Maple's Rabbit Blog
Area to talk about the rabbit hobby.
Tattooing-post from Deanna

Don't you all just LOVE when you have to tattoo your rabbits? Well, for me and Dirty(Maple, thats her nick-name, as she calls me slave) it's not exactly our favorite activity.  Some of you know that i'm gone at a summer camp all summer as a camp counselor.  Well, I'll come home about twice a summer, Maple complaining the whole time how she has to clean by herself and do everything by herself. (lets face it, she'd be nothing without me)  Well, i'll come home for that one weekend, Maple will here i'm coming and high tale it over to our house and want to tattoo.  Well, sometimes, like this summer.  We had a buttload of bunnies to tattoo.  So i get home, and here comes maple FLYING into the driveway ready to tattoo, so we go out there, me thinking maybe 10 rabbits....little did I know, she had like 30 to tattoo! (which my first thought, is Dirty you need a life, besides breeding bunnies) ANYWAYS!  When we tattoo, i have to hold the rabbit and she stabs them in the ear.  Who gets the easy job, not the slave!  I have to hold them.  Well, since she'd waited so long to tattoo some of these rabbits are little big, so they're CRAZY! And of course who gets scratched to hell. none other, but the slave.  and maple just laughs and says, Oh! that one was kind  of crazy, and of course, i'm just like yeah, right, crazy, as i'm COVERED in scratches, and by the end of the day i look like i cut my wrists or something cause  all the scratches, i'm pretty sure that Guidence counselor at school is gonna come up to me at some point and time and be a LITTLE concerned. 
















All in all, what i'm getting at, is when i come home from camp, it's normally not a HEY! great to see you back, it's more of a, Hurry up, we've got shit to get done-coming from the one and only Maple.   :)  though i'll give her credit she does seem to get some scratches too as the rabbit goes flying off the table in her direction and she has to catch it. 















2007-07-12 16:55:20 GMT
Comments (5 total)
Author:Anonymous
Oh Deanna!! You make me laugh!!! Tattooing is your favorite job and you love to be my helper!! Yes, i do pay attention to when you are coming home so i'm there when you show up, tattoo clamp in one hand and a bunny in the other! :)
--Maple
2007-07-12 19:55:10 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Hey Gals, I tattooed my first 4 rabits last week. Very nerve racking but I guess it went ok. I first one most likly will need to be done agian. i didn't push very hard the first time. See Ya
2007-07-23 15:20:03 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Yeah right Maple, and then breeding thousands of other bunnies all around! :)
--Dee Dee
2007-07-28 06:49:55 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Maple and Deanna, My name is Tammy Pamperin and I bought two opal does from you in Weuweuga. I didn't notice that they weren't tatooed. No big deal, my dad and I did it. But now I know the story on that.
On the cages, we haven't put any together for years. It went ok, we had it easier than you because they were precut. They are a stacking system from Klubertanz with legs. The most frustrating thing was the legs. It was ok when you got into the grove of things, but my dad would get the legs on one side and start putting them on the other. He would bang with the hammer or something and one of the legs on the other side would fall off. I tried not to laugh but this happened multiple times. Every time just as funny.
--Tammy Pamperin
2007-08-02 03:02:31 GMT
Author:Anonymous
Breeding Rabbits:

Anyone have some comments about breeding rabbits? I have a doe that I bred on June 30th.
She would be a first time mother. The nest box is in and she has had a nest built since Thursday. I am yet to see any sign of any bunnies. I have moved the fur and straw and checked the nest box. I'm a little confused with her building a nest so early. Is she really prepared, or does anyone have any ideas about what is going on?
--Tammy Pamperin
2007-08-02 03:10:42 GMT
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