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First, thank you all for your comments!
I should state that when I tell my daughter that Fang hates her, she finds it funny. First, she is sorta Goth, and the idea of being hated by her pet appeals to her, but mostly, it’s just so ironic. Most animals love her right away, she has a way with cats, dogs, and most reptiles, especially snakes…I DID mention the Goth thing? But her charms are lost on rabbits, she has to do it the old fashioned way with bunnies, she has to earn friendship.
I secretly believe that my strange girl LIKES being bitten, but that’s another blogsite….
If anyone finds my experiences funny, I don’t mind, at the end of the day, I often sit back in my favorite chair, laugh, and say to myself, “What the hell just happened? and I hope no one is FILMING this!”
NOW, about Fang…………
The vet escaped his first visit unbitten, happily. He is very experienced with rabbits, and he’s very firm and gentle, which Fang seemed to like. He had an assistant who was HUGE, the man was at least 6’5′, and about 220. I told the vet that we couldn’t cut Fang’s nails because he would bite, even under hypnopsis. He told the tech to help him lie Fang down, so he could trim the nails, and the dr said that it could be startling to have the bunny lie there quietly, then suddenly try to spring up and get away. Fang was quiet, and when they got to the last paw, he lunged up and tried to get away! That tech must’ve jumped three feet into the air! The doctor laughed, and said, “See? it can startle you when they do that out of nowhere!” We all laughed. Then the doctor told me I can bring Fang in to be neutered NEXT WEEK….
Oy. Poor Smokey. He’s started playing “Folsom Prison Blues” on the harmonica, and at night, he picks up his metal food dish and runs them across his cage bars–uh, from the outside, he doesn’t sleep in a cage, he lives under the bed….
But one more week, and he’s free. I can’t wait, we had a cable repairman over yesterday,and Fang hopped all over the place to look at him. The repairman thought we were crazy.
Now, Fang is doing yet another strange thing. When a rabbit growls and hisses, is it SUPPOSED to sound like Donald Duck? I just can’t take Fang seriously, he splutters and growls, and all I hear is duckspeak, so I cover my mouth and snicker. Maybe that’s why he’s biting me more lately! He sits out at the patio, and looks down at the lake, which is only about 20 feet away. There are lots of white ibis, egrets, and seagulls on the water, especially in the morning and at sunset, and Fang just sits there, making those weird Donald Duck growls and grumbles. Is he ticked off, because they’re noisy, or is he trying to learn their language, which is why he now sounds like a duck?
God, I need to get him neutered………….
PS….Finally got the pic up of my boys!
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LMAO!!!!
We have the birds outside the apartment too, but I moved to a first floor so I don’t have a porch, just an open patio so Sammy can’t go out on it. (Slab of concrete then grass.) I think he’s talking to them. The most surprising thing to me was learning bunnies do talk.
Goth + Bunny? Think about it. Not a visual match. Maybe if he was all black, but white and white with brown – just doesn’t evoke the image. He’s just telling your daughter “come back next year when you’re a Cover Girl.” I’m impressed that reptiles like her. She may have a nice future in exotic pet care, so there’s an upside to that.
Did you name Fang after he started biting? Maybe a change of name after the neuter, like Gums or Sniffles will put the teeny teeth back in the mouth. The story of the huge technician is priceless.
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Well, I said it somewhere before, we originally called him Zeva, back when we believed he was a SHE. When we thought he was a little girl, and believe me, he was TINY when we brought him home, only 8 weeks old, he was stubborn even then. He didn’t bite until after two weeks, that magical ‘break-in’ period, so he went from being called Blossom to being called Zeva, because she reminded us of that woman on NCIS.
We didn’t realize she was a he until two months later. Smokey was lying on the rug, minding his own business, when Fang came up and started humping Smokey’s face! Then he, um, well……Smokey needed to have his face washed right away. We sat there in horror, shocked to know that this bunny wasn’t going to be Smokey’s mate after all–then I wondered if we should call him Clay or Ru-Paul?
We’d been calling him Zeva for quite a while, so I suggested calling him Kiba, which sounds similar, so he wouldn’t get too confused. My husband said he couldn’t pronounce it (but he had no trouble with Zeva), and wanted to know what it meant. It’s Japanese for Fang, so my husband said that would be fine, since he had bitten all of us that morning while attempting to remove him from Smokey’s face.
My daughter isn’t true Goth all the time, sometimes she does the all black, but she’s one of those ‘candy’ Goths most of the time, platforms and mini skirts, looking like a sassy little high school girl from Japan, and she’s a big Happy Bunny fan, so she wears a lot of those tees. Ironic.
SO, to answer your question–what was it again? (Kidding..) Fang has been his name since he decided to celebrate the New Year early, and let the ‘balls’ drop………..ahem………..
And yeah, I will never forget how red that tech turned after he landed, too funny!
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CUTE! 
That would be funny if he turns into a total needy cuddle bunny - You must be logged in to reply to this topic.