Snow!

It began at six, is forecast to dump 5-10 cms overnight! That might not sound much to some of you (2.5-6inches) but for little old England, where the whole country grinds to a halt at the slightest whiff of a storm, this is serious. I just looked outside and our road is already over an inch deep, and as we are on a side road that the local authority don't deem important enough to grit, I am sure we (I mean the husband) will be digging us out tomorrow. Yippee I love snow!!!!!

Here's Buttons, looking completely unconcerned. He remembers the great snow of 2009, and says, this is nothing!

Hiding!

Can you see Buttons?



I couldn't at first, and had a mini panic thinking is lost him under the kitchen cabinets again!

But then I looked closer...



Is this odd?

snuggle bun

Since you asked... we're cool. Here's a pic of Buttons having a little snuggle, he says it's not like he wants to do this ok, cos he's a tough little independent bunny who doesn't need snuggles ok! But he just thought he'd cheer the human up who is missing Bella... alright? And maybe if you could just give that little ear a scritchy scratchy while you are at it...

Since he's had to endure the snuggles, better pass the treats. Oh it's tough being a bunny, the things you have to endure!

That's a big noise for something so small

Take shelter Buttons, the baby is cutting his first tooth, and boy is he unhappy! Cover your ears!

Beautiful Bella...

... is sorely missed. She got sick last week, went downhill so fast, nothing could be done. She sadly left us on 6th January.

Nose

Goodness knows why this didn't show up first time but here it is!

Merry Christmas

So we like squeezing up the side of the shed. Ha ha, the human can't get us here! Wait, can she still take photos of us here?!?!

So it's been a pretty uneventful month, although the baby keeps the human v busy, we've been keeping up to date with everyone's online antics! So a VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OUR BUNNY BLOG FRIENDS!!!

B&B had their myxy vacs last week, and were both very good for the vet (no repeat of Bella's pee flicking!). The kale we grew is still going very strong, much to the bunnies delight! Unfortunately all the leaves are now gone from their favourite grape vine, but we planted a new apple tree so they can have some branches next year (and will save us from "borrowing" apple branches from the community orchard in the village.)

There is a rumour that the human's mother has grown some purple Brussel sprouts for Christmas dinner... Human and rabbit dinner that is! Buttons and Bella can't wait!

Hair cut

Bella had a hair cut recently. This is the "after" picture! Her mane was getting so long it was in her eyes at the front and she was picking up food and hay under her chin!

She was very good: she trusts us so much more than when we adopted her a year ago! (a year, how time flies!). She probably doesn't realise how lucky she is to get a fur-cut from the husband, who cuts human fur as his job, and charges them money!!! Bella didn't even tip him!

Babysitting

"This baby thing is exhausting! He wants constant entertainment! Well we've done our shift and now we need a lie down. Anyway we think he needs changing so we best let the human take over xx"

Snooze away bunnies... I'm sure he'll start screaming soon and wake you up!

Thanks everyone for your good wishes for big Bella. She is 100% back to normal now.

Bunnies: sent to give us grey hairs

Sigh. Bella is unwell, please send your thoughts and prayers her way. I don't think it's very serious, but we're keeping a very very close eye on her as we have learned from sad experience how quickly buns can go down hill.

Last night she didn't want her dinner pellets, which was incredibly worrying: Bella loves her food. She was cowering in her house looking very unhappy and i could not tempt her out. On inspection of the litter tray we noticed no poop either (the benefit of the huge size difference between our two buns: very easy poop differentiation).We gave her a shot of pineapple juice and after an hour she really perked up and ate some pellets.

Panic over, I went to bed. This morning she was behaving normally, bouncy and ate some breakfast veggies... But not as much as usual. She's pooping, but not as much as normal. Today's been up and down: sometimes she is hopping round the garden like a kid and nibbling at readigrass, but she's turned down broccoli and sometimes returns to the house for a lie down...

So we're just monitoring v closely, and administering more pineapple juice later. Hoping it doesn't mean we need to see the vet tomorrow.

We'll let you know.

Buttons is happy and healthy, and going through a v scruffy moult!