Bennett's weekend

Well, it would have been very silly to take Bennett with us on the trip up to the cabin this weekend, so he stayed home and our former neighbor took care of him. He's recovering very well from the neutering surgery. The wounds are actually left open, they are very small. The first night, they were bleeding a bit and his hair was sticking into them, which the vet told us we needed to watch. We used some ky jelly as hair gel to keep his leg hair out of that area and it worked really well. We checked the wound again Thursday night and it looked really good and the wound had closed. Really, checking the wound is a two person job, because Bennett really doesn't like to be turned on his belly, so I would hold him close to my leg and lift up one of his back legs and Laurie would take a peek. Because of this, I just had our neighbor check the litter box and his surroundings for blood or pus. When we checked them when we got home, they were still looking good but they were open a little bit. This is probably because we've been letting him hop around like he was before the surgery. He was reeking havoc in his cage locked in there and we thought it would just be better to let him do what he thought he could, that and there was really no stopping him. He did really well at the vet hospital. He charmed them all, they were taking pictures of him and thought he was the cutest rabbit they'd seen, with lots of personality. As far as what he's like post surgery, if he was a lover before the surgery, I'm not sure what you'd call him now... He has really mellowed out and want love all the time (in fact I just had to stop typing because he hopped up into my lap and informed me he needed some love). We used to have psycho bunny at night before bed, but now, all he wants is to play and be petted and snuggled. He starting to disassociate my fingers with treats, so he's not nipping them anymore. He's been hanging out here with me all evening while I've been blogging, alternatively all laid out next to me or hopping around playing or requesting love.

Anyways, he gave no trouble to Eileen really. Friday night, apparently he through a hay party in the room and Eileen was having trouble with the vacuum. I guess she didn't realize that we were out of cell range and tried to send a text to my cell but dialed the cabin phone. I didn't even know you could send text messages to land lines. The message was really garbled because a machine was reading it, and it came from a 602 number, so we were trying to figure out who was trying to reach us. Laurie had answered the phone and she said the only word she understood was vacuum. Eileen got the vacuum working and even though Bennett is afraid of it, she said he was brave. She took a picture of him to show her mom, Terry (who was also our neighbor) and Terry decided she had to come over to see his cuteness in person.

Eileen did a really good job of taking care of him.

In other Bennett news, it seems that over the weekend, he began consistently pooping in the litter box. So, he's doing really well with that. Even when we take him into bed with us to watch Lost, he uses the litter box. I think we'll be having guests at the end of February, so I think he might be graduating to more house room pretty soon (since his domain right now is the guest bedroom). We've been planning on extending his territory once he is very consistently litter box trained. He'll be in about half the house, as we don't really want him to chew up our living room furniture or our dining room furniture (even though he's not a chewer, we want to be better safe than sorry). He will be allowed in the laundry room, both bathrooms, our bedroom, the front entry and of course the guest room.

So here are some pics, the last is of the set we took in the kitchen a little while ago and one was taken through a mirror, so it's not the best quality.