Comments on: Bunnyjump

Bunnyjump

joannemerriam — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:45:30 -0800

The Ultimate Binky Video

Contains a number of shots I wouldn't consider binkying (like jumping up on a couch) but still, 4 minutes of bunny awesomeness.

By: tommasz

tommasz — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:56:56 -0800

It's hard to keep a straight face when you say the word binky. But there's no mistaking the emotion.

By: greenhornet

greenhornet — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:57:59 -0800

Slightly freaked out by the music. More freaked out by all the rabbit droppings that would be on the carpet. I need to go and vacuum.

By: WinnipegDragon

WinnipegDragon — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:59:11 -0800

Cripes people, you can litter train your rabbits! Some of those videos look like an explosion at a raisin factory.

By: NiteMayr

NiteMayr — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:00:35 -0800

Eeewww Dirty, Dirty, dirty. Perhaps people are blind to how nasty their life has become when they refer to hopping as a "binky" ?

By: dhalgren

dhalgren — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:03:11 -0800

Context is helpful when sharing your interests with others.

By: Thorzdad

Thorzdad — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:05:51 -0800

I thought this was going to be about this clown. Shout-out to my old golfing buddy Thom!

By: Naberius

Naberius — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:08:05 -0800

No, no, certainly not. That's um... caviar.

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:09:09 -0800

Context is helpful when sharing your interests with others. Or you could read the description under the video...

By: gurple

gurple — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:09:09 -0800

No, these are binkies.

By: IvoShandor

IvoShandor — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:12:44 -0800

Or you could read the description under the video... Unless you are a MeFi member and you watch it in the pop up window, which I did. The context was helpful for me, and I suspect other MeFites were helped by it as well. -1 internets to you.

By: louche mustachio

louche mustachio — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:20:21 -0800

I had no idea that behavior was referred to as "binkies." But it's delightful to observe, especially when there are toys involved. Does throwing a cardbord tube up in the air, dancing a little jig around it when it falls, and then throwing it in the air again count as "binkies?" Then yes, I have seen hella binkies.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:23:45 -0800

There is indeed an awful lot of shit on that carpet, and a lot of it looks rubbed in. Gross.

By: loquacious

loquacious — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:26:07 -0800

A couple of days ago I met a rabbit on the bus. It was out of his carrier, not on a leash and just sedately curled up on his owners chest and shoulder, warily watching the rest of the bus patrons. It was actually rather astounding. Rabbits are usually so inherently skittish and quick to startle I can't imagine having one on a bus. That would just be asking for rabbit panic. Nah, he just chilled out. Apparently he was very well cared for and trained.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:33:35 -0800

Did it take a wrong turn at Albuquerque?

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:36:10 -0800

Binky

By: jwhite1979

jwhite1979 — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:38:35 -0800

I'm not very observant. I totally missed the rabbit droppings because I was being filled with cheer. Now I have to have a rabbit that looks like Huxley.

By: Horselover Phattie

Horselover Phattie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:39:22 -0800

There's something kind of odd about having the technology to share video with the entire world but simultaneously living in a house surrounded by varmint shit.

By: quin

quin — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:40:19 -0800

I've watched our rabbit do this many times, and I've always assumed that, in addition to it being fun, it was the prey animal equivalent of a cat stalking a toy mouse. The cat is practicing hunting, the rabbit is practicing getting away, hence the giant jumps and random direction changes. As an added bonus, this kind of behavior completely freaks out pet cats and dogs who live in the same house. I'm not sure what they think is happening, but a bit of bunny parkour and all the other pets tend to get hidden. Also, it's just my feeling, but I think that there is a distinct lack of Pale Discworld horses in a post with "Binky" as a tag

By: Horselover Phattie

Horselover Phattie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:40:25 -0800

> I totally missed the rabbit droppings because I was being filled with cheer. Joy needn't preclude seeing shit everywhere. I learned that from a zen master.

By: pernoctalian

pernoctalian — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:46:04 -0800

-Are you good? (jumps) -Yes, I am good. I just said I was. (jumps) -No you didn't. I said I was. (jumps) -So you are a rabbit. (jumps) -No, I am not a rabbit. I am a unicorn. (jumps)

By: not_on_display

not_on_display — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:00:19 -0800

The Binky Song

By: jwhite1979

jwhite1979 — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:01:26 -0800

> I totally missed the rabbit droppings because I was being filled with cheer. Joy needn't preclude seeing shit everywhere. I learned that from a zen master. I'm dogged by my Christian upbringing. Suppress, repress, deny. Repeat.

By: [insert clever name here]

[insert clever name here] — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:03:49 -0800

Jesus people, its rabbit poo, not some toxic substance. Rabbit shit is dry and odorless. Just sweep or vacuum up when they're done playing, its not that terrible. Also, rabbit that are fixed are less likely to go outside the litter box.

By: titus-g

titus-g — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:12:19 -0800

Quite a handy thread for playing spot the townies, though. If you think that's bad you really don't want to see the sort of mess pet (orphaned) lambs can make of a floor... Rabbit piss is actually far more hassle to clean up than the wee, it's full of calcium. Good for indigestion though....

By: titus-g

titus-g — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:13:31 -0800

s/ wee/ poo/

By: Horselover Phattie

Horselover Phattie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:15:11 -0800

> Good for indigestion though... Wait, you drink rabbit urine if you have indigestion? "Townies" are the only weirdos who keep rabbits inside. True country folk keep them outside. And slaughter them and sell their hides and meat.

By: titus-g

titus-g — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:23:48 -0800

Well no, that was just speculation :D I assume the 'them' that true country folk keep outside refers back to 'Townies', there's just no real market for rabbit hides these days...

By: Horselover Phattie

Horselover Phattie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:30:22 -0800

True country folk do their own version of the binky when they skin a townie.

By: NorthernAutumn

NorthernAutumn — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:36:06 -0800

The REAL "Energizer Bunny" Epic bunny binkies :)

By: Horselover Phattie

Horselover Phattie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:39:12 -0800

Anti-binky

By: titus-g

titus-g — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:45:39 -0800

Speaking from experience (trying to catch a load of young ones from a pet/wild rabbit mating that had taken up residence in the stud walls of a shed before the cats got them all), real rabbit screams are actually way worse than that. Ergh, and I really shouldn't have looked that up on youtube...

By: titus-g

titus-g — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:13:34 -0800

Back on a lighter note here's a vid of our rabbit being brow-beaten into binkying by the SO. And, the wee git refusing to eat my copy of Atlas Shrugged. (rather worried about posting that as the state of the floor might cause more cases of the vapours).

By: clavicle

clavicle — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:31:46 -0800

If you think that's a lot of rabbit shit right there? Respectfully, you don't know from rabbit shit. My two can crank out that many droppings in twenty minutes flat, and this person has four bunnies. I will lay money that carpet isn't where they spend all their time, and they have litter boxes somewhere else, possibly in a pen where they hang out during the day. (And some are more trainable than others. I have a boy rabbit who looks like Huxley and has fine litterbox habits, and a girl who looks like Monk and is just an unstoppable shit machine. The world is hers and she will shit on it as she pleases.) louche mustachio, the throwing things and dancing isn't the same as binkying, but falls into the same category: they play for stress relief. Some play more than others, but on the whole, bunnies have evolved play instincts to help keep from giving themselves heart attacks. (As you might if things were always trying to eat you.)

By: Trivia Newton John

Trivia Newton John — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:02:21 -0800

... there's just no real market for rabbit hides these days. 10 - 14 rabbits per Akubra hat

By: titus-g

titus-g — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:14:58 -0800

But why would anyone by those when they could get one of these http://realdealbrazil.com/recycledtarphats.asp instead?

By: titus-g

titus-g — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:27:23 -0800

(OK, occurs to I'm on kinda thin ice with that one, as I'm wearing a Borsalino fedora in my profile pic here, and they might be slightly made of rabbits).

By: Windopaene

Windopaene — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:19:14 -0800

Pets or Meat...

By: Horselover Phattie

Horselover Phattie — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:24:31 -0800

Why choose? Cuddle your dinner!

By: hatefull

hatefull — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:56:05 -0800

looks like you got a serious shortage of hawks

By: i feel possessed

i feel possessed — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:46:17 -0800

Just curious - do people come into cat posts and talk about killing or eating cats? Dogs? Is it okay to come into a puppy post and talk about killing and eating puppies? Then why is it okay to come into a thread about pet rabbits and start talking about killing them and eating them? I could understand if this were a rabbits-for-meat or factory farming post, but it isn't. If you don't like the thought of your cats and your dogs being killed for sport or eaten, maybe you should give the same courtesy to other people's threads about pet rabbits.

By: Horselover Phattie

Horselover Phattie — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:03:52 -0800

People's tasty, tasty pet rabbits.

By: It's Raining Florence Henderson

It's Raining Florence Henderson — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:45:21 -0800

do people come into cat posts and talk about killing or eating cats? Dogs? Is it okay to come into a puppy post and talk about killing and eating puppies? Yes. Also, people.