Grooming kit tools

I was so inspired by one of the mutual bunny parent's post on her grooming kit that I too want to share mine. Hahahahaha 

- Apron 

- Towel

- A pair of sleeve guards

- Facial mask

- Cornstarch

- A squeeze bottle of water

- Cotton buds (cleaning their anus and urine tract outer)

- Small plastic bag (to contain removed furs)

- Scissors

- Thinning scissors

- Slicker brush

- Flea combs (various sizes for different grips)

- Nail clipper

- Nail filer

- Tissue paper

- Torch light (nail clipping)

- Mini dustpan

- Lint remover roller (Saviour! Must-have)

For hygiene reason, I have different set of scissors, thinning scissors, towel and flea combs for Cotton and Koogle from the volunteer work. 

Public Holiday walk-walk

Bringing the boys to walk-walk and Cotton was very active today. He hopped more than the previous round of walk-walk. The humans were exhausted following him. I have never seen him that active by hopping non-stop for at least 30mins! 

After 45mins of exploring around, Cotton rested and he was also cooperative by remaining at rested position when Uncle Hubby was removing his leash from his harness. 

He also did not put up much struggle when I cleaned his 4s paws. 

Here are some videos of their walk-walk:

 

 

 

Enjoy! 

Praying for Blessing

This morning, I went to the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple to seek some blessing from the high priest for my little Mi-yeon so that she could be reincarnated into a better family in her next life. 

Daiso shopping again!!!

I happened to walk past Daiso (I swear it's really stumbled by chance) today after the temple praying in the morning so I took the chance to walk around. 

I spent again more items for my furkids more than for myself or Uncle Hubby. Hahahaha check it out what I bought:

A large scoop: for ease of scooping out the bedding litter and lesser time of scooping. Previously, I was using their treat bowls and I need to scoop several times and had to bend over. 

A small container bucket with cover: it's just right to contain NS pellets of 1.8 kg! The cover will keep the pellets for minimal oxidation or moisture. 

I saw a cute measuring cup for pets. How can I not buy it? Now I can accurately measure how much of pellets given to them daily. How clever! 

I have also bought 2 soft fur mat for Cotton's bed. It's a little oversized but I think is still usable. 

I also bought items like mini dustpan since the existing ones' bristles is wearing out and another cat repellent mat as spare. Total spending $18! 

Thank you Uncle Hubby for the sponsorship! Hahhahaha 

Water Bowl Innovation

I found another gem at Daiso today - water bowl base!

Simply attach a plastic mineral bottle on it and you're done! Let's try out!

Get a plastic mineral bottle and cut off any plastic rim ring if needed. 

Then attach the filled bottle onto the water base.

And you're done! As easy as ABC. The screw tightness between the mineral bottle and base is not very tight kind but is tight and stable enough in overall. 

The base is quite deep and diameter is quite big so make sure you do your measurement. 

 

I have also tried 2 other types of water bowls - pink and blue. 

Pink: Plastic mouth is too small and thus making cleaning of internal bottle tough. The good thing is it can be screwed tightly and hence picking up the water bowl with the bottle is safe. Price: $10

Blue: Cleaning of the internal plastic is easy and convenient. The downside is picking up the setup at the bottle very likely resulted in spillage as it easily gives way. The locking mechanism is not as good as Pink version. Price: $8

I thought if you want to try out if water bowl setup is feasible for you, you can try the Daiso one ($2) prior to investing a water bowl of larger capacity. 

Enjoy trying! 

I Love Clothes Pegs!

One of the best inventions that's cheap, outlast its original purpose and widely available - introducing Clothes Pegs!

I have been using the pegs to secure many of my bunnies' setup and here are some of the examples: 

The mesh tray is a little bigger than the pee tray so fitting wise is not good and risky if bunny jumps onto it and gives way. The peg is used for 2 purposes: to secure the entire litter setup to one corner so my bunny won't able to move it and balance the mesh tray to sit nicely above the collector tray.  

Pegs are used to secure the food metal bowls to its metal frame so that Koogle won't able to flip the bowl. Below the food bowl is the hay rack. Again, same purpose - secure to the litter tray so that Koogle will not able to move it when he is digging to eat his hays. 

Back view of the metal food bowl setup.

Pegs are used to secure again for bunny proofing in the house. 

It's also convenient to remove them for cleaning or rearranging without damaging to wallet or existing home/playpen/cage structure. 

However, I know some people use pegs to lock their playpen but my bunny still is able to break free if he wants to. It's best to get proper connectors ($2 for 10) for this case. 

Who's the boss?

Dear Blogspot,

What's wrong with my humans???

When they decided to adopt my sidekick, I wasn't even consulted. Fine, what's done cannot be undone. So I decided to play nice and within 3-4 days of bonding with him, I started to kiss him. That ingrate sidekick never kiss me back....not even once yet. 

Fine, I cannot force a kiss from sidekick, can I? Mummy even tried once to trick sidekick to kiss me by applying some sweet syrup on my head and hugged us upright tightly at her chest. Sidekick did lick my head but that's because of the sweet syrup, not me and so mummy aborted the act. 

Then sidekick got to free roam just like I did and he stray peed. His stray pee condition continued for next few days and angered mummy who locked him up at cage for a day. I thought he be locked forever but alas, he was released the following day. Then now he stopped stray peeing last night and made mummy so happy that she letting us both free roam at daytime too. 

Sidekick has seriously no idea that all the areas in this house belongs to me, me and just me. Whenever he attempted to hop into any bedroom, I'll chase him out Hahahahhaha and he will hop back to the living room. I only allow him to roam just the living room for now. 

This morning, he daringly hopped into the master bedroom to my favorite resting spot to explore. I chased him out instantly and guarded at the doorstep. 

He then hopped back to our playpen and rested where he's supposed to. Hahahahah mummy and daddy have no worries about free roaming me and sidekick as I overheard them saying I'll monitor him. That's true but to have sidekick always in my line of sight means I'll not able to rest or sleep in peace. 

I be always watching sidekick....always at his back. Humans are clever ain't they? They leave the 'dirty' job of supervising to me while they at work or at sleep. Now I'm empowered to supervise sidekick, I'm the real boss. Hahahahaha 

Evil smiling,

Cotton 

Little Small Bed

Uncle Hubby bought a little bed frame from ikea ($25) and we placed a used pillow protector as the mattress for Cotton.

Look, Cotton enjoying himself on the bed.

He loves it so much that he peed on it. Sigh.....he has always been in controlling of his turf whenever Koogle free roaming. 

Caught in red-hand (literary)!

I don't like to be maligned for things not done by me, so I do not want to discipline my boys randomly as well. The stray pee problem has to be solved but who is the culprit? One of them or both will commit the offence while I was asleep or at work. 

So this morning, I decided to lock up just Koogle in the playpen and let Cotton free roamed. I also sprayed the diluted vinegar in the playpen.  When I came home later in the evening, ah-ha.....! It's definitely Koogle. Cotton could not possibly stray peeing into the middle of the playpen.  

And I also notice Koogle turns fussy eating as his hay rack still looks pretty much filled but definitely finished all the pellets and flipped both the bowls. Well-done, Koogle (in sacasm). Well, I'm not going to spoil him and buy APD gold or Small Pets Select hays just to pacify his fussy eating habits. 

He has to be litter trained.......so back to the cage tonight. I did not want to waste my effort on their bonding so he will go to the cage when we at work and at sleep. Cotton and him will eat fresh vegetables and pellets together and that's the time he get his taste of freedom. 

When will he get his jail-free card? Well, Koogle, only you can help yourself. 

They seems to know something not too right when they saw the cage. Koogle did something rather unusual. He actually snuggled with Cotton. 

Needless to say, gentlebun Cotton kissed his sidekick affectionately while his sidekick simply enjoying the groom. :S 

Well, I'm not going to change my mind on retraining Koogle on his litter habit by confining in the cage. 

It's pretty amazing to say that Koogle started to eat his hay when he is inside the cage. If only he stops his marking and be pee-disciplined, then this cage is redundant and I be happy to let him free roam like the past 2 nights. As of now, I can sleep with ease of no stray pee cleaning concerns the following day. :D 

More juicy updates of Koogle's litter retraining is found here: http://koogle-rabbit.blogspot.sg/2014/07/litter-re-training.html?m=1

Eating Together On Their Own.

Finally they are able to eat together on their own without my assistance. Yay!!! But I think I still need to monitor their eating together progress until it has become part and parcel of their lives.

This is their current litter box setup....yes I often change the orientation as I monitor their usage and behavior pattern. Afterall, they are the end-users, not me. Hahahaha

No place to put the carrot top (I gave one to be shared by both) so I placed it just below but next to their food bowls. 

Check out the video!

Carrot Tops!!!

Look, what's that???

It's carrot tops! Yummy!!!!

It costs $8 for 250g (roughly about 6 stalks). A little pricey but when both of them are eating heartily, the pinch on the wallet naturally write off. Hahahaha oops! 

Experimenting ways to stop their urine marking

When I came home last night, they greeted me with this - stray pee again!

I have to clean up twice a day - morning before work and evening after work. It's really energy exhausting for me. The stray pee was semi-wet and cold which might indicate it was done at least an hour ago. 

Recently I am cleaning their stray pee with the diluted vinegar (1 part white vinegar in 2 parts water). But I do not like the acetic acid odor so I added a few drops of Lavender oil. No, Lavendar oil does not calm them much.

So i anticipated that they would stray pee  like the day before, outside at their playpen since I free roam them at night. I sprayed (neubulized spray) the diluted vinegar without cleaning dry outside their playpen before I went to sleep. Then this morning, guess where they stray peed?

Yes, within their playpen! Hahahahaha but I still have to clean up >:(   So this morning, I decided to spray the vinegar around their playpen before going to work. I think Koogle don't like the acetic acid smell and rested on their litter tray instead! 

I hope the diluted vinegar will work to curb them from stray peeing.

At evening when I came home, darn! they stray peed again. 

I'm not sure if I have sprayed those areas this morning. Hmmmmm ok, I shall try tonight to spray bigger areas. If spraying diluted vinegar without cleaning dry works, then all these days of bonding effort really worth it! 

Now I shall pray and wait. :D 

Before I turn in for the night....they posed so close to each other but again, for less than 5mins. 

Update: 23 July 2014 morning before work.....

Stray pee spotted outside of playpen but on the area where the diluted vinegar not sprayed on. Argh!!! I think I need to mop my whole floor with diluted vinegar soon to stop them from any potential marking chances. 

Continuing Bonding Day 13

About 5am, Cotton did his Bunny 500 and zoomed acrossed from our bedroom to living room. His cat collar bell rang furiously and during his dash, he hit onto our bed divan so hard that I could feel our bed shook a little (no, I'm not exaggerated at all). 

I woke up to check them out and saw a stray pee!!! Strangely, no stray poops or hays was found though. 

Koogle was in the playpen and the pee was still wet though cold. The color of the pee indicated it belongs to Koogle. Angst man. But luckily, the pee was within the corrugated board. Soaking the stray pee with a paper towel, I brought to Koogle's nose and placed it into the litter tray and gave a hard push-down on his head. 

So I decided to lock Koogle up and continued sleeping for another 3 hours. At about 8am, I checked on him again and this time, no stray pee found. Ok, I supposed he repented. 

While refilling their hays, I decided to get innovative and re-arranged their litter tray again. There's never a perfect setup for my bunnies because it depends on what stage of relationship and phase they are going then I changed accordingly. 

So this time round I added back the 2 food bowls by hooking onto the fence. The 2 food bowls will be used to contain their pellets and fresh vegetables. 

The smaller hay rack is placed on purpose at the front of the 2 food bowls so that it will bunny proof my metal support legs which are rubber coated. 

At the same time, this is to discourage them to eat so much pellets but more hays. Hahahahahaha

2 hay racks are added so that they will not fight for food and still eat together in the same litter tray. 

Well, I'm still monitoring how they will use and like their newly renovated litter tray still. 

At about 5pm, I was on my way home and Uncle Hubby who was home the whole afternoon told me some bun stray peed again at around 2plus and this time, just outside of the kitchen door. He took some pictures on what the buns were doing...

Uncle Hubby did not personally witness the stray pee being happened but given the circumstances evidence, it's obviously who was the culprit. The stray pee was still very wet so it meant it just happened not too long ago when Unclr Hubby found it. Uncle Hubby also said that prior to discovering the stray pee, Koogle flipped (we believed by accident) one of the metal food bowl out - no more pellets despite he kept digging into the bowl. 

What an alpha bunny!

I have no confidence in Koogle to leave him free roam unsupervised, although he did not stray pee from 2plus to 7pm.