Hi! 

I’m Kels and I guess I’m new, though I’ve been lurking here all summer ever since I became an unexpected rabbit owner! (Though now I’m not so much as his owner, it’s more like I’m his PA, chef, architecht and entertainment director.) 

Anyway! My rabbit is named Chester.  I  unfortunately do not know much about him or his past.  I ‘stole’ him from a somebody who as far as I know,  had him for a few years. (I didn’t actually steal him, I’m not a petnapper! I pretty much asked the owner straight up if they were looking for a new home for him because I was interested and it turns out, they were.)  He spent some time as a house bunny, but seems to have wintered in the garage. Most of the time he was in his hutch in the back yard, I’m not sure how often people hung out with him. It was not a nice hutch, and neighbourhood cats used to use it as a lounger. This didn’t really bother Chester (he seems to love cats??!) but it kind of bothered me.  

Long story short: he is all settled now in his brand new rabbit condo!  He has an outdoor townhouse, too, for nice days (though there will be no more of those, thanks to winter!)  He’s really quite lovely and a bit bossy, as well.   He seems to be a “rearranger” and he huffs and grunts at me when I move one of his strategically placed pieces of hay.  He got nice new polar fleece blankets for his new digs and I guess I put the wrong blankets in the wrong spots because he spent all night last night dragging the black and grey fleece out of his nesting box, and dragging the solid grey one in. 

I don’t know if he’s neutered or not, but I’m in the process of tracking down a vet in my area who knows rabbits.  And even if he is neutered, I just want him to have a check up so we can know that he’s okay.

As for me, and I’ll make this super short since I kind of just wrote a rabbit novel.  I became a bunny slave rather unexpectedly.  Up until this point in my life I honestly though I was a 100% cat person so it’s been an interesting journey, discovering there is room for bunnies in my heart!  

Anyroad!  I never thought I’d posted one of these, but this forum & website have been so helpful over the past few months of “whoa, random rabbit in my life!!!”  that I thought it was time I joined in on the fun instead of just hanging about the eges  Thank you for having me!!