(gratuitous?) bunny icon post + redemptive bunny content

[cimorene]

Because our bunnies are dwarf angoras (two groups that each independently need more protein), they have higher protein requirements than your average bunny and the only bunny pellet food we could easily get to meet their requirements was pretty expensive, so it's not surprising that they think it's delicious. They usually prefer the fresh produce part of their salads to bunny kibble, but they have been known to shove aside fresh greens to get to it first.

So yesterday when I found uneaten kibble in both bowls I wondered if I'd just given them too much salad, or if the herbs were too aromatic or something... but today when I found uneaten kibble in both bowls again I realized something was wrong... and as I stared at the kibble bowls it gradually dawned on me that the kibble was ... the wrong shape.

I had accidentally given them cat kibble instead of bunny kibble?! 😱

I mean, I have no memory of this so I obviously did it with my brain turned on autopilot. They still ate all their salad, and as far as I can tell they didn't touch the cat kibble, no ill effects were detected and they (surprisingly enough) didn't even seem that offended by its presence in their bowls - unlike the first time I tried to give them valerianella locusta or the plant known as "corn salad,[3] common cornsalad,[4] lamb's lettuce,[3] mâche[3] (/mɑːʃ/), fetticus,[3] feldsalat,[3] nut lettuce,[3] field salad, and rapunzel." That time they both ran away from the food bowls and sat up on their shelves glaring down at them. Rowan thumped when he ran away, and then sat on his shelf thumping until I removed his salad bowl and sorted all the rapunzel (we'll go with rapunzel) out from the other vegetables to allow him to pick and choose. Japp returned to the bowl faster and eventually deigned to nibble. By the morning they had both nonetheless finished it all and they now eat it semi-regularly.

To return to the subject line, after I uploaded icons with my sketches of Snookums and the BB¸ I thought I needed a bunny icon, but I lost a fair amount of time making (extra) candidates. Ultimately I gave this classic image of buns in a box to waxjism:



And then I uploaded




The ones I didn't upload also include some of my favorite bunny photos such as



There aren't any un-uploaded ones of Japp because it was much easier to pick good photos that would obviously icon well of him: he's a chill little dude and is much more amenable to sitting for photoshoots. (Which is why he's a star and all my posts with the most notes are photosets of him - I think the one of him in the cardboard box and the one of him on the stool up there are the top two. If you don't count 2012's special edition Nut Kick candy bar.)

Comments

[ursamajor]

Your bunnies are adorable. *hearteyes* *clicks on bunnies tag* *loses afternoon*

[cimorene]

Most of the posts are at Tumblr, so there isn't very much in the DW one here. Or rather, I think it's accidentally merged into an old plot bunnies tag.

[magnetic_pole]

Aw, they're even cuter than I thought they'd be! (And I had pretty high expectations, knowing how adorable bunnies can be.) Such lovelies! M.

[cimorene]

They are incredibly cute. But then again, cuteness is pretty much the entire reason for a miniature version of an angora rabbit to exist (Rowan still makes high-quality wool that can be painlessly removed by combing, but even a large dwarf rabbit with an unusually dense fur like Rowan can't produce a really useful quantity of wool like a full-size angora would).

[hebethen]

LOL, those scary scary salad green, amirite?

....you know, looking at that rapunzel photo, I can now kind of understand why someone might get fairytale-inducing pregnancy cravings for it.

[cimorene]

I guess I can see that happening with any specific type of greens if it's different from the other ones you have to eat. It wasn't like, INCREDIBLY TASTY!!! to my mind, but it does have a specific identifiable flavor, like... oh... spinach or rucola-rocket?-arugula? - or those little super-sour red leaves - and unlike more generic lettucey greens...

[brownbetty]

I was like "I know how rabbits thump!" but I clicked on the link, and I think I just assumed I did because I watched Bambi once?

[cimorene]

Yeah, I've never found a video of one doing that sort of fast drumming thumping like Thumper did. I don't think Japp does it at all, but sometimes it seems like Rowan is just doing it for fun.

[lobelia321]

Cat kibble boycott ftw

[cimorene]

hahaha ikr

But if they'd boycotted the dishes and thumped I probably would have figured it out sooner!!