{"id":1423,"date":"2012-07-06T10:19:28","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/?p=1423"},"modified":"2012-07-06T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:19:28","slug":"its-not-begging-its-demanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2012\/07\/06\/its-not-begging-its-demanding\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s not &#8220;begging,&#8221; it&#8217;s DEMANDING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dad (and mum) say we beg for treats too much. But they&#8217;re wrong &#8211; we don&#8217;t beg for treats&#8230; we DEMAND treats!<\/p>\n<p>And sometimes, just to liven things up, we make our demands from the other side of the kitchen (to keep mum and dad on their toes).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"gus and betsy begging for treats by the front kitchen door by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514551224\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8156\/7514551224_08d93e5aac_z.jpg\" alt=\"gus and betsy begging for treats by the front kitchen door\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon dad, put the camera down and give us some treats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"gus and betsy would like some treats now, please by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514551972\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7134\/7514551972_12ea399126_z.jpg\" alt=\"gus and betsy would like some treats now, please\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Time to give the bunnies treats, dad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"gus does not approve of the lack of treats by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514552886\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8020\/7514552886_25f17641f0_z.jpg\" alt=\"gus does not approve of the lack of treats\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;You&#8217;re&#8230; not going to give us treats, are you?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"gus is surprised by the continued lack of treats by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514553600\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8004\/7514553600_a649649d56_z.jpg\" alt=\"gus is surprised by the continued lack of treats\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t even know what to say to this. Betsy&#8217;s so mad about the lack of treats that she&#8217;s thinking about leaving right through the front door. Look what you&#8217;ve done to her, dad! All because you didn&#8217;t give us treats!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"gus has had enough of this by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514554296\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8164\/7514554296_0d856a1336_z.jpg\" alt=\"gus has had enough of this\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a disgrace. I&#8217;m out of here&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"trying their luck at treat begging on the other side of the kitchen by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514555032\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7134\/7514555032_9d71f0b0c9_z.jpg\" alt=\"trying their luck at treat begging on the other side of the kitchen\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;No, wait, maybe we&#8217;ll have better luck from the other side of the kitchen. Hi dad! Did you miss us? I know it&#8217;s only been like 10 seconds, but&#8230; GIVE US TREATS!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"this time betsy takes the lead in begging for treats by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514555818\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8429\/7514555818_e3085ecaff_z.jpg\" alt=\"this time betsy takes the lead in begging for treats\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You tell him, Betsy. Give him&#8230; THE STARE.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"betsy in a staring contest with the camera by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514557330\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7274\/7514557330_f88ab165f4_z.jpg\" alt=\"betsy in a staring contest with the camera\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;The stare isn&#8217;t working, is it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"betsy gives up by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514558338\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8143\/7514558338_13593b3b1e_z.jpg\" alt=\"betsy gives up\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even Betsy is shocked by this outrageous lack of treats dispensed on our command.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"gus does some self-grooming by Keithius, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/7514559110\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7248\/7514559110_deac338616_z.jpg\" alt=\"gus does some self-grooming\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, dad, you&#8217;re in my bad book now. I&#8217;m going to ignore you and your stupid camera and just groom myself to take my mind off of how horrible it is that you didn&#8217;t give us treats when we demanded it (for the 10th time this morning). Just who do you think you are, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Harumph.<\/p>\n<p>-Gus<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1396\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2012\/05\/05\/were-still-here-3\/gus-portrait\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/gus-portrait.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"128,96\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"gus portrait\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/gus-portrait.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1396\" title=\"gus portrait\" src=\"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/gus-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"96\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dad (and mum) say we beg for treats too much. But they&#8217;re wrong &#8211; we don&#8217;t beg for treats&#8230; we DEMAND treats! And sometimes, just to liven things up, we make our demands from the other side of the kitchen (to keep mum and dad on their toes). C&#8217;mon dad, put the camera down and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[9,11,10,20],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-life","category-pictures","tag-betsy","tag-bunny-behavior","tag-gus","tag-treats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piorD-mX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}