Welcome to our world of Rabbittude. Take a rabbit, add attitude, and there you have Rabbittude. We currently have two Rabbittude experts, Tigger and Shadow. They are seven years old (they would say young). Tigger and Shadow have been entertaining us and driving us crazy for all of their lives since they came to us as two month old babies.
Shadow & Tigger
They were so inventive and creative we ended up creating a website, www.rabbittude.com, to share them with the world. Now we are adding a blog feature so that they actually have more communication with the world. We the humans will of course have to help them out with the typing.
Diving right into the world of Rabbittude, we will share what we hope will be their ultimate bunny stunt. Tigger and Shadow have their snuggle bunny moments, but they are rambunctious bunnies and their relationship is a feisty one. Meaning, they have never agreed on who is the top bunny. For those very familiar with rabbits, we can feel the first question coming. Yes, they have been altered.
Throughout the years, they seek to settle that question by hopping on each others head and a humping they will go. Tigger is the most aggressive in this and we can sense from her body posture when she is thinking about it and start hollering, Tigger, NO! She has countered this by taking to making flying leaps that land her sitting on Shadow’s head with her head and front paws by his tail and away she goes with a full body hump. Since she is smaller, all four legs are off the floor making the activity pretty funny looking. Shadow has started to respond to this by running out from under her or taking off with her on his back.
We can feel the second question coming from the rabbit savvy. Yes, we have regularly and actively sought to discourage this behavior without much success. However, these two have never sought to truly injure each other. There are no biting or fighting incidents and if we separate them, they hang out beside each others cages giving the most pitiful lovelorn jailbun performances.
Back to the rest of the story. Tigger and Shadow were on the upper staircase landing when Tigger decided to launch herself onto Shadow. She landed on his head with her head by his tail. He decided to take off with her on his back, straight down the stairs. The expectation at any moment was to see a rolling ball of fur going down the stairs, but Tigger and Shadow made it all the way down with Tigger piggybacked on top of Shadow.
We told the vet about it at our next visit and knowing our buns quite well, she commented, “You had better hope that Tigger didn’t enjoy that. She will do it again!” Fortunately for our sanity and their health, the bunnies have kept the who’s on top on level ground since that one incident.
Welcome to our world of Rabbittude! We would love to hear from other rabbit lovers and those who just really enjoy funny animals. To you rabbit owners (or rabbit owned), what stunts have your bunnies tried? We would love to hear.
