[Ag-eq] What's up? doc! orRabbits 101

[Tracy Carcione]

Hi Jewel.
Could you teach him to come by offering him a treat, like a carrot or 
something?
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jewel" <jewelblanch at kinect.co.nz>
To: "Agricultural and Equestrean Division List" <ag-eq at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 11:23 PM
Subject: [Ag-eq] What's up? doc! orRabbits 101


> As you know, or, I think that you do:  I got a second rabbit Monday of 
> last week.  The idea was that
> he would be company for Peter Rabbit, but, I get the feeling that Peter 
> would have been quite happy
> on his own.
> I was assured that Bugzee was friendly, and would be a breeze to catch.
> I will concede that he is friendly, but a breeze to catch!  to date, when 
> I prepare to put them both
> out on the grass for the day, Peter comes up and just hunkers down at my 
> feet, but as for the other
> little toad, the only breeze is that which he creates as he whizzes around 
> the rabbitry as I try to
> lay hands on him!
>
> This morning, having put Peter out, it was the same old game of:  "Catch 
> me if you can!", till,
> finally, I told him that it was no skin off my nose if he went hungry, so 
> I picked  up the pellets
> and put them out of Bugzee's reach,  thus showing him  that, if he wanted 
> to play silly buggers, he
> could, but he would have to pay a price for the privelege.
> Eventually, hoping that he had seen the error of his ways and was weak 
> from lack of sustenance, I
> returned, but he had learned nothing and continued to elude me.
> At one pass, he noticed a rabbit-sized gap at the end of the door, and out 
> to the wide blue yonder
> he dashed.
> By this stage, I, really, was not too bothered about the very distinct 
> probability of him being
> Guideon's next meal if he should turn right  and enter the backyard, but I 
> could still hear his
> collar bell, so I kinda hope that he had not entered Guideon's domain, and 
> so it proved!  I put my
> hand down, and there he was, hunkered down at my feet, just like Peter!
> Of course, I forgave him at once, and assured him that Guideon's next 
> meal, I, really, did not want
> him to be, but added the rider that my well of patience was not 
> bottomless!
>
> Jewel
>
>
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