on Nov 7, 2007 14:36:31 GMT -4
www.petplanet.co.uk/product.asp?dept_id=32&pf_id=6556 <-- Crinkle Tunnel Ani sometimes grunts and attacks things, Baby HATES kleenex and attacks it, he also attacks the broom and dust pan when I am cleaning, so we play kill the broom for a bit Glad you'll be getting another cage. I think it is so stupid those people won't give you the cage she had. The either think they cna make money off it, or fill it with another pet they will eventually get rid of again.
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Post by pinky on Nov 7, 2007 19:13:57 GMT -4
Your comment about Baby attaching the dust pan and broom reminds me of something. . . . my childhood poodle Pepi relentlessly attacked the canister vacuum cleaner power head as it was pushed back and forth, as if to say, "Don't you dare vacuum up my gorgeous black curly hair!"
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Nov 7, 2007 22:42:32 GMT -4
Funny story about Pepi. The store, the one Susan worked at for years, initially did not want to give me any cage, but I told them I could not take the rabbit without one. And they were afraid of her! Mostly, things look OK (as far as I can see) at that and local pet stores (there is only one other), although they get overcrowded a bit sometimes. I understand that animals waiting to be sold, for brief periods can't be kept in optimum conditions, as we would at home permanently.
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