Bunstruction

On pen cleaning day, everything comes out of the pen, so it can be vacuumed. The mazes, boxes, tunnels and toys just get stuck into each other and piled on the coffee table. Lucy and Ethel love to explore this somewhat familiar but topsy-turvy world. Here are a couple of Lucy doing just that.

Sort of a bunny version of an Escher stairwell

Lucy used the "Princess Bed" from The Blissful Bunny
to step down from her temporary playground.
(It may be how she got up there in the first place, but we didn't see.)

More on the bunny vinegar boxes

Yesterday's post here and on Facebook got a lot of hits and comments, in addition to readers checking out the related old post. So, here's a little more detail on the vinegar box construct.

This is the box in question.
It hold 4 super-sized bottles of vinegar.
A piece of cardboard reinforces the sides
and divides it in half.

Here is the divider outside the box.
The bunnies came over to see what I was doing to their box.
This is an extra that sits under the kitchen table.
You can see that there has been some drive-by nibbling
(check out the wavy right side of the box).

So the trick is to get 2 of these boxes and
turn them so there are openings on all 4 sides.
Then pull the 4 corners of one box over the corners of the other box.

This is the result: They will park themselves inside
to nap or just tear it up. Or stand on top.
The box divider gives them different levels and chambers in which to play.

Example:
Tank commander General Bunya Patton
(standing on upper level created by divider)

If you make one for your bunnies and they like it, send RR some pictures of them playing in or on it.

Cleaning the bunny pen

What is it about pen cleaning day that makes the bunnies so desire to go behind the pen? Maybe they are trying to find the Wizard of Bun. Follow the green rug road.

We take everything out ... the hidey boxes, toys, litter boxes, tube, tunnel. When we pull it away from the wall to vacuum, they must explore. The vacuum does not bother them and, if they can get to it, the cord is a delicacy. (Yeah, it's headed to the repair shop. Again). When we're done, we have to practically shoo them away so we can move it back without accidentally squishing anybunny.

Ethel is usually the first behind the pen.
Bunya is off to the left, peeking out from behind the hay feeder.
Lucy got her laps in, too.

(Their 24/7 fresh hay feeder stays in place because it normally rests on top of their big white tube and is zip-tied to the pen fence.)

What does your bunny do on cleaning day? Hide? "Help" you?