The Montana Bunnies Arrive!

What has six floppy ears and hopped a plane to Ohio today?  Three gorgeous Holland Lops from Luv Lops rabbitry in Montana!  After months of drooling over their stunning bunnies and several more months waiting for a trio to become available, I finally have three amazing Luv Lops to help my herd in so many ways!  I am incredibly grateful to Rachel and Deb from Luv Lops for this opportunity, and I really hope to make them proud of their decision to sell to me!

The bunnies' journey began with an early (and I mean EARLY) morning arrival at the Montana airport, all snuggled into their very carefully secured shipping crate.  After a brief siesta in Denver, they hopped another United flight to Cleveland Hopkins.  You better believe that I stalked these flights like a ninja all day long on my computer!  Mid-afternoon, we picked up the kids a bit early from school and headed to CLE, giddy with anticipation.

Unlike the time I had bunnies flown in last summer, this United flight arrived promptly, and the bunnies were waiting for pickup in the cargo area.  After a few chuckles from the airport employees about having shipped rabbits (doesn't everyone fly rodents across the US?), we headed out and took a quick peak at the bunnies before heading home.  (OK, so maybe I stopped at TJ Maxx AND Olive Garden for a quick never-ending pasta bowl, but then it was straight home).  By now, the normally dismal Ohio weather had turned into a total sleet blizzard, so the trek home was more than just depressingly dark at 5:30pm.

We arrived home, and I got my first real glimpse at each of the bunnies.  Emmy's rich blue coat immediately caught my eye along with Kaylee's massive orange presence - what a doe!  Timmy looked like a shy teddy bear with an enormously cute head, and while I really wanted to cuddle him, I didn't want to add additional stress to the poor fellow, so all three went into their brand new cages alongside Anna, Ruby, and Envy.  

I quietly observed each bunny.  Kaylee seemed the most timid and just pretended to be a meatloaf in the corner of her cage for a while before finding her crock of reverse osmosis water and slurping it down like bunny Kool-Aid.  Emmy attacked her toilet paper tube of 3rd cutting hay like it was bunny crack - that girl can eat!  Timmy pretended that he didn't notice me, but I couldn't resist petting him just a little, and he didn't seem to mind.  Then he proceeded to test his hay and check out the hot does who surrounded him (what a lucky guy...but there's no getting lucky tonight, Timmy).

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