Extra ostrich (Moxon gets a glassy, dreamy look in her eye)
Right, it's off to bed for me, oh frabjous night, calooh calight....
Really, I'm not that obdurate. Except about hats.
$40 Angora Rabbit
{{digging in her heels and sticking out that lower lip...she NEEDs a hattitude adjustment}}}
I'm off too!! later Ladies (and HAY!!)!! Catsy...wend your poetical way...wherever it is you wend it...
She is getting one...yes indeed...she is....
Huh? Grow did you say something....Oh, goodnight, sleep tight, don't let the bandersnatch bite....
This message was edited Aug 6, 2009 11:57 PM
Zeesh, I go trundling off to bed in my east coast time zone and you guys go bonkers. I'm sorry I alluded to mad hatters - well, maybe I'm not, since everyone seems to have had a lovely time in my absence. What WERE you all imbibing - or smoking - or whatever?
Claire, won't you join the dance? But the Carpenter did wear a hat, you know.
It's the Sweet Nectar of Nuttiness, perfectly legal in all fifty states. All that is required is that you be uninhibited, up past your bedtime, and willing to weave wondrous woolly skeins and hanks of hair-brained schemes. Then wreathe them up in true-love knots...the angora was about Catsy learning to crochet you know...
(yeah...a few technical missteps, but bear with me here...)
Oh my goodness I had the most horrific nightmare. An enormous angora rabbit wearing a pink and green hat shaped like a beehive was chasing Marshmallow and I had to go rescue her and then out of nowhere the Jabberwock came and challenged the angora. They were going to start fighting when a gong sounded and a whole lot of Japanese ladies with pretty fans came running out singing songs (from the Mikado of course) and the angora couldn't see because the hat fell over its eyes and then Marshmallow decided to climb a tree and sing about birds. Catsy came along with a huge knitting needle and stabbed the Jabberwock and Grownut cut off its head and ran around singing "Callooh Callay" and then Catsy took the hat from the angora and began chasing me with it....
I think I need a rest.
lolol!! Now really....when you consider where rest got you....
beauty!!
Come over here if you ever have any rabbit questions:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1049540/
I volunteer with pet rabbits.
The subject of catching rabbits comes up now and then in various garden threads.
I thought it would help if I put this out there widely to try to let people know more about rabbits.
If you see domestic RABBITS LOOSE OUTDOORS -
EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW how to catch a loose domestic rabbit (aka: House Rabbit, Pet Bunny, "meat" rabbit, anything besides our wild American cottontails).
They're an entirely different species from our wild cottontails and cannot survive out there on their own.
Here's a good link to explain. Please look at it even if you don't think you'll have to do it. You might besurprised someday or be able to answer the question for one of your gardening friends. http://www.rabbitcare.org/catch_a_stray.htm
I think, nilly, you will need to rhyme that to get any attention around here...
bland verse just won't do.
Well Willy, nilly spun a yarn
on how to catch a garden hare
which hopped up from the old red barn
and stomped his foot, said "Don't you dare!"
OK, so I stumbled into the wrong thread..........
But seriously - if you ever need to know, I can help.
A Bunny Whisperer to go with all our Chicken Whisperers... =0)
And one Sheep, Llama, Chicken... er... what is it CMoxon does? Speak legalese to them til they fall over in stupor?
Do you need something knitted or purled or spun or felted or baked? We have a couple of desperate enablers...
Can you sulk? A mighty sulk?
This message was edited Dec 17, 2009 2:31 PM
nilly ---It sounds great. We DO lack bunny know-how around here. And I know it will be appreciated. How to make sure you get seen though is a good question...hmmm
I put that one link on the reference thread. That should get something started...or remembered or whatever...
I am still trying to find a nice angora rabbit to keep my Bugsy company.....my son and his roommate kept rabbits in their apartment in NYC....they even had a rabbit adoption program come and teach them how to "rabbit proof" the flat. These were very spoiled house rabbits....
Thanks for the link, nilly!
I do have 2 peach coloured angora bunnies and 1 grey one and a grey-brown Jersey Woolly. I used to have a dwarf bun and she was with me for 14 years until she crossed rainbow bridge. She was the bestest bun ever. I got her as a baby and she was with me her whole life, moving all over Canada and then to the US. Not very often that they live to be 14. I did get a lot of experience with her and she was always a house rabbit. My current rabbits are not house rabbits. They are rescue rabbits and I have them in hutches in or out of the barn. They are primarily for fiber purposes whereas Thumper was a house-pet. Angoras don't mix with greyhounds though, which I now have.
I used to volunteer with our local shelter as a rabbit socializer.
You mean the local Mad Hatter? I had no idea there was a Mad Hat society...
There's a reference thread???? I didn't know that. Thanks Grownut!
And glad to help, Catscan!