Rabbit questions
Jun. 26th, 2006 09:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trystinnA few folks have asked backchannel about the rabbits.
Why rabbits?
Rabbits are Zen. Watching them bonk around, groom and all the other 'rabbit' things they do is relaxing, refreshing and oddly spiritual. Anger and impatience melts away, stress evaporates and boundaries fall down.
Rabbits are natural sources of endorphins. There's something about waching animals that make folks feel happy, secure, awed, and yes, quite often, copanionable to Nature. You cannot help but laugh yourself silly at their antics. Literally, adults have stopped in their tracks to watch one of our rabbits drink from the water bottles, fascinated. "They do that?" I'm asked, "did you have to teach them to do that?" Then they stick around to see what's happening next, because something is always happening next. i.e. We have a rabbit who insists on sitting on top of the cedar dog house, sometimes he bunny barks (a sort of snuffle/sneeze sound) - its weird, folks rightly laugh, that's good enough for me.
Rabbits bring out the inner child. I've yet to see a single adult walk past our rabbits and not get soft & mushy. "Can I hold one?" they ask, their voice full of longing. Once a rabbit is placed in their arms, they immediately cuddle it, start grooming it and, on occassion, talk baby talk to it. Fortunately, they love that kind of thing.
Rabbits are ecologically friendly. Ours eat a combination of orchard grass (in ready supply and very cheap on the Island), rabbit pellet (for vitamins and minerals), a bit of salt, dandelions, oats, kitchen cuttings and dried mango (hairball remedy). In return they provide wonderful natural fertilizer via rabbit tea for the garden and their fur can be gently tugged off to make into angora wool. And, unlike many pets, if they piss you off too much, you can always threaten them with a double broiler.
Rabbits are socially responisble. I keep my fluffybunnies out in a pen, where they are safely secured away from the Internet where they might cause trouble.
Why rabbits?
Rabbits are Zen. Watching them bonk around, groom and all the other 'rabbit' things they do is relaxing, refreshing and oddly spiritual. Anger and impatience melts away, stress evaporates and boundaries fall down.
Rabbits are natural sources of endorphins. There's something about waching animals that make folks feel happy, secure, awed, and yes, quite often, copanionable to Nature. You cannot help but laugh yourself silly at their antics. Literally, adults have stopped in their tracks to watch one of our rabbits drink from the water bottles, fascinated. "They do that?" I'm asked, "did you have to teach them to do that?" Then they stick around to see what's happening next, because something is always happening next. i.e. We have a rabbit who insists on sitting on top of the cedar dog house, sometimes he bunny barks (a sort of snuffle/sneeze sound) - its weird, folks rightly laugh, that's good enough for me.
Rabbits bring out the inner child. I've yet to see a single adult walk past our rabbits and not get soft & mushy. "Can I hold one?" they ask, their voice full of longing. Once a rabbit is placed in their arms, they immediately cuddle it, start grooming it and, on occassion, talk baby talk to it. Fortunately, they love that kind of thing.
Rabbits are ecologically friendly. Ours eat a combination of orchard grass (in ready supply and very cheap on the Island), rabbit pellet (for vitamins and minerals), a bit of salt, dandelions, oats, kitchen cuttings and dried mango (hairball remedy). In return they provide wonderful natural fertilizer via rabbit tea for the garden and their fur can be gently tugged off to make into angora wool. And, unlike many pets, if they piss you off too much, you can always threaten them with a double broiler.
Rabbits are socially responisble. I keep my fluffybunnies out in a pen, where they are safely secured away from the Internet where they might cause trouble.
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Date: 2006-06-26 05:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-26 05:24 pm (UTC)Oddly, Josh is sort of freaked out by piggies. No idea why, I assume childhood trauma or prison camp torture methodologies. No idea, really.
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Date: 2006-06-26 05:25 pm (UTC)Can you use their poop for fertilizer in the garden, too? (or is that part of the "rabbit tea"?)
Everyone's got their own idea of rabbit tea perfection
Date: 2006-06-26 05:31 pm (UTC)Use roughly 1-10 ratio of 1 part rabbit tea to water to fertilize garden.
Frankly, any higher than 10% would smell too wretched to contemplate.
Now, specifics:
Some folks like their poop properly 'cured', aged 6 months or thereabouts. Some folks prefer using the alfalfa pellets you feed your rabbits.
More ideas here: https://www.herbcompanion.com/articles/06_07_04-tea
Re: Everyone's got their own idea of rabbit tea perfection
Date: 2006-06-26 10:58 pm (UTC)Re: Everyone's got their own idea of rabbit tea perfection
Date: 2006-06-26 11:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-26 09:35 pm (UTC)Is that the secret? I'll have to pass that along to all of the fanfic writing friends.
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Date: 2006-06-26 10:53 pm (UTC)So share it!