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Yesterday I picked up my new bunny, Otto! I’m so so excited to have him and he’s absolutely adorable.
He’s only 8 weeks old, so he doesn’t fuss at all when I pick him up or hold him. And he loves to lie down with his little feet stuck out to the side. He was even lying like this in the carrier on the way to and from the vet’s this morning; he didn’t seem worried at all. He’s really into his toys too, and loves pushing a ball around and chewing on a willow stick. He had a plush bunny, but he kept gnawing on it so I took it away in case he was eating it 
His only issue is that he’s very very cautious about new floor surfaces. At first he wouldn’t leave his litter box (for 2 hours) because he didn’t like the slippery plastic floor on the cage. I put some fleece down for him and now he’s happy as a clam running around, but he won’t get up on the shelf at all.
It’s also pretty high jump to get out of the cage and he’s not going to figure out how to get out for a while (I tried to position lower things that he could easily jump on top of, but he’s not interesting in jumping on anything right now), so I picked him up and set him inside the play area and he was so not interested in running around. He just plants his back feet and stretches out as far as he can without moving them to check out what’s around him
It’s so cute. I feel a little bad that he doesn’t enjoy time out of his cage, but I’m sure he’ll figure it out eventually. He enjoys running back and forth in his cage and doing little baby binkies for now 
Here’s where I set him outside his cage and he just sat really still. Haha. He really didn’t want to venture off of the sea grass mat and onto the white vinyl mat.
Here’s a picture of my cage set up. Eventually I hope to remove the pen and use it to block off the dining room and kitchen, so he can run around both rooms. For now he won’t even venture into the pen
so we’ll see how long it takes him to explore. He’d better get over his fear of slippery floors because we have a lot of hard wood and there are only so many rugs we can put down. He does seem to like living near the sliding door because he’s getting a nice breeze today.
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Yeah, we bought a few cheap rugs already at Bed Bath and Beyond; and he really likes the fleece in his cage (hasn’t peed on it yet either). And I really like the vinyl mat because it’s waterproof, but still has traction, so he should get used to that pretty fast. It was so cute to watch his feet go every which direction when I first put him on the slippery cage floor. He kind of stuck his back feet out to the side, then pushed himself, butt first, using his front feet
He was obviously uncomfortable, but I couldn’t help laughing like crazy. -
I love his big spots too! I looove spotted animals, but usually ones with lots of color and not too much white, so I think he’s perfect. Shhh, don’t tell him, but I was hoping for a brown and white bunny like Archie. Haha. But now that I have my little moo-cow bunny, I wouldn’t have picked a different one. My favorite is how his nose has a big lopsided spot
And the woman I got him from said her kids called him the Mask Bunny because he has spots right over his eyes.
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He does have an awesome cage set up. Where did you get the pen from? Congrats on getting your you baby bun 
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Sooo true!! 
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