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Frankie is a chewing MONSTER – there is nothing safe. Some of you might have read a few weeks back that we had to take him to the vet because he knocked himself out burrowing…. Since then, we’ve been trying to come up with ways to distract him but nothing seems to last very long!
We’ve got cardboard and spare carpet all over the place, which are fair game, and that leaves behind destruction like this:
You should have seen it before we hoovered up all the tiny pieces…
So when we got a new microwave, we thought we’d use the box to make Frankie a dig spot. This was the box yesterday, as we introduced him to it – it’s got carpet down, and some hay, and a few spy holes for him to look through:
He seems to rather like it, and has spent most of his time in it since:
And we knew he would dig, so I caught him in the act:
But then we looked around at the other side of the box:
He’s almost destroyed it already.
I’m in shock that such a small thing can make so much mess and destruction in such a short space of time!
And just cos it’s cute, here he is, lounging around in his cage as if to say “so what?” (Frankie does a very cute lounge.)
Oh yeah, he digs up the newspaper in his cage too, as well as trying to dig up the newspaper in his litter box, and to top it off he chews his bed box too. I think we’re gonna need more cardboard….
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Oh my goodness! He looks just like my Sandy when we got her last year! (pic when we first got her)
I noticed in one of the pictures his eyes are all wide as he’s trying to chew a piece and she does the same thing. She destoys a lot of stuff to but hasn’t done that much damage in that little time haha! Is yours a mini lop? Sandy is, she is now almost 7.5 lbs! Hmm she needs a friend but a las I won’t bunnap Frankie, I already have several destructo buns
Oh and I love the video, I laughed seeing him scoot across the floor as he’s digging hehe! -
I have 9 months in my head as when they typically reach adult weight. I could (most likely) be wrong.
He may come in at about 6-7 pounds (say 2.5, 3kg?) Are you in the UK? In Australia and UK the dwarf lop is a medium size bunny. It’s known as the mini lop in the US. Though biggish, it is a dwarf version of a lop – French I think.
I’m a little bit sad/nervous that he’s going to be different afterwards – he’s got such a lovely personality, chewing included!
This can change a bit anyway due to them coming out of the baby stage. Not necessarily always to do with having being neutered.
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Posted By Dreya T on 09/28/2010 06:02 AM
On an unrelated note, I went round our local farmers market on Saturday and asked all the veggie sellers if they’d heard of cilantro, which none of them had. When I looked it up on the internet, I found it to be coriander leaves. !
I did that in Tesco… wandering round the veg section – excuse me, do you stock cilantro? The member of staff went and asked someone else and everything
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