Bun E. Wabbit Inn II

By admin, on November 24th, 2009

I feel like sometimes this place should be called Bunny Cottage. In fact, we may start calling it that. Four bunnies are not many compared to the amount of bunnies that some people care for, but four bunnies are a lot compared to many homes!

I wanted to invite you to see the new “rabbit inn” I’ve built over the last few weeks. I love working with my hands — sawing and nailing, and this newest bunny cage is much more efficient than the first one I built with Princess of the Universe.

This cage is much roomier and is at the perfect height for visiting with the bunnies and feeding them. And if you are wondering, yes, that is the neighbor’s cat sitting atop the cage.

He goes by several names, depending on which neighborhood child you ask. I just call him “kitty kitty.”

He may look like a mountain lion poised for an attack, but he’s really one of the sweetest cats I’ve ever known. He plays contentedly with Annie, our beagle, and he purrs the moment he gets around anyone.

Michaela visits with Coco’s twins, Midnight and Boomerang.

You may remember that the bunnies were in Michaela’s room for awhile, but that was only a transition for us. My goal has always been to get them at the back of the vegetable garden. If I am going to feed them, they may as well be fertilizing the garden.

It just took some time to get another big cage built. For the past couple of months they have been on our porch, Coco in a regular storebought cage with her babies, and Basil in the first cage we built. We wanted them to be getting used to outside weather before being put all the way out at the back of the garden.

Basil’s cage has had some modifications. We built a little box to go inside and I thought Basil would love getting in that box, but so far he loves sitting ON the box. I guess he feels more secure, or maybe more important (?), perched up high in his cage.

My next project? To built another bunny cage. Keep in mind that every piece of wood you see in the cages came from the 51 cents bargain bin at Home Depot. Frugal bunny cages. I love it.