Apparently, Sweden has an overabundance of rabbits in the parks in Stockholm. I thought about getting a train ticket to Stockholm to catch a rabbit for free, but instead I decided to just buy one. I found someone a little outside Uppsala with several for sale, so yesterday I took a bus out of the city, walked a couple kilometers to their farm, and perused their selection. I settled on Moomin (named after this comic strip character) (decision on whether to keep the name is still pending), a 6-month-old male lop. He went into a box, I walked the 2 kilometers back to the bus stop, and returned to my room. A couple hours, a trip to the recycle station, and some work with a pair of scissors and some duct tape later and I had a barely respectable enclosure for him.
I decided to move my mattress on to the floor and leave the pen open for him overnight so he could explore and start getting used to me. Big mistake. I woke up to find that he had wet the bed. He actually hopped onto the mattress with me while I was asleep and let loose. So today his litter training began. He's starting to get the hang of it already, but it'll be a little while till I leave him out overnight.
He's a jumper. He loves to jump up on his box, then jump down, then back up, then down, then up again. I had to put up a barrier to keep him from jumping onto my desk. I also reinforced his jumping box so it would hold up to the repeated impact.
Overall, I'm pretty happy with him. More pictures soon.
2 comments:
wait...what happened to the other one? This one is super cute though. And-how do you pronounce the name in Swedish. I want to say it in my head correctly.
Yay-congrats on being a rabbit owner again.
Um, yah, Law's "rabbit" wet the bed. I bet. Isn't it time you manned up and took responsibility for your bodily functions?
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