So far so good with the slow bonding. If things go well today, we may try a short face-to-face encounter on neutral ground this weekend (Apollo will be 10 weeks old then). At that point, they'll have been in side-by-side enclosures for almost a week.
Apollo is eating well and slowly learning not to stand in his water dish. He is not a fan of the litter scoop and has tried to pick a fight with it when I remove the wet bedding from around his water dish. That is his wet bedding, and it's just the way he likes it!
They both make it a point to binky in front of the other's cage when it's their turn for playtime (usually the other is oblivious to their antics because they're either eating or flopped). They also mimic one another with eating hay and cleaning, so they're getting a bit more synchronized.
Thanks for visiting the blog and we hope you all have a great weekend! Stay safe out there and we'll be back with more bunny cuteness on Monday.
4 comments:
He is so small he has to stand on the oats container to be able to reach her! The size difference is incredible, Naomi must think Apollo is her baby bunny lol.
Those binkies they're doing for each other sounds so sweet and their bun-synchronization is so cute too!
I hope that their meeting on neutral ground went well!
Hi Mónica!
He really is a little fella! With how clumsy Naomi is, we're going to have to make sure she doesn't accidentally trample the little fella when we do a face-to-face.
Hi Tarosagi!
It really is cute how they're tapping into the bunny hive-mind!
We had to postpone the neutral ground meeting because we found a deer tick nymph on baby Apollo's ear late Saturday evening (he must have had it on him when we brought him home). It's the same color as his fur, so it was dumb luck that I spotted it. That was a whole thing trying to remove it (managed to remove the body without squishing it, but the head is stuck in there still) and freaking out since we've never dealt with a tick before. I'm going to try to get him into the vet Monday morning so they can remove the tick head, test the tick to make sure it wasn't carrying anything (it's in a vial of rubbing alcohol right now), and give the little guy a check-up to make sure he's okay (and maybe get him his first dose of the RHDV2 vaccine). He's eating well, so that's good, but he's keeping his ear down on his back, so I can only imagine it's a bit sore from me trying to remove the tick with a plastic card with a notch in it and really crappy tweezers.
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