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….looks who’s here! xD
Okay you guys, I think I’ve caught my limit. lolz….
Remember how sad I was the other week when the little lop eared harlequin was already bought from Petco? BB had told me that the right one would come along and choose me when I was ready.
This little sweetie was in Petco today, tucked away behind the Halloween costumes for small dogs and stuff. My daughter spotted him (or her, we’re not sure yet) and the minute I caught his eye, I couldn’t walk away. He was FREE. Poor little thing had been living in basement conditions and then went to a lady who had small children, so he’s a little skittish about being picked up.
I knew bunny #3 had to be around somewhere, but I wasn’t expecting this.
Appears to be a mini-rex. VERY snuggly once he’s firmly in your arms. Blowing his coat currently, and the background on him says he’s a year old. Rides beautifully in the car. I am only mildly concerned about his hips, they seem a little ‘splayed out’ to me, but I’m wondering if that’s just the breed style?
I have yet to check his teeth and gender him. I will be making an appointment to make sure he is healthy and then…well, we may be seeing 3 bunnies bonding on my kitchen floor soon!
Haven’t decided on a name yet, but if it’s a boy, because of how timid and easily shaken he is, I’m thinking of Fiver.
EDIT Sorry about the double post folks! The board is really messing with me lately.
Would a kind admin please delete one of these? Thankies! 
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Congratulations, MM!
Markus is right = take the vallium. He sounds just fine, and the only difference between a mini rex and others is that they are wonderfully perfect and so sweet that they won’t let you tell the others so as not to hurt anyone’s feelings. (This is from my vast experience of one bunny of course.)
His back hips do stick out, but I didn’t think they looked particularly abnormal, and if he’s doing 500s I doubt that they are splayed at all. I believe it’s their shape more or less. Your rex has a rounder head than Spockie’s, which is very cute. That might elongate with age also. Sometimes I thought S.’s body took on the most bizarre shape changes, depending on his position, age, recent food consumption, etc. He had big round belly and slim hips one year, then prominent back end and more of a pear shape at another time. Who knows? I am attaching a photo taken from above that shows a bit of a hip protrusion in similar meatloaf pose, but harder to notice due to coloring. See what the vet says. I think with a tiny bit of fat he will seem “smoother.”
I’m glad he may be a boy since he can’t be pregnant. Get thee to a vet soon. I’m already confused by thinking Mimzy is the girl and Pip the boy from their names.
Fiver is a great name! (And in a week you could bring home a little dwarf that 4 boys return to the pet store…) Kidding. -
I’m on my way to delete the other post – but o my WORD he is adorable
Beautiful and snuggly soft at the same time!Also, I’ve found that a great way to get skittish bunnies to warm up to you is to hand feed them a treat once a day. Yesterday my husband got my most skittish bunny to stand on my head to get a treat (he didn’t tell me thats why he made me lie down on the floor, I found out when all of a sudden their were bunny feet in my ear).
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lolz @ MooBunnay! xD I will give that a try…actually I tried hand feeding him a craisin last night, but he was having none of it, so he isn’t trained for that yet. But I noticed after I dropped it and looked away for a bit it disappeared.
Snuggly soft..lolz…the new spokesbun for Snuggle fabric softener. xD I have that disapproving bun around here somewhere that says, “Lady you got the wrong critter!”Thanks everybun!
Your well wishes bring tears of joy to my eyes and remind me that it’s always so nice to log on here first thing in the morning to start my day! Pam, that piccy of Spockie is as adorable as all his other piccies! ^_^ I’d forgotten he was a rex, wasn’t he? Thanks for showing it. Yes, I see the rex shape does seem to be more angular than most buns. And I do think Fiver might be a little underweight, so….
I wonder too if their fur has anything to do with how parts of them seem to stick out an odd angles? Since it’s so rumply and all? :-/I’m wondering if I should take him out of his pen much during the first few days here or if I should let him get used to where he is? I don’t want him to miss exercise though, as he seems to really need some. He stretches weird (to me) and extends his rear legs out behind him like a sprint runner. I think he’s been copped up too much already and maybe some time out will help him calm down.
Although he slept quietly next to me all night, the little dear. ^_^ He was backed up as close as he could get to me, but showing me the bunny butt so I didn’t get the idea that he was looking for comfort. Not a peep out of him and the only toy I got to bring with me from the store was a little jingle ball that was with him when I adopted him. He didn’t touch it till this morning when he saw I was up and moving around, then he batted it a bit and looked very pointedly at me. So he got his breakfast right away. ^_^
I think Mimzy might be feeling a little jealous though. He was watching me in standard vulture form from his perch from first light on and throwing his litterbox this a.m. Hasn’t done that in a LOOONG time! So I got up and refreshed HIS hay, then gave him a blueberry treat and he did night pen binkies for about 5 minutes straight after that. lolz….
Pip is just doing the usual…looking down on the newcomer with her classic disapproval loaf and parsley garnish…LMAO.
The store said Fiver is about 1 1/2 years old. He is supposed to be neutered. I see two tattoo dots in his right ear. The marking I was concerned about on his chin is actually a spot of brown fur coloring. And he has this lovely little white marking in the brown fur on his head that reminds my son of the symbol on the shogi piece in Animal Crossing, so he wants to call him “Shogi”…So maybe his name will officially be Fiver Shogi Minimus Rex. ^_^ He certainly hit his lucky feng shui day yesterday!
Yah, I hear you Pam, about the other little bunny. >_< Urgh….sometimes you just want to BEAT people!
Okies, I hope I answered everyone’s questions and posts!
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Oh, MM, he’s LOVELY! Congratulations! I’m so glad you found the little guy! I’m sure he’s just playing hard to get, and soon he’ll be so happy to have a real home, he’ll be crawling all over you! I hope he turns into a cuddle-bunny for you..that’d be a nice balance to the disapproving Pip and lazy-bun Mimzy, I think! And he’s SO PRETTY!
Oh, and “butter my bum”? *snort!*
“Butter my bun” would make more sense, but might be confusing in the context of THIS site!
LOL!
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Well, Fiver is going to have to be seen by the vet first, just to insure good health. Then, (and I posted about this in Behavior), I think he’s going to have to learn to trust us a bit more. He is VERY easily scared and confrontational if you push him too far. My guess is, he had to deal with ornery little boys and they weren’t too kind to him.
I think the bonding with the other bunnies will be cathartic for all of them. It might encourage Mim & Pip to be a little more gentle with each other and I think one or the other is going to want to protect the little guy. Hopefully without turning on each other.
Currently though, I think Mim is a bit miffed. He peed on my bed for the first time yesterday (proximity to the new bun, I’m sure) and he just seem like he was going overboard to gain my attention yesterday. So I have to be able to make peace with all of them.
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