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May 16, 2007

1166: Bunny trouble!

From CuteOverload:

I woke up this morning to find my rabbit, Dewey, in a particularly strong mood to misbehave. Like all rabbits, the morning and the evening are when he's most active; the rest of the time, he seems to be flopped out on the floor like an abandoned stuffed animal or tucking himself into a rubber duck pose I like to call the "bunny boat." (Roebling, "The Brooklyn Bunny," demonstrates here.)

He's excited to see us when we wake up in the morning, and likes to get chased around the living room a little. He gets fired up about his pellets and will, grunting like a piggy, try and nudge the food bowl out of your hand in a state of greedy excitement. Amazingly, he never seems to get tired of this routine -- only really varying his behavior when he's on medication. His behavior is fairly predictable, although he does go through phases of being interested in certain things (eating books, sitting in one particular spot, nudging ankles, etc.) and will go for stretches of time not doing something before returning to it with renewed interest. Today, he seems to have rekindled his love affair with destroying our belongings.

When he was sick and on medication, his diet changed fair drastically and he had little interest in his food. He was, however, deeply interested in eating the cardboard case for a Metallica movie boxset and the spine of my favorite Helmut Newton book. What can I say? The bunny has good taste.

When I woke up this morning, he was hell-bent on destruction -- which I can respect -- but also drives me a little crazy. Whenever he gets crazy-go-nuts and destroys something I love, I'm mad for about a third of a second; I tell him he's a bad bunny (BAD BUNNY!) and then he'll do something cute -- which, being a bunny, is basically anything -- and I'll love him even more than I did before he ate the front off my special edition Sharpe's DVD collection. GOOD BUNNY!

This morning, as I was putting on my makeup, I glanced at my reflection and saw him in the distance, sitting on his hind legs and batting at something like a kitten. I was charmed until I saw that he was playing with the frayed ends of the speaker wire connecting our surround-sound speakers in the back to our stereo at the front of the room. He had snipped through the wire and was now taunting me with it, in the same way he sometimes likes to snip our phone wire like he intends to murder us. SNEAKY BUNNY!

At first, of course, I was annoyed. But when I came to stop him, he turned his attention to peeking under my bathrobe because he's also a CHEEKY BUNNY!

Posted by ashley at May 16, 2007 09:42 AM

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