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 her nails clipped too.
She, being the Queen of chill, wasn't initially hard to work with.
Yet she would shake her hand after having her nails cut. Her way of letting us know she didn't care for it.
Hagrid warms up on her rock hill in her enclosure.
When she's warmed she gets taken out for a time.
When she's light colored her body is warmed up. She now has a lot of energy to move.
She gets excited as we carry her out to the living room. She sometimes gets impatient and wants to go down.
She is placed on the floor. And zoom...she's off running around. "Beardie on the Loose"
She runs through the living room. Then runs into the kitchen.
She turns and heads to the bathroom. Then out across the living room again.
She also loves climbing. She discovered she can climb up the heater cover near the front windows. From there she can look outside the windows, which she enjoys doing. Her skill of climbing has improved and she climbs up with ease.
She seems proud. She stands in a proud stance and gazes out the window. She's guarding her territory.
Here's a pic of him looking out the window.
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)
