Yep, I can even hold classes on how to catch rabbits! We somehow have become parents to two lovely little bunnies, one a beautiful little boy lionhead rabbit, and the other a sweet young lady, donning her brown and white rabbit coat! The young man's name is Goose...the little miss is Brooke! Goose got his name from Top Gun, my son came home with a black bunny and his friend had a white one, they named them Goose and Maverick...so they are now TOP BUNS!!! Get it??!!!
Anyway, on to how to catch a rabbit! 101!!!
Goose and Brooke live in separate housing, mainly because we don't want anymore bunnies, Goose's home is in a cage that is on the ground, so he has ample room to run and to DIG! Brooke lives in a pretty typical bunny housing unit, lots of space to play but no digging abilities. We have found out from living with Goose, that Bugs Bunny was not far off with his elaborate housing units underground, with bedrooms and tunnels and living rooms! Goose has now created a sort of cartoonish Bugs Bunny style housing under his cage. We have also found out that he did not like the fact that he only had a front door, that has a lock on it, so he has now installed a back door, with NO lock. Smart little guy, right? He is a genius bunny! I usually go outside with hay and carrots and other bunny treats and call Goose and he comes running to the door to get his treats! The other day I called him and called him and called him, no Goose-man, so I opened the door of his cage and placed the hay and carrots and pretty much just left the door open thinking that he had probably gotten out and maybe he would come back for some food. As I got up from the ground and the front of his cage, I noticed out of the corner of my eye, this little black bunny running frantically to the driveway, disappear for about 10 seconds, then show up right where I had placed the treats! He looked at me like, "well thanks mom, I've been out all night drinking, I really needed this hangover remedy"!
My little Goose-man has created his own living arrangements, one that he is well pleased with, one that allows him the flexibility to visit Brooke when he wants, and to eat and get his water when HE wants. We now wake up in the morning, only to find Mr. Goose sitting on the top of his best friends cage! They look as if they are talking and just hanging. It even appears that Brooke gets very excited to see her friend Mr. Goose-man! I kind of figure that bunnies get lonely, they need friendships, they need bunny communication. They have the same needs as humans, but they seem to be able to make it happen on their own. They don't need mom and dad to drive them to the friends house, they just dig a hole and get there on their own.
I believe I have two very intelligent bunnies, I may enter them in America's Got Talent next time around....I can enter them as bunny magicians, and have one pull the other out of a hat!!!
Well that's my bunny story, it's not so much on how to catch them I guess, it's more about how I think my bunny is an escape artist, and my son says, "he's not an escape artist, cause he still stays here!"
