Noe turns 10 years old sometime this week or the next! We don’t have the exact date, but we decided to celebrate anyway.
First, she got to spend the night outside of her cage. From the poo on our bedroom floor, she decided to sleep in the room with us, and the fan (she loves the fan). Sigh.
After cleaning up her poo, we made her a birthday salad.
Happy 10th birthday, Noe!
Noe’s been out on the porch a lot recently. I wonder if the fact that we’re on the 3rd floor makes her sad because she can’t have exciting encounters like this one.
Probably not.
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Here’s a blast from the past. When moving from O’ahu to Hawai’i Island, I knew I’d have to find an apartment that accepted rabbits quickly. I decided to take some photos of the rabbit looking small, cute, and non-destructive to improve my chances.
Here’s what her cage looked like a few minutes later:
Crazy bunny.
I know I’ve posted about this before, but sometimes I just can’t understand how a particular place to nap can be comfortable.
Case in point: the other day, Noe decided to nap while leaning up against the door – with the edge digging into her shoulder.
She’s so weird, sometimes.
Noe is fine after our long absence, and enjoying having humans to hang out with at home. She was apparently well-behaved on this trip (i.e., no major furniture damage).
…though reportedly she growled at her bunnysitter when she was trying to brush her. Sigh.
Elsewhere in rabbit news, the rare (and quite endangered) Sumatran striped rabbit has been caught on film. Yes, it is a rabbit with stripes. Like many forest species in Southeast Asia, it is threatened by overhunting and deforestation.
…to be fair, Noe will snarf up just about any vegetable matter.
Noe recently had to go to the vet for a checkup. Everyone at the vet’s office keeps commenting that she is SO well-behaved when she’s being handled and SUCH a sweet rabbit.
Needless to say, she is not nearly as cooperative when being “handled” at home.
Note the ear posture in the next photo. This is her “I’m slightly freaked out right now” expression.
Anyway, she checked out okay- her arthritis is just a bit worse, which is to be expected. The vet has been suggesting acupuncture or swim therapy for her, which we haven’t turned to yet…
Easter is the traditional rabbity holiday, so here’s Noe enjoying the day after getting to share some mango with us.
The Easter Bunny’s a rabbit, but what kind of rabbit? There are over 20 species of rabbit, and they have a few dozen more cousins, the hares and pikas. Maybe different regions have different “Easter Bunnies,” with snowshoe hares bopping along with frozen chocolate eggs in Arctic North America and desert cottontails keeping their sugary snacks cool in burrows in the desert Southwest.
This graphic from Climate Nexus points out that at least five Easter Bunny candidates are threatened with extinction because of climate change.
Each of these species is threatened by different factors: increasing temperatures, rising sea level, changing weather patterns, etc. This lagomorph mass extinction could have devastating effects on this important holiday of fertility and sweets!
Won’t somebody think of the children, and save the Easter Bunny?
I’ve been asked why I’m always either posting photos of Noe eating and sleeping. There are really two reasons for this.
For one, she spends a lot of time either sleeping or eating. No surprise there.
The second reason is that when she’s awake and not distracted, she wants to know why that thing is being pointed in her face.
Noe has a philosophy that it’s only polite to point two things at her face: food, or a hand positioned for petting. (Actually, a foot or elbow will do for the latter- she’s a weird animal.)
Eventually, she’ll bop the camera with her nose- a warning sign- and then stomp off in a huff.
