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Though Gideon was fascinated with the carpet sweeper and Neutrino kept a respectful distance, Harry attacked it every time I tidied up his droppings in my studio. As the blue beast gobbled up his calling cards, he lunged at the intruder and growled as fiercely as he could.
I couldn’t help but laugh at Harry’s determination to vanquish that invader and drive it from his favourite spots. His attacks and my sidesplitting laughter made the chore take twice as long. Rabbits sure can get protective of their areas.
The bunnies also reacted comically to the vacuum. Gideon was fascinated with it and hoovered every inch of the machine, while Harry tackled it. On the other end of the reaction scale, Zacchaeus and Neutrino just took evasive action whenever the machine zoomed by. Esther never saw the vacuum, since I didn’t feel like lugging it downstairs, and though the carpet sweeper interested her, she never attacked it.
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My rabbits attack the broom. They act like I am comiting the worst crime by removing their precious poops. My Jersey Woolly is not afraid of anything but an empty food bowl but my lionhead stomps and gets angry at it, though she never attacks it, just expresses her outrage.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in college, my mother bought a shampoo extension that could be attached to her vacuum cleaner. She only used it to clean one section of carpet at a time. While she used the machine to apply the shampoo, our tiger-striped cat Howard watched, fascinated, but when Mother switched to hot air mode which made the machine louder, Howard ran the other way.
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