Mmm, Friday
Oct. 11th, 2002 08:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dancerjodiIts Friday (finally), the day that all things are right. The day that I splurge on a bagel in the cafe for breakfast and get to hear old classic tunes (good ole Bing was crooning down there this morning).
Yesterday was really productive and it made me relax a bit about scheduling my life. I stopped at my parent's house after work to pick up my Mom's new monster vaccum cleaner (I think the thing weighs more than me, and it actually has a red button that lights up when its sucking up dirt!). We do have a really neat one (an http://www.oreck.com/oreck/home.cfm which we've even used to clean up fake snow at ManRay with after "Blizzard in Hell", or something like that) but it needs to be serviced. I was able to clean the whole house last night (!) except for the kitchen; I'll deal with that on Saturday when I'm in the process of cooking.
And I even got some homework done too! In addition to regular homework and needing to interview 3 alumns I need to work on a group project for a survey on Internet Addiction. Right now we're just doing online research, trying to develop some items for a questionaire.
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I just have to tell you all how much I love bunnies, they are so cute! After cleaning everything and getting some homework in I sat down in the Den to watch TV for 1/2 hour before falling into bed. We let the buns out of their condo to run around and to enjoy the baby carrots we brought in. Batty is so cute; he keeps grabbing the carrots, running into the condo, running up the ramp to the 2nd level with them and when he puts the thing down to start eating it rolls down the ramp. Lather, rinse, repeat :) I just don't understand how an animal can be so cute (besided our cat, of course). Its overwhelming!
When I went to pick up that vaccum at my parent's I went up to my sister's apartment to say hi to her and my nephew and meet the new addition to their family - 2 bunnies. So that makes a big fluffy cat, 3 fish, 2 birds and 2 bunnies for one 5 year old kid! There were some serious issues with the lagamorph situation however that I'm hoping to help remedy on Sunday:
-They are living in my nephew's bedroom with the birds who make shrieking noises and scare the crap out of them (the male is totally freaked out; after gently trying to coax him out of the little box in the corner of the cage for 5 minutes I reached my hand into the cage a teeny bit and he tried to bite me). I told her it would probably be a good idea to move either them or the birds to another room - she's going to move the birds.
-Their cage is cool (its one my brother build) but its WAY too small for two bunnies. I'm bringing over our old cage that Flopsy (RIP) lived in before we built our first bunny condo. That way they'll have room to run around in the cage when they can't come out during the day.
-They had no hay! Bunnies are supposed to have hay available to them all of the time (to help with digestion and keep their girlish figures).
-There was WAY too much food in the cage for too bunnies. Learning the hard way how difficult overweight rabbits can be (we needed to clean Flopsy's butt for him because he was too fat that he couldn't reach for a while there). They had enough food in that bowl to feed my 2 bunnies for a week.
-I'm not sure if there was any wood in there for them to chew on either, now that I'm thinking of it.
So on Sunday when I bring the vaccum back I bring with me:
-A large cage
-Some timothy hay
-Some wood shingles
-My House Rabbit Handbook for my sister to flip through.
I am happy to see however that they didn't have pine shavings in their litter box (they did have them in the bottom of the cage though; I think we may need to remedy that - our vet said that those shavings not even in Flopsy's litter box but under his drop tray could have caused the kidney infection that killed him).
Poor little guy, I miss our Floopy-Man :(
Heh, OK, so that was tangential!
Yesterday was really productive and it made me relax a bit about scheduling my life. I stopped at my parent's house after work to pick up my Mom's new monster vaccum cleaner (I think the thing weighs more than me, and it actually has a red button that lights up when its sucking up dirt!). We do have a really neat one (an http://www.oreck.com/oreck/home.cfm which we've even used to clean up fake snow at ManRay with after "Blizzard in Hell", or something like that) but it needs to be serviced. I was able to clean the whole house last night (!) except for the kitchen; I'll deal with that on Saturday when I'm in the process of cooking.
And I even got some homework done too! In addition to regular homework and needing to interview 3 alumns I need to work on a group project for a survey on Internet Addiction. Right now we're just doing online research, trying to develop some items for a questionaire.
****
I just have to tell you all how much I love bunnies, they are so cute! After cleaning everything and getting some homework in I sat down in the Den to watch TV for 1/2 hour before falling into bed. We let the buns out of their condo to run around and to enjoy the baby carrots we brought in. Batty is so cute; he keeps grabbing the carrots, running into the condo, running up the ramp to the 2nd level with them and when he puts the thing down to start eating it rolls down the ramp. Lather, rinse, repeat :) I just don't understand how an animal can be so cute (besided our cat, of course). Its overwhelming!
When I went to pick up that vaccum at my parent's I went up to my sister's apartment to say hi to her and my nephew and meet the new addition to their family - 2 bunnies. So that makes a big fluffy cat, 3 fish, 2 birds and 2 bunnies for one 5 year old kid! There were some serious issues with the lagamorph situation however that I'm hoping to help remedy on Sunday:
-They are living in my nephew's bedroom with the birds who make shrieking noises and scare the crap out of them (the male is totally freaked out; after gently trying to coax him out of the little box in the corner of the cage for 5 minutes I reached my hand into the cage a teeny bit and he tried to bite me). I told her it would probably be a good idea to move either them or the birds to another room - she's going to move the birds.
-Their cage is cool (its one my brother build) but its WAY too small for two bunnies. I'm bringing over our old cage that Flopsy (RIP) lived in before we built our first bunny condo. That way they'll have room to run around in the cage when they can't come out during the day.
-They had no hay! Bunnies are supposed to have hay available to them all of the time (to help with digestion and keep their girlish figures).
-There was WAY too much food in the cage for too bunnies. Learning the hard way how difficult overweight rabbits can be (we needed to clean Flopsy's butt for him because he was too fat that he couldn't reach for a while there). They had enough food in that bowl to feed my 2 bunnies for a week.
-I'm not sure if there was any wood in there for them to chew on either, now that I'm thinking of it.
So on Sunday when I bring the vaccum back I bring with me:
-A large cage
-Some timothy hay
-Some wood shingles
-My House Rabbit Handbook for my sister to flip through.
I am happy to see however that they didn't have pine shavings in their litter box (they did have them in the bottom of the cage though; I think we may need to remedy that - our vet said that those shavings not even in Flopsy's litter box but under his drop tray could have caused the kidney infection that killed him).
Poor little guy, I miss our Floopy-Man :(
Heh, OK, so that was tangential!
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Date: 2002-10-11 10:28 am (UTC)And i hate that cage. There is a 4 ft long one at pet supplies plus on lexington st. for only $100. I told her she should invest into that because it will do the bunnies good.
When we got the bunnies, they were already depressed. We would let them out frequenlty (in the beginning anyway) to run around in sams room, and as time went by she stopped letting them out because she wasn't home much. Since day 1, they have always been very close to each other and affraid of everything. They have been neglected (not so much by sam & i, but in a way we did neglect them a little (ex: small cage, laziness to buy correct shavings)). More so neglected by whoever had them before us. I think the people at the pet store told us that they were left at the front door overnight if I remember correctly.
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Date: 2002-10-11 10:44 am (UTC)eek!
who knows what sort of life they had before :(
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Date: 2002-10-11 11:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2002-10-11 11:52 am (UTC)i'm building a cage for when i get my guinea pigs. it's cheap and big, and i think a modified version would work well for rabbits. directions, etc. are here.
Hrm
Date: 2002-10-11 12:58 pm (UTC)I get my timothy at the pet store (most of them will carry it in addition to alfalfa, though it comes in small bags). I have friend with a farm that buys tons of it for her horses, I need to talk with her about details and see if there's a place I can get it from in larger quantities (but not too large that it will go stale).
Those cages are really neat! My sister only has a certain amount of space for the bunnies in JDs room and I *think* the cage I have will fit it. She's good about taking care of her animals so I'm sure they'll be able to come out and run around often (so a cage bigger than the one I'm bringing over shouldn't be necessary).