Can't Touch This

Our rabbit Kenji is very fluffy and cute.  Almost like a stuffed animal, but very Alive.

Looking at him, you just want to reach out and hold him and hug him.  Yet Kenji has other ideas than being hugged.  He'll move away.  "nope,  Can't Touch this."

He does like to play and hop around a lot. Lots of energy.

When our bearded dragon, Hagrid, has energy he doesn't want to be held either.  Go, go, go.  

Yet because he's a reptile his body will cool down and he will slow down.     It is then that he likes to be very close to warmth.  He  is very happy when we share our warmth with him.  He'll lay on us for warmth and comfort for a time.  

It's sort of interesting: 

The fluffy cute rabbit wants private space to himself  

The scaly reptile wants to enjoy close time with us for warmth. 

All Kinds in this world.

Here's a pic of Hagrid resting on me. He relaxes and closes his eyes as he feels my warmth.

And here's our sassy sweet Kenji on his tunnel boxes.

How About Them Apples

When watching Kenji eat,  we'd notice that he takes little bites.

I cored an apple, peeled it and cut it up in small pieces

Then I brought it to him on a paper plate.

Not every piece was the same size.  Some were smaller than others.  

Well, Kenji looked it over.  Then he went and grabbed the biggest piece on the plate.

Since then I don't bother cutting apples up in small pieces.

Nail Clipping

 

Clipping our pets nails is an important part of pet care.

It can take practice to get it done.

When I first attempted to clip Kenji's nails, he zipped away.  My daughters would try to hold him. Yet it was still challenging.  Kenji seemed to find a way out.   

I asked the vet about how to hold and cut his nails.  She demonstrated that he tends to need to be held like a football.  

OK 

Yesterday I bought a new pair of nail clippers, because I couldn't find the one we had. 

Supplied with new nail clippers, a banana (his favorite treat) and towel, my daughter and I went to it. Kenji was held in a football hold, while I clipped each paws nails carefully.

He was happy with his reward treat.

Hagrid gets his nails clipped too.  

He, being the king of chill, wasn't initially hard to work with.  

Yet he would shake his hand after having his nails cut. His way of letting us know he didn't care for it.  

Hagrid gets exercise

 

Hagrid warms up on his rock hill in his enclosure.  

When he's warmed he gets taken out for a time.  

When he's light colored his body is warmed up.  He now has a lot of energy to move.

He gets excited as we carry him out to the living room.  He sometimes gets impatient and wants to go down.  

He is placed on the floor.  And zoom...he's off running around.  "Beardie on the Loose"

He runs through the living room.  Then runs into the kitchen.  He turns and heads to the bathroom.  Then out across the living room again.  

He also loves climbing.  He discovered he can climb up the heater cover near the front windows.  From there he can look outside the windows, which he enjoys doing.  His skill of climbing has improved and he climbs up with ease.

He seems proud.  He stands in a proud stance and gazes out the window.  He's guarding his territory.  

                                                Here's a pic of him looking out the window.

Here's a video of Hagrid running in the living room.

Water, please. TY

Kenji enjoys his upstairs "pad" with Emily.  

He is a free roaming bunny.  

He has:

a place to go-to-the bathroom 

a food place and water dish

 towels, pillows, rugs

a tunnel to run through and boxes 

He's a happy bunny.    

He gets checked on throughout the day.   

As far as roles, I seemed to have taken on cleaning his water dish and refilling it. And he knows it.

I know he knows it because when he wants/needs more water, he looks at me and then the water dish.

"Water, please, TY"

I pick up bowl and go down to clean it.  

He sits in a spot and waits for me to come back.  

I come back and fill it.  

He gets excited and does his zoomies (hopping around in circles) and then nuzzle me (TY)

Kenji's Gotcha Anniversary

 Jan 9, 2021

That morning we put together the cage.  Later that afternoon my daughter and her friend placed the cage in the back seat of the car and drove to the house to pick up her new 6-7 week old rabbit.

They brought him home. They carried in the cage with this small fluff ball of a bunny.  He was so small and cute.

We open the cage door.  It took a while for him to get comfortable enough to come out, yet he did.

My daughter and her friend came up with his name, Kenji.

Jan 9, 2022

It's been a year now since that first day. We celebrated his "Gotcha Home Coming" day by treating him to his favorite treat, a Banana and sitting with him and praising him.  

It's been an experience having a rabbit to care for and there have been many joys.  Lots of learning and engaging.  

Love

Curtains

 

My oldest daughter was changing up her room.  She moved some things around to suit her better.  She added a couple of new items.  One of the items was a set of new curtains.  

I helped her put up the new curtains.  

The curtains were full length curtains and would touch the floor.  I brought up a long curtain rod.  

Kenji's enclosure is in front of the window.  In order to put the curtains up we had to move his cage forward. 

Kenji seemed uncomfortable about the cage being moved.  Yet watched to see what was next.  

We moved the cage a few inches from in front of the window.  

I then laid out the long curtains to start to pull each one through the curtain rod.  

Kenji saw the curtains and came over to investigate.  He sat by some of the curtains.  

Once I put the curtains on the rod, we put them up.  

Kenji went to the curtains.  He moved through the curtains and then sat admits them. 

Since that day, he has hopped through and slept among the curtains.