I'm utterly unreliable.
This is Cinnabun, and Cinnabun is three months old. We do not yet know if Cinnabun is a boy or a girl, but it is definitely a bunny. I fell in love with Cinnabun when he/she came running up to greet us as we entered the store. I'd never seen a bunny do that - usually they are tolerant of the profuse attention we bestow, but they don't seek it out.
That's all it took, really. That and picking it up and having it fall asleep in my hands. I called our vet and explained the situation, that I had fallen in love with a new bunny and would it be safe to introduce it to our older bunny (who just cost us THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS to neuter, by the way, as if bunny balls were somehow more complicated than a cat's, which usually costs about fifty bucks, but I digress) and they told me that as long as I gave the new bun an initial home of its own rather than plopping it into the middle of Ichabod's established territory, we ought to be fine and the buns should be fast friends in a few weeks or they wouldn't be and Icky would try to kill the new bun.
Well, what more ringing, unequivocal endorsement for buying the bunny than having the vet tell me that things will either be OK or my bunny will die? So I bought him/her.
And a new water bottle/litterbox/assorted treats.
And a new cage, which I purchased in one place but which I had to pick up at another, where I almost came home with the bengal kitten who was ripping up one hand and the chihuahua puppy ripping up the other.
I can't be trusted.
You'll probably be glad to know that Ichabod has not yet killed Cinnabun, but this is probably because we separated them. We let Icky out of his cage and put Cinnabun on the floor and let them run around. Icky's never paid attention to the cats and he paid none to Cinnabun until he realized that Cinnabun was a bun, at which point Icky got twitchy and ran away from him every time he/she got close. Then Icky got twitchier and jumped on Cinnabun, so we put them both in their separate cages, put the cages right next to each other and are hoping for the best. Worst case scenario, we have two buns in separate cages forever. But I'm hoping that Icky will come around as he gets used to Cinnabun and they can move in together and be best friends forever.
Frankly, Cinnabun has a bigger problem with Murmy, who still doesn't understand why he is allowed to rip up rabbit-fur mice toys but not rabbit fur rabbits.
