Cute, cute, cute.....

[poliphilo]

I didn't mention this before, what with everything else that was going on, but we acquired a rabbit and a guinea pig last week. Joe had been talking about getting a snake or a rottweiler and I figured we should head him off at the pass.

I was thinking small animals would be low maintenance. I was wrong.

The rabbit is Toshiro Mifunny the Bunny (aka Fluffbucket) and the guineapig is Mulan

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[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

They are so cute! And that's a very smart and glossy guinea pig.

[pickwick.livejournal.com]

Eeee! Cute! I love guinea pigs.

[ex-kalymura481.livejournal.com]

Incredibly cute! The bunny will be the demanding one, I suspect. They get bored easily (& consequently shred things or dig), showing that they must have more intelligence than people give them credit for... keep with it, though, & the rewards are well worth it!

[dadi.livejournal.com]

oooohhh :) how cute! The bunny is very beautiful.. I so love this shade of grey! Does he truly have red eyes or is that the flash?

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Ohhhh! The bunny is sweet, but the one I absolutely adore is the guinea-pig. They're so engaging, and I'm sure you'll have lots of fun with her(?).

[thewayupward.livejournal.com]

I think the cutest thing is how you named the guinea pig Mulan! I don't go in for smallish animals, but god that thing is cute. Are you giving the bunny free run of the house?

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Is the rabbit housetrained? Or can you expect to find little boli of pet product all around? (pellets in, pellets out, how delightful)

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

yo- that's a box of my stuff eh? the ali book and the karate 2nd place medal. wow. makes me feel homely to see them ;)

[manfalling.livejournal.com]

how much of my stuff do you have there?

[ragingnoodles.livejournal.com]

That bunny is going to be so cool with a name like that, just looking at that bunny and the guinea pig make me feel all warm & fuzzy inside.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the world of pets!

Let's see:

The children had a dog who ate everything in Kate's bedroom; a bird, who flew to the Christmas tree and then to the piano bench, where it was immediately eaten by the surprised cat; a gerbil that cost almost nothing, who lived in an elaborate house that cost over $100; white mice; turtles from the woods (hidden in the closet); wild mouse babies (hidden in an old aquarium in the closet by Kate because her callous mom had killed the babies' mother)...

Your rabbit is very cute. We had one of those, too. And a guinea pig, which we rarely saw because it would bury itself in cedar shavings.

[sorenr.livejournal.com]

I keep thinking i want a pet, but then I come to my senses and realise that D is really all I can take care of these days. :-)

[jenny_evergreen]

Oh, boy, were you wrong! I've heard rather alarming stories about how difficult rabbits can be. But maybe your rabbit will be different. :)
We had a guinea pig, and there's a lot of maintenance there, although guinea pigs are not, ime, difficult pets. They're a bit high strung. (Ours was ridiculously high strung, but, then, he'd lost part of an ear to another guinea pig, so I can see how he'd be a bit tense!) But if you are patient, they probably make lovely pets. (We were children, and not so much with the patient. ;)
Good luck!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's a very frightened guinea pig and it doesn't really get on with the rabbit. He sees her as a sex object and she just wants to snuggle for comfort.

So we've separated them and (since this morning's posting) we've been out and bought her a companion.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Pudgy, snuffly little things- yes very cute.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the bunny has the run of the back room and is on the go all the time, snuffling at things. He's already quite tame.

The guinea, on the other hand, spends most of the time in bed.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

No, that's the flash. In normal light he has lovely dark eyes.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We've just bought her a companion- whom we hope is another doe. It's apparently very hard to tell.

Still, the pet shop has said it will take any babies off our hands if the need arises.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Mulan was Joe's idea.

The Bunny has the run of the back room. Actually he can go further if he wants, but as yet he hasn't ventured out the door.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We've givn him a litter tray and he's been using it. Rabbits are very cleanly animals- or so we've been told.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Two, three boxes- something like that. Mainly books.

We've bought more shelving so we can get them off the floor, out of the reach of the rabbit. He has a thing for eating paperbacks.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's nice to have them. The rabbit, in particular, is great fun.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We've had gerbils- they shred anything you put in their cage- and budgerigars and, of course, cats.

I had a rabbit when I was a kid, but it lived in a hutch in the garden and had little scope to be entertaining- poor thing- so eventually we gave it away. This one is huge fun. The guinea pig, like yours, stays in bed most of the time.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'd recommend a rabbit. They can be house-trained. And they're the very acme of cuteness.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Your rabbit really is cute.

Ours was in a hutch until we decided it was unhappy and trapped, so we gave it a big yard with wire fencing. The first night it hopped and hopped and hopped.

I like it that yours is free in the house. Lucky rabbit.

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