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#Post#: 6615--------------------------------------------------
Fido Bunny
By: Jack Date: June 24, 2018, 4:23 am
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I'm honestly not sure if Fido would be such an interesting
character if he were a dog or cat. I think a lot of the reason
Fido seems like such a character is that, while I haven't known
many bunnies, I've never known one like him.
While I do tease (here and Van in particular) about Fido, I'm
never sure how much he really understands. I know that some
dogs have vocabularies about as large as a human two or three
year old, and I know many animals react to certain words. I
know Fido understands some words, because different people can
say the word in different ways, and Fido reacts in the same way,
such as fetching his leash when you ask if he wants a walk.
Yes, that comes from training and conditioning, but how do you
think young humans learn words?
I say that in regards to Fido's recent behavior.
Van left Friday. Fido is used to Van leaving in the morning and
coming home later. I sometimes wonder how animals experience
time and how much understanding they really have about it.
In this case, I think Fido knew something was up when Van was
getting ready to go, simply because of how Van was treating him.
He tends to take attention as his due, though, and he certainly
wasn't upset after Van left. It wasn't until that evening that
Fido started getting grumpy. Van rarely sleeps away from home,
and I don't think he has at all since he's been able to drive,
so Fido is used to him being gone sometimes when the sun is up,
but home once it's down.
While we had the summer movie series happening as the sun went
down, I had kept an eye on Fido, and I saw when he started
looking around. Up until that point, he'd been fine, but now he
was searching around, and he kept going to Van's bedroom (into
which we'd already moved Zeke, though he wasn't in there at the
time). He even did a Lassie - coming up to me, then looking
around, then coming back to me, like he was asking for help (or
for me to save Timmy from the well). I did tell him that Van
was going to be gone for a while, and I tried to pet him, but he
didn't seem to be listening.
A while later, Zeke came to get me. I went to his/Van's room.
Fido had gotten his blankie, his rope carrot (chew toy), and his
stuffed tiger, and he'd gone into his hutch, which he rarely
does (he's a free range house bunny, and he mostly just uses the
hutch to store his liter box, preferring to sleep on Van's bed).
Zeke had tried to get him out. He tried luring him with a
couple of raisins first (Fido ignoring raisins means there's
definitely a problem), then he reached in to pull him out, which
resulted in me having to doctor his finger (he got a rather
vicious nip on the finger, which needed washing, antibiotic
ointment, and a bandage). I suggested we leave him alone, and
Zeke joined us at the movies.
While rabbits are actually crepuscular (active at twilight -
morning or night), pet bunnies seem able to adapt their schedule
somewhat. Yesterday, I think Fido might have slept a bit more
than normal, but he also came out for his breakfast and supper
(hay and pellets are kept in his hutch all the time for
nibbling, but he gets fresh veggies every morning and evening as
his main meals). Van had deliberately not given him his
favorites (beets, brussel sprouts, and peaches) in a couple of
days, so Zeke mixed those with some romaine lettuce and green
peppers. Fido acted finicky for a bit, but he ended up eating.
He still wouldn't let anyone pet him, but he was willing to let
Zeke take him walks that afternoon.
Last night, Fido came and woke me up not long after I'd gone to
bed (brat!). I think he wanted me to come help look for Van, so
I explained again that Van was going to be gone a while. I
doubt he understood much of what I said, but you could tell he
knows what 'Van' means. Later, while trying to go back to
sleep, I started laughing at this idea of me talking to the
rabbit, and the rabbit hearing mostly nonsense, but then hearing
'Van', and him thinking, 'Yes! Van! Van's missing you stupid
human, why won't you help me find him?'
I swear, before Van leaves for college, we just need to get this
rabbit certified as his service animal somehow.
Anyway, I ended up taking him to Van/Zeke's room. Zeke was
awake, and when I put Fido in bed with him, Fido didn't run
away. I'm going to have to get on Zeke a little bit this
morning, because he had an open bag of banana snacks, which
Fido loves, but are too sugary and not healthy for him. In the
meantime, after the two of them shared a couple of pieces of
banana, Fido was willing to accept some petting, and he'd laid
down next to Zeke before I said good night and went back to bed.
I don't know if he stayed there all night, but he's still in
pretty much the same place when I checked on them just now.
#Post#: 6620--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fido Bunny
By: David M. Katz Date: June 24, 2018, 5:30 am
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Poor, Fido.
Yes, stupid human, Van is missing. Please help.
The question is how will Fido act when Van returns? Will he be
happy or will Van get the silent treatment for a while?
[emoji195]
#Post#: 6626--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fido Bunny
By: Jack Date: June 24, 2018, 10:57 am
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[quote author=David M. Katz link=topic=651.msg6620#msg6620
date=1529836208]
The question is how will Fido act when Van returns? Will he be
happy or will Van get the silent treatment for a while?
[emoji195]
[/quote]
Probably both. In the past, Fido has been ecstatic when Van
finally returns... then he remembers why he was upset at the
first place, and he makes a point of letting Van know he wasn't
even missed.
#Post#: 6629--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fido Bunny
By: jackson Date: June 24, 2018, 11:21 am
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Gathering up his belongings and retreating to his hutch suggests
Fido is genuinely missing Van and feeling stressed over it.
Be interesting to see Fido's reaction to Van's homecoming.
Bunnies are much more complicated animals than I previously
thought.
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Re: Fido Bunny
By: Jack Date: June 24, 2018, 11:27 am
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[quote author=jackson link=topic=651.msg6629#msg6629
date=1529857280]
Gathering up his belongings and retreating to his hutch suggests
Fido is genuinely missing Van and feeling stressed over it.
[/quote]
I'm sure he is missing Van, but he seems to be relaxing and
accepting Zeke, at least to some extent.
#Post#: 6635--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fido Bunny
By: Zyngaru Date: June 24, 2018, 1:40 pm
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I have a brother who is 9 years younger than me. I am very
close to all my younger brothers from this one to the older
ones. The last two not so much because I was out and gone when
they came along. But this one was very attached to me. He
still drops by my house at least once a week just to sit and
visit.
But when I was 12 just about to turn 13, and he was 3 just about
to turn 4, I went with my dad across country to live with my
grandparents while he was in Vietnam. My mom told me later that
she came very close to having me sent back home, because my
little brother wouldn't eat. He didn't play. He just moped
around the house, looking for me. This brother was Super ADHD.
That was before they called it that, but he was for sure. So
him sitting around alone and not doing anything, gave my mom
much concern. She said it took a couple weeks before he started
to be himself again.
When I read your post about Fido and about what they understand
about language, as a 3/4 year old. It immediately brought that
memory back.
Hopefully Fido will return to his normal self soon.
#Post#: 6636--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fido Bunny
By: Jack Date: June 24, 2018, 4:05 pm
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This is not the first time we've gone through this. Fido is
doing better today than he did yesterday, and I'm sure he'll do
better tomorrow. I am a bit worried about how he'll do in a
week or two, but he's generally an outgoing bunny, and I'm sure
that, with Zeke paying him a lot of attention, he'll settle down
quickly.
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Re: Fido Bunny
By: kalico Date: June 24, 2018, 6:15 pm
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Awww poor Fido..... bad bad bad human!
Happy to hear he is doing better with Zeke
Hugs kal
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Re: Fido Bunny
By: Jack Date: July 1, 2018, 7:08 am
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I think I shared this in chat, but there was one night when Fido
just wouldn't let Zeke into his/Van's bedroom.
Now, there's honestly not much a 20-pound bunny can do to keep a
full grown young man out, but he was certainly trying. Fido was
hunkered down, rather coiled. When Zeke tried to come in, Fido
would make his grunting/barking noise and lunge towards Zeke a
bit. After a couple of attempts, Zeke ended up calling me. I
had to work not to laugh at the two of them, but I managed to
choke it down.
I believe it was Thursday night, I woke in the middle of night,
and went to look in on Zeke. He was in bed with an entire
menagie - the puppies and kittens were all in bed with him,
along with Wilby, Chekov, and Fido. There were so many animals
that Zeke was laying kind of diagonally on the bed. I woke him
up and make a couple of animals move, because it looked like he
would have woke up with a stiff neck if he stayed like he was.
Chekov got mad at me for taking his pillow.
#Post#: 6806--------------------------------------------------
Re: Fido Bunny
By: kalico Date: July 1, 2018, 12:50 pm
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Awww poor Fido and Zeke but the last one part was just too cute
Thanks for sharing jack
Hugs kal
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