You know there's a rabbit in the house when your neatly wrapped Christmas presents have holes chewed in them... Oh well the family will know the gifts are from me and Jazzy
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I never put up a tree. It's a hangover from the years spent in teenytiny studio apartments. I started putting up decorated garland over the largest windows in the living room and hanging my ornaments on there. The windowsill gets decorated as if it were "under the tree", and that is where presents go.
So the only thing Pepper could get into was the occasional fallen candy cane (mmm minty-fresh bunny-breath!) and the leftover tissue paper. The FraidyTwins likely still won't be venturing that far by X-mas.
Remember this was Pepper we are talking about? The bunny who ate soap?
This is 2 lengths of artificial pine garland, so about 18 feet altogether. I put my lights on it and wound it with tinsel garland, and I swag it over the curtain rod and down the sides and then hang my ornaments on it. Change the curtain tie-backs for red ribbon, and set up candles, presents, etc on the windowsills. I also tend to leave the venetian blinds mostly closed this time of year, so I also hang the holiday cards I receive on the blinds themselves. Since I'm in a card exchange with some people from another bunny group, I also have photos of people's bunnies to hang up there too. It's certainly festive and takes up no floor space at all.
Momiji knows that any paper left out is for him. I never said that but it has become the 'rule' lol.
I do give him catalogs to rip up and chew, carboard boxes and toilet paper tubes.. so I can't expect him to avoid my wrapped gifts! But yeh he will chew anything if I don't watch. There are just times when you think 'nah he won't reach that' or he digs something out from under the sofa you forgot/didn't know was there! I have to put up pen like cages around the room to section off electricals but he can poke his nose through and pull bits of the xmas tree through... he is a giant breed and I forget how TALL he can be when he stand on his back legs! He is always reaching tall plants and things! I guess I am lucky that I can just move everything behind on of the pen cage sections that I don't want him chewing, but he will still manage to find something now and again.
(like my headphones poking out of my bag the other day!)
tree eating bunkdwesnerDecember 8 2011, 01:23:49 UTC
FYI pine and all conifers are really bad for bunnies according to my vet. Even pine shaving bedding that they sell in the stores for bunnies is really bad.
After xmas, my bunny and cat have a wonderful time playing with wrapping paper! The cat loves to hide inside and underneath, and bunny loves to rip it all up and run around with it in his mouth :D
Momiji looks a lot like the bun in your icon actually! He's a blue french lop :)
I have a cute video from last year where my cat was hiding under some wrapping paper, and bunny was chewing on some... then he chewed on a bit that she was hiding in... so she did her 'ready to pounce' move. Then he hopped over somewhere else and my cat pounced on thin air and they both looked so confused hahaha
Well Dusty was always in the way while wrapping, I've got the gifts all up high now. I've yet to have a tree in my life (as I'm thinking of just decorating a pot plant), but I did buy some ministockings for their cages. So not a concern for me yet. I suspect if I did have a tree I'd need to Dusty-proof it.
I do have a 10 cm high plastic tree that I've got on the table. We joke that it's the rabbit's tree.
Presents normally don't end up under the tree until the couple of days leading up to christmas, so not too much of an opportunity for the buns to nibble.
But right now they are busy checking out the tree, sniffing every inch of it and rubbing their chins on every branch that they can reach, haha. The first year the I had (just Alex) he seemed to love sleeping under the tree on the tree skirt, it was too cute ^_^
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So the only thing Pepper could get into was the occasional fallen candy cane (mmm minty-fresh bunny-breath!) and the leftover tissue paper. The FraidyTwins likely still won't be venturing that far by X-mas.
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I've never thought to decorate garland with ornaments, that's actually a really cool idea!
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This is 2 lengths of artificial pine garland, so about 18 feet altogether. I put my lights on it and wound it with tinsel garland, and I swag it over the curtain rod and down the sides and then hang my ornaments on it. Change the curtain tie-backs for red ribbon, and set up candles, presents, etc on the windowsills. I also tend to leave the venetian blinds mostly closed this time of year, so I also hang the holiday cards I receive on the blinds themselves. Since I'm in a card exchange with some people from another bunny group, I also have photos of people's bunnies to hang up there too. It's certainly festive and takes up no floor space at all.
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mainly just 'coz Im in a 1 bed flat with no space for things like that hehe.
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Momiji knows that any paper left out is for him. I never said that but it has become the 'rule' lol.
I do give him catalogs to rip up and chew, carboard boxes and toilet paper tubes.. so I can't expect him to avoid my wrapped gifts! But yeh he will chew anything if I don't watch. There are just times when you think 'nah he won't reach that' or he digs something out from under the sofa you forgot/didn't know was there! I have to put up pen like cages around the room to section off electricals but he can poke his nose through and pull bits of the xmas tree through... he is a giant breed and I forget how TALL he can be when he stand on his back legs! He is always reaching tall plants and things! I guess I am lucky that I can just move everything behind on of the pen cage sections that I don't want him chewing, but he will still manage to find something now and again.
(like my headphones poking out of my bag the other day!)
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Momiji looks a lot like the bun in your icon actually! He's a blue french lop :)
I have a cute video from last year where my cat was hiding under some wrapping paper, and bunny was chewing on some... then he chewed on a bit that she was hiding in... so she did her 'ready to pounce' move. Then he hopped over somewhere else and my cat pounced on thin air and they both looked so confused hahaha
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So not a concern for me yet. I suspect if I did have a tree I'd need to Dusty-proof it.
I do have a 10 cm high plastic tree that I've got on the table. We joke that it's the rabbit's tree.
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But right now they are busy checking out the tree, sniffing every inch of it and rubbing their chins on every branch that they can reach, haha. The first year the I had (just Alex) he seemed to love sleeping under the tree on the tree skirt, it was too cute ^_^
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