Bunny Update

I just went by Munier's house to check on the bunny. He seems to be doing fine and is getting bigger by the day! ALSO, I discovered that there are at least TWO baby bunnies in there! Yippee! He won't be an only child! I plan to check on them again tomorrow to make sure they are being fed and will try to remember to take my camera.

Procrastination is my middle name

I know I promised many humorous tales of misadventure, and that I have not delivered on that promise. But I am a busy woman! Do you think I just sit around all day? My life is just too hectic for me to find time for blogging.

My typical evening starts with walking the dog, then I feed him. Next I fix my own supper. After that I pick out a DVD to rewatch for the 80th time because I'm too cheap and lazy to get cable. But don't think that I just sit there and watch the DVD, oh no! I'm way too busy for that! The DVD is just on to have some background noise. But I guess I do have time to sit down and watch the DVD while I eat my supper. Just for a minute. And oh look, is that stray hair on my leg? Let me go get the tweezers and pluck that sucker. Well, since i have out the tweezers, i might as well check my eyebrows. Yep, they need plucking too...lets just go in the bathroom and do that. Hmm, the candle in the bathroom is totally used up. Now where did i put those spare votives? Oh here they are in the closet...I think i'll use the blackberry scented one. So let's go back in the bathroom and put it in the candleholder. Wait, I used that same scent the last couple times, lets get crazy and switch it up. Go back to the closet to see what else is there. How about Tropical Garden? Yes that sounds good...lets take it to the bathroom. It fits nicely in the holder, but it is pink. It doesn't match the bathroom. Take it back to the closet and get the blackberry one again. Ok, now that that all-important task is complete lets go finish dinner. What?! Lucky ate my dinner! Little punk. Let me fix another dinner. Oh wait, that plant looks pretty droopy...I better fill up the watering can and water it. Hmm, while i'm at it, i wonder what the plants on the patio look like. Holy crap! They're really wilted - better water those too and pronto! Eeek! A spider!!! Where's my Raid?? Die Mofo! DIE!!! Pew, it stinks in here now. Smells like Raid. I better light a candle or two. Or five. Ok back to fixing my dinner. Now lets sit down and eat it. Just for a couple minutes though...I'm way too busy to sit and watch this DVD for more than 10 minutes. Hahaha! I love it when Jack Black teaches those kids to rock. Uh-oh...an hour later and I watched the whole movie. I can't waste any more time. But I do need background noise...Do I have time for another DVD?

That is by no means the end of the evening, but you get the idea of how the rest of the evening is going to go. So now you see that I am a very very busy woman with many important things to do and so you will be understanding when i am slow to post humorous misadventures on my blog.

Lucky is in the Doghouse

So, I have two faithful readers and I may have already told them about the bunnies that live in Munier’s back yard. They live under the shed and feed upon the lush herbs the previous owners planted next to the shed. These bunnies have lived there for years and they regularly hop around the yard and sun themselves in patches of clover.

Saturday afternoon Munier and I were standing in the backyard, he was watering the plants and grass and I was chatting with him. Suddenly I heard a faint but urgent “peep peep peep” and looked over. There was Lucky, next to the shed with “something” in his mouth. “Oh my god he’s got a baby bird and its still alive!!!” I thought. Actually I may have blurted it out loud. So I pointed at him said “LUCKY DROP IT!!” and started for him. He took off like a rocket and I chased him. Dammit, we left the door open! He ran in the house with whatever “It” was in his mouth, with me hot at his heels yelling “LUCKY DROP IT! DROP IT!!” He took off up the stairs, and when he reached the top he stopped. He calmly looked back at me, then tilted his head back and GULP, whatever it was, was gone! He swallowed it WHOLE! Lucky is a very small dog, so it had to have hurt going down.

I went back outside and reported what happened to Munier, who said “you know it was a bunny.” I said “No it wasn’t. It was a bird probably. How do YOU know? You didn’t even see it!!” And then we got into a big ole “Yes it was/No it wasn’t” fight, and all along I KNEW it was probably a little bunny, but I wanted to be in denial about it. I was pissed that Munier wasn’t allowing me that.

So later Munier goes back inside and I don’t remember what I was still doing outside but I look over at Lucky and damn if he didn’t have something else over by the shed! I yelled “LUCKY NO!!” and this time he did drop it and ran away. I went over to whatever it was to inspect the carnage, and there on the grass was a teeny tiny little baby bunny about the size of an egg. He was kind of slowly wriggling his tiny arms and legs around the way babies do, and his little eyes weren’t even open yet. I didn’t know what to do. I looked to the area where I thought Lucky had pulled him out from under the herb box, but there was no hole there like I thought. So I didn’t know where he had got it from. And there was a little wound on him! I didn’t know how badly he was hurt and he was too young to walk yet, so I made the decision to pick him up. I carried him over to the door and called in to Munier to come look and help me. By now it was well after dark and we discussed what we should do and went back over to the shed with a flashlight to see if we could find where he came from. Finally, among the herbs, I found a little nest. That is where Lucky was finding the babies! We made the decision to just put him back in his nest and check on him again in the morning, but we were worried that his mother would reject him now that he had dog and human smell on him.

This was all very disturbing for us, and Munier wouldn’t even talk to Lucky for like a day and a half.

I’m happy to report that I checked on the bunny early Sunday morning and the nest had been re-covered over so it was apparent that the momma did come back and take care of her baby. I couldn’t see him though, so there was a little lingering doubt. It ate away at me all day so finally in the afternoon I took a twig and move the cover off the nest just enough to see the baby. And there he was safe and sound and wriggling around like always. Later that evening though, when I let Lucky out to pee, an adult bunny (the momma?) was in the yard and I didn’t see it. Lucky of course chased it, but it got safely away behind the shed. So I will check on the baby again this afternoon when I get home from work to make sure he is still being cared for by his momma.