*slaps forehead* Duh! >_< I should've thought to do that! lolz….

Well let’s see…. *looks through the plethora of photos of Pip on the comp* Here’s a few from when we first got her and the subsequent months following. I will have to load a new piccy of her at her current weight, but that’s only if she’ll cooperate with some snapshots today.

First one will be from December 07, when we brought her home. The rest will be a few months later and hopefully I can find that pic of the palomino that I found on the web for comparison.

I also have a pic of her and Mimzy together from March of this year. You can see that they almost look the same size and she should’ve been about a year old in that photo. You would’ve thought she’d stop growing. But now, she’s easily longer and heavier than she was in those pix, I’d say she’s a good couple of inches longer than Mimzy all stretched out.

The one of her in my lap shows how lengthy she is. I am about 5’4″ tall and she stretches from the top of my leg to my knee. That was taken in July this year.

Another thing I’ve noticed is the temperament change. Both she and Mimzy don’t seem as fond of each other as they were back in March. And I’ve decided to postpone any further bonding with them due to her weight and domineering attitude. You can see in the earlier pix she has an almost carefree air to her. But if you looked in her eyes today, all you’d see is Princess Bunny. She doesn’t take anything out on me, but she sure gives Mimzy a hard time.

As far as breed designation, she has the coloring, and if she gets all bunched up you can almost see the high back that you would find in a palomino bun.

Rather distressing to note this is apparently a breed that was sired for consumption. But it is also supposed to have a sweet disposition. Where that went, I have no idea.

I’ll add the other photos in the next post.

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Here’s the picture I snapped of Pip today. What a little porker this one is! ^_^

Plus I added another pic of a palomino buck that I found on the web. Although I already put one up in the first post, I was thinking of this one when I began worrying about Pip’s weight.

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Keep in mind that the second picture in the first post is NOT Pip, but a palomino bunny picture I found on the web for comparison. Also the second picture in the second post is the palomino buck listed in Wikipedia as an example of the palomino body.

I’m not sure that Pip has ever been that ‘curvy’, but I do know it is harder for me to lift her now than it was before. I can still feel ribs, but her tummy seems tight to me. She still jumps around and goes up and down her night pen ramp, so I know it’s not gas.
I bought a bunch of wheat and oat hay for the two buns a while back and was feeding them that, (they wouldn’t touch the timothy for awhile), and I think that’s what got her so plump.
I have figured out a way to make the xpen into a configuration that makes it like a little racetrack. I figure if I really want her to move, I can put her in it and just follow her around with the furminator or the love glove, she hates being brushed so that’ll get her moving! ^_^
She is also back to eating timmy hay.
It’ll just kill me if she gets fat, I know how uncomfortable that is.

Okay, I will take it that you all believe she is not overweight (although I think she could still use more exercise) and I’ll just keep feeding her timothy hay and try to keep her pellet consumption in check. We’ll see what that does in a few months.
No she has no dewlap…yet…thank God! ^_^ And her fur has come back in from her last chin-chewing so nicely, she looks really fluffed out.

DO female buns have more weight issues than males? (The world would HAVE to be cruel that way…lolz.) We (me & my vet) do believe she is spayed, she has the tattoo in her right ear. I would guess like most females, she is going to get heavier as she gets older?

She just seems so large to me. I won’t mind her being her correct weight for her size and breed, but I have to think of Mimzy too. He gets crushed by her when she mounts him (and always from the front, she has no clue) and I know that was stressing him. He still is not sure that I’m not taking him out of his pen that I’m not putting him in with her, but sadly, until she is either a little lighter or he gets bigger (not likely) I just can’t in all good conscience put them in the xpen together because he comes out so unhappy it just tears me up.

Ooohhh…3.5? 0_o Okay, the only thing that’s lionhead about her then is the floofeh hair. >.<
That clears it up for me, bunnytowne, thanks!

And Pip says thank you for the groovy compliment. Right on and far out and all that…lolz.