Hello all!

 Rupert’s settling in very nicely and as I expected, very appreciative of having lots of toys and hay! He’s sooo sweat. I pack a nature ball and big cat ball full of hay and he just loves to pull it out and eat it-what a cutie! He’s romped all over the apartment, loves the cat tunnel I have, and decided the cleaning closet is a toilet (yikes -reminds me I need to buy another litter box!). He’s had a bath (he was pretty grimy) and a nail clipping and is super soft and clean now. He goes right in his cage when I tell him it’s bed time, and he even sometimes decided he wants in himself, he’ll run up and jiggle the cage so we know he wants in. He’s virtually litter trained himself in his cage, some stray poops but all the pee goes in the litter box and that’s all mom really cares about!

 We’ve let the bunnies meet a couple of times, no serious bonding attempts yet. Here are some highlights. I’d love to know what you think of how it’s gone so far, any suggestions or tips or dos and don’ts would be appreciated. I think I’ll snap some pics or clips tonight to make the thread more interesting-or at least a little cuter!!

*When Rupert first got home, he had a seperate enclosure in the kitchen. Kahlua ran up to the enclosure and promptly bit him on the nose, so he bit her on the nose. We blocked the area off (sort of like at the zoo, where there’s a fence inside a fence) and Kahlua promptly dribbled pee all around his cage (sorry but I found this really funny!)

*We let the three meet with Dave and I hovering over ready to intervene (gave Dave a quick “pow wow’ on rabbit signals-whats aggressive etc), Rupert dodged after Kahlua with humping in mind so Kokanee charged Rupert, Rupert ran away. We settled them all seperate after, no one injured of course, hopefully no feelings hurt.

*We’ve had about three little sessions with Kokanee and Rupert set up side by side touching, while we give them both lots of nose rups and ear rubs. They both lower their noses right to the ground. Kokanee’s groomed his ears twice. When Rupert does not have his head down for rubs, he gets nervous and tries to nip Kokanee.