Dumpling - the last addition to our brood

 This is our new addition, Dumpling - a Holland Lop.  She's 3 years old and according to people who tried to adopt her before me, timid.

She's far from timid - perhaps there are still people who are not sure about bunny behaviour.

Dumpling, by day 3 knows her name.
It wasn't the name her original owner gave her - we changed it since her name was in Mandarin and we are not a Mandarin-speaking family.

Nways, we allowed her free run, because no one really told us she wasn't potty-trained - we had 2 minor toilet accidents, I built her an x-pen, and by day 3, learnt where she should do toilet.

Her x-pen has a gate, also made up of the NIC grating lookalike and when I'm awake, she hops to the gate, waiting to be let out.

New bunny owners, whether adult or younger bunny, must just take a day/two, confine them to a smaller area, let them know where the toilet is by wiping up the toilet accident puddle with a kitchen towel, then place that in their litter box.  After that, they will just go there.  Dumpling automatically used the box after that.

She's definitely larger than the NDs and well, they don't get along, so she's taken the large kitchen area as her playground.  The NDs are in the living/study area.

Our home has finally reached full capacity.
It's great to come home and see what each of them has been up to.

Dumpling had a tumour which was already out when I got her.  She passed away on the 25th of Sept 2018.  
No signs of illness or distress.  She was still hopping around the night before.  I knew something was amiss when she didn't come out for her treats in the morning.
And I was right.
She passed at the foot of my bedpost (under), on my denim shorts.  Eyes closed. 
She didn't come across as old.  She wasn't ill.  Her poop was fine. So I reckon, it's age.
We don't really know how old they are since pets do get passed from hand to hand.  But in her, I got closure for Rusty.
I know that she had the freedom her previous owner wanted her to have.  She owned the house....chasing the cats off her rugs.  I bought them so she wouldn't slip when hopping.
I'm sad, but glad that I gave her the life they wanted her to have....to be free to hop wherever, whenever.  

Rabbit Feed

 The bunnies are on Oxbow Timothy but they were not really eating it much, so I purchased some Oat Hay.

Because I'm trying to be eco-friendly even when extending their cage to a condo, I re-use photo-copy paper boxes as their hay bin for Timothy.  Oat Hay is on their level 2 hay tray.

After a week, they took to eating hay - Oat and Timothy!
This is what they were eating - and they love this.  To 'force' them to make hay the staple, I refused to fill their pellet bowl for a day - besides getting the more 'fragrant' OAT hay.

So far so good.
They are obedient and eat their hay most of the day and have their Burgess nuggets for dinner.  Just one serving.

Blackie & Pebbles

Day One

I didn't want to just make an x-pen since the bunnies will be using this space at night when everyone's asleep or when no one is at home.
I got similar mesh to the C&C and started with their abode looking like this.

Blackie

This is Blackie, a ND, on level 2.  He loves being on this floor.  The one-sq-foot carpet is also from Daiso Singapore - 2 bucks a piece.  I used binder clips to keep them down - Blackie loves pulling at them.  With the binder clips holding the carpet in place, he has stopped doing that.

Pebbles

After many many adjustments, I settled with just 2 levels for their condo.
Thought they will enjoy having more room to run about when they are caged.

The white litter tray is also from Daiso, as the other pieces of felt cloth.

I was introduced to Daiso by my best friend - we walked through the one at Orchard after our CNY lunch at the Hyatt.  Everything is at 2 dollars!  Makes building a huge pen fun and affordable for anyone.  Before I had this idea, I thought of buying them a large pen - but the ones available are all still too small for the price.

The pair arrived at my home on the eve of CNY-eve.  They are just over a year old and breaking them into having hay as their staple.  The drama about their hay will be in the next post.