Petie’s latest stroke of “ingenuity”!

[lashkay]

I thought you’d like to hear about my little lionhead bunny Petie’s latest stroke of “ingenuity.” This morning I was woken by a loud clattering racket of something heavy and hard clunking and knocking loudly against something hard and metal. I instantly looked down in Petie’s pen, to find him clunking his wooden hay-stuffed rollertoy, on top of his stainless steel water bowl (attached to the Petsafe water station). He had dragged the heavy oversized rollertoy, still stuffed with hay, from the far end of the pen to the waterbowl, managed to hoist it up over the rim, and was apparently trying to get it down in the water, in the bowl, too small to contain it.

I said No-no-no-no! because I observed he had blocked off his accessing the fresh water, while he was still making his adjustments to his project, and he ran and hid. I picked the toy up and put it back on the far side. I had to smile because within moments he was over there dragging the partially wet rollertoy still stuffed with hay back toward the waterbowl, gripping the hay in his teeth and tugging it by the hay.  When he got his burden halfway over, he apparently got pooped out at the thought of all the hoisting and making adjustments before him, so hopped over to his goal and lay down, closed his eyes, and immediately went to sleep - next to the waterbowl!  What seemed at first like a strange thing for a bunny to do to your and my minds, I’m sure made perfect common sense to him in his funny-bunny psyche: when you want your hay wet, you drag it into your waterbowl, no matter how heavy it is…and whether it will fit in the bowl or not.  I guess after he’s gotten used to liking the veggies I give him drenched with cold water, dry hay no longer satisfies!  When I told my brother about Petie’s endeavor, he said:

” Ingenuity & Perserverance – Excellent Character Traits!”  Rabbits are a lot smarter than they’re given credit for!
One little note:  The wet hay that touched the water, what little there was if any, seemed to dry instantly. Otherwise, I would be concerned about mold forming in the wet hay. When they sometimes give moistened hay to sick rabbits, they have to remove it  immediately, because of the possiblity of mold forming if they leave it in.

Petie and Hay:

In veg position:

“Bye for now…. “

 

 

[emkvet]

Bahaha I was just watching Hazel push around a Kleenex box…she was SO determined to push it to her litterbox, then pushed it all the way back across the living room. Rabbits crack me up continuously.

Petie is soooo cute and fluffy! Love the pics.

[Stickerbunny]

Cutie! And sounds like he had a lot of work in that project, bad slave making him start all over lol glad he didn’t soak all the hay, bet it was funny to watch

[Sarita]

Funny – he sounds like he loves a challenge :~) Cute pictures.

[Elrohwen]

Hahaha. I love how they get projects into their heads and just won’t stop until they’ve completed whatever it was they wanted to do.

[Rei]

Silly bunny! Molly likes to rearrange her “furniture” in the middle of the night. She pushes her ceramic veggies dish all around until its hidden in her hidey hole lol

[lashkay]

Thanks everybody for your support, and Petie “His Royal Fluffiness” thanks you for the compliments.

emkvet: Hazel sounds like a ‘character’ too! …Bunnies make their own amusement … and keep US amused while they’re doing it! lol

Stickerbunny: The funny thing was, the hay was so tightly stuffed in the spokes of the rollertoy that only a little poked out and so when the oversized toy wouldn’t go down past the rim of the waterbowl, hardly any of the hay got wet, after all his hard industrious, efforts…

Sarita: He loves a challenge, & he seems to love keeping ME challenged every bit as much! LOL

Elrohwen: In this case, after I “made him start over” he called his project completed when half-way over he pooped out, lay down next to his goalpost, the waterbowl, and grabbed some Zzzzzzzs. LOL

Rei: Ha, ha, That’s funny how in her funny little bunny psyche she likes to have her veggie bowl in her “burrow!”

Bunnies and their agendas – after yesterdays demonstration, I imagine Petie has all sorts of plans cooking in that little noggin’ … to bust out of his pen next, to overthrow my ownership …

[lashkay]

Follow-up: For those of you, like me, who might have been concerned that Petie might block off too much of his accessing his water by putting his big toy in his waterbowl, Petie seems to have all-too-willingly abandoned dragging his enormous wooden rollertoy stuffed with hay over to his waterbowl, perhaps he’s daunted at the thought of all the effort it takes him to hoist it up, and he knows it doesn’t really get wet as he wanted it, since it’s too oversized to fit in the bowl. lol He has been nibbling the hay from it off and on. Between that and his “master” 2-hole hay box filled to the brim with hay, not to mention what’s accumulated on the floor of his pen, and the quantity he drags over to his bunny-bed, he has more than enough hay accessible to him. At least he doesn’t soil the hay on the floor and in his bed. Why he needs to always have hay on his bed, though he keeps his bunched up blanket he lays on hay-free, I don’t know…I guess he feels secure having some with him on his bed. Bunny psyche! LOL I guess when you live in a 8 foot square pen laden with all kinds of furniture, it doesn’t take much to keep amused!

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