The Zen Of The Happy Bunny

[bloodyrosemccoy]

It’s Monday, dudes! I do, in fact, hate Mondays—I have to get up at a reasonable hour and work at both my jobs. So I offer you a few minutes of zen on this particular Monday, in the form of happy bunnies!

When bunnies are happy, they may have an almost literal spastic moment—launching into the air and maybe twisting and running around in circles. I refer to it as the Happy Bunny Dance, but it’s formally known as a “binky.”* It’s the cutest dang thing in the world.

Truth be told, after having owned a mini lop, I’ve got to say that the normal kind of bunny ears look very strange to me. The default rabbit, in my head, has droopy long ears that may hit the floor, leaving plenty of room on top for a bunny fauxhawk. Plus, mini lops are the greatest kind of rabbit because they are laid-back, amiable, and inquisitive, and also they are fluffy. And when they lope along their ears kind of flop with every step.

And if anything can get me smiling on a Monday, it’s the thought of rabbits. Embrace the zen of the happy bunny. You won’t regret it.


*Look, it’s hard to be formal about a move like that. It’s actually just hard to be formal about an animal that routinely has to eat its food twice because it didn’t digest it enough the first time.

Comments

[wendyzski.livejournal.com]

I've had Pepper (lop mix) for almost 4 years now. Uppy-eared bunnies look pointy-faced and nervous to me now.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Exactly--they always look a little startled. Also, their ears are so tiny. It's like they got 'em caught ina pencil sharpener or something.

[westrider.livejournal.com]

Soooo cute!

Although I actually find the cat in your Icon cuter. Pretty much nothing tops cats for me :) I need to go watch those clips again.

And add me to the droopy-ear bandwagon as well. We had Rabbits when I was a kid, and they were all lops, so to me that's just what rabbits should look like.

[nobleplatypus]

Man. Now I miss my old bunneh.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

My feelings exactly. Oh, Huck, those were good years ...

What was your bunny like?

[dandelion-diva.livejournal.com]

Utterly adorable. I am now dead of cute. :)

[viizou.livejournal.com]

Awww, that reminds me of when my bunny Q-Tip was a baby. She used to run and jump everywhere! She's old now, so these days she only moves like that when something spooks her. Still, it's good to know she can still knock over a bulletin board and get to the other side of the room before it hits the ground... And she still does that spastic thing whenever she's in a good mood. :-)

Lops do seem to be more relaxed than "regular" bunnies, don't they? Q-Tip (a "regular") has always been, and will always be, a bitey ball of nerves on most days.