Bunny Wars - and I SO have a cold!!!

Okay.

A bunny can't spend ALL her waking hours in a CAGE, right?!?!?!?!
Duh.
So, we obviously let Blackberry out to play all the time, usually twice a day, and to find a creative outlet for her insane hopping energy, we usually choose one room, block off the doorway to the other rooms (You see, our house is very open and airy-there aren't a lot of doors on the first floor, only doorways), and lay out fun little toys for her - a tunnel made of cardboard boxes, plastic balls, cardboard tubes, etc. It's a very fun time for people and bunnies alike, right?

Wrong.

At least, not anymore.
You see, recently, Blackberry decided she wanted to start escaping to under:


- Beds
- Couches
- Armchairs
- Pianos
- Sideboards
- Dressers

and many other equally annoying places that are  a) Hard to get her out of
and  b) No fun because she's hiding under a bed the whole time.
So the solution to that was obvious - "We can block it up with pillows! That'll be easy AND effective!"
But it's never that easy, is it?
Let's just say that because rabbits can compress themselves down until they only take up half a square inch of room and then squeeze into ANY SPACE THEY WANT, the pillows weren't actually a satisfactory solution.
So we started using more and more stuff to block up the spaces until the formula for keeping Blackberry where she was supposed be went something like this:

1 pillow, 1 blanket, 2 books = each sq. foot of blockaide space.

TOTALLY  annoying, right??

Well, we finally discovered a good way to keep Blackberry out from under the furniture, but then she decided she wanted to explore other rooms - the more electrocution hazards, the better! So we had to invent more effective doorway blockaids, which usually include some combination of trash cans, laundry baskets, book baskets, tote bags, bed pillows, couch pillows, blankets, and loose books, usually about four feet high.

Guess how high a teeny baby bunny can jump?


You got it.
So anyway, now we usually just use our pillows-under-the-couch technique  and let her run all over the first floor, like today.
So the lesson for today?
NEVER underestimate bunny power.

P.S.  You know how I said I totally have a cold?
Well, I find that when you wake up and your breathing makes it sound like your lungs got replaced by a buzz saw, you're probably going to have a bad day.

I'm so evil right now!!