Well, Nelli has always been a bit more of a jumper/climber than BunBun, but this time she has possibly gone too far. She has been spotted wandering around on our kitchen table several times today! She’s not doing much, just nosing around at everything and looking about in her parinoid manner. Oh yeah, and I had to move the fruit bowl cuz she ate the peel off of one of the bananas. The buns have always enjoyed lounging on the kitchen chairs. They have a big cardboard box next to the table, their “house”, and they jump up onto it and then hop from chair to chair. Us humans have ben banished to the living room couch for dinner- BunBun gets too offended if we sit on or rearrange his chairs. It’s fine unless we have company- other people seem to find it a bit odd.
This is all fine- in fact I think that walking in the kitchen door to see a bunny on the table is hilarious. I do have 2 concerns, however. My first concern is whether or not I should put a little “stepstool” on their box so that BunBun can join his wife on the table. He seems kinda put out that she is up there without him, but he is shorter than Nell (he resembles a football with legs now that I think of it). I’m afraid he might try to jump up there and have a fall. My husband says that providing an easier way onto the table will encourage the buns to go up there. In my experience, once they have decided to do something, there isn’t much I can do to stop them, so encouraging is pretty beside the point.
I guess this first concern leads to my 2nd one- is the table too high for the buns to be hanging out on? The tabletop is 2 1/2 feet high. Of course, they will hopefully jump from the table to the box to get down. My fear is that somepne will burst into the kitchen, scaring Nelli (which is not hard to do- she is extremely nervous) and causing her to fly off the table. Does anyone have experience with tabletop bunnies? Do bunnies generally refrain from leaping off of high objects, even not- so -smart bunnies like poor Nelli?
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