It's.........Banana time!
Mood:  mischievious
Now Playing: Tears for Fears
Topic: Rabbits

Can't touch this!

Sorry, but I had MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This" running through my head yesterday when I was feeding the rabbits due to the silliness of the situation.

Some rabbits don't like bananas. They will give a piece of banana a sniff, and then turn around and go to the other end of the cage. Some think it's an o.k. treat, and others are practically in heaven with this special treat.

The ones that love it, really love it. In fact, they do something I call "the butt twitch". They are so happy eating banana, that their hind end muscles contract and their back end looks like it's twitching! It is really one of the funniest things about raising rabbits to see their butts twitching over some favorite food!

Back when I had a house trained angora rabbit named Jolson, his favorite foods were rice, cooked pasta, macadamia nuts (yes, my father used to buy whole jars of them JUST FOR JOLSON!), watermelon and bananas. Jolson never failed to show his appreciation to these "treats" (which were almost daily!) by butt twitching. But Jolson was no ordinary rabbit either. He spent his nights sleeping on my bed (with a litter box at one end), had a whole family room to play in when we were home, and used to travel with me almost every time I had to take longs trips. Jolson is the reason today that I have angora rabbits as I fell in love with him so many years ago, and he remains my favorite rabbit. He was so smart, that whenever we were cooking any type of pasta or rice, he grab his treat dish, which was a mayonnaise jar lid, bring it over to the doorway of the kitchen, and toss the lid into the kitchen to "remind" us that he was expecting some of what we were going to eat. This never failed. He either had an excellent sense of smell, or an uncanny ability to know just what we were cooking. Either way, Jolson was always given a lid full of what he wanted. And so show his appreciation, he'd sit there eating, with his butt twitching.

Jolson lived to be over 8 years old. and it was Jolson who gave me my love for angora rabbits. And while I no longer have a very spoiled little house trained rabbit, I do have a barn of some lovely animals, who provide wonderful fur for me, and lots of love.