Friday 6 July 2007

rabbit!

A diary of poppy october 2006

Tuesday

Today wasn’t too bad the only noticeable thing was that she is still not pooing in her 2 litter trays! Poppy preferring the brown rug I have in the middle of the living room floor. And as the rug is exactly the same colour as the poo, it can be very difficult to make sure you have picked them all up.

Every time you walk in the house you have to watch your step so as not step on either the cat, (that’s another story) rabbit or poo!

I have put the tray on her favourite place but then she goes so close to it that she must try to nudge it out of the way. And that’s not it, her multicoloured rabbit pee has turned my light coloured carpet into a fair version of josephs multi coloured dream coat (although I wish it was a dream).

I have this evening bleached the rug and cleaned it so we shall see what happens next....


Wednesday morning

War has been engaged! When got up this morning there was a little line of poo in roughly the favourite place! I shall have a think....


Friday

Why didn’t anyone tell me about the malting? I started to stroke poppy and within seconds there was a fog of rabbit fur surrounding us! I bought a cat brush thinking this would get rid of a lot of the fur. Well maybe it would if I used it 24 hours a day! Any ideas? Am thinking I need some sort of industrial sucking machine to sit poppy under for a couple of days until she is bald, then that would solve the problem. Its fine fluffy fur, I thought the cat’s fur was bad enough when he malted but its nothing like this! Lately I have been coughing up more fur balls than either of them. Is there anything I can do?
Please save me from my furry hell....


Monday

Ok since last writing, poppy has now changed her favourite place to poop. She now does it directly next to the litter tray. I tried moving the tray to different area but she likes it there! And I did try putting the tray on top of the area she loves so much.

You know it was quite funny watching her physically moving the tray back to its rightful place. It took a couple of goes though. She tipped it over once that wasn’t pretty! Poppy with poop all over. Yeuch. Lucky my kitchen has tiles. Poppy has been spayed and has been fully trained before, but we moved house. Now we have come back again, she is really throwing her weight around.

The area where she is pooing is by a door, so I am thinking it’s something to do with marking an entrance way into her burrow kind of thing. Although I think she has picked a burrow way too big (the living room). She does actually pee in the tray, will specifically go pee in the tray, then jump out as loudly as she can so everyone in the building knows where she is and we know rabbits can be loud when they want to be! Even without making a noise!!! And then she poos before carrying on, unbelievable, It makes for a delayed door opening routine when somebody knocks. My first steps are to you know where and I have a quick pick up of poo before heading to the door. I try not to shake hands or hug anyone but sometimes you don’t want to be rude, so you just have to! I’m sorry everyone.

Anyway the other big thing that happened recently in poppy’s life was we got another rabbit. Needless to say it didn’t work out. I used to think that poppy was the cutest, cuddliest, sweetest rabbit that you ever knew. We all do don’t we? Well not when the new rabbit was in the room, she turned into an even nastier version of Wallace and Gromit’s were rabbit! It’s a brilliant film! I first watched it the day after I got poppy. I didn’t sleep for a week and of course my so called friends thought it was really funny! Anyway after a while of separation and the usual introducing things you are told to do, She still hated the new arrival and it being a young fit nubile gorgeous rabbit that everybody oohed and aahed over, probably didn’t help. Well we figured it was just never going to work. So we got rid, I was so sad but poppy is my little “cootey wootey pie” so what could I do?

steven seagal

STEVEN
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piritualist Eco warrior Actor Guitarist Aikido 7th Dan Liar?
By Christine Robins

Will the real Steven Seagal please stand up! It’s all in the name! Who is the real man? Does even he know the truth? Some of the lines seem to have been a blurred over the years, by him saying some things, his mother saying others and anyone who’s anyone putting their 2 cents in too. Who knows?

He is an actor of Jewish and Catholic Irish descent. Though he adds Italian in as well. He was born in Michigan and then moved to California. He lived in Japan married there, forgot to get a divorce before marrying his second wife in L.A. He became a 7th Dan in Aikido and was the first westerner to teach it in Japan.

He went back to The United States taught Aikido and through that, met some people who helped him become one of the biggest names in action movies. He married again to beautiful actress Kelly LeBrock and altogether had 6 children with 3 different mothers. He has also been the guardian of a Tibetan child.

Throughout all this he had always played the guitar, found Buddhism, became an eco warrior and a vegetarian whilst helping several animal charities. He became known as an activist and was awarded the PETA Humanitarian Award in 1999. (People for the ethical treatment of animals) In more recent years Mr Seagal has concentrated on his Buddhism, charity work and his music. Since 2005 he has released 2 albums with his band Thunderbox. The first “Songs from the Crystal Cave” and more recently “Mojo Priest.” He has always loved music and is an excellent guitarist. He has adopted several dogs and cats and has released an energy drink called “Steven Seagals’ Lightening Bolt”

This much we know to be true but its all the other bits and pieces that no one can be sure about.
Fiction? There are rumours of involvement with the Japanese Mafia and the New York Mafia. His business partner for many years was actually connected to the “Gambino Family” and tried to sue Seagal for a very large amount of money that he said he was owed, But instead he got himself charged with “Conspiracy to Commit Extortion and Extortion of an Individual in the Entertainment Business”. The story was that the mafia was behind this as Seagal had refused to make any more of the big block buster action packed movies that they so liked and wanted to make money off. Steven has been accused of sexual harassment and not being able to act. He has had many stories told of him and his ego, most of them about his skill in the defensive art of Aikido which is considerable but apparently not infallible! He has also spread stories himself about his involvement with the CIA. Apparently he has helped them as an advisor on several occasions. He has been quoted as saying he is an expert marksman, a superb rider, an authority on antique Samurai swords and can speak four languages.

Who do we believe and does it even matter? Steven Seagal is an icon! He changes his life like a chameleon changes its colour! It may even be for the same reasons as the chameleon, which protects itself by blending in to the back ground. Now that is one thing no one can ever accuse Seagal of doing. But it could be his way of changing with the times and reinventing himself as his tastes and feelings change, to protect himself from us the public and maybe even himself.
Who cares what the truth is? He is and always be our best loved Martial art loving musician with the heart of a warrior helping the world, the animals and the people in it. Who cares how he got there and what he and others said. All that matters is that he keep doing what he does best and that is being Steven Seagal!