Cocoa's Birthday

This Saturday (tomorrow) is the birthday we gave Cocoa. We got her on January 6th, 2013 when she was ten weeks old. We counted back the weeks and decided October 26th is the perfect day (it also happens to be my older brother's birthday so it's even easy to remember).

For those of you who haven't been following, Cocoa is our rabbit. She's a chocolate brown (obviously) Mini Rex. She lives in our third floor, the loft. She is fenced in an area and always has access to this area. We only lock her in her cage for time outs and when we didn't trust her in the beginning, we would put her in there at night. Before she got spayed, she had a really bad habit of running around too excited and she'd jump up to binky (what it's called when rabbits click their heels together for joy) and she'd end up over the fence. We have modified her fence several times and it is now 3 feet tall. She could still get over it if she wanted to but she hasn't had an incident she was spayed back in May.

When we first got her, she was young enough that she didn't even have whiskers! She's grown too but since her breed is a mini anyway, she's not all that big now. She is actually pretty well trained. She knows where to go if she wants to be pet (because her fence is so high, we can't reach her everywhere to pet. And now that I'm pregnant, I can barely reach her on her petting spots anyway because my belly doesn't let me lean over that far.) She generally goes in her litter box but we have found poop in other places. She loves to dig out her litter box too (dirty or clean) and we aren't sure how to correct this but we try.

She does come out of her area sometimes but it's only when we take her out (she doesn't naturally have access to the outside) and it's usually to cut her nails. She does come out some other times just for fun so she doesn't associate leaving her area with getting her nails cut. Sometimes she's pretty good about letting us cut her nails and sometimes she's pretty squirmy and hides her feet.

Anyway, that is Cocoa. She is cute and one year old! For those of you curious, rabbits typically live 10-15 years so she's still a baby.