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Monty Python weren’t lying when they said “death awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth”.

Fairly accurate depiction of a rabbit.

I’m useless in the mornings. I’m always rushing, forgetting things. Yesterday I forgot to shut the bedroom door. Chompy lives free-range in the bedroom. Normally this would be fine, as she rarely wants to leave the bedroom, but it wasn’t because yesterday Huey aka Houdini-Bunny escaped his pen AGAIN, and found his way into the bedroom. It really doesn’t sound like a big deal that they would hang out, but as they are not bonded, it is. Why?

RABBITS ARE FREAKIN’ VICIOUS.  Rabbits have sharp teeth. They use them… on each other… Baron came home to find clumps of fur EVERYWHERE, along with a bit of dried blood on a cardboard box. I was able to inspect Huey, and found no less than 4 bite marks, one on his back being quite bad.  I haven’t been able to touch Chompy to see if she has any – but I would expect at least some.  The bunnies are sepparated, Huey’s wounds cleaned and cage double reinforced, Chompy’s room door tightly shut.

This is going to set back their “bonding” process for a while… which means we’re going to have to keep them sepparated for even longer.  We also are going to have to watch these cuts closely to make sure they dont’ get infected, they could require stitches or some other reason to visit the vet

I shouldn’t be surprised – just because rabbits are cute, and totally innocent looking – I should remember the lessons of Monty Python… Rabbits are completley vicious, capable of tearing skin with razor sharp teeth. 

This isn’t the type of mid-week updated I wanted to make… and surely most of you don’t care… but I feel so bad that my little bit of carelessness resulted in some major harm to my babies!

Hopefully I’ll have better news for the next post!

Google Chrome, Picasa & Bunnies.

These are all the things that have been consuming my free time lately.
First: I was miracuously able to install Google’s new browser, Chrome, on my computer at work (to which I have no admin rights). I’ve been using it all day at work in place of my normal browser (Firefox). So far, I think it’s pretty neat. It definitely feels faster. My work’s site is 100% flash and now I can navigate it a bit faster. There are a few neat things – like placing an icon of an “app” (webpage) on to your quicklaunch bar, incognito mode (does anyone else think that guy with the trench/fedora/glasses combo is creepy… they should have just named it perve mode), and its overall simplicity. Will it ever beat Firefox for my love? Only time can tell.

Something that I find even more exciting from the people at google is the new Face Recognition & tagging function in picasa web! It is somewhat similiar to the ability to tag people in Facebook, except it takes it a step further by actually trying to find the faces! At first, I let it scan my entire album collection. It took about 20 minutes to complete that (I have about 30 albums with people in them). Then it showed me groups of faces, and I could enter in names (also able to add in nicknames & email addresses). This creates the tag.  Then it goes through all the pictures, guessing which person it could be, and giving you a few options from your tag selection to pick from.  You can also ignore, skip or tell it that it’s not a face it’s captured.  So far it’s been pretty good. I’m quite impressed. A while back I had made the decision to go with picassa for a few reasons – but things like this are making it cooler!

Last, but not least… my bunnies! Huey has been settling in just fine.  He has gone on two “dates” with Chompy… and that was interesting!  You see, bunnies are territorial by nature and you can’t just throw two strangers into the same pen and except them to be ok with it. Combine this fact with their extremely sharp teeth and you have potential for major rabbit-injury. We have to slowly introduce them in territory-neutral areas until they seem to get along. It’s quite the process, and we did it successfully with Bukit & Chompy, so hopefully Huey & Chompy will love each other too! Here’s a ridiculous looking picture:

Chompy & Huey Cower together on the table

Welcome to Huey Bunny

As mentioned previously, our dear bunny Bukit passed away last month.  We knew we wanted to adopt another bunny so Chompy could have a friend again – but we weren’t sure when was too soon.

We decided to go through www.rabbitrescue.ca, an organization that takes in rabbits who are near the end of their lives at shelters and places them with foster parents until they can find ‘forever homes’.

Through them we found Huey – who was living in waterloo.

He likes apples and boxes.

He is awesome! He’s very curious and loves to be petted. This is a big change from Chompy, who is equally curious but replace love with hate and… well that’s the Chomps. They haven’t been introduced yet. I really hope they like each other. Bukit was more of a subdued bunny and Chompy can be fairly laid back as well.  I hope these two don’t have clashing personalities!!  Anyway, here are two more pictures of cutie mc Huebert.

Huey Emerges into his new home

Huey likes to be pet!

There will be many, many more pictures of him to follow

Oddly enough, having him in my home makes me miss Bukit even more.

Tags: Bukit, bunny, Chompy, huey

Ressurection

I’ve decided to bring ye olde bloge back to life. I guess not every post has to be insightful & meaningful. tee hee.  I added twitter to my site, and it is fun – but I may want to expand on that. I also figure I need to do some sort of promotion of my blog… so people know it exists, other wise what’s the point?!  I’ll figure something out.

I love wordpress – it really is awesome. The “pages” feature makes it really unecessary for to even create my own site manually, but it’s the least I can do to stay a ‘multimedia’ person. I’ve upgraded to 2.6, and it just gets better and better. Colour me impressed.

In other news, my dear old bunny, Bukit, had to be put down this past Monday. It breaks my heart, but he was very, very ill.  He is no longer suffering, and that is the best I could do for him.

We paid the extra money for an autopsy (yes, a rabbit autopsy.) and a histo-pathology. For those of you who don’t know, Bukit was somewhat of a medical anomaly.  He had these weird bumps on his side that the vets, after doing a biopsy could only describe as “hardened fibrous collagen deposits” that were “seen only in humans and sharks”. What?! I don’t know either! Anywho, we thought it’d be good to know what was afflicting him in his final months, and probably great for the vets to learn more things as well.

All in the name of science, Bukit! Science!

RIP BUKIT!
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There’s more to report on, but I’ll save that for later.

Tags: Bukit, Bunnies