Mr. Binky and the great escape

Life with Bennett has been good. Now that he's using the litter box consistently, he's been a lot easier to take care of - now I only have to clean the litter box every day, and not the whole cage. He's really seeming to finally setting in with us. A few days ago, he started "binky"-ing during his play time with me. I'm glad that I knew what a binky was before he started doing it because I would have been concerned about his neurological health otherwise. A binky is when a bunny jumps straight up in mid air and does a 180 degree turn while in the air. Also, it could mean running along and kicking their heels up. Some people call it dancing, whatever you want to call it, it's hysterically funny to watch. Basically, in bunny language it means that I'm really really happy right now. It's very cute and very endearing. He's been doing it consistently when we play now, so I thing that's a good sign that he's liking living with us. He's been definitely bulking up muscle-wise, which is really good. He can hop from the ground into his cage in one leap and we've opened up his play area a bit and he's ben loving the extra space, especially to binky in. Yesterday, he binkied all the way across the room and into his cage and then looked around like how did I get in here?

Even I've been benefiting from having Bennett around, other than the rewarding company and the feeling good about taking care of him. I've lost a little weight chasing after him, taking care of him and with all the funny I have with him. I'm definitely gaining muscle right with Bennett. :)

A few days ago, my mom and my little brother, Nate, came over for dessert since we had miss our traditional sunday night dinner with them, and they wanted to meet Bennett. So, after I had fed him his evening meal and played around with him for a little bit before dinner, I left the light on in the room (since we were going to go back in there in a little bit) and thankfully, Laurie closed the door behind us. When we went back into the room to get him out of his cage and show him off, when the door opened, he hopped out from under the chair towards me. Yes, he body-checked the cage door and it gave way, letting him free in the room. I'm sooooo glad that Laurie closed the door behind us because he could have been anywhere otherwise. As it was, he didn't reek too much terror. He peed in one spot that we found but that was about it other than turning over his carrier and a litter box and pretty much anything that could be turned over. So, we're doing major cleaning in his room right now, while Bennett and I hang outside. We were really relieved that he hadn't chewed on any of the cords that are in that room. The one kind of bad thing that resulted from his little outing was that the next day, when we were playing, he thought that he could go anywhere he wanted, so we had a little disagreement about where he was allowed to go. He's back to being a good, happy, binky bunny now though. Although, now we are locking the cage door with a suitcase lock so he can't body-check it open again.

Well, it's nearly lunchtime now and someone keeps nudging me for attention, so I'm off. I'm hoping to take some new pictures soon and I still need to take pictures of what I got for Christmas!