What is This???

*Chew chew* Oh, you're supposed to eat it!

 Apparently toys have another purpose besides getting in my way. So what if it took me longer than the average bun. The Slave gave me a vinestar for Christmas, along with some willow balls, and I only recently realized that you're supposed to eat them! Now I can say "Thank You!" and actually mean it!

  The willow balls I demolished in January, when the Slave gave them to me.(She didn't give it to me at Christmas since I had other things to nibble on...That I actually didn't/haven't nibbled on.) 

 I finally realized then also that you could nibble the vinestars, but only the past few days have I done any real construction on that strange, pointed, delicious toy. Now all that remains are two points, which I'm sure I'll devour before the week is gone.

 Now I can look forward to my birthday with this new knowledge on toys.

                     ~Duchess

P.S. The picture looks horrible because the usual camera's batteries are dead, and the charger was, uh, taken care of by a certain rabbit. All that remains is the video camera, which also takes terrible pictures.

                  

   

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!

   Hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas Season!!

  Miss Duchess has been doing fine, I had a toy photo shoot with her earlier this week:

     I think it went pretty well considering she didn't want to have anything to do with the toys. I think these pictures show all her different shades of brown the best...And yes, that is her winter coat. There is nothing left to pluck, and her last plucking session was in November. Since when did "brown bunnies" not have patterns/designs?
    
   As you can see in the Christmas card picture, she's got all kinds of toys she'll get to chew on this Christmas.I figured she could do with a bit of spoiling since its her first Christmas that she'll get to "celebrate". I also couldn't help picking up a jumbo carrot for her at the produce store. (She will not get to eat it in one sitting.)

 After having two bunnygirls to spoil over the past five years its strange to only have one. I do have a bunny boyfriend in mind for Duchess, but nothing is certain yet.


  Hope that everyone has a Merry Christmas!!


                 Duchess's Slave

Bags Delivered!! (WARNING!: Pictures of Destroyed Bags)

What started out like this...

Soon ended up like this:

Pictured is adoptable Kali (Bonded with Roger) sitting triumphantly over the remains of what once was a bag

 

As you can see, the adoptables definitely enjoyed the bags. There were several techniques displayed today. There was just plain destruction (Pictured above), as well as some who decided to just investigate:

Adoptable Boo checking it out

The Harlequin Girls thought the bags smelled nice, so why NOT give them a lick or two:



Adoptable Ivy: Do you think they're watching?

 Some bunnies were so excited by the sound of other bunnies tearing into bags, they sort of forgot their own (See video MHRR posted here)

  Even MHRR's newest Resident, HoneyBadger, had a 'strategy':

Goodies inside the bag? HoneyBadger don't care.

  We definitely enjoyed going over there and delivering the bags (And, of course, holding HoneyBadger). What better sound than 24 bunnies ripping into baggies full of goodies?

  Along with the bags we also delivered 47 homemade toys (Filled with alfalfa, a few pellets, and a Bunspace Store Banana Bunny Bite):

   

   

  Thanks so much to everyone who donated! We were even able to make some for the foster bunnies!! Without y'all we definitely wouldn't have been able to do this!

     Until Next post...

               Duchess's Slave

 P.S.

 Before anyone asks, HoneyBadger certainly has lived up to his name. He has quite a story, which you can read all about on his Facebook page.

  



Mission: Not Impossible

The Reinforcements have Arrived

  Thanks to donations received last week, I was able to place two more orders to go towards the bags for the MHRR adoptables.

 

 Today, while Duchess was enjoying some run time, I got to work on the bags:

     

            This was turned into:

47 bags filled with delicious greenery for the adoptables.

                    

 First we have some timothy hay at the bottom, followed by apple&birch twigs with leaves, as well well as some homegrown rosemary twigs, dried carrot tops, and a pumpkin bunny bite. Some bags have homegrown lemon balm or black berry leaves.

  

 Haven't distributed the toys yet, still not quite done making all of them:

  Miss Duchess's speed-date is hopefully week after next, and that's when we'll deliver the bags.

 I've still got the "treat certificates" up on the clay bunnies site (link to your left) incase anyone would still like to donate for some more goodies for the bunnies!

 I'll leave you with picture of Duchess:

            

  

  Until next blog...

  

                 

                 Duchess's Slave

  

Toy Testing Part 1

                                                           

                 Get back here!

  Hello, Duchess here!

    Well the Slave is finally getting the ball rolling for the Bags for Bunnies thing for Magic Happens Rabbit Rescue. Which means...Toy testing! I don't mind in the least, after all, I get extra treats! (Which in my case is pellets, I like those just as much as any treat.)

  

   Last Friday the slaves approaches me with this cardboard tube with ends stuck on either side. She shakes it around a bit and puts it down, it immediately has my interest since I can hear those pellets shakin' around in there. So I then proceeded to go after it. I didn't get anywhere with it. She then took it away, poked a hole on the tube, and put it back down. NOW I could get somewhere with it!

 As seen in the picture I had to shove it around a bit before I could actually get treats; but I did get some pellets after I threw it around a bit and chewed on the hole to make it bigger. You can see below for a before/after picture:

 If anything I think I improved on its design, larger hole=Less effort=More time to harass the slaves for treats.

   The Slave also took it apart so you could see how its constructed easier:

 Now that its bunny approved, she gets to make 45 more like this. Although its more like 37 now since she's made some, not to mention the extra ones she yas yet to put together. Its a work in progress. She is also using wrapping paper "rolls" as the tubes, its somewhat flimsier, but they work just as well.

 As you can see, we have some finished ones, as well as some no-where near finished ones, as well as a box that needs to be

de-constructed.

 These are some of the toys that'll be put in the goodie bags for the adoptables at MHRR.(You can see how you can help here.)

 Now there will be a Toy Testing part 2 post narrated by yours truly. I've put the slave to work on a new video of me testing out this toy, the part thats taking forever is picking out the right music.

  

   Besides all of that, the Slave has felt it necessary to give me a title, (As if the name "Duchess" wasn't enough)and she decided to come up with some french phrase that's something like this: Duchess-Le Cochon Peu De Chocolat...Whatever it means, I'm sure it is a complete and total lie.

            Until the my next post,

                   Duchess

(Slave here: It means The Little Chocolate Pig. Trust me, it describes her perfectly.)

Inspeeection!

                                                           Form Ranks!

  Today Part One of the putting together of bags for the MHRR bunnies. Well, part one consisted of buying the paper bags and working on the toy:

 

 
  The Toy is composed of a toilet paper roll with card board "caps" on either end. I cut through a circle through part of the card board caps so that way it would stay on, and cut slots in the sides of the tubes so to also ensure that it would stay on. Inside I'll be putting some kind of treat that'll shake around and make some noise.

 Still collecting donations, incase anyone is interested you can take a look here. We still have a lot of bags to fill!
 
  I've got plenty of Timothy hay to fill all the bags (I get it by the bale for her highness)so now its just a matter of making the "toys" and hoping we get enough donations to fill the baggies with other goodies besides hay and a few herbs!

  Duchess has been doing fine. She has been quite busy following everyone around and begging for food:
 

   I know that wasn't the last celery stick!

       

  She is also doing her part in putting together the bags (As seen in the first picture) by inspecting everything and making sure it is in order. Mostly she just gets to test the toy.


  I'll continue posting updates on how the bags are coming along and, of course, what Duchess has been up to.

              Until next post,

                  Duchess's Slave

Get Back Here...

Just stay still and I'll make this as quick as possible...

  The other day I ordered some toys off of the Bunspace store for the first time. This time around I got her a Willow ring (Its not just the slim branches wrapped around, willow leaves are also in there, and to top it all off there are 4 treats tied on it), I also got her a Yucca toss ring.

 We'll see how they look in a few days. The Willow Ring I'm only giving to her while she's out playing, since I know she'll demolish that in no time. The Yucca toy is her "cage toy", although it had a rough start after the first night. She must've thrown it in her water bowl and then picked it up and thrown it back out, because two of the yucca pieces are nice and wet. And they're still damp. So I'm just trying to get the darn thing to dry so it won't get moldy. But this does inform me that she actually did "play" with it some, even if it just meant moving it out of her way.

 

  She has been doing her normal bunny business, which consists of following people around for treats and looking as adorable as possible:

Please Mom, I want some more

  

Until next post...

                 

              Duchess's Slave