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rabbit chronicles from japan rabbit chronicles from japan monday december 13 2010 hoppy hates my dance i guess hoppy isn t a fan of my dance floor moves posted by herman at 8 49 pm 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels dance tuesday december 07 2010 so lazy sorry that i haven t updated this blog for so long like hoppy in this picture i ve been quite lazy actually i ve been quite busy the past few weeks but i do need to do a better job of making time for blog writing everything is going reasonably well here hoppy is now nine months old it looks like we are going to leave him unneutered we could not agree on having him neutered so we are going to uh leave things as they are of course that means hoppy is quite aggressive nowadays and quite territorial especially against me lately he has taken a liking to our sofa which comfortably seats two people but has some room for a rabbit as well he likes it so much that he leaves what looks like hundreds of daily droppings and the occasional pee luckily our sofa has removable washable covers i have every reason to believe that those territorial markings are aimed at me if he is on the sofa and i come and sit down to watch some tv hoppy will at best walk over to my side and softly nip me in the leg meaning you re in my space at worst he will lunge attack and attempt to bite me but if my wife sits on the sofa he will come over to her and ask for a head rub or sit next to her it s much worse when i actually try to clean up those droppings we have small brooms and dustpans for that task if he sees me sweeping up his pooh pooh he will immediately run at me with his aggressive grunt that i ve never heard of any other rabbit doing i have to use my quickest reflexes to avoid losing a bit of my skin seriously i can show you scars on my hands that are a result of me being too slow to get out of the way but that s not all for several minutes after that he will literally follow me around the house making sure that i am not sweeping up any more of his showpieces however if my wife is the one cleaning up his pooh all is well hoppy will even sit next to her peacefully watching her sweep up his territorial droppings unbelievable to get more proof that he hates me in particular when my mother in law came over recently we had her a relative stranger sweep up some of his droppings and all was well so basically hoppy has some sort of vendetta against me in particular my solution to this has been to just give hoppy more space away from me i hardly sit on the sofa any more i let my wife clean up all droppings and basically handle all hoppy matters except discipline which my wife gladly leaves to me this approach has probably saved me a few dollars on plastic surgery fees for my hands but more importantly according to advice i ve researched on the internet giving him space may help hoppy to see that i m not after him or his territory and this may lead to him being nicer to me we will see posted by herman at 8 57 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 19 2010 hoppy and pal hoppy with a newfound friend does he look happy or what on a side note this strangely seems similar to a news story making the rounds on japanese news shows the past few days in case you re wondering yes we took the picture before that news story broke posted by herman at 7 27 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday october 17 2010 carrots on the couch mmmm nothing like eating some vegetables while sitting on top of the world baby posted by herman at 8 01 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday september 27 2010 one man s neutering is another man s uh this title is not working a few weeks ago i wrote about how hoppy was behaving violently lately mainly towards me some people commented that we should consider having hoppy neutered to solve some of the problems my wife and i were against it before but we decided that we better take another look at the option after doing some research my wife and i now have opposing opinions about neutering and it seems to be due to cultural differences in thinking i mentioned the nice people that suggested neutering in addition i did some research on the internet browsing mainly american web sites that talk about the benefits of neutering and how it is better for the owner and the rabbit it helps prevent some cancers etc my wife also did some research of her own she consulted a lot of people she s made acquaintances with through her own rabbit blog she does hers in japanese many of them are longtime rabbit lovers and owners and they seem to be unanimous in their opinion about neutering don t do it they say the surgery is highly risky for the rabbit and is just not worth it talk about cultural differences i wonder why there is such a dichotomy between american western and japanese rabbit owners on the subject of neutering i can t prove it but i have a theory as to why there is such a difference perhaps the medical technology is different between japan and my country of birth the united states i had a co worker that had to have her appendix taken out when she was visiting her home in the u s the american doctor did some kind of procedure where he took the appendix out of a small incision in her belly button leaving minimal scars shortly afterward she did a follow up checkup in japan the japanese doctor stared at her small scar in amazement i ve never heard of an appendix being taken out this way before he said it seems that the new and improved way of removing appendices hasn t yet caught on yet here maybe it s the same with having a rabbit neutered maybe in the u s neutering a rabbit has become less risky and a more viable option while here in japan it is still risky for the rabbit posted by herman at 7 45 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday september 26 2010 owie sorry for the blurry picture this is the best that we could do with our small point and shoot digital camera this is a picture of what looks like a red sore the size of a penny on the bottom of hoppy s back foot it looks like very bad carpet burn or something we didn t know that it was there until we went to the vet yesterday my wife was worried about hoppy because he didn t eat his grass on friday and early saturday morning we went to the vet and during his checkup he pulled back the hair on hoppy s foot and discovered what in japanese is called a soahokku i have no idea what the translation is i looked it up in all the japanese english dictionaries i have access to but to no avail according to my wife i was in the waiting room during the checkup the vet said that soahokku happens when a rabbit spends too much time on a flat floor the vet said that he needs to spend more time on floors with ridges something uneven that the rabbit can grip we have a large rug in the living room and our computer room is covered with carpet but otherwise our condo has smooth wooden floors i don t know if the wooden floors may have given him soahokku but it sounded like the vet was suggesting a radical change in our condominium floors with ridges what does that mean are we supposed to replace our wooden floors does the vet know how much that costs it s all confusing to me but that s beside the point poor hoppy has a bad sore on his foot for his part it doesn t seem to bother him he hops around like usual he shows no pain which goes along with what i ve heard about rabbits that they hide their pain but i hope he gets better soon posted by herman at 9 03 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday september 15 2010 relax time finally after a hard day of hopping around and eating grass i m giving myself some me time posted by herman at 9 23 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels relax saturday september 04 2010 can t we both just get along i m sorry i haven t written much here the last week or so to be honest hoppy and i haven t been on the best of terms lately need evidence here it is yep that s a rabbit bite on my hand yeah it s not bad it ll heal properly but when a rabbit draws blood there s something going on in my opinion this bite was placed on my hand last night hoppy was on the couch with my wife who was watching tv being a teenager he s six months old which is around 16 17 years old in human years he s become quite territorial and he wants to claim the couch as his own how does he do that he leaves a pile of poop on the couch of course rabbit poop is small and hard like cocoa puffs and it can be cleaned up very easily that is what i proceeded to do as i grabbed our hand broom and dustpan and made my way to the mess what i didn t notice at the time was that hoppy was busy courting my wife lately hoppy has had uh a big crush on her and i m in the way usually when he s courting and i come around he ll stare at me like get away man he thinks i m trying to steal his girl if i try to pet him he ll nip my hand a little just to tell me he s busy and please leave him alone but he never attacked me before like he did last night anyway back to the story i went over to the couch to clean up his droppings and hoppy was right next to his mess courting my wife not paying any attention to him i tried to sweep up his poop and suddenly he lunged forward at me and bit my hand with such might that when i pulled my hand back in surprise i actually took hoppy with me he was hanging in the air his teeth still firmly placed in the base of my thumb luckily he wasn t hurt last night was the result of a buildup of distrust i think over the last month or two since he hit puberty this is probably because of two reasons 1 i m competing with him for my wife as i mentioned above and 2 i m the strict parent i m the one that punishes him when he does something wrong for example he likes to pick and dig at our carpet it used to be just the edges but we hid those then he moved to the middle of the room and began to pick there pulling up strings and sometimes leaving small holes in the process we tried the positive approach trying to give him toys and other things he can dig and pick at but that didn t work so we had to start punishing him of course you can t scold a rabbit like you can a dog or a cat and you definitely cannot hit a rabbit what you have to do is find something humane that he doesn t like and do it when he does something wrong for example some people use a spray bottle and spray water at their rabbit as for me i pick hoppy up and hold him in my arms hoppy hates to be picked up perfect i thought so that s what i do and usually it works but i think hoppy hates me now because of that whatever the reasons we are going to have to find a way to coexist together in this house because neither one of us are going away posted by herman at 10 05 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels trouble saturday august 28 2010 hey hey i m walking not totally sure why but hoppy likes to go for a walk on our 6th floor hallway early in the morning and my wife enjoys taking him everyday i suggested going to one of the tiny parks down the street instead since the hallway is basically bare with seemingly nothing to interest a rabbit except grime from nearby factories and dead cicadas she basically told me i was crazy noting that some websites warn of some poisonous grasses or other plants that bunnies should stay away from so that s that as for hoppy he doesn t mind one bit it s hard to tell from these pictures but the little dude flies up and down the hallway and sometimes up or down the stairs to other floors heh i guess this is one thing about the hallway that would interest a rabbit even animals enjoy looking at the dawn sky huh posted by herman at 9 10 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels action friday august 20 2010 pyong or boing in english hoppy having a bit of fun and exercise in our living room this week posted by herman at 5 06 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels action older posts home subscribe to posts atom herman s blog my chronicles from japan about me herman view my complete profile followers visitors from around the world blog archive 2010 20 december 2 hoppy hates my dance so lazy october 2 september 4 august 9 july 3 simple theme theme images by gaffera powered by blogger