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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Blog Award!

Bel-Rea Small Animal Blog Award

We were surprised and pleased to receive this notice of a small animal blog award from Bel-Rea, a vet tech school in Colorado. The winning blogs cover all sorts of small animals: bunnies (of course!), ferrets, Guinea pigs, mice, hedgehogs, hamsters and more. Check it out.

And thank you for reading Rabbit Ramblings.
Please be sure to check out  and "Like" our Facebook page (for more frequent postings).

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Rabbit Ramblings is 5 years old!




A few musings on our fifth anniversary ...


THANK YOU!

Thank you to all the fans of the Rabbit Ramblings Facebook page. It has become its own blog. While there may be a link to any new posts here, it has many, many more of its own cute bunny posts, alerts, news items and more. And as far as "reach", it seems to reach what took this blog five years (about 556,000 pageviews from 120 countries) -- around every couple of months or so.

Thanks to Bunya & Ethel for making our lives so entertaining.
Thanks to our daughter who smuggled Bunya into our basement.
Thanks to our son who suggested I start a blog.
Thanks to our other son, who mocks me as totally nuts and whose laugh as he's seen something that amuses him on the blog is a joy to hear as he says:
         Just to be clear, Dad, I am laughing at you, not with you.
         [He means it and he is not alone.]
Thanks to my sisters who, before this blog, probably never realized how many Bunny Things cross their paths almost every day.
Thank you to all you bunny fans out there who are members, followers, subscribers and, especially, the commenters.
Thanks to Dr. Mrs. Bunnymom, my partner in life, bunny crime and bunny care.

One very sad note from 2015 is that we lost Lucy.

Lucy passed over the Rainbow Bridge August 1, 2015

Thank you to all who expressed your comforting thoughts.


Wishes for the next New Year:
Healthy bunnies (or other rescued pets) for all of us
Greater capacity at HRS and all animal rescues - but not the need for it
Whirled peas - Tolerance among humankind, joint efforts to repair the world, good health and prosperity for all

We hope to see more of you next year!

Please "Like" Rabbit Ramblings on Facebook! Thank you! 

Sunday, January 18, 2015

More crafty bunnies

Cindy deRosier, one of our Rabbit Ramblings contributors, recently attended Craft and Hobby Association Mega Show. She dedicated a whole post to the bunnies she saw there.

Check out Cindy's post and see more crafty bunnies here.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Rabbit Ramblings is 3 years old!

A few musings on our third anniversary ...


THANK YOU!

Thank you to all the fans of the Rabbit Ramblings Facebook page. It has become its own blog. While there's usually a link to any new posts here, it has many of its own cute bunny posts, alerts, news items and more. And as far as "reach", it seems to reach what took this blog three years (over 270,000 pageviews) -- about every 6 weeks or so.

Thank you to all you bunny fans out there who are members, followers, subscribers and especially, the commenters. Special commenter recognition must again go to SpeedyRabbit and Rabbit'sGuy, the most prolific commenters and who touch so many bunny blogs around the www.

T
hanks to Bunya, Lucy & Ethel for making our lives so entertaining.
Thanks to our daughter who smuggled Bunya into our basement.
Thanks to our son who suggested I start a blog.
Thanks to our other son, who mocks me as totally nuts and whose laugh as he's seen something that amuses him on the blog is a joy to hear as he says:
         Just to be clear, Dad, I am laughing at you, not with you.
         [He means it and he is not alone.]
Thanks to my sisters who, before this blog, probably never realized how many Bunny Things cross their paths almost every day.
Thanks to Dr. wife, my partner in life, bunny crime and bunny care.

A few RR statistics:
Bunny Things: Over 300 (especially counting links to posts with Bunny Things too numerous to list one by one on the page)
Posts: Over 1,000
Comments: Over 1,700
Pageviews - all time: Over 270,000
Countries we noticed making those pageviews: 120
Facebook "Likes": Over 3800
Please "Like" Rabbit Ramblings on Facebook! Thank you! 

Wishes for the next New Year:
Healthy bunnies, for all of us
Greater capacity at HRS and all animal rescues - but not the need for it
Whirled peas - Tolerance among humankind, joint efforts to repair the world, good health and prosperity for all

We hope to see more of you next year!

Friday, March 29, 2013

Bunny math

DugDug came up with an interesting chart about bunny mathematics. If it does not show well here, you can find the blog post and chart here. 

The only minor issue I have is that the post is titled about an Easter bunny problem.
I think it's more of a human problem.
> : )

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Reel Rabbits

Reel Rabbits - No, not a new TruTV show. It turns out our source for bunny slippers (the appropriately named bunnyslippers.com) has a blog and they recently posted a montage of fast paced movie clips about our favorite topic - bunnies!



P.S. If you can name the movies in order, you can win a $100 gift certificate (there are 32 clips from 27 movies). Hint: Roger Rabbit is first and in there more than once.
And they even included Neo in The Matrix because he had to follow the white rabbit to find
(Lago)Morph-eus.
> : )

Sunday, March 10, 2013

In Memoriam: Piper

Another blogging bunny has passed away...
Tragedy has struck twice within 3 weeks. Recently, RR posted that Two Bunny Blog lost Tokki and now, Piper is gone, another adorable bunny in the same household.

Piper passed over the
Rainbow Bridge 02-19-2013

You can read about Piper, and offer your condolences at Two Bunny Blog.

Please make a donation to a bunny shelter near you in Piper's memory.
If you don't have a shelter, here's a great one. 

Rainbow Bridge is posted here.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

In Memoriam: Tokki

It can happen so fast. Another blogging bunny has passed away...

Tokki passed over the
Rainbow Bridge 02-04-2013

You can read about Tokki, and offer your condolences at Two Bunny Blog.

Please make a donation to a bunny shelter near you in Tokki's memory.
If you don't have a shelter, here's a great one. 

Rainbow Bridge is posted here.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Please nominate Rabbit Ramblings in the Bloggies! Before Jan 15th!

Yes, there is a contest for everything. If RR wins the grand prize, RR will double the cash award and donate it to our local all-volunteer, no-kill House Rabbit Society rescue and shelter.

By the way, the grand prize for 2013 is 2,013 cents. Yes, $20.13.

Anyway, this will take a few minutes (less than 5), but hopefully, the following will get you through it as fast as possible. Nominate only once (this is NOT one of those "vote daily" deals). 
[BTW, I had trouble getting the email confirmation with Chrome but got it to work with Internet Explorer.]

1. Go to the Bloggies voting site.
You are required to enter 3 unique blogs, so if you do not have other favorites, you can use the recommendations below. You can also enter up to 3 nominees within a category.

2. On the left of the screen, there are the voting categories (in the grey "ribbon" that stays on-screen).
Click on "Pet" category.
Copy this into the Nominee space: Rabbit Ramblings
Copy this into the URL space: http://www.bunyaboy.blogspot.com/

3. To complete the entry, here are some other categories and nominees:
(A) Click on "Group" category.
Copy this into the Nominee space: More of Me to Love
Copy this into the URL space: http://www.moreofmetolove.com/blogs/
(B) Click on "Travel" category.
Copy this into the Nominee space: Americana the Beautiful
Copy this into the URL space: http://americanathebeautiful.org/
(C) Click on "Art/Craft" category.
Copy this into the Nominee space: Jonathan Brilliant
Copy this into the URL space: http://jonathanbrilliant.com/blog/
  
3.A. You can also click on other categories, such as "weblog of the year" and enter the data in #2 above.
> : )

4. Go to the bottom of the page. 
Type the security words (those wavy words to make sure you are a real person and not a spam machine). 
Enter your email address - used for voting verification only. 
Click: Submit your nominations! 
  
5. Then later, go to your email and click on the link in the email sent to you by the Bloggies. This completes the nominating process. 
  
If you later decide you want to vote in other categories or for additional blogs within a category, you will invalidate your prior vote, so you should re-enter ALL the blogs you want to vote for. The latest VALIDATED (via email) vote is the one that counts. 

This nominating process closes January 15th. Voting will begin about a month later. 
If RR makes it, we'll let you know.

THANK YOU!!!

Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Blog Awards

Some fellow bloggers have been very generous with Rabbit Ramblings and have sent us some awards. It's been a while for some and it's also been hectic and so I am going to try to catch up with this post.


The ‘rules’ for this award are simple (source is here):
1. Select the blog(s) you think deserve the ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award
2. Write a blog post and tell us about the blog(s) you have chosen – there’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs required – and ‘present’ them with their award.
3. Please include a link back to this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award and include these ‘rules’ in your post (please don’t alter the rules or the badges!)
4. Let the blog(s) you have chosen know that you have given them this award and share the ‘rules’ with them
5. You can now also join our Facebook group – click ‘like’ on this page ‘Blog of the Year 2012’ Award Facebook group and then you can share your blog with an even wider audience
6. As a winner of the award – please add a link back to the blog that presented you with the award – and then proudly display the award on your blog and sidebar … and start collecting stars…

Our award came from FuzzyLittleWabbits! (Posted here) Thank you!

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And this award came from Speedy Rabbit (posted here), RR's most prolific commentor (for which we are also grateful, so thanks again).


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This interesting award came from Through Rose's Eyes (posted here).


Let everyone else know about the wonderful person that nominated you and thank them from the bottom of your heart  --  Thank you, Darling Rose!
Write 7 random facts about yourself that other people may not know
Award 15 other blogs with this award

Seven random facts about me:
1. While many commentors on this blog refer to me as the bunnies' Mom, Momma, or Mum, I am a guy.
2. While many commentors on this blog refer to Bunya as "she" or "her", Bunya is a boy (blog site is www.bunyaboy...). Lucy & Ethel are the girls. 
3. While bunnies are our current pets, I just love animals and have had cats and dogs and more. Wife and daughter are allergic to them, so our daughter introduced us to bunnies.
Then left for college.
So I became a bunny daddy.
4. If I changed what I do for a living, I'd like to incorporate teaching, writing and humor. In some way, this blog lets me do those things. I hope.
5. I'm a firm believer that laughter is vitally important.
6. I am very proud of my wife and children and the things they have accomplished and are still achieving (through their own efforts - nothing to do with me). In less than six months, I will have to start calling my wife "Dr. Wife".
7. I don't think that you have read this far.

As to what blogs to recognize ... there are so many great blogs and so many bunny blogs, and so many great bunny blogs, in addition to those that nominated Rabbit Ramblings (links above), I would include for all three of the above awards (and hope not to leave any out):
A Houseful of Rabbits
Ask Miss Waffles (GHRS bunny advice column)
A Very Bunny Existance
Bipolar Bunny
Blabber Bun
Bunny.nu
Daily Bunny
Disapproving Rabbits
HopperHome Bunny Blog
Little fluffy adventures
The Life and Times of Bunnies
Two Bunny Blog
Veterinarians Behaving Badly

Now, as for notifying everyone?
I hope everyone finds him or herself here, because after being without internet for 2 weeks - at my office - I am so behind. So, you can tell how guilty I felt about waiting to acknowledge these. Maybe you can let them know! (And if you do, I owe you another thanks!)
Again, Thank You! to nominators, nominees and most especially, blog readers, followers & members!

Monday, November 12, 2012

In Memoriam: Goldie

Another blogging bunny has passed away...

Goldie passed over the
Rainbow Bridge 11-09-2012
Even more sadly, this is not the first loss for the Rabbits' Guy and family this year. Goldie and the other bunnies are fortunate to have such a loving and caring bunny household in which to live.

You can read about Goldie, and offer your condolences at A Houseful of Rabbits.

Please make a donation to a bunny shelter near you in Goldie's memory.
If you don't have a shelter, here's a great one. 

Rainbow Bridge is posted here.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

In Memoriam: Confucius

I am very sorry to report that another blogging bunny inspiration passed away ...

Confucius (Passed over the Rainbow Bridge 09-30-2012)
Confucius's human slaves were Kate and Jay of Daily Bunny, one of the funniest bunny sites out there. Confucius was a lucky shelter bunny to have this couple as his human slaves; he helped them showcase so many more shelter bunnies. Together, they have contributed to the welfare of many rescued bunnies - and that's an incredibly wonderful legacy.

You can read about Confucius and offer your condolences here.

Please make a donation to a bunny shelter near you in Confucius's memory.
If you don't have a shelter, here's a great one. 

Rainbow Bridge is posted here.


Monday, June 4, 2012

Published bunny post #500!

Lucy: What's going on?
Ethel: I don't know ... 500 something.
Bunya: Who cares? Just keep licking me.

Well, seems like a special occasion to me. If this were a half hour TV comedy, that's way more than enough episodes for syndication.

A few musings upon this mile marker...

Thank you to all the Rabbit Ramblings readers and commentors.
A special thanks to the "Member" followers (scroll down the right-hand column to see them). If you are a reader and not yet a "Member", I would greatly appreciate your becoming a Member.

Thank you to all the readers and bunny slaves that live through our bunnies' medical and re-bonding crises with us and send us encouraging comments and positive thoughts for the buns.

Recently, RR went through a little reconstruction, which you may or may not have noticed. One reason for this was because the site seemed to operate better with Chrome and some things looked a little whompy-jawed on Internet Explorer (why can't we all just get along?).

The things that were here before are still here, but some are in a new location. Some new pages were added.

The first key to the changes is that the Pages links have been moved to the top of the right-hand column (they used to be under the RR banner). And ...

Moved to Bunny Care page:
Rabbit Resources - These are links to sites with great bunny care and information.
Definitions - About a few terms used in this blog and the bun-o-sphere in general.

Moved to new About Us page:
Bunny Backstory - Check these posts for "In the beginning..."
Bunya, Lucy & Ethel Around the Web - Pictures of them on other websites.
Favorite Posts
Posts if you need to relax - The Zen buns
Rabbit Ramblings viewers are global - Countries from which we have noted RR readers; a hopefully helpful "Translate" box has been added in the right-hand column.
Funny Bunnies - Bun-centric sites to give you a laugh
Bunny emoticons
Other sites you might enjoy

And a few other new pages have been added:
Bunny Pro & Con - Thoughts about bunnies as pets.
Submissions/Contact Us - Send us your funny bunnies or just email.
Bunny Supplies - Some of the supplies and things we use for our bunnies. From wherever you buy your supplies, this still might be semi-educational reading.
Rainbow Bridge - We lost so many blogging bunnies at the beginning of 2012, we decided to give this hopeful prose its own page.


Of course, Buncam is the page to tune into the bunnies and the Bunny Things page keeps expanding as bunny sightings occur.

Thank you, RR Readers!


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Coming attractions:
Posts from GHRS's 2012 Bunnyfest

Saturday, January 14, 2012

New Year Resolutions for Bunny Owners

One of the sites under Rabbit Resources in the right hand column is Hopper Home which also includes a blog.

The Rabbit Ramblings "Great Escape" posts from yesterday reminded me of a recent HH blog post: Ten New Years Resolutions for 2012 from a Long Time Rabbit Fanatic.

In particular, # 5:
I will not take for granted my home is “bunny proofed:” It just takes one new rabbit with a skeletal system that must fold or dislocate enough to get around the normal bunny barriers I have installed. Also, he knows what those back legs are for – jumping. I mean jumping really high over all man (or woman) made barriers.

Just saying ... it's worth keeping in mind.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Please vote for Rabbit Ramblings in the Bloggies! Before Jan 15th!

Yes, there is a contest for everything. If RR wins the grand prize, we will double the cash award and donate it to out local all-volunteer, no-kill House Rabbit Society rescue and shelter.

By the way, the grade prize for 2012 is 2,012 cents. Yes, $20.12.

Anyway, this will take a few minutes (less than 5), but hopefully, the following will get you through it as fast as possible. Vote only once (this is NOT one of those "vote daily" deals).

1. Go to the Bloggies voting site.
You are required to enter 3 unique blogs, so if you do not have favorites, you can use the recommendations below. You can also enter up to 3 nominees within a category.

2. On the left of the screen, there are the voting categories (in the grey "ribbon" that stays on-screen).
Click on "Pet" category.
Copy this into the Nominee space: Rabbit Ramblings
Copy this into the URL space: http://www.bunyaboy.blogspot.com/

3. To complete the entry, here are some other categories and nominees:
(A) Click on "Health" category.
Copy this into the Nominee space: More of Me to Love
Copy this into the URL space: http://www.moreofmetolove.com/blogs/category/soul-food/
(B) Click on "Travel" category.
Copy this into the Nominee space: Americana the Beautiful
Copy this into the URL space: http://americanathebeautiful.wordpress.com/
(C) Click on "Art/Craft" category.
Copy this into the Nominee space: Jonathan Brilliant
Copy this into the URL space: http://jonathanbrilliant.com/blog/
 
3.A. You can also click on other categories, such as "weblog of the year" and enter the data in #2 above.
> : )

4. Go to the bottom of the page.
Type the security words (those wavy words to make sure you are a real person and not a spam machine).
Enter your email address - used for voting verification only.
Click: Submit your nominations!
 
5. Then go to your email and click on the link in the email sent to you by the Bloggies. This completes the voting process.
 
If you later decide you want to vote in other categories or for additional blogs within a category, you will invalidate your prior vote, so you should re-enter ALL the blogs you want to vote for. The latest VALIDATED (via email) vote is the one that counts.
 
THANK YOU!!!