The rabbits

Of course I need to talk about the rabbits. Those cute fluffy creatures that get all the attention, while I have to watch and listen to all the "awwws" and "how cute"s. It's sickening sometimes. Humans treat me as a thing made of planks. I am not considered cute. But I am at least practical! Humans can sit on me, they can put up their feet and relax and I am a lot cheaper than those furry creatures, too.

If people had pet benches instead of real animals, the world would be a better place. We don't make smelly turds, we don't bark, we don't cause the waste of tons of metal and meat for food and packaging and we don't need to see a doctor. We bond easily with other benches (unless they are from ASDA or really ugly and rusty, like those overprized ones they sell at the local garden shop......fresh from a French skip....) and we can stay outside in any weather. If you want cute and fluffy, put a fleece blanket over us and ...voila!


Ok, now let me introduce the rabbits that I am watching every day. First of all there is Snoopy. He's 5 years old and a bit of a grump, especially when he's hungry. But some of my humans seem to have the same problem. Snoopy came from "up north", that place where they can't speak proper English.

 Then there is Penny, Snoopy's best friend. She's also 5 years old and a real Essex girl. She looks all sweet and innocent (ok, not real Essex girl there....), but boy does she have a mood sometimes. She lets Luna feel who's Queen of the shed. And then goes back to looking cute.

 Luna shares the shed with Snoopy and Penny. She is 4 years old and came from across the river, where she grew up with Mrs Sherlock Bond. She is not the brightest spark, but always hungry and eating. No surprise that she is the biggest and heaviest rabbit in my garden. She also seems to have an endless supply of white fur which fills the shed and gets blown into every corner of the garden.

The other shed is shared by Sunnie and Cloud. They are both 4 years old. Sunnie came from the middle of the country somewhere, from someone on a rabbit forum that my humans talk about a lot. She's the biggest wood nibbler, and she has a bad hair day almost every day. That's mainly due to the fact that her friend Cloud doesn't groom her, the lazy sod. Here you can see Sunnie grooming him instead.

Cloud seems to be everyone's favourite. He gets the most "oooohs" and "awwwws". He's a bit dim, but loves humans and follows them around as much as he can. He jumps up inside the lawn cage and hits his head against the lid, when he gets excited about a human coming to see him. He also steps into the water bowl on many occasions. He really makes me snigger. He came from some evil website called Gumtree. He had been a child's birthday present, but the child got bored quickly.

There have been many other rabbits in my garden, as my favourite human (I shall call her FH from now on) sometimes looks after rabbits for an animal rescue. Not at the moment, though, as her knee is a bit poorly and she has too much other work to do, too.