I am Megan Pressley, I go by Meg mostly, or Meg Pressley.  I am nineteen, a college student (currently on my summer break until August), and I am a resident of the beautiful state of Virginia.  I am hoping to get a job at Build-a-bear so I can work with kids and super adorable stuffed animals; mostly so I can save up money to get more things for my babies and a new camera to take pictures of my babies.  Any free time I have once I get the job and once school starts will go to homework and bunnies.  :]  (Also, I liek to write, it’s a huge hobby and part of my life and I tend to write a lot no matter what — so, yea, you might see some huge posts from me).

My first rabbit I bought last year as a graduation gift from my parents.  She’s a black Mini Rex, who at first we thought was a buck (but we looked at the pictures and realized that the beautiful creature is actually a doe).  It took me almost a whole month to name her, and we finally chose Pixie Marie as her name.  She also received the label Princess or Diva because she’s so picky, she’s like a little princess.  She’s about five pounds now, and roughly a year old (the pet store said she was three months old when I got her — and I bought her on June 26th, 2010).  We gave her an official birthdate so we could celebrate it properly; her birthday is April 22nd, of course the date is a rough estimate since we are unsure of her actual day of birth.  She’s a beautiful rabbit.

The quality may be horrid, since I had to take the picture with the camera on my phone.

Sitting there waiting for me to clean her cage.

Before I cleaned her cage — managed to get a side profile :]

She started to get curious in hopes I had snacks in my hand for her to eat :]

Pixie sniffing her blanket for more snacks — after I cleaned her cage.

Oh, she got tired of waiting so she gave me the bunny butt!

After I cleaned her cage, I gave her Aria’s pinecone to see what she would do.  She started sniffing it and then started to chomp on it.

My second rabbit, and my most recent rabbit to the home is a tortoise black Lionhead.  The pet store, the same one I bought Pixie from, said that the Lionhead was a buck, well as per usual, they were wrong, definitely a doe.  We named her Aria Skye, and she’s quite the active little bunny.  She loves to come out and play, she loves food, and she wants to be with Pixie (though since they are unspayed it’s difficult to bond them).  Unfortunately since she was a rabbit that I kind of bought on the spur of the moment on May 21st, when my friend and I walked into the pet store, I had to persuade my parents, and they had to quickly find a cage, and I haven’t been able to do up her cage quite like I want to — we don’t have all the materials yet.  She’s so soft and so pretty, and she’s much smaller then Pixie.  Aria is about three or four pounds.  I will soon post up pictures of her as well.

Before I cleaned her she was playing with her pinecone that I later gave to Pixie out of curiosity.

I had to pet her to get her to stop moving enough for me to quickly take this picture.  She likes to move around.

She’s like, “C’mon Mom just clean me and give me my food already.”

Now she’s at least a little curious about the weird object in my hands that’s getting all the attention of my hands.

There we go, Momma finally gave her the snacks she’s been waiting for.  :]  “Nom nom.”

Inside her cage eating her food.  “Nom nom.”

Pixie’s cage set up is simple, and she seems to really like it.  Right now I only have the store bought cage, since that’s all I could afford (I will be saving up for new cages for both of them).  On the cage footing we put a clear plexi-type flooring on it, and left a strip on the right side uncovered so extra urine or poop could fall through the openings (and we could also push it there if extra strays from the litter box), on top of the plexi, since Pixie doesn’t like the hard surfice all alone because it’s slippery, we put down an old water proof pad down to protect her feets.  We cut the pads in the appropriate length to fit just before her litter box.  For now, her litter box is made from plastic and we cut the sides down, making sure they weren’t sharp, and made it a good height to protect some splash and make sure she could easily go from the litter box to the open cage space.  In front of her litter box, to the corner is her plastic water bowl, with a bottle as well.  Next to that is her glass food bowl (we’re hoping to also get her a glass water bowl since right now her water bowl is made from plastic).  We really like this set up for her, she seems to like it as well, but since we got her from such a young age she was kind of raised to be a neat rabbit (and she seems to do well with it).  This is why we call her a Princess, she likes for things to be clean and orderly.  Crazy as it seems.

Pixie’s cage set up, from the top.

And her set up from the front.  I know her cage is a bit small, it’s store bought and right now all I can afford.

We’re hoping to do something similar to Aria’s cage once we litter train her more.  (We’re hoping to do something different with their cages period, but I need to save up the money in order to do this, so it’ll be a while for now).  I really don’t like Aria’s cage set up right now, because it’s not really good for her to have it set up like this.  Since we got this cage off of a friend it’s really old and worn looking.  Right now it’s just the wiring on the floor, and Aria seems to enjoy it, but I don’t particularly like it knowing she could get hurt and get hocks on her feets.  I’ve tried putting down cardboard, she’ll eat it up and make so much raucus none of us can sleep, I’ve but mats and blankets down and she’ll just dig at them and start chewing on them, and then lay on the exposed cage part that she had made.  I’m hoping to buy some of the same plexi we have for Pixie’s cage and putting it down, securing it and making splash guards liek we did with Pixie’s.  I’m hoping to get her a corner litter box, because she seems to go specifically in one corner (but she does horribly in the litter box like we had for Pixie), so we had cut it down and stuck it on the bottom under the cage itself.  She’s a random pooper, she’ll just poop anywhere, and her pee is in one or both of the back corners.  We have her food and water on the left side, but I want to move it over to the right; every time I put in there a plastic bowl for her water that we had extra she tipped it and spilled water everywhere (so for now I’m waiting to buy her a glass crock like her food bowl).  She likes to make a mess with her cardboard, and she likes to chew on paper and cardboard and blankets.  She’s a bit more wild and messy than Pixie, and it’s sometimes hard to get to know her since she’s a more recent bunny and already a year old when I bought her (so she’s already gotten into her ways — but I’m hoping to train her and get her used to something else eventually).

Aria’s cage from the top.  The newspaper is from the pull out tihng at the bottom of her cage, it has her two make-shift litter boxes and her newspaper litter.  I hate this set up so much because there isn’t anything protecting her feets at the moment (and everything I put in there she digs out of the way or chews up).

From the front view  (that cardboard that’s in there was from the cardboard floor I tried making her a few days ago…  That’s pretty much all that’s left of it).

I don’t really like my bunnies to be in their cages, I wish they could be free range bunnies, but since I live with my parents and we rent (and I’m not technically supposed to have pets — unless they are in cages, and I did get permission for A bunny….).  It’s kind of difficult for us to bunny proof our house, and have a save free range house because we have a lot of foot traffic since my brother it handicap and has three aides coming into the house (hopefully, once my mother becomes a sponsor and we get our own place I’ll have more room).  I try to let them out for a good amount during the day by putting up an xpen peice and attaching it to the end of each cage (since they are in a corner — picture below this paragraph as an example) and let them have an eaqual amount of play time by themselve since they are not bonded (even though they are not spayed I am working on bonding them anyway).

The corner and play area I create for my bunnies (they go in separately though).

I put a sheet down to protect their nails from the carpet, and to protect the floor from poop and urine.  I also put out a blanket so they can dig and lay on it as well if they want.  The blue sheets hanging on the walls are to protect the wall from any pee that they may splash over their guards. (I’m currently letting Pixie romp around for a while).  In the open part of the corner, their box with the blue top goes there.

They get a bowl full of pellets a day (and they do well to make it last the whole day since they are also entertained by cardboard and toilet rolls and paper towel rolls.  I also give them snacks, I try to limit which ones I give them during the day; right now we only have the cubed hay so I tend to break it apart and turn it into loose hay for them to eat and I mix a little into their food bowls since I have a limited supply of this (I am hoping soon to get some loose timothy hay for them and a feeder to make it easier for them to have a daily supply of hay).  I’ll have to share some of the things I feed them with you guys, I give them different snacks on different days and I try to make sure I don’t give them too much and all that.  But we have found that they really enjoy some of these snacks — and I make sure that none of them have nuts, seeds, or corn in them because I know that’s not healty for a rabbit.  I’m hoping to getting into feeding them more veggies and fruits (but we have a limited supply of the kind they can have).

I have a lot of things planned on the way I want to house my rabbits and have things set up for them, which I’m hoping to one day be able to do in the future after saving some money — I’ve seen so many good set ups that I’ve been inspired by many and really want them to have an awesome set up better than what they have now.

Anyway, that’s all I have for now — I need to shush before it gets too long winded (scratch that, it already is too long winded).  I get really into it sometimes.  I’ll go into more detail about certain things upon request, and I will certainly try my best to answer questions. :]

P.s.  Right now, I am trying to save for them to be spayed, that’s why I cannot break into my account and buy the cage material right now…  I can pad Aria’s cage down with blankets and cardboard easy enough and hopefully hold on to it for long enough until I can buy the plexi material for the cage.