Gabi makes friends with one of our bunnies, Merlin.
Did you know that we have pet bunnies? We have two rabbits, Cody and Merlin. They're both very cute, and they've been getting significantly less attention since the arrival of our little Gabriella. The other day, we decided to introduce our cuter house inhabitants to one another. In this picture, you can see Gabi meeting our opal mini rex, Merlin. ("Opal" is her color and "minirex" is her breed.) We're trying to get the bunnies used to our baby before Easter... (hint, hint).
We have another little rabbit, Cody, who is a siamese-sable Netherland dwarf. ("Siamese-sable" = color, "Netherland dwarf" = breed) He's much more curious and had actually been more forward in introducing himself to our daughter. However, he is also generally a lot faster in addition to being less adept at the "come here" trick you see Merlin performing in this picture. He's not so smart, that little one.
At any rate, our house is a very cute one with a sweet baby and two little rabbits (Merlin is only 5.5 pounds, while Cody is only 2 pounds). I was discussing with my cute wife that our household definitely has a "cute" personality to it. You know, most households do have an overriding characteristic (e.g. formal, sporty, totalitarian...). Ours is apparently "cute," and I can totally live with that.
Baby bunnies playing with their basket.
This picture was taken more than a year ago, when the bunnies were even smaller than they are today. Cody really hasn't changed much, but Merlin definitely looks more like a grown rabbit now. We could really have an entire blog devoted to cute bunny pictures, but, really, it's too late for that now with baby cuteness significantly overshadowing bunny cuteness. Those bunnies are cute, though.
As a postscript, you may wonder why we named our female rabbit, "Merlin" -- clearly a male name. Well, we thought she was a little male minirex until we took her to her first veterinarian appointment. It's apparently sometimes difficult to sex rabbits ("sex rabbits" = being able to tell what gender they are), even for an experienced breeder. At that point, her name was already "Merlin," and we couldn't bring ourselves to call her anything else.
4 comments:
Aww, Merlin and Gabi look so cute. Hopefully I'll be able to play with both of them next weekend.
Well, based on how cute you two were even before bunnies and babies, I would say the 'Cute' nature is definitely something that becomes you!
Dawn totally did that with her precious rat, Salvadore. (named after salvadore dali) after a few weeks, in the dorm, we found out she was a girl, so we ended up occasionally calling her Sally. sigh. she was a great pet. :)
Yeah, someone recommended that we spell her name "Merlynn" to make it more feminine, although we haven't actually adopted that.
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