Here’s my rabbit picture for this week, an illustration of enrichment (making your bunnies environment interesting) for some info I’m writing.

Anyone else draw/painted/created any bunnies this week?

For a tasty bit of parsnip, quite high indeed!

I had this wild hare (that sounds so much better then ‘crazy idea’) that I’d try to get into the habit of drawing a bunny a week. That was the beginning of January. I’m not doing great so far! I thought I’d ease myself in with a pic I drew last year and came across when I was looking for something else.

Three little dutch bunnies:

Super Pet claim the Nut Knot Nibbler is:

a great big ball of fun…  Pets will nibble and gnaw this wooden chew toy to reach an all natural surprise inside – a real walnut! … a perfect chew toy for rabbits

I thought this was going to be a hit. It got quite a bit of initial interest and a few nibbles but it soon became another of those chew toys that get totally ignored. A walnut might be a great motivator for a pet rat but I’m not sure natural, walnut, and rabbit are really words that go together?

I think the problem with wooden chews is by the time the woods been dried, shaped, coloured blue, and wrapped in plastic it’s so far from an actual tree it’s lost all its tastiness. The bark also seems to be a rabbit’s favourite part and most toys don’t have any.

A nice fresh apple branch gets much more interest. This ones had all its bark stripped:

If you don’t have your own apple tree then ask around and see if you can find a friend/neighbour with one or ask on freeads/freecycle. Just make sure they don’t spray with pesticides.

I thought the best way to start the new year was to have a new look. So I’ve spent the last couple of days working on a new header and breaking the code in my website/blog. The end result is (hopefully) the two are a bit more linked together and a bit prettier to look at. I chucked out the old grey background (what was I thinking?) and added a nice chocolate colour. Infinitely more edible don’t you think… no nibbling please!

That just leaves the actual content to tidy up and the odds and ends that are still broken to fix.

This is a bit of a boring post so have a cute bunny tummy picture to go with it…

He's eating a rabbit pellet and not my finger!

Happy New Year, I hope it’s a good un!