Please Help Save SunBun!

Update: April 29, 2009

SunBun has been adopted! His new name is Zippity, and here is an update from his new home:

For those of you who haven't heard the 'news', Zippity is a little 4 lb. black bunny who was scheduled to be euthanized at an animal 'shelter' in Santa Cruz, California. Long story short is that I drove 4 hours up to Agoura Hills (far, far north Los Angeles County) to pick him up from Leslie, who transported him considerably over half the way from Santa Cruz to Alpine. He is a young adult bunny who is incredibly sweet and a 'people bunny'. As I suspected, his inclusion in the household has had an impact on everyone ~ bunnies and humans alike. We'll see over time whether it is possible for him to form a bond with Meadow or Dash & Kyra. This is just the beginning of lots more adventures.

Stirring Up The Warren, by Zippity AKA SunBun

Well, my arrival and inhabiting of the hallway sure has stirred things up mightily in our warren! Never realized before that I had such power. Mom is looking pretty bedraggled today ~ says it's the fault of us buns for being so rowdy and noisy all night long. Meadow reminded her that she's "been there, done that" on previous occasions, so she knew what was coming and brought "that" home anyway.

My arrival has not met with approval, a warm reception ~ or even so much as a half-way friendly welcome from Meadow. She is one very territorial ~ and very large (compared to me) haughty rabbit. Far as I'm concerned, 'Meadow' is much too pretty a name for "Miss High and Mighty"!

Now when I say she hasn't been the least bit friendly, that is actually an understatement ~ cause the truth is that she's been downright mean. Mom had to cover the gate with wire mesh so she can't box and bite me! I really wasn't trying to get into her stupid room when I put my nose through the bars ~ just wanted to say "hi, I'm Zippity and I'm pleased to meet you". Did she even bother to listen to what I was saying? No, she didn't listen one tiny bit ~ just came racing over with this great big dose of nasty rabbitude. Well ~ I showed her the rest of the night by coming over and bugging her from time to time. She'd get all settled down and comfy, mom would go back to sleep and then I'd strike. "Hey Meadow here comes Zippity, hoppitying over to remind you I'm still here." Then I'd rattle the gate just a tiny bit to get her attention ~ but not so much as to wake mom. Of course, being "Miss High and Mighty" (she said something about being the Queen), she had to come over and defend her territory from little bitty me! Her doing that woke mom up again ~ so, she'd sputter and tell us to knock it off and I'd scamper away with tail held high and laughing all the way back to my bunny house or litterbox.

Lest you think that things would then quiet down until my next escapade to the bedroom gate, you are very mistaken. Because, you see, right next to my litterbox (which is right next to my bunny house) is the gate to the Bunny Room ~ with Dash & Kyra on the other side of the gate. Here is actually where I can do my best 'stirring up'. Dash is about the same small size I am and Kyra is even smaller ~ so lots of dwarfitude on top of just plain rabbitude. As mom has been known to tell others, when you introduce a new rabbit into the proximity of a bonded pair, strange behaviors are pretty much inevitable. The three of us ~ never wanting, of course, to make mom appear to be giving out bad information ~ gave her a really big show of doing just that.

Anyway ~ back to the events of the night. My appearance at the Bunny Room gate now sets off Dash ~ who proceeds to chase the heck out of Kyra, with whom he'd just been snuggling. Guess maybe he thought she looked at me with adoring rabbit-eyes and got jealous. That happens when you're as good lookin' as I am, so I just have to live with it. Ah, but I digress once again. If mom thought the encounter between Meadow and I was noisy, it was but a trifle compared to the racket in the bunny room when the chase was on! Not only is the sound from the chase more than sufficient to awaken her, that chase then sets off the other two pairs in the room, who start their own version of uproar. I tell you, it is just such fun to sit there, all innocent, just lookin' through the gate at all the activity.

Now mom is not only muttering and attempting to instruct us to be quiet, but our their failure to heed her 'commands' gets her up out of bed and brings her over to the Bunny Room. Lights on ~ "okay, who's doing what in here?" Us bunnies ~ each and every one of us ~ just sitting there quietly, looking angelic, and nary a one of us admitting anything! Course we're all having a really hard time not giving her a really big bunny-laugh-out-loud! Soon mom heads back to the bedroom, settles in again, and sleeps peacefully until all heck breaks loose once again!

Mind you, absolutely none of this noise is of my doing. Mom already knows, after spending two nights with me in the hotel, that I am very quiet ~ cause I didn't wake her up one single time. So I'm still at the top of the 'adorable' list, while the others have some serious demerits next to their names.

And so goes my first night in my furever home. Living here is just the best, and I've never before had such a grand time. Right now, I'm pooped from the all-night partying and need to go take another nap. Gotta get my 'handsome sleep' so I'm good-to-go again tonight. Also gotta figure out how to get out into the great room and introduce myself to Leo, Max and Pearl. Who knows what kind of affect my residency will have on them. YYYYAAAAWWWWNNN! Can't stay awake any longer. Must sleep. Bye for now.....Zippity aka SunBun