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[babybunsmum]

last night i was getting the girls salads ready & left pinky and baby’s doors unblocked while baby bun was out & about.  i swear it was only for 15 seconds and baby was no where near, and then she comes a-running & goes straight for pinky’s open door.  although pinky was in her enclosure i hustled over there… good thing too. 

pinky’s litter / hay box level door wasn’t latched properly & by the time i got there (seconds after baby) pinky was out of her enclosure & following baby into the tunnel underneath. baby realizing that pinky was also out & about, jumped into the cardboard tube to get away but apparently couldn’t get a whole lot of traction in there because her little legs were scraping furiously.

by this time bogart was in the room too & i freaked!  i’m so not calm in stressful situations.  i yelled at bogart to leave while i was thinking that all the scuffling was pinky attacking baby (good dog backed out of the room as ordered) and then i realized the baby was the only bun in the tube.  the silly girl must have jumped in so fast when she saw pinky that the tube rolled & she was on her side trying to claw her way out while pinky sat at the end watching.  lol.  when she did emerge from the tube she ran right back into her room.

the whole time this was happening (probably not even a whole minute long) i was yelling “oh no, oh no oh no!”  way to make it worse christine.  lol.  i checked baby over & aside from needing to calm down a bit she was just fine.  pinky sat in the middle of her room with a look of wonderment on her face… like “what just happened here?”

[Beka27]

aw!

[Sarita]

Sounds like you were more excited than the rabbits and dogs. I’m the same under pressure.

[Beka27]

i had a similar experience just now. Max was in the living room and i was cleaning up the pens. i opened Mead’s to get her litterbox and she was GONE! she ran to the kitchen at least… Max won’t go in the kitchen at all.

[MarkBun]

Sometimes those unexpected encounters are the best ones. I have heard more than one story about how someone forgot to latch a cage and came home to two bonded buns. I know panic is a natural state when dealing with our delicate babies but at the same time, they’re both buns who have instinctual survival reflexes. Whenever there would be an unexpected encounter, I would always approach Maryann with the “What do you think you’re doing?” tone and posture instead of the “OMG, yer gonna die!” Remember buns read our emotional states and if we panic, they panic.

[Beka27]

Posted By markusdark on 06/12/2008 9:37 AM
I would always approach Maryann with the “What do you think you’re doing?” tone and posture instead of the “OMG, yer gonna die!” Remember buns read our emotional states and if we panic, they panic.

lol!   that made me chuckle… b/c i can imagine BBM was doing/thinking just that!

[babybunsmum]

lol.  so true!  i wish there was a way to de-program the freak out of me so i could have the presence of mind to put on a “what do youthink you’re doing?” tone.  maybe some day….

[bunnytowne]

I can just imagine Pinky sitting there with that look on her face. she is so loveable

[kimberleyanddarren]

thats so funny! i am more of a calm person in stressful situations, im the person there going ‘ok you go get this, you do that’ i remember when i broke my leg (the bone was actually through my skin) and my mom was going round screaming and in a right royal panic, she was crying and everything and me (with this bone poking out of me!) had to say ‘ok CALM, first go fone for an ambulance, second get some towels to stop the blood ruining the carpet, 3 get some stuff together for the hospital’ and she was running round crapping herself hehe
It must be very stressful though if that happens especially if they are prone to fighting!

[Scarlet_Rose]

*chuckle* The ending was cute but the drama so very panicky. Those stinkers!

[MimzMum]

Posted By babybunsmum on 06/12/2008 10:29 AM

lol.  so true!  i wish there was a way to de-program the freak out of me so i could have the presence of mind to put on a “what do youthink you’re doing?” tone.  maybe some day….

 

I have been a proud card-carrying member of the Official Freak Out Society since I was 9. There isn’t a situation in the whole wide world I can’t make worse by losing my cool, and I think personally it’s just because I want to have more control over my life and all things involved in it, which I never really feel I have achieved. Ironically, if I COULD just calm down, I really WOULD be in control.

I’m 45 this year and I’ve been through cancer, raised two kids to teen age, have one going to college and another struggling to get out of high school, plus a husband who has a fractured back and a penchant for breaking anything else within a 10 mile radius. I’ve had many animal companions in my life, but currently only the two old dogs who can hardly lift their legs to pee and yet will bolt down the road if they even get a whiff of freedom from their enclosures, the two indoor cats that do the same thing at an open door, plus the two bunnies who are a constant source of worry and dread when it comes to whether I fed, cleaned, exercised, treated for illness, brushed, housed or snuggled correctly.

 

Does one ever learn to be ‘calm’? Um…lemme think……NO! >_<

 

Par for the course, woman, par for the course, being a nervous wreck. ^_^ I think it’s just something we have to learn to accept as a part of our lives when we take on someone or someBUN to love.

I have to admit though, it was a cute story and at least it had a soemwhat happy ending.

 

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