Harvey Bunny's Blog

Feathered Friends during the snow

Harvey Bunny — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:03:47 +0000

Please do remember to look out for our feathered friends whilst all this snow is around.

Make sure feeders are kept filled.
If you have a compost heap clear the show from it so Robins and others can find bugs/worms.
Keep bird baths defrosted for birds to drink/bath in

The snow has come back to see me

Harvey Bunny — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 16:56:03 +0000

Thanks to my nice soft fur coat I am able to enjoy going out in the snow. Like earlier in the year I have had good fun making piles of snow in my run and watching to see what they do, which it has to be said is normally not a lot!

This time I have also been having fun hopping round in the snow making interesting patterns which seems to keep my pet amused. I have not told him what the patterns mean yet and he does not seem to have worked it out.

What is annoying though is that all the patterns I have spent hours over the last few days making have now been stolen by more snow! So I am now busy making the patterns again, I wonder if this time the pet will work them out?

Short Eared Punk Bunnies – Update

Harvey Bunny — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:13:39 +0000

Well it seems there were no less than four young Short Eared Punk hanging around. So I kept nagging the pet and he kept puttting food out for them and finally one by one they found corners in the garden to hibernate in, they do keep popping out of hibernation but I am told, by the pet, that this can happen with any Short Eared Punk Bunny and not just the little iddy biddy ones.

I don’t really get the point of hibernating as this means that the world is deprived of your presence for several months each year and it seems to me that it would be a great shame for all concerned if I was not around to make the world a brighter place throughout the year.

Short Eared Punk Bunnies (again)

Harvey Bunny — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:23:47 +0000

My pet says to keep an eye out for liddle short eared punk bunnies, which he calls hedgehogs, they will apparently start hibernating in a few weeks and this year there have been some very late litters. Some of the very the liddle ones may need some feeding. DO NOT give them milk as SEPB’s are lactose intolerant and it will make them ill. Raisins, currents and chopped peanuts are good for them and will not attract feral cats, in any case a lot of cat and dog food does not have enough protein in it for them. (With peanuts do make sure you chop them up please). They will also like a bowl of water please.

For those who like cats

Harvey Bunny — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:28:55 +0000

For those of you who like purdy cats see the website htt://www.felinenetwork.org.uk which belongs to a friend of mine.

My pet had some odd conversations today

Harvey Bunny — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 15:37:31 +0000

My pet seems to have had a very odd day today.

When he got up, having watched all of about ten minutes of TV at the weekend and having, on Discovery, seen an advert for their Bank Holiday special stuff he had convinced himself it was a Bank Holiday today. Now even when he did not work for himself he was more than a bit disorganised about such things and would often turn up for work complaining about the lack of his normal early morning train when no one else did.

He realised it was not a Bank Holiday when having broken his last drill of a certain size he had set off for the DIY store to find on the way his preferred local independent hardware shop was open. So the conversation went something like.

My Pet -Do you have any 1/4 inch HSS drills in stock?
HW Shop man – Nope I’ll get some in for you for tomorrow sir.
My Pet – Thanks, I’m surprised you are open on a Bank Holiday.
HWSM – It is not a Bank Holiday sir.
My Pet – Oh. [Leaves and closes door]
HWSM – Pillock. [Adds 50% to price of drills]

Later when doing a web site for someone he knows the door bell rang. Now we don’t get many unexpected visitors and the expected ones know to just come in via the side door so he was actualy surprised it still works. The door bell that is the side door obviously works.

My Pet – [Opens door to find a young woman wearing a smartish suit can carrying some brouchers] – Hello, can I help you?
YW – Hello sir I am from Xyz company we are selling a range of quality self aseembly furniture I wonder if you would be interested?
My Pet – Probably not I am a cabinaet maker. [Friends of his keep nagging him that saying he is a carpenter makes him sound like he works on building sites and as he says he don't get paid that well]
YW – Well our furniture is of much higher quality than you will find in B&Q or Ikea, what style of furniture would you be interested in?
My Pet – Er, well prefer solid Oak or Beech which is fully jointed. Not really interested in flat pack veneered MDF from a factory thank you.
YW – Well sir I am sure you will find our range compares favourably with that and at prices that will please you, can I come in and show you our rage?
My Pet – Well I am not interested at all as I said I am a cabinet maker.
YW – Yes sir and I am sure that means you appreciate quality furniture when you see it.
My Pet – No that means I make wibbly furniture.
YW – Oh.
[Long awkward pause]
My Pet – What did you think a cabinet maker made then?
YW – Coffins.
My Pet – Oh.
[longer pause]
YW – Well I can see you are busy, maybe I could leave you some leaflets in case you have some friends who would be interested.
My Pet – If they were good enough friends for me to make suggestions as to furniture, they would ask me to make it for them.
YW – I suppose so.
[yet another long pause]
My Pet – Well I hope you have better luck in the rest of the street.
YW – Thanks and have a nice day.
My Pet – Bye. By the way it is not a Bank Holiday today.

About half an hour later we saw the same lady walking past as I had a wander round the front garden. Like a lot of people are she was a bit surprised to see such a handsome and cute bunny hopping around.

Last we heard the sales lady was looking for a good therapist.

Treating your pet

Harvey Bunny — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:24:04 +0000

They tell me that it is important to make sure pet humans have an interesting and varied diet. So today I had the best bit of a cauliflower and let my pet use the left overs to make himself something called cauliflower cheese. ‘Tis remarkable how inventive these human pets are and their ability to turn the nasty fluffy white bits into something sort of edible.

I’m a camerabunny

Harvey Bunny — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 05:37:18 +0000

Yesterday, because someone from my Facebook page had requested it, my pet tried to shoot some video of me having my lunch. I was not too keen on this at first and refused to come out of the hutch so as to make his life difficult. that was until the daft fella left his iddy biddy camera in the run while fetching me some Parsley… Unfortunatly he had forgotten to turn on the mic on the main camera so the video has no sound…

Enjoy.

Apples

Harvey Bunny — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:42:27 +0000

Food is always good but good food is better. So as to keep my pet on his toes I tend to vary what veg I like to eat and if I am going to eat the grass or some hay. One thing I always like though is apples which my pet does give me each day. Or at least he did give me one each day.

The other day as he was going to be away for a day or so my pet gave me a few apples and told me not to eat them all at once. As if I would. I am a sensible bunny and I like to save food that I like so I can have some later.

The other good thing about apples is they have more than one use and make great toys before you eat them. Of course once you have eaten them they don’t tend to work so well as toys….

Me and my apple

Feathered Friends, the Pet and being tricked

Harvey Bunny — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:26:38 +0000

I am told by my pet that the odd fluffy feathered friends are babies that will grow up to look like all the other featehred friends. I am not sure if he is right as it seems they are bigger, noisier and more active than the grown up ones. But there again it is not unknown for my pet to have the most outlandish theories..

Talking of which I am now not talking to him. As the weather is now warmer I am shedding a lot of my fur and the pet does insist on combing me on a daily basis, which annoys me.

Today he popped down the shops when I was expecting a combing and came back with some carrots, which I do like, as well as some spiky thing with a handle on it.

I didn’t know about brushes…..

I do now.