spring! puffy clouds and fluffy bunnies..

it's not nice to play favorites..but this one just might be. happy easter all!!!

DRASTIC TIMES, CALL FOR DRASTIC PHOTOS...BUNNY EMERGENCY ACROSS THE POND!!!

hello hello help help!!  we have just this morning befriended a new bunny owner and her bunny is not doing well. given all the trouble my bunnies have had over the years i thought i could help her, but she seems to have a set of issues that i have yet to encounter.  so if ANY of you bunny EXPERTS out there have some ideas, pretty please GO TO THE COMMENT SECTION, as she will be checking there for any advice.  

first of all she's in the UK...in east riding of yorkshire in a town called hull, so any vet recommendations would be a great start!! the bunny is going to the vet tomorrow, not sure if the vet is an exotics specialist or not, but this woman says the vet treats guinea pigs, rabbits, hedgehogs etc...so hopefully!!! although she thinks this is just a regular vet.  

this bunny has lost half her body weight.  she stopped eating as much as she usual a couple of weeks ago and these last couple of days she has dropped off quite a bit more.  only eating parsley, spinach, apple, no pellets and i don't know whether or not she's been eating hay. 

she has been urinating more frequently and the urine has a stronger odor and has not been going in her litter box. i'm not sure about her pooping.  no drooling. very very thin.  still grooming herself, looking for a lot of extra attention from her mama since last night, licking a lot. this is this woman's first rabbit so she's very new to bunny care and what to look out for...this is a beloved pet and any help or advice that you may have for her would be greatly appreciated.  i've been piecing the details together through little notes back and forth so i'm sorry if i've missed important details! i just wanted to try to help her before i have to run off to work...once again, please go to the comments to help her if you have any ideas, she'll be checking.

here with the wind...

holy crap! is it just me, or does leaving the door handle in the frame make all the difference in the world?!!

thinking of shell and her white on white days...circa 2008!

apple branch update = goose on a cool blue roof

what i do to these bunnies for a photo may have you concerned and understandably so. i'm sure the contact info for PETA is out there on the world wide web, and bell's may appreciate you phoning them on his behalf. as a rabbit photojournalist, i have some tough decisions to make.  this morning there was a goose fight on our lower roof.  we think the neighborhood geese have decided this is a pretty cool hangout. adding more interest, we have an abundance of apple branches up there that we'd like to move along to your bunnies and the geese want in on it. you may not think there could possibly be a newsworthy apple branch update, but that's where you're wrong. around 6am we heard little tapping toenails and tiny walking sounds.  then we heard an increase from a seeming landing followed by a mighty bellow of zesty squawks.  that continued on for hours until this goose above apparently won out, staking his claim with his woman. how can i not get a bunny in on it?!?!   bells was not harmed, annoyed perhaps, but now that i look more closely maybe he didn't really even wake up. the photo shoot lasted less than 30 seconds. i apologize for the quality, it's a cell phone.

a BIG shout out to vegansaraus!!!  they did a really nice post on their blog about the apple branch taste test. we love them and we especially love meave!!!  click on this to checkout the most amazing, inspiring and comprehensive vegan website in the universe.  www.vegansaraus.com

apple branches still available!

what is it wuagey??

duck, duck, bun!

an oldie but a goodie

i know this is an old photo, but it's one of my favorites and since i posted a bunch of mediocre ones last night in a hazy monday blahzay i wanted to make it up to you! i know the die hard PN fans don't think this is making up for anything since they've seen it a million times, but there are some new people lately. hang on while i go through some recent photos and see if i can find anything that will appease lisee, melanie, jade, tamara, diana, shell or those of you who have followed the blog since the beginning of time.  hold please...

we now have 777 photos on this blog.

too distracted to post masterpieces, are you going to be ok?

 i plan on lowering the bar, while i try to figure out twitter and instagram. then when i can concentrate on photography again, you'll be impressed. 

way back when: in jersey

this picture is no big deal

it's an overcast day, there's no jumpers on the bridge, the "curtains" need to be hemmed, nuage is out of focus, sheriff harper hasn't stopped by for a visit, it's monday night and you're bored wanting more...why am i posting this?

or is it?

because i can't get enough of squishy, furry, bunny butts, so there.  

just because

i had to post something that has nothing to do with apple branches.

NOT at PCRAZY. Re: that site... back up soon!

as some of you may know, potentially crazy has been down for about a month.  the details are boring but let's just try to make it exciting by saying that the trouble involves a very important vice presidential executive in los angelos.  this same VP once upon a time used to be my personal assistant. i've fired him countless times before and since, but still he continues to excel and devote his precious time to all things bunny.  so as much as i'd like to blame everything on him, i can't. i can blame him for writing and singing this song. i can also blame him for saying this is "how apple branch freak outs are made", when in fact it's more about how they are eaten.  how they are made i suppose would involve a video about growing an apple tree.  so my biggest "whatever" goes out to you dear, chase! we miss you!!  

RE-RUN of the taste test

are any of you able to talk to your bunnies without using a baby voice?  i tried so hard not to when i shot this video a couple of years ago. obviously i was totally unsuccessful. if i had the time to run out to petsmart or petco to get some new commercial apple branches for them to refuse so that i could reshoot, i would...anything to not hear myself using this voice. well almost anything since i seem to be about to post this video.  the short of it is that i've heard from a few people that bunnies don't like the apple branches that they buy in stores.  even the smaller farms that sell apple branches are doing so at a much higher price.  i ship the smallest tender twiggs and the larger sized ones too. your bunnies will get a good mix of branch sizes that they can eat whole and some that will last them a few days as a chew toy.  for those of you who have seen this video posted before, my apologies...there seem to be some newcomers to the site.  if you're a newbie, this is for you!

nichole, the fastest emailer on the west coast! and the very first winner of the first bunny card!

nicole, i'm so excited that your chinchillas loved the branches too! i'll double check my paypal account details, and get back to you this evening!

apple branches!

do your bunnies ever get tired of being spoiled rotten by the the same old diet? the same old timothy hay, the same old hand picked basil, the same old organic kale, parsley, romaine dandelion salad followed by a very miniscule amount of banana twice a year? do your bunnies ever wish they had something they could really chomp on and whittle away at for days on end, keeping their teeth naturally and gently nice and trim while their delicate digestive systems stay right on "tract"...get it, "tract"? we have got just the thing...and they aren't the stale cardboard version of apple branches either. hand picked from a small orchard on the idyllic sauvie island....potentially nervous presents our annual apple branch haul! scroll down please..

we are forming a focus group, we very much need you to focus.

the subject is apple branches, delicious and nutritious, apple branches. fresh (cut less than a week ago). organic. delivered right to your house. what more could you want? do you have any questions? how many would would you like?

first 10 orders get a free bunny card!

here's the pile and here's the deal. we are on a boat, which means extremely limited space. and though our bunny daddy is a kind and reasonable man, come one...can he really stand to have a 6 foot pile of apple branches on his deck for the next couple of months while he's trying to keep his gleaming anchor collection organized? ok he probably could, but we push it so much...(we, being the bunnies and i) that i for one would like to try to see how efficiently we can move this pile along to your rabbits. i haven't checked on shipping rates yet, but it will probably be close to the same as last year, and i can't remember what that was. so my best guess for now is $20 for 2 lbs of branches + shipping. i can do smaller bundles too, but i'll wait and see if anyone asks for that before i start quoting prices willy nilly. if you have any questions you can email me at prubinelli@gmail.com

bunnies untitled

just how long do i have to stare at you before you clean that hay off my ramp?!

i don't have enough room here to sing the never ending praises of dusty grimm. dusty grimm, dusty grimm, why does he sound so familiar? well my dear friends he's the master carpenter and musician extraordinaire that built our custom, ever lovin' indoor hay bale box for the bunnies! as luck would have it, that exquisite and high functioning box is now needing to find a new home since we can't fit it on our boat, damn it! so if you, or anyone you know needs an attractive solution to storing a bale of hay inside their house or apt, please let me know. all proceeds of the sale will go to our very expensive upcoming surgery! since nuage and i, along with everyone else in the world has to consider his adorable life without him having all fours, we are trying to make everything as "cush" ahead of time. once a-f'ing-gain DUSTY to the RESCUE! first he cut a hole in the wall of our boat. then he built a wrap around bunny ramp so that bells and nuage could run up and down between the first and second floor. the bunnies did not like it. despite all of our careful calculations it seemed like nuage's girth was too wide to make the turn. so we held him up again, measured his circumference has we rotated him in mid air to see just how wide this thing needed to be! then dusty replaced the entire ramp with a wider ramp to include a more gradual slope as well. guess what? it's a hit! the pitter patter of the bunny stampede that this ramp inspires on a middle of the night basis is deafening! as for nuage, his tumor is getting bigger, he's had another surgery, and at some point in the not too distant distance, the "A" word is near. anyone out ther have a 3 legged bunny? please let me know what that's like. i'm SO scared of this, but i'm trying to write about it like it's no big deal. this is supposed to be a happy bunny place, so please forgive my upbeat tone. if anyone in the portland metro area needs sensitive bunny carpentry feel free to contact dusty directly through www.grimmpop.com

nuage overexposes himself as he fights this rainbow's attempt to turn him into a pot of gold.

after all, rumor has it that sai baba protects the chosen ones from wealth.

happy 2.22....we're pure magic, are you?

in honor of february 22nd, my most synchronicitous number... we all know bunnies are the most incredible creatures on the face of the earth and beyond, but have you experienced their inexplicable magic? is it just the power of cute? maybe you have an explanation for the seemingy inexplicable nature of their influence? please let me know some magic bunny stories as i try to figure out how to tell you mine.

giving andy griffith a run for his money...!

nuage is feeling too cool for school right about now and boy oh boy do we have a lot of catching up to do. stay tuned, lots of new news soon! before i go, i gotta ask, who else has a bad ass sheriff that also knows how to hold a bunny? anyone? i didn't think so.

vogueing on the pier

for any of you who have wondered about the sense of scale of this bunny, i hope this really messes you up.

tearing down the pier

poopin' on the pier

self explanatory.

everyone is just fine.

this is to soothe you and ward off any potential alarm that you may experience after reading some of our new posts.

the first morning

"the first morning" what? i guess you're just going to have to read about it! please scroll down.

primed and ready to paint

if some of you have forgotten how fabulous 1970's wood panelling can be, just let me know and i'll be glad to send along some images of the boat interior before we primed. this isn't a trick photo, there aren't any bunnies here, just trying to give you a little buffer before reading the next post!

the english (angora) patient

as far as vet rooms go, this one couldn't get much better. although the diagnosis could've been. nuage had/has a bump on his sweet little ankle. we tried to remove it surgically, with some luck we have slowed it down considerably. it might be growing back, and if it is it is doing so very slowly. we've been watching lots of three legged bunny videos just in case! not trying to be flippant here, just keeping a good attitude...i know this is news for you all...but we've been processing this now for months.

who's more shocked, me or you?

these bunnies have not set paw on land for over 2 months...except for the occasional vet appt's.

say goodbye to hollywood

and hello to the williamette river!

something is a little different

and it's not nuage...although nuage is also a little different.

upon a time...

any of you bloggers out there ever get insta-dyslexia or wish you had it since that might make posting easier? i usually just shut myself down when trying to tell a story that has some sort of cohesion, i've tried to reverse the whole damn thing since images post from the last upload on down, telling it backwards so that it reads from the top of the page downwards and then you try to explain it and it gets even more confusing...throwing chronology overboard, here goes!!

the bunnies have arrived at powell's bookstore, and they might be at one near you!

Thank you Palm Press Inc!

here's the scene

notice bells periscoping to see the ducks? what's with these bunnies?! i was expecting occasional stomping and some sort of nervousness. nope nothing like that at all.

the plan is to move our little family off this land lock, out to the river and mark twain it up a bit! see that sturdy houseboat in the background (a few photos/posts down)....we're dreaming of something like that. the big question of course standing between us and our freedom is: how would the bunnies handle it? not sure! so we took them on a test "sit" yesterday on our sailboat to see how their sweet sea legs would hold up. they seemed to have a great time and were very curios about it all. even when the waves cane rolling in they kept eating and looking around for their next petting admirers to stroll up and drop to their knees with the typical attack of cute overload.

i do not recommend taking bunnies out on sailboats in general but these guys have been on so many adventures they almost seem to need them at this point. just hanging out at home listening to dungen and pat methany all day has it's perks, but they were pretty excited about ruling the marina.

does anyone want to see some photos of the bunnies on a sailboat?

wuagey, in a few minutes i'm going to dig, rip one of my claws out, bleed everywhere, get rushed to the hospital, and soon be pronounced just fine!

out of the forest, back to wonderland.

bells has obviously been studying some randall cobb footage.

the wind and the wuage

comparing head sizes

nuage appears to have shrunk his head. bells experiences the sensation of equality.

snuggle buns

nuage airs the CLEAN laundry, don't get him started with the dirty!