Zookeeper Tales: No love for the bunny

[elionwyr]

elfowls_nest asked to hear the story about Bella and the bunny.

In the household with many roommates, we also had many pets – enough so that we set up an animal room on the first floor to keep the tracking of fur and wood chips throughout the house to a minimum.

The cage that contained my beloved chinchilla, Bella, ended up on top of an enclosure where two male rabbits lived.

In nature, I’m pretty sure bunnies and chinchillas don’t have close encounters of the furry kind. What I learned, after forcing these unlikely roommates to share space, is that the separation of rodent and lagomorph is a pretty dang good idea.

In short: Bella hated bunnies.

Oh, did she ever.

I didn’t realize that Bella would be able to fit between the bars of the rabbits’ cage, and so had decided to let her run around the room while I cleaned her cage.

Instead of frolicking merrily about the space, Bella chose to squeeze herself through said bars, leap onto the back of the smaller bunny, and create a new sport: Bronco Bunny Riding.

Fur flew. Bella wrapped her paws around the rabbit’s ears and hung on for dear life as her steed kicked and fussed and tried unsuccessfully to free himself from his rider.

It was terrifying and potentially dangerous and damn I wish I had that s*** on Youtube.


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State of the Owl's Nest:

elfowls_nest went out and procured donuts for us. Yay!

sealgair is a most excellent house guest. I'm very very pleased to have an excuse to spend time with her! It's been too long.

Lurk is very confused by the fact that she, and not I, was in my bed last night. He's sulking somewhere-not-here right now. :( Both he and JT seem to be suffering from a possible respiratory infection. JT has been sneezing his fool head off for a few days now; Lurk has started doing what I'm told is a reverse sneeze.

Mmmmmmmm...cat snot for everyone!

And Katelyn, the matriarch of the Owl's Nest, is full of grumpy fussing.

I am a bit intimidated by the amount of storytelling this Blogathon will contain. I think it's good for me, and heaven KNOWS I can babble out stories, but...yeah. A bit intimidated. Your feedback is good. Thank you! :)