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Japp is basically a model bunny. I don't mean an ideal bunny by that, but rather a bunny that the camera loves. As long as I keep aiming the cameraphone, he'll casually keep striking adorable and charming poses and he is often happy to keep doing it, because he's basically just a really chill dude. A really chill dude who has a burning heart of butthead underneath, but a chill dude. He's relatively calm, adventurous, docile, and unafraid (for a bunny). I can sit down near him and have a conversation from a couple of feet away and take a lot of pictures, and reach out and pet him on his head, and he'll stay there engaged in the conversation and continuing to give amazing angles.
Rowan, on the other hand, who is a very Sensitive Boy, is more affectionate and also more standoffish and highly strung. He is very, very cautious, and when they were still baby bunnies, he had to be taught to do things like how to jump out of a box with a 3" high side and how to climb the furniture and that it was safe to cross the threshold from the livingroom into the kitchen by watching Japp do it safely several times in a row.
So this is why (as I said before) all my pet blog posts with the most notes are photosets of Japp. Rowan is just as cute, but he's very cautious. He'll let me sit down near him and hang out and have a conversation sometimes (a minority of the time) without retreating to somewhere safer from the dangers of being picked up or put in the cage, but as soon as he notices humans studying him from close enough to take a good cameraphone photo he'll freeze (I mean if I had a big camera with a telephoto lens then yes, I could, but I don't know enough about photography for that).
I thought if I put him somewhere to explore on his own where he was forced to stay in good natural light for a little bit I could get some good photos of him behaving naturally, but when I covered the kitchen table (in the sunlight) with padding and towels and set him free on it, he reacted with intense suspicion. Granted, Rowan has not spent time on the kitchen table before and he chooses not to hang out in the kitchen very much, but the kitchen is not foreign to him. Nonetheless, he never stopped cautiously creeping around the table like he thought he could blend in somehow until I gave up, brushed him, and then set him free.
I got a few cute pictures obviously, but the little guy just would not relax. Later, Japp reacted with milder suspicion to the opportunity, but he did give me a ton of model shots before I gave up on teaching him how to jump from the table to a chair to the floor.
Rowan, on the other hand, who is a very Sensitive Boy, is more affectionate and also more standoffish and highly strung. He is very, very cautious, and when they were still baby bunnies, he had to be taught to do things like how to jump out of a box with a 3" high side and how to climb the furniture and that it was safe to cross the threshold from the livingroom into the kitchen by watching Japp do it safely several times in a row.
So this is why (as I said before) all my pet blog posts with the most notes are photosets of Japp. Rowan is just as cute, but he's very cautious. He'll let me sit down near him and hang out and have a conversation sometimes (a minority of the time) without retreating to somewhere safer from the dangers of being picked up or put in the cage, but as soon as he notices humans studying him from close enough to take a good cameraphone photo he'll freeze (I mean if I had a big camera with a telephoto lens then yes, I could, but I don't know enough about photography for that).
I thought if I put him somewhere to explore on his own where he was forced to stay in good natural light for a little bit I could get some good photos of him behaving naturally, but when I covered the kitchen table (in the sunlight) with padding and towels and set him free on it, he reacted with intense suspicion. Granted, Rowan has not spent time on the kitchen table before and he chooses not to hang out in the kitchen very much, but the kitchen is not foreign to him. Nonetheless, he never stopped cautiously creeping around the table like he thought he could blend in somehow until I gave up, brushed him, and then set him free.
I got a few cute pictures obviously, but the little guy just would not relax. Later, Japp reacted with milder suspicion to the opportunity, but he did give me a ton of model shots before I gave up on teaching him how to jump from the table to a chair to the floor.
