Funny Bunny Monday Meme*day

 

Peeking in on the bunnies this afternoon

Peeked in on the bunnies at home, from work, via the buncam...

While they often hide in their boxes, castles and tunnels during the day, this afternoon, they were snuggled into their Bunmuda Triangle (upper right corner). The real estate by the gate is prized turf and it looks like they all backed into their diagonal parking spaces right next to each other: Bunya, Lucy & Ethel (R to L. Or Down to Up? Ah! - Bottom to Top).

Set up your own buncam

Want to be able to peek in on your bunnies (or other pets)?

Originally, we set up the buncam so we could make sure the new bunnies were getting along okay. It has helped also when, for example, I once noticed their pen gate was open! What was found when I got home is here.

Anyway, step one is get a webcam. We use a Logitech Webcam Pro 9000 (been years, but maybe it was around $75 at the time?). There are so many choices out there now, including wireless. Our cam is hard wired to our PC. Because of the distance (we ran the wire through the basement ceiling acoustical tile), the very long cable used was a special kind that boosts the transmitted signal (I think it was about $15 from www.monoprice.com, a website our nephew told us about).

Step two, set up an account or channel with Ustream (or the streaming provider of your choice). If you allow commercials, then it's free (that's what we have). You can set it up for private or public viewing.

Finally, find a good perspective for your view, connect the parts, follow the instructions to get the software and services working and that's pretty much it.

Here's a recent screenshot from my office:

From the RR Facebook post for this picture: Using the buncam, I peeked in on the bunnies from work (that's what it was originally for and keep your bunny-obsessed comments to yourself). Anyway, found the three of them snuggled like this, probably at that moment, with Bunya and Ethel waiting for Lucy to groom them. But it looks like 2 bunny cops have told Lucy to "assume the position" so they can search her for illegal treat hoarding. (They are in the upper right corner of the pen in this screenshot.)

You can access our buncam from our Rabbit Ramblings website (a link is among the blog page listing at the top of the right-hand column) or through the bunnies' UStream channel.

Good luck!

Buncam suspension

The buncam will be out of commission for a while (like a few weeks).

The bunnies have requested new paint and carpet (lost to flooding a while back, but that's another story). To accomplish this, the computer will be moved and the buncamera cord will not reach the buncomputer, among other things.

In fact, the bunnies will spend a good portion of the time away from home so they will not be breathing in the fibers and fumes. So, you would be watching an empty pen (which you might do anyway if they are in their hidey boxes).

You won't see much of a change in their pen. The improvements will mostly be in the area they run around in when they are out of their pen.

(When they return, we may need a vacation.)

Will post when it is back up and running.

Bunny Miscellanea

Whether you believe in evolution, if you have bunnies, you believe in devolution.

Like of paper towel tubes ...

Realized, they chew them in a similar pattern, every time they get a new one.

Other things to watch out for (when you have bunnies) are the devolution of wires and baseboards...

Before we learned better ...

Took our eyes off for 1 minute ...

Some old business and some new business

Facebook page: Be sure to check out the Facebook page - it has extra posts, pictures, links, memes, current events and such. You do not have to be a FB member to view it.

New blog page: Bunny Advocacy Memes - trying to collect and share them as found.

Have you checked out the Bunny Things page? If it's been a while, there are new additions.

Buncam: This was giving us some fits for a while but hopefully, it has been resolved with an upgraded PC and accessories so it can be on the air more reliably. More fully described on the buncam page, here are a few viewing highlights:
Usually on about 9 AM - 11 PM, east coast time
(but for Sunday mornings - pen cleaning day).
You can see the door to their pen and if it's open, they may be wandering around.
If it's closed and you don't see them, they may be hiding in a box.
All bets are off if electricity goes off or UStream is doing maintenance.

Thanks for being a regular Rabbit Ramblings reader!

Where are the "Buncam" three?

Perhaps it's daytime and you click on the "Buncam" button in the right-hand column ...
but you don't see three bunnies.
Well, sometimes you do. Especially dusk & dawn, bunny active times.
Or meal times - those are bunny VERY active times.

But those times you don't, where are they???

Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler have nothing on Rabbit Ramblings as we took our cameras deep into the wilds of the basement bunny domain last weekend to see where these creatures are when they are out of sight.

Ethel was actually out in the open,
snuggled down like a little bunny Sphinx,
in the coveted pen gate threshold.

Lucy was in what we believe to be her favorite
under-cover location, the Cheerios box.
They have chewed enough of a hole in its top
that you can sometimes see her black & white self
peeking though the skylight hole.

Bunya was snoozing in the tunnel ...
guess he wanted some cool shade,
away from that afternoon sun (or afternoon light bulbs).

Or perhaps when you don't see them,
they are at rehearsals for their new stage play!
Bunya wants to audition for Desi's part,
but in any case, has Fred down pat.