The place for news, updates, announcements, and water bottle gossip from the Buns and their humans.
Hot Cross Hoppenings
February 22, 2024
We're beginning a new blog post series about bunny behaviors. Today's topic is all about begging.
March 5, 2025
February 26, 2025
Looking for ideas about what to do with all the nuggets your bunny leaves trailing behind or in the litter box? Check out our latest blog post on the All Things Bunny Blog called "A Plethora of Poo Balls."
We had some good news this morning! The practice we use for spays and neuters just let us know they have a competent vet on staff now and we were able to schedule Missy (Mississippi Mud Pie) and Loofah for their procedures. We're always more apprehensive when working with a new vet for bunny care, but hope to be able to recommend her for our other bunny clients in the area. The procedures are in mid-March, so we have some waiting to do. They will remain with us until they have recuperated and then will be available for matching, if all goes well.
February 25, 2025
February 24, 2025
I can't believe it's almost two weeks since our last update. I managed to pick up another bug and was down for several days, so things just weren't getting done. We finally updated all of the younger babies' pictures today. They have grown and changed so much, I barely recognize them. Parcheesi is still the outgoing, curious, playful girl, and Boggle is not far behind. Mancala, Whist, Hopscotch, and Tiddlywinks still tend to be more serious and observant. I'm going to be spending as much time as possible with all of them, to make up for lost time and missed socialization time. Evelyn has done her best, but she also has schoolwork and was determined to keep up with the bunny laundry, so had little time to work with them. We did nail trims yesterday, and pictures today, and they've been responding well to the attention and interaction.
Below are Boggle, Mancala, Whist, Parcheesi, Tiddlywinks, and Hopscotch.
UPDATE: Mancala was placed with a lovely family this evening! We were very surprised that she was so interested and sociable, because she's usually a bit on the shy and reserved side. She is now named Lulu!
Apologies for not posting new pictures today. I have Covid and feel awful. Rummy (Bugz) is going to be with us until Friday,
I promise to respond to emails as soon as I feel semi-human again. Stay healthy, every-bunny.
February 9, 2025
February 8, 2025
I was hoping to get pictures of Quinoa's remaining babies (Tiddlywinks, Hopscotch, and Parcheesi) done today, but will hopefully get them done tomorrow afternoon, instead. Evelyn had some bakery orders to fulfill at our church today, so we spent most of the day over there. It started snowing/sleeting in the afternoon and driving home was not fun, but we made it home, safe and sound. If you're going to be out and about in the greater Cleveland area, please drive safely! We saw several accidents and cars that slid off the road along 480.
We've updated pictures of Rosie's babies and added brief updates to Whist and Boggle's listings. All are doing very well. Rummy (now Bugz) will be going home on Sunday. We're hoping to find loving homes for his sisters, Boggle, Mancala, and Whist, soon.
February 7, 2025
February 6, 2025
My apologies for the lack of updates and pictures the past few days...I'm just in a busy season and am trying to catch up on some work, like clipping Bun nails and trying to figure out other ways of getting the word out about our beautiful does who are waiting to be matched.
I added a blog post today, which is a bit overdue regarding the subject matter, but it was written and ready to publish. :D
Tomorrow will bring updated pictures of Rosie's babies.
Snooker has a new family and home! We were anticipating a long visit with his new family as they met each of the Buns, but after meeting Boggle, Hopscotch, and Snooker, he was declared to be the right Bun. He has been renamed "Waffle" and was happy to go off with his very king and gentle family.
February 2, 2025
February 1, 2025
We just received word that Scrabble has been re-named "Matilda" and is settling in beautifully. She has been very adaptable to the wide range of human personalities among her new family and has loved every one of them in different ways.
We are looking forward to meeting with an approved NBQ family tomorrow afternoon, as they come to meet the available Bun and help them find just the right one to add to their lives.
In the meantime, I'm desperately searching for a washing machine, as ours suddenly stopped working and it's beyond my mechanical skills of repair. I refuse to let go of my beloved Speed Queen top loader, but need to call a service person to try to resurrect it. We need a back up in the meantime. Please pray for us! The mountains of laundry are piling up alarmingly quickly. The bunny laundry alone is going to take two solid days to complete. It's so difficult to find something that's available, affordable, large enough in capacity, and that actually gets the clothes clean. Is anyone else frustrated with washing machine technology? :0
UPDATE...our prayers were answered! We were able to purchase a very nice where/dryer set off of Facebook Market place for a reasonable price. We're climbing Mt. Laundry once again!
While we're preparing for Scrabble to go home with her family this evening, we took the time to make an updated video of Loofah and added it to his Meet the Hot Cross Buns page. We'll add it here, too, for the sake of convenience.
January 30, 2025
UPDATE...Scrabble's new family are absolutely wonderful! We have no doubt that she is going to be a very loved little girl, receiving much affection and attention. They're still trying to land on just the right name for her, and have promised to let us know when they do. We've so enjoyed this sweet, engaging little doe and will miss her. Her siblings will keep us on our toes, however, so we won't have time to miss her too much. <3
January 29, 2025
Today's blog post delves into further detail with Tips and Tricks of Litter Box Training.
If any of our HCB clients who have already been matched with an HCB doe and have already had her spayed is interested in a buck for bonding, we are still looking to place Loofah. Because we haven't been successful in our search for an affordable spay/neuter vet while our regular resource in searching for a new doctor, we will place him with a responsible family or individual who will keep him separated from their doe until he has been neutered and is fully recuperated (about 6-8 weeks post-neuter.) We haven't created a formal listing for him yet, as we don't want to offer him to unknown people who might be searching for a breeding buck.
Loofah is a sweet boy, who is more on the observant side. He loves interaction after adjusting to new activities (it just takes him a few minutes to shift gears.) We love him dearly, but he doesn't have the oomph and stocky build Holland Lops are supposed to have. He's a wee little man and we want to find the very best of homes for him. Please contact us if you would like more information. These photos were taken last week.
You may have noticed that the HCB Shoppe tab has disappeared from the header. We have deactivated the store for the foreseeable future, until I have time to do more crafting. Most of the stuffed animals and baby sweaters were either sold at a church craft sale or added to Operation Christmas Child shoebox gifts in November, and I haven't had much time to catch up on resupplying the HCB Shoppe. I hope that's something that will happen, but it will have to wait while I spend time doing some other home-related projects. If only there were more hours in the day for doing the things we enjoy doing!
If anyone would like to purchase some Bunny Snuggle Mats, please let me know. We still have plenty of those in stock.
January 28, 2025
January 27, 2025
New pictures of the younger babies have been posted on their Available Buns page listings! We can't believe they are 8 weeks old now. Quinoa's babies have had quite the growth spurt over the past week and are so much bigger and sturdier now.
Quinoa's babies - Parcheesi, Tiddlywinks, Scrabble (matched), Hopscotch, and Snooker
Rosie's babies - Boggle, Mancala, Rummy (now named Bugz - matched), Whist
