The Great Belgium Waffle Quest continues...

Sure the capital has 24-hour waffle shops. They'll roll their eyes and take your tourist Euros, handing you crazed breakfast heathens a waffle at nine in the morning. But out in the towns and villages of authentic Belgium, waffles aren't served until 11:30.

This is how the zombie apocalypse begins.

Okay, first off let's be serious for a moment:

The Chernobyl explosion was a horrific disaster that could have rendered the entirety of Europe uninhabitable. Thousands of people died (some of them slower than others) and millions were affected. There's a lot of really important things to unpack in the history of what happened, why it occurred, what people did about it, and how it impacts the world today.

However, putting that aside for a moment:

Check out this cool lady bug that hitched a ride out of the exclusion zone in my backpack!

It can't be too radioactive, we passed through two rounds of military controlled checkpoints on our way out. People, and vehicles (including interiors) are scanned for radiation before they're allowed to exit.

Still, if there's an outbreak of mutant insects across Europe you know who to blame.

Stow away!

Naturally we packed baby carrots
for bunny snacking.

Sadly the real bunnies can't join me on my four week language and cultural tour of Ukraine, but Stunt Bunny is the next best thing!

Thankfully the fluffs are in really good hands. Hopefully they won't have too many wild parties while I'm away.

I'm sure they will be raiding the yard for dandelions plenty though! 

Veterinarians Affairs

What do you call a veterinarian who can only treat one kind of animal?

A DOCTOR!

Okay, for real now though. It's International Women's day, and I want to say thank you to a super special lady in my life, Dr. Hickling! She's so smart and so nice and is even a vegetarian just like me!

It takes a crazy smart homin to be even a regular veterinarian, and finding people who can take care of animalz that aren't a cat or dog is really hard. Dr. Hickling is so amazing she can take care of me and my brother Levi, and your dog or cat, or bird, lizard, guinea pig, snake, turtle... and probably a whole bunch of other animalz too!

It's very important if you're thinking about getting (or already have) a rabbit, to find veterinarians in your city that can take care of us properly. If you live in Winnipeg like us, you can find Dr. Hickling and her team at the Centennial Animal Hospital. Wish her a very fluffy Women's Day from me!

Beelzebub

Rabbit telepathy

I'm pretty sure the bunnies have subtle mind control power.  I decided to take a walk to a local grocery store this afternoon to pick up a bag of chips for movie night. 

I came home with three bags full of fruits and veggies.  No chips. 

I wouldn't normally consider dill and cucumber an exciting snack, but Leviathan's enthusiasm is infectious!

Ask a bunny: Leaps and bounds!

"How fast can bunnies run/jump?"

Way faster than even the fastest hominz! We're actually faster than polar bearz and roadrunnerz.  Zoom zoom! There's lots of different kindz and sizes of bunnyz so some of us are faster than others.  Harez and jackrabbitz are the most fast, sometimes up to 80 kilometers an hour!   I can run about 10 meters in a one second.  That would be more than 35 kilometers in an hour!  But I would never actually run for that long, I'd get really tired. And thirsty. And probably lost. Levi is better at directions than me. What makes us really good at running is how zig zaggy we can be without loosing speed! That helps us win at tag even if the other animalz are faster than us. Beelzebub, Bunnyographer

It depends:  -Are there treats involved? -Does someone want to clip my toenails? -Are we supposed to go to the vet? Then I can easily outrun the humans!  Sometimes they catch me off guard though.  Or use corners to their advantage. Or I'll hide from them in a box - and they'll just pick up the box because they're so much bigger than me. We are very good at jumping!  In some places there are even competitions for rabbit jumping.  It's sort of like the ones with horses, but the hurdles are lower.  Our back legs are strong so rabbits can jump very far in just one hop!  The farthest rabbit jump that people have seen is three meters in a single bound.  Pretty impressive when you think about how short we are! Leviathan, Bunnyologist PS: Let's say maybe you had this tortoise friend right?  And maybe that tortoise was getting teased for not being so good at sports. You might not always try your hardest during a friendly race, you know what I mean?

If you have a rabbit related question feel free email the bunnies directly at bunny.questions@gmail.com!

Ask a Bunny: What-ivores?

"Are rabbits rodents?"

Nope! Lots of the mammals that can't fly are rodents, but bunnyz and hominz aren't. Rabbits are a very special kind of critter that scientist call Lagomorpha. Which probably means we're related to wearwolfs (I'm just guessing on that part). Chinchillas are totally rodents though, and clearly not as great as bunnies. Beelzebub, Bunnyographer

We used to be. We didn't change, science changed - 'cause that's how learning works. Some humans used to think Pluto was a planet - ha! Anyway... Rabbits have different teeth than rodents, mostly on account of being herbivores.  (Okay so there was that one time I swallowed a bug by accident.) The point, is most rodents like to eat meat and bunnies don't. Leviathan, Bunnyologist

If you have a rabbit related question feel free email the bunnies directly at bunny.questions@gmail.com!