PumpRock’s Big Weekend!

[Little Lion Head]

***Disclaimer: This is a LONG post. Feel free to skip the boring words and go straight to the cute pictures!***

Pumpkin and Shamrock have had a very exciting weekend! They have been free-roam since about 7:00 pm on Friday. Their condo is still up for now, but we’ll be taking it down and just leaving their litter box, water dish, and maybe a couple shelves to sit on and hide under.

Free-roam has gone well for them. They really like napping behind the couch and now they can do that during the day when they normally would have been in their condo. It was cute on Saturday morning; they came into our room all sneakily like they were worried they might wake us and we would realize we forgot to put them away! haha and Rocky did some zoomies and woke hubby up around 5:00 am 

They honestly seem so happy in general. Hubby made two observations, mostly in regard to Rocky. He’s very particular about when you are allowed to pet him (like a cat!) but he’s been really sweet and letting us pet and snuggle more. Hubby thinks that now that the bunnies have been to the sitter twice and we’ve gone back to get them twice that Rocky is realizing we will always be here for him so it’s safe to get comfortable. Hubby also thinks that maybe now that he’s not caged he’s just happier in general and more apt to accept our love. I’m glad hubby came up with that on his own b/e he wasn’t/isn’t all that keen on free-roamers! But I think there’s some truth to his theories!

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Pumpkin and Shamrock also had an outdoor adventure! Now anyone knows that I am a crazy bunny mom that worries about EVERYTHING so don’t worry (because I worry enough!) because we were super careful.

First off, the weather is perfect (60’s farenheit) and we don’t have any bugs (like mosquitos) yet. We set up the xpen and picked up anything that wasn’t grass in that area. Then we covered the top of the xpen with a tarp. Partially for me (I’ve never seen a hawk or anything big around here, but again, I’m a worry-wart) and partially for the bunnies (b/c I thought they’d be more comfortable knowing that nothing could get them from the top). We also brought their bungalo in case they wanted to hide and a bunch of hay so they wouldn’t get upset tummies from too much grass. We don’t use pesticides and the three houses around us are renters so I doubt they do. Plus we are completely fenced in from the neighbors.

They both seemed to love it! Neither acted scared by any noises (not like they do when the vacuum or blender goes). Both seemed really comfortable actually! An ambulance went by and neither even seemed to notice. I did get worried they were eating too much grass (I’ve never given them fresh grass) so I clipped off some of the herbs I’ve been growing to distract them. I was encouraging them to poop everywhere since they do that in my house, but I did not see one single bunny poop!

They were so dang cute! We kept them out for about 30-45 minutes and play Polish Golf while they hopped around. Hubby would like a bigger enclosure to see some binkies, but we’ll see. Once might be enough for this worry wart bunny momma!

On to the cute pictures I promised!

Pumpkin liked to sit in the bungalow and nibble on grass.

“Sharing”

Rocky’s bunny lips!!!! Squeeee!

Pumpkin couldn’t figure out why she couldn’t sit “in” the litter box

[The Law Bun]

That’s awesome! Glad the free roam went well. I personally have been doing it hours at a time haha. Looks like they had a blast outside, I wish it wasn’t so dang hot outside where I live but oh well haha. Glad the weekend was awesome!

Edit: Curious, how bad is the Pump Rock bathroom habits? I’m curious if the “bonding poop wars” never really calmed or are they just missing 20% or so of the poops?

[Little Lion Head]

Law Bun the weather right now is so perfect for the buns to have come outside. I don’t know if I would do it once it gets in the 70’s even.

Oh the poop! It never stops! One of the reasons I think the hubby isn’t keen on free-roam. But it’s getting better!! It used to be probably 50% outside the box and now it’s more like 20%. It’s been like 5% this weekend though. Maybe free-roam is better for them? When they were in the condo and attached xpen the poop would be all over the xpen area and there have only been about 15 poops in that general area this weekend!

[The Law Bun]

Oh my, thats certainly reason enough haha. But yea I agree, theres something about free roam that I think makes bunny’s behave. When left in her 7×4 pen (which is huge) lilith will rip carpet at the ends. When let out, she’s fine. Bunny’s can be the damndest creatures at times eh?

[Little Lion Head]

It’s funny b/c I think Rocky was torked off the first 10 minutes they were outside. “Like what the heck you guys?!?! I thought we were free now? This sucks!” but he got over it in a hurry when he realized the floor was literally his lunch.

[Sindri]

Ahh how cute! They looked like they had fun.

[The Law Bun]

You better be ready LLH, because after introducing Lilith to free roam, she now HATESSSSSS being locked up. So much so, that she will rip any article next to the gate and will leave 1-2 stray poops right there for me (even though she has perfect habits otherwise).

[JackRabbit]

We used to have a sofa in Kieko’s room and she loved to lay up on the back of the sofa. The sofa had a flat back on it and it was pushed right up as close to the wall as possible so she couldn’t fall off. It was so cute! Her litterbox habits were great so we thought no worries there …. until we changed a couple of rooms around upstairs and moved the sofa. Turns out she was laying on the back of the sofa and pooping and they were falling through the tiny space between the sofa and wall! There had to have been 1000 poops back there!

[The Law Bun]

LOLOL thats pretty funny. you didn’t notice a smell?

[So Fluffy Bunny]

We have way to many poisonous stuffs here to let the bun outside, but pumpkin and rocky looked like they had a blast exploring the outside. I wish that I could let ours free roam, but our dog isn’t too keen on that idea.

[Little Lion Head]

We found about 50 poops in neat little piles under the couch not long after we brought Pumpkin home. Haha the poops don’t really smell so we never noticed until we moved to clean!

[MissGabbster]

They look like they had so much fun!

[JackRabbit]

Law Bun — the dry poops don’t smell at all. Believe me, if there was *any* smell, I would have been taking the room apart looking for it!

[MoxieMeadows]

They are so cute and photogenic! <3

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