Update

As some of you may have noticed, bunnymad.co.uk has changed. It has received a little facelift, and all older pages have been archived. The reason for the latter is that we just don’t have enough time on our hands to maintain so many sections. Children, jobs, and other commitments (not to mention rabbits) demand too much of our time for us to be able to keep up to date.

So, from now on only the blog will be updated.

And here is the first update of spring...

Mabel and Dijon are now very settled in their ways, and they are quite happy with the arrangement in the living room: in the morning, the Easipet pen is arranged to allow them access only to the dining area of the living room. Straight after their breakfast they are allowed out, and out they stay until it’s time for school (at weekends they stay out).  IN the late afternoon and evening they are given access to the entire living room.

At meal times they have become terrible beggars, and it’s not unusual for them to stand on their hind legs, stretching as far up to the table as possible, demanding something from our plated. They look like a couple of performing poodles the way they tiptoe on their back feet. It’s highly undignified behaviour for bunnies.

Over the cold winter they have learned that radiator give of a pleasant heat, and they love to sit as close as possible. This does keep them out of mischief, but does mean they are in a permanent moult which has caused the filter on the vacuum cleaner to block more than once.  Two rings of black, brown and white fur are a common site on our carpet.

They have also learned to sleep in sunbeams that shine through the patio doors. In the morning they shine onto the radiator, and at midday/early afternoon onto the piano, so Mabel and Dijon will move around accordingly.

If they spot one of us out in the back garden, then the moment we come back inside, the two of them run to the living room door awaiting a treat. If we forget to bring a freshly picked apple twig, strawberry leaves, or a few blades of grass/oats, they do grow a little cross.

It’s hard to believe they’ve been with us for 20 months. They have caused relatively little destruction in that time. Only my slippers and remote controls have really suffered - Dijon has a taste for leather and rubber.