Happy New Year!

  First of all, Happy New Year!!! How did you celebrate the New Year and where did you go? 

My friends and I went to Taipei 101 to watch the firework show. It was gorgeous but it was so cold outside. In fact, it has been freezing cold for several days in Taipei. I am quite worried about my rabbits because they can't stand being too cold since they are older and have weaker immune systems now. Cold weather can easily make them sick. Not only the rabbits, I guess most of you hope the winter goes away soon, right? Anyway, glad that we all survive 2012! Here are some cute pictures and video about Tsau-tsau. Hope they can bring you happiness!  

She looks like a snowball~

↖She is looking to herself on the window♥

Tsau-tsau is curious about the camera and try to lick it!↗
Eating pasture~ Yummy!

Anecdotes about Tsau-tsau

Few weeks ago, I invited my friend to my home. She got very interested in my pets. I show her Ya-ya and then Tsau-tsau. However, Tsau-tsau was in a bad mood that night. We arrived home quite late and bothered her at midnight. She seemed to be totally annoyed by us and behaved aggressively. Thus, she bited me. Not only once, she bited me several times! If I let go, she would immediately pounce on me and leave me a bite that breaks my skin and draws blood. It hurts! She bited without any mercy, trying to threaten me to get out from her territory. I felt quite ashamed because Tsau-tsau show no affection to me at my friend's presence. Yikes! How can she do this to me!!!

Well, Tsau-tsau is cute more often than not.
 I always listen to songs while studying. One day I let Tsau-tsau stay in my room to accompany me. As usual, I turned on the radio. To my surprise, Tsau-tsau obviously liked the song played in the radio! She flopped and hopped and danced to the music in my room. Just like the third vedio shown in my last post. It was pity that I didn't get the time to record how happy Tsau-tsau was..... The very song she liked is "I won't give up" from Jason Mraz.
I recommend this song to you as a representative of Tsau-tsau.

How bunnys express their feeling

Do rabbits have a voice? Some of my friends are curious about this. Actually rabbits don't have voice cords so that they can't really "speak". However, that doesn't mean that they have nothing to say. Rabbits do make some vocalization with their noses or feet to express their feeling. Here are some examples.

Rabbits make that stomping noise because of fear or angry. In this video you can see the rabbit was thumping its back leg, warning the person to back off. In my opinion, it might be angry because it felt someone step in its territory. My rabbits, Tsau-tsau and Ya-ya, sometimes do so as well if  I bother them when they are sleeping.

Rabbits flop when they feel relax and secure!

(You can just watch the first ten seconds of the vedio.)
If rabbits are very happy, they dance around, hop high in the air, and run across the room at high speed. Recently, I found that Tsau-tsau will do that when I sing to her. Maybe she likes it! Ha! Ha!

Hello! I'm Ya-ya!!!

This is Ya-ya!

 He is already 5 years old and is quite old for rabbits because rabbits usually can live for 7-9 years. 

As a naughty boy, He always likes to hop around and then hide under the sofa when he gets tired. If I try to get him out of there, he sometimes will bite me as a reaction. He also like to hide under my bed. That is because rabbits feel secure in dens and places which is narrow and dark, such as the world under a sofa or things like that. For often, I just can't understand why they will feel secure by doing that. But, anyway, it's their natural instinct. 

Just like all rabbits do, He also likes to dig, chew, shred, and arrange. He used to rip out the stuffing from the old sofa, which really annoyed my parents. As a result, we figure out a solution. We put him into a cardboard case so that he can chew and rip it whatever he wants.(Did you see the bite marks Ya-ya had left in both pictures? ) At the same time he can enjoy the caress from us. Look! He is showing his gratitude by licking my finger!

Tsau-tsau in my house!

This week I have changed my title because I really want to introduce you my pets, one is 草草(Tsau-tsau) and one is 犽犽(Ya-ya), both of which are rabbits. Today I would like to introduce Tsau-tsau and on the next post I will introduce Ya-ya to you.=)

The reason I named her Tsau-tsau, literally grass, was that when I first found her, she was hiding in the grass, weak and shaky. She was so powerless that she couldn't even struggle when I picked her up. Anyway, I brought her home.

It has been six year since then. At first, she was very aggressive. If I touched her nose, she would suddenly shake her head and attack my finger fiercely. But as time went by, she gradually became a lot curious instead of keeping alert all the time.

If I approach her, she will lower her head to the ground, which means "Hey! Come to stroke me! I need a massage!" What's more, if I sit down on the ground, chances are Tsau-tasu will come and see what's going on! For often, she will lie beside me because that will get a caress from me. Cute, isn't she?