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Coloration: Black Tiger and White
Likes: playing, chasing Ming, eating, sleeping, being cuddled when he feels like it
Pet-Peeves: people not sharing people-food, weird cats in his space, strangers, the vacuum
Favorite Toy: Ming, his puppet, peacock feathers, earplugs, moths, stringy things
Favorite Nap Spot: the couch, bed, computer chair
Favorite Food: whatever you are having, he will try most things
Skills: tripping people, giving drooly kisses, "talking," losing cat collars, looking and sounding pitiful at will, landing on sleeping people like a cannon ball
Dwells:
indoors and outdoors
Arrival Story: A neighbor found him, starving and meowing in the bushes. She saved his life and nursed him back to health. She kept him for a few weeks, but had to give him up to travel. I was planning to re-home him for her, as I had 2 cats in a 2 room shack already, but we decided to keep him as a playmate for Ming. We grew to love him too much to ever dream of giving him up.
Bio: Named after Vincent Price. When he wants to be picked up, he stands in front of me, looks up, and gives a long "meoooooow." He loves to give drooly kisses and to purr in my ears.
Lives Remaining: 8 of 9
Forums Motto: Vincent- a killer with a broken heart
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Mum is thinking of calling the new bunny "Speck" after Pee-Wee's dog in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. Also, he has all those black specks. Not too creative, I guess, but Mum has been naming all sorts of animals after Pee-Wee characters. I talked her into naming this year's kids after Greek gods instead, she might need to sell some, and who, other than her, wants a goat named "Magic Screen" or "Mrs. Steve" or "Clocky?" Also, there is the problem of running out of female names from the Pee-Wee show, and most of mum's goats are does.
Anyway, I just went out to look at Speck. Mum picked him some weeds from the yard, and he was enjoying sitting in a patch of sun eating them. He had no sun before, as his hutch was inside a hen house. He also seems to have gotten bigger! I think he is less afraid now, so instead of hunching in a little ball he is stretching himself out. Ming now says he is almost as big as her wild bunny, Chub, was, though Mum says he doesn't weigh nearly as much. Maybe we can fix that. Mum has been pouring over the House Rabbit Society's info pages to refresh her memory on how to care for bunnies. Mum thinks he will become more muscular with better nutrition and when he is able to run and play. Hey, it works for me, I'm a bundle of muscle! Mum has a big, vacant chicken tractor that needs some repair and modification, then it can become an outdoor playpen for Speck at some point. There will be too many hawks where we are moving for mum to let him outside otherwise, but she believes a bunny needs to run and play to be happy, and the trailer won't offer much room.
-Vince
The rescued bunny arrived last night. He is just a little white ball with huge dark eyes and freckles of black. He has little black ears. I looked at him for a long time. Ming says he is a lot smaller and more domestic-looking than her bunny was.
Mum put the bunny in a much bigger cage today with grass hay and alfalfa hay and bunny pellets and a little cardboard nest house. He explored everything right away. Mum isn't sure if she should set the bunny up so he can roam the bathroom or if she should keep him on the catio in his big cage. She doesn't know if he will pick a corner to potty in and stick with it or if he will just go all over. She will need to monitor his potty habits to see if he can be a house bunny soon. She may need to get him fixed first, the boys can be marky, just like cats.
Anyway, welcome, bunny. What will we name you? Hmmm. -Vince
Well, February is grinding along with the usual illnesses and deaths of various beloved kitties. Mum has long hated February. She's just busy trying not to think about Moppet and the other kitties lost too soon much and just function. Easier said than done!
On the farming front, Mum needs to order some tomato seeds and some baby ducks or chickens soon. They failed to send Da his paycheck this week, so this hasn't been done yet, but it needs to. Then when the seeds are planted, Mum will put them on top of the brooder with the baby birds, who are heated by lamps. Then the heat germinates the tomatoes, and you get happy, growing birds and happy growing tomatoes for the same amount of electricity!
Mum is planning to do the Farmer's Market this year in the city we are moving to, so those tomatoes will be important. They may be putting food on our table! Get on it, Mum!
Sheesh!
I heard today about a neglected little bunny. He was not getting food and water regularly and his little cage is all full of rot and poo. He was a gift to a little child who quickly lost interest in him. Isn't that sad? Mum said she'd take him, so Da is rescuing him tonight, and tomorrow Mum will scrub his cage clean and give him all sorts of yummy things to eat. After he settles, Mum will need to look into having him neutered. It is important to get bunnies neutered even if they are alone, because they get reproductive cancers and such. We haven't had a bunny around here for a few years, this should be fun. He is little and black and white and not very tame, his friend was killed by a dog, and that is about all I know about him. I wonder if Ming will love him like she did her bunny, Chub? I kinda doubt it, but we'll see.
-Vince
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