From: jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison)
Subject: Re: Funny bunnies
Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 21:17:22 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.173224.1@stsci.edu> kenny@stsci.edu writes:
>
>Let's start up a new bunny topic here.  What are some of the funniest stunts
>your bunnies have ever done?
>

(when he was just a young bunny)

He was exploring the apartment, and he ran in and out of the bedrooms etc.
Then he discovered what a DOOR was. One bedroom door was closed, and bunny
was running down the hall, full speed, cornered left and WHAM!, he bonked
himself on the door. We cracked up at this slapstick (poor bunny...)

Well, now he knows what doors are.

Another misfortune that was kind of funny:
bunny hops around on the sofa, when he's with us. He often jumps up onto
the top, back ledge of the sofa, and runs along it. There is a gap between
the back of the sofa and the wall. Sometimes there are pillows or newspapers
and stuff shoved up there, and he hops accross, and loses his footing, and 
slides down the back of the sofa, down to the floor. We were worried
the first time this happened, esp. since he slid down with his front paws
up first, and we could see the worried, puzzled look on his face as he
slid down, down down. Now, it's mildly amusing, because we know he doesn't
get hurt, and  it looks kind of silly. Sometimes he falls down when the
path is clear and he can see and feel what is solid; I think he's
losing his agility.



>Here's a few classics from my all time bunny clown, Dumbo (big gray lop, what
>else could I name her?)
>
>All of my other rabbits panic when I run the vacuum, or at least won't come
>anywhere near it.  But not Dumbo.  She attacks it.  One day I had the bottom
>part of the vacuum off, and was using just the hose part to vacuum the hair
>out of her cage.  Well, Dumbo hops in to investigate, and sticks her nose
>right up to the nozzle.  Sluurp!!  One of her long ears got sucked around her
>face and right into the vacuum!  I quickly shut it off and pulled her ear out
>of the hose.  She just shook her head and hopped off like nothing had happened.
>And she still attacks the vacuum.
>Probably the funniest thing I've ever seen her do was in her litterbox.  She
>likes to flop over on her back and roll around in the litter (gross!).  Well,
>one time she meant to do this, but must have slipped or something, because she
>managed to do an absolutely perfect somersault!  Her litterbox is one of those
>with an overlapping lip so she can't throw the litter out.  She landed flat on
>her back, her butt on top of one of the corners, and her four legs sticking
>straight up in the air!  She couldn't move in any direction, so she just lay
>flat on her back squirming, trying to get upright.  I was laughing so hard I
>couldn't even get up to help the poor thing.  She finally managed to right
>herself, and was positively covered with litter.
>Then there was the time we were searching everywhere for her.  We looked under
>and behind things and called her.  Finally I went into the bedroom and heard
>scratching noises coming from the walk-in closet.  I looked in there, and 
>each time I heard the scratching noise, a pair of gray ears would pop up over
>the boxes at the very back of the closet.  She had somehow gotten on top of all
>the junk in there, made her way to the back, and fallen in!  I had to take
>everything out of the closet (no small task!) to rescue her.
>She also likes to climb up on the back of our pappasan chair and do a balancing
>act along the top.  As was inevitable, she fell off the back.  I was expecting
>this big gray lump to hit the floor, but no body appeared.  Instead, I just
>saw bunny legs dangling from the back of the chair.  She was holding on to the
>back of the chair with her front legs, and swinging back and forth.  She got
>several few good swings in, too, before gravity won out, and she finally
>thudded to the carpet.
>
>Are there any other folks out there with bunnies as crazy (or daring) as this
>one?
>
>Debbie (slave to 9 bunnies)


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