He's learned to use tools...

As much as I love Cadbury, if he's learned to use tools to make noise we could be in trouble.

For those of you who don't know, Cadbury is one (of three) of my pet rabbits. He's a 3 year old Dutch I adopted from a girl at work who could no longer keep him when she moved. He's an absolute sweetheart and once I have some extra funds I plan on building him a bigger cage so he has more room to play.

I recently purchased some hay from Farmer Dave via ebay (FarmerDaveHay) and its by far the best quality hay I've purchased. Plus it comes in bigger quanities, great for people with multiple pet rabbits. If you only have one bun, I highly recommend Kaytee brand hay, which is easily found at Target. I've tried Petco brand hay, but while it was affordable (they often have "buy one get one free" offers on their website), I wasn't thrilled with the quality. It was much messier as the pieces were so little.

Boy did I get off topic... Okay, back to the making noise thing.

Cadbury found a sturdy 'stem' piece in his pile of hay today. He grabbed it in his mouth and when he did, it hit the bars of his cage just right and made noise. Once he realized he could make noise with this particular piece of hay, he started running around his cage making sure the hay made contact with the metal bars every hop of the way.

I swear you could see the glee in his little bunny eyes as he hopped up and down from his shelf, running back and forth and back and forth. It went on for a good couple of minutes before Shyla (my dalmatian/APBT/other mix grabbed the piece of hay she had access to and took it from him. She then proceeded chew it up herself. Yeesh.

Oh and don't worry, you'll get the names of all my 'babies' down soon enough. I'll even post an introduction for them all at a later date. Until then, guess you'll have to take your own notes.