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let the binks begin
16 Feb 2020 02:00 pmA few months ago we discovered Rowan had peed over the side of his litter box and it went through the rug (which still isn't washed, because we haven't had a washing machine since last June, and we have so much laundry each time we visit the laundromat that we can't face also bringing a load of extremely dirty small area rugs) and the cork insulation and dyed a portion of the oak parquet purple.
I don't know why purple. It was interesting.
Anyway, we put a wire cage over it to let it air out without letting bunnies on it and over the last few months it faded to dark brown. It's still dark brown. Possibly we will just replace those slices of parquet before we rent the place, possibly not. A piece of furniture could cover it.
In any case, moving the second bunny cage away from that spot made the whole livingroom much less convenient because it was no longer against the wall (the only available wall space was also in front of the window and the radiator... not a good idea), but yesterday I finally shook out all the little rugs under the bunny cages, took them apart, swept for about two and a half total hours because hay goes literally everywhere, especially when you shake a rug (and it was raining too hard to shake them outside), and replaced the cork in that corner with a layer of foam knit-blocking bricks and an extra layer of rug to make sure the bunnies can't dig through and eat the foam. Then I snipped apart the storage cube panels and reassembled them into a new bunny cage... it's really too bad that we don't seem to be able to buy any more of them locally because we keep losing the little gray pieces and I need them to hold the edges and corners, at least if I'm not going to put the cage on a solid frame. (Though eventually I think I can make a more convenient modular arrangement with wood and chickenwire perhaps, but we don't have the space or the power tools yet.)
So the bunnies experienced about six hours of upheaval between the walls going down and up, and they were so excited that I saw more binkying yesterday than I've seen in three or four months. They both got a chance to run around like lunatics during the moving and afterwards, to explore the new carpeted bunny play area, and they probably wore themselves out (although it could just be that rain on a tin roof makes bunnies sleepy), because nobody woke us up shredding cardboard in the middle of the night and now Japp is snoozing in the blanket fort instead of playing.
I don't know why purple. It was interesting.
Anyway, we put a wire cage over it to let it air out without letting bunnies on it and over the last few months it faded to dark brown. It's still dark brown. Possibly we will just replace those slices of parquet before we rent the place, possibly not. A piece of furniture could cover it.
In any case, moving the second bunny cage away from that spot made the whole livingroom much less convenient because it was no longer against the wall (the only available wall space was also in front of the window and the radiator... not a good idea), but yesterday I finally shook out all the little rugs under the bunny cages, took them apart, swept for about two and a half total hours because hay goes literally everywhere, especially when you shake a rug (and it was raining too hard to shake them outside), and replaced the cork in that corner with a layer of foam knit-blocking bricks and an extra layer of rug to make sure the bunnies can't dig through and eat the foam. Then I snipped apart the storage cube panels and reassembled them into a new bunny cage... it's really too bad that we don't seem to be able to buy any more of them locally because we keep losing the little gray pieces and I need them to hold the edges and corners, at least if I'm not going to put the cage on a solid frame. (Though eventually I think I can make a more convenient modular arrangement with wood and chickenwire perhaps, but we don't have the space or the power tools yet.)
So the bunnies experienced about six hours of upheaval between the walls going down and up, and they were so excited that I saw more binkying yesterday than I've seen in three or four months. They both got a chance to run around like lunatics during the moving and afterwards, to explore the new carpeted bunny play area, and they probably wore themselves out (although it could just be that rain on a tin roof makes bunnies sleepy), because nobody woke us up shredding cardboard in the middle of the night and now Japp is snoozing in the blanket fort instead of playing.
