ESCAPE!

[Moonlight_Wolf]

Today something very annoying but still very funny happened… Fern escaped her pen.

Here is the story of what happened:

Well I am in my bed sleeping and I had drank too much water before bed so I needed to go to the bathroom.At three I woke up stretched then kneeled on my bed to get ready to step over Fern’s pen ( Her litter box is right next to my bed so I have to be carefull not to step in it). I looked down to make sure I would not step in her litter pan and I see Fern on the wrong side of the pen. I blink in disbelif thinking I am still half asleep. How could she escape right there, there is now way she could escape out of a exit near where I found her. So I pick her up, put her in her pen and then check to see how and where she had escaped.

Apparantly she escaped by pushing the pen in a different place that the pen was not attached, it was just flush up against the wall. She pushed it then apparantly sneaked under my bed and made it to where she found it.

Well I put the pen right and then put Fern in her cage and closed the door. (Fern has not been locked in her cage for a long time so this made her mildly angry.) She was stomping ( not thumping just a kind of loud stomp with both feet, It is hard to explain) and running around and hopping up all her floors out of frustration.  ( It is funny how they get angry if you lock them in their cage, but if they go in their cage of their own accord they lye there and are happy) Well while fern was throwing a fit I had to find a teporary fix for the pen so she could not escape.

So I tied the pen side to the other side greatly reducing the size of the pen space (it is hard to imagine so I will post a picture of her pen) I tied the side she escaped from to the side near the fish tank. this made the gate not used but it worked. She did not escape for the rest of the night. ( She tried though, cheeky little devil!)

SO  when I woke up I had to figure out a perminant way to prevent escape. I ended up stuffing one link of the pen in my cubord so she can not push the pen. She has not escaped from that setup yet, but waking up at three, and seeing an escaped bunny is something to talk about.

Fern… I kept telling her how bad she was (but was cuddleing her and laughing at the same time that I think she got the wrong message.)

 

I still wonder how long she was wandering under my bed and around the unfree part of my room while I was sleeping……

Ah, she probably had a blast though, a little midnight adventure.

[Moonlight_Wolf]

In this picture it shows where Fern escaped (on the right, top of picture. ) It it also where my cubord is (not in picture)

And in this picture it shows where I found Fern. ( on bottem left) in the picture I am standing on my bed just so you know where my bed is.

 

[Beka27]

what a silly girl! once they decide they can do something, it’s usually all over from that point! another option would be to reduce the pen by about half, and only use it at night, or do away with the pen altogether. if you did that, you’d have to do serious bun-proofing so the rest of your room was safe.

[bunnytowne]

Yep ruby does that she taught cotton.  Bad girl.    So you are imprisoned in your room.  So is bunny.    That almost beats hubby having to sit inside the xpen on his couch to keep cotton out from the bottom of it. Hehehe. 

I put the nic cubes there so it looks much better. Since he doesn’t recline the couch anymore.

[jerseygirl]

Another Magic Rabbit ! Not something you want to be dealing with at 3 in the morning. MLW, I can’t see how even you can escape your room – lol. Do you use the bed like a springboard or something, hoping to land somewhere near the doorway?

[bunnytowne]

Hmmm yes how do you get in and out of bed and out the door…. ? ….. 

[bunnytowne]

Company comes….. Gee why did you fence yourself into the bedrroom dear?

[MarkBun]

Maryann is good at escaping too. She’s even used tools to do it (a waterbowl as a wedge). I can’t count the number of times I’ve been working on my computer in the living room only to see my ‘caged’ rabbit hop out of the bedroom.

[Moonlight_Wolf]

Well to get out of bed I step on the little wooden bar thing that is attached to my bed, (it is in the first picture) and then I step over the pen that way.
To get over the doorway I just step over it. I’ve gotten used to it over time and it doesn’t even bother me anymore. Yea when people come over, I often show them “the bunny cage” first so they don’t discover it themselves… Funny how It is called the bunny cage in my house. When I want to clean it I say, “I am going to clean Fern’s room!”
All my friends always say, “Woh, like your whole room is a big bunny cage.” They always ask why she needs so much space and I just say shrug and say that she likes it and needs exercise, not wanting to elaborate every time I show people Fern’s/ My room.
It is quite funny seeing different peoples reactions to the big pen.

[Moonlight_Wolf]

or do away with the pen altogether. if you did that, you’d have to do serious bun-proofing so the rest of your room was safe.

Yea beka I keep pondering that Idea. I really want to do it but every time I think about it i become worried that she will chew my dresser! I THINK she won’t but if she did, well it would not be to good…

[jerseygirl]

You could pen the dresser!

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

LOL That’s too cute! You have an AWESOME set up I must say!

[Beka27]

Posted By jerseygirl on 01/05/2009 9:59 PM
You could pen the dresser!

 

that’s what i was thinking.  pen the dresser and move the grids outta the way when you need to get into it, then move it back.  it wouldn’t take you longer than 5-10 seconds to do and it might make more sense.  i prefer to bunny-proof MY stuff rather than the other way around…

[(dig)x(me)x(now)]

Wow, that’s quite a set up she’s got! That’s one lucky bunny!

[Starfuzz]

We had an escape incident the other morning as well. I heard a some rustling of some papers next to the bed that woke me up and found Mopsy had escaped her fenced enclosure. We can only determine that she got on top of the small pet carrier in the enclosure we have for her hide-away house currently and jumped the fence. She has never done this before, but we rearranged the living room after taking out the Christmas tree and decorations and cwitched the bunnies to the other side. Well, Mopsy’s house ended up against the fence next to Marble’s cage. So Mopsy decided to be brave with something now to land on on the other side and jumped from the top of her house, over the fence, landing on the top of Marbles cage (we put blankets and such on top of the cages cause they like to get up there). Must have scared Marble have to death with a 5 pound bunny pouncing onto the top of her roof.

Bunnies are crafty little critters.

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