{"id":1779,"date":"2016-09-14T08:19:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/?p=1779"},"modified":"2016-09-14T08:19:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T12:19:35","slug":"the-bunny-area-mk-v","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/2016\/09\/14\/the-bunny-area-mk-v\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bunny Area, Mk V"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"new(est) bunny area\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/29563659442\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c3.staticflickr.com\/9\/8554\/29563659442_d13147e617_z.jpg\" alt=\"new(est) bunny area\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>With new bunnies comes a new bunny area. Even though we are planning on letting them roam freely throughout the house, they still need an area of their own for their food &amp; litterbox. For now, they remain in their area except when let out (under close supervision) &#8211; when they learn not to chew things &amp; get used to the house we&#8217;ll eventually let them out more &amp; more often.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also moved the bunny area up into the sunroom instead of the livingroom &#8211; the tile floor there makes it easier to clean up hay &amp; fur, and these two seem to like it up there. Unlike our previous two bunnies, Delilah &amp; Chuck seem to have no problems with slippery floors.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which, Delilah and Chuck also have no problems with jumping over things &#8211; which is why their area has a screen &#8220;roof&#8221; to it &#8211; both of them jumped out of their area (when I wasn&#8217;t looking) so I had to build something to keep them in.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"bunny gate\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/keithius\/28835096873\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c2.staticflickr.com\/9\/8043\/28835096873_cbf294c298_z.jpg\" alt=\"bunny gate\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I also had to build a gate to keep them out of the rest of the house &#8211; I&#8217;ve only re-bunny-proofed the livingroom so far &#8211; which also had to be quite tall to keep them from just jumping it. Commercial pet gates just don&#8217;t work with bunnies &#8211; they are either too short or have bars that are too widely spaced (bunnies can squeeze through surprisingly tight spaces) &#8211; so again I had to build my own.<\/p>\n<p>So far the buns are quite content with their living arrangements &#8211; they flop and relax frequently and I&#8217;ve even spied them sleeping &amp; doing some happy tooth grinding. Happy buns = happy home!<\/p>\n<p>-Dad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With new bunnies comes a new bunny area. Even though we are planning on letting them roam freely throughout the house, they still need an area of their own for their food &amp; litterbox. For now, they remain in their area except when let out (under close supervision) &#8211; when they learn not to chew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-1779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bunny-life","category-pictures","tag-bunny-area"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piorD-sH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/bunnyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}