Is it wrong to be afraid of your bunnies?

Yesterday Alyssa told me she was pretty sure that Lola was having babies since there was like enough fur for a whole extra bunny in the corner.   I asked her if Lola was naked and she assured me she wasn’t but the extra bunny made of fur in the corner was a little weird.    So far Lola is being a pretty good mom, despite not liking my choice of nesting area.     I was sort of a little worried about not having a nest box to pull out to check on the babies since sometimes new moms are a little overprotective and like to bite.   Neither Lilly or Lola have yet but I don’t really want to poke their inner beast and take that chance.   So yesterday I cautiously reached in to pull the babies out, all the while watching for Lola to make sure she didn’t reach out and snack on my arm.   She watched me carefully but didn’t move too much.    I checked on them a couple of times yesterday just to make sure they were still alive and last night she had just about had it with me being in there messing around.   She didn’t bite, or even try but after I was done she gave me dirty looks and went to rearrange the fur and make sure that I hadn’t stolen her babies.   After more dirty looks ensued she finally settled down for the night.    Checked Lilly’s nest box this morning and there wasn’t any fur pulled but she was making a hole in the nest box bedding so it looks like she is preparing but she could just be faking me out.   Mainly because I’m pretty sure she finds immense enjoyment in it.   Much like the time before she was pregnant and she was preparing her cage with a nest full of hay and so I was sure she was pregnant.   She just really wanted to be pregnant and was just playing games with me.    Not nice Lilly…..not nice.  

Here's a Story, about a Rabbit Breeder (sung to the tune of Brady Bunch)

It all started with Max about 5 years ago.   He was our first bunny.   We got him as a pet and he was quite fun and quite adorable.  For some reason we decided 2 years ago to show Max.   Turned out to not be a very good idea because Max is a pet bunny and not a show bunny and Max was thrown out of the class for being overweight by half a pound and they said he had donkey ears....ok, so they didn't really say that, his ears were just a little long .....Poor Max.....I'm quite certain he was devastated and probably cried for weeks.      Max likes to make his ears go all wonkey so we keep telling him to get his donkeys up.  But even though we didn't do so well at that show, the rabbit show bug somehow bit us and it wasn't long until we were looking for a bunny that we could show.      April of last year is when Lola came along.

And she was quite the good show bunny, winning many trophies and ribbons, a couple of Best of Breed in her class and even Grand Champion at our County Fair.    We were quite pleased.    We even went to State Fair with her and had a fabulous time.    We had 4 shows at the State Fair and only did really well in one of the show because at a year old she was not in her prime anymore....who knew?   Poor Lola, a year old and over the hill.    While we were there another bunny caught our eye and even though she wasn't a show bunny, we thought she would be a good mom and had her bred at the show, having cute little baby bunny dreams running through our heads.   Here is Lilly.

But the time came and went when we should have had baby bunny footsteps running around the house but no baby bunnies.  <<sigh>>  So then we thought, hey......we have 2 girl bunnies and a boy bunny and I think that is the perfect recipe for creating baby bunnies.     So in December we had our first litters of baby bunnies.   Lola had 2 but they didn't make it.   Lilly had 3 bouncing baby girl bunnies and a bouncing boy bunny.  Pictures of them a couple weeks after they were born.

Here they are today.   Darla - Alyssa's favorite.   She is a little larger overall with kinda large ears, just like her daddy, but she's sweet, just like her daddy.....

Joy, she has a white dot on her nose which makes her not showable but she's still cute...awwwww.

Rio - the boy of the family.   I really like his color but it's not really a color in the bunny world so not showable.

Charlotte is our little show bunny for now.   The judges have said she has fairly good type just that she has a little bit too long of an ear......I don't think it'd be good to cut them off so.....I guess we will leave her as she is.   

So, that brings us to today.   We had bred both Lilly and Lola and we are not sure yet about Lilly, but Lola had two cute healthy baby bunnies.   She is quite stubborn if I might add.  I had put her nest box in the corner of the cage where she was digging.  Did she have them in her nest box?  Noooooo, she had them in the opposite corner on the floor.  I am hoping that she has made a nice enough nest to keep them warm enough.   More pictures will come but here they are, only a few hours old.  Hard to tell this early but looks like they might be the same color she is.  Guess we will see in a few weeks.

Now.....the question will be, will we find homes for the other babies we have before these get old enough, will we get any show bunnies.....are we doomed to have wonkey ear babies....<<insert ominous music here>>.......stay tuned for the future adventures of  Bunnies, Bunnies and more Bunnies.