Low maintenance pets my butt!!!

[LittlePuffyTail]

This was my day yesterday (not untypical):

 

5:00 a.m.- Wake up and check on bunnies to discover source of frantic stomping.

7:00 a.m.- Feed bunnies breakfast- veggies, pellets and hay.

12:00p.m.- Pet store stop for hay and grocery store stop for veggies

2:00p.m.-Bunnies are hungry and angry.  Feed more hay.

6:00p.m.- Feed bunnies supper – veggies, pellets and hay.

7:30p.m.– Each bunny gets out for supervised individual living room binky time

11:00p.m.- Litter change and snack of lettuce and hay.

11:30p.m.- Bed time- gotta get up for work early to make money for bunnies

So the next time I hear someone at a petstore say rabbits are low maintenance pets, I might have a few words for them!!!!!

[MarkBun]

Yup, they are anything but. Unless, of course, you want to just stick them in a cage and forget about them – which is what the general populace believes is how you treat rabbits.

[Binkles]

Next time you hear someone at a pet store say that bunnies are low maintenance pets, punch them in the face.

[Balefulregards]

May I add:

5:07 p.m. Get Stink eye because you have been at work and not rubbing my nose the way a good human should.

6:10 p.m. Look at newly washed an chopped veggies as if they may be the most terrible thing you have ever seen. Forget about the fact that you previously seemed to LOVE bok choy, parsley and red leaf lettuce. Show Disapproval to human.

7:40 p.m. Eye everything in the area to see if human forgot to put up something that I should bite. Chew fallen Camera Cord mercilessly to remind human that they are dim witted.

11:58 p.m. Decide to jump on head of human and sniff in her ears to see if she is dead…or sleeping. Actually, I know very well she is sleeping because we’ve done this every night for a couple of months. Real goal is to get human to stretch out fingers and engage in additional nose rubbing.

I agree Binkles. Punch them HARD in the face.

[Sage Cat]

Oh my goodness!
Baleful – you totally racked me up!!!!

[Beka27]

this thread is great!

[bunnytowne]

Cute accurate and cute. OH and don’t forget shedding.   OH here comes that horrible brushing again.  Try to bite the brush if that doesn’t work try to run b4 the human can finish brushing. 

Show dissaproval at everything.  Put human in the dog house.  

[LittlePuffyTail]

lol, Binkles…if I don’t come on the forum for a while, I’m probably in jail for stupid pet store clerk assault!!!!

[Binkles]

Lol!! Butbut…doesn’t that only count as a misdemeanor..?

[JD]

I was in a petstore once while the clerk was telling a lady how easy caring for bunnies was while she was looking at baby buns trying to pick one out. He told her how you just feed them pellets, and showed her a cage that would only be appropriate for the bun for about the next 3 months….can’t help but make you crazy!!!! argh 🙁 The lady was telling him that she was going to keep him in the garage because her husband didnt like animals. This was in July!!!  I couldn’t believe my ears.

[MimzMum]

Crap, I had a great post and it didn’t go in and I stupidly copied another before making sure this one posted. *bangs forehead on keyboard*

Yeah, my mum told me for years that bunnies were NOT low maintenance and that’s why I couldn’t have one. And I was a very responsible child, I was too scared of my folks to not to what they told me!

[Beka27]

Posted By MimzMum on 09/12/2008 5:57 PM
Crap, I had a great post and it didn’t go in and I stupidly copied another before making sure this one posted. *bangs forehead on keyboard*

Yeah, my mum told me for years that bunnies were NOT low maintenance and that’s why I couldn’t have one. And I was a very responsible child, I was too scared of my folks to not to what they told me!

YAY for your MOM!!!! 

i bet it bugged the heck outta you when you were little, but looking back at what you know now…  sometimes parents ARE smart. 

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

^^ Ditto always wanted a bunny and was never allowed (I sure showed them )

Hilarious Puffy and Baleful!!

[BB Administrator]

Great Thread! So funny!

This is BinkyBunny – just forgot to sign out when doing admin work

Helloworld!!

[MimzMum]

Okay, not quite the post I had before, but the best I could do trying to remember what I wrote.
My ‘Bunday’ is usually about as busy as LPT’s. And I imagine the mental soundtrack running in my bunnies’ heads to be something like this:

5:00 AM “Slave! *thump* SLAVE! Where’s my breakfast?? Chop-chop!”
5:01 AM “Hellooooo! Are your tiny ears painted on?” *thump*
5:02 AM *sigh* “You just can’t get good help these days.”
5:03 AM “Ohhh….feel faint….need sustainance!” *flop*
5:04 AM “*thump-thump…dig-dig* “Maybe I can chew my way out to the refrigerator?”
5:05 AM “WHY are you not up yet?!” *THUMPTHUMPTHUMP-BANG!* “Move it or lose it!”
*fast forward*
5:15 AM “It’s about time! Memo to me to dock your pay and give you the stink eye for at least a half hour straight today.”
*blessed quiet time, and then….*
6 AM: “Slave! *litter box goes flying* You’ve not cleaned my bathroom yet! What on earth could be more important than my morning toilette?”
*bunny sits on shelf practically drumming toes while cleaning is in progress*
6:30 AM “Took you long enough.” *glare* “Now fetch me some extra greens, I still feel hungry!”
*contented nomming*
7:00 AM “Do I have to remind you again…you’ve forgotten my treat!” *nose pokes through bars* “Ahh, delicious…I’d like a few more….what do you mean I can’t? Getting too fat you say?! Outrageous! *shows bunny butt* Fat THIS! I wouldn’t talk if I were you!”
*more blessed quiet due to bunny butt*
8:00 AM “Where IS that silly human? I haven’t been let out for my morning constitutional yet!”
*sounds of sweeping, mopping and play yard assembly*
“AAAHHH! THE HUNS ARE ATTACKING!” *THUMP-THUMP-THUMP* “SAVE ME!”
*human hands reach into pen*
“Back! BACK! I have toofies and I KNOW how to use them!” *blinks* “Oh, it’s just you. WHEREHAVEYOUBEEN? Didn’t you know that evil carnivores were about to devour me?”
*grunts and oinks and more thumps accompanied by scooting back and forth to evade capture*
8:30 AM *captured and thoroughly put out bun softly lowered to play yard floor* “Ouch! You call that transportation? Next time be sure I have a parachute if you’re going to drop me that far! *thump* And WHEN are we going to get some decent flooring in this hovel??” *foot flicks* I swear, no one knows how to treat royalty these days!” *scrambles under tent and hides from view*
8:35 AM “What are you still doing, hanging around here…get lost!”

*relative peace and quiet as long as bunnies are bonding well for the next 10-12 hours during which there are possible binkies thrown and digging done and LOTS of chewing on things that are MEANT for bunny teeth* (As an aside, if anyone goes by the xpen usually bunnies that were in full view will scramble for cover and I can’t repeat what goes through their minds! It’s a family forum!)

Somewhere between 8 and 10 PM *yawn* “Isn’t it dinnertime?” *thump* “Slave! Get off that stupid computer (unless of course you are ordering something for me) and get me some food, toute de suite!”

Basically between 10 and 11 PM, the whole process reverses itself with roughly the same monologue and a few extra scratches on my part. The evening usually ends with a glare from the pen shelf that bores itself into the back of my head for the entire night and then the next day the whole thing begins again.
BTW, this would be Pip’s mental grousing…I think-for her not being ‘my’ bunny-I can read her mind the best.

[Beka27]

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

And WHEN are we going to get some decent flooring in this hovel??” *foot flicks*

lol!

[BunnyLiz]

lol i can totally see a bunny doing that, thanks for entertaining us MM lol

[LittlePuffyTail]

lol. Love your post, Mimzum

[Binkles]

LOL!! Mimz!!!

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

I actually fond myself talking bunny inside Petsmart the other day with another customer who was browsing hay and had a lot of questions about what is good for rabbits. I was telling her about different things when an employee walked by and asked if we needed anything. I turned to the employee and said “No, I’m helping her out.” Hahaha. Needless to say, the bunny convo also made me late to dinner :X

[Binkles]

LOL!! I’ve done that before too. Pet store manager got angry…I say screw ’em!

[MimzMum]

Oh seriously, whenever someone can be educated (because you know those clones..I mean CLERKS…don’t know beans about anything) …skip a meal and DO IT! ^_^

Especially when it comes to rabbits, I would think it is a necessity to steal someone’s job from them to protect a bunny. When I am in the store with my daughter we talk LOUDLY about how ROTTEN YOGURT TREATS are and oh WHEN are they going to get OXBOW in? etc. lolz…..

I can remember some power crazed clerk in PETCO trying to act all authoritative towards me when I was holding Fiver, waiting for my husband to show up so we could ask to take him home. Thought he was all that and a bag of chips and I just turned to him and said, “I have rabbits, I know what I’m doing.” He stumbles and says, “Yeah, well, there’s supposed to be someone here with you while you’re holding him,” and rushed off to harass the other clerk. They talk big but they don’t have much to back it up.

[Scarlet_Rose]

I loved the monologue Mimz!

Staying a bit longer to help educate someone properly is priceless. Think about how you helped improve that rabbits life and hopefully it will make them cuirous enough to seek out more information – like coming here. When I do have a conversation they always mention how there is a ton of stuff out there to read, but you can’t ask questions so I refer them to Binky Bunny and let them know it is a house rabbit community and you can ask all the questions you like, anytime you like!

[Lisa_43]

I can relate to that, with 7 buns I have no time for anything.

[MimzMum]

Hey Lisa! I haven’t seen you lately. And I guess we know why now…goodness SEVEN??? 0_o Gosh you must be busy! And how are things with you and your brood?

[Kokaneeandkahlua]

Hehe love the post!

While I haven’t been able to educate someone in a petstore, (refer to earlier posts) when I’m being questioned at the till about how to cook those veggies I’m buying and I admit they are for my bunnies, I’ve had the oppurtunity to educate a clerk and on two other occaisions other bunny owners who were in line (oh, I have bunnies, can they eat that?) about what they can and can’t eat, and refer them to this site and the rabbit.org site

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