How to Choose a Good Toy

Here I am in the middle of my toys on an ordinary morning. Notice the Big Brown Bag next to me. Notice how uninteresting it is. While it is a perfectly fine brown bag, it has been placed among my toys by my human family in the futile hope that I will take interest in it. Somehow, they think that just about anything will interest me.

Wrong.

Particularly uninteresting to me are the things that are given to me to play with. I much prefer to find my own amusement.

Now notice the white bag on the floor.


It was dropped on the floor quite by accident by the tall thin member of my family. It happened that the short fat one had the camera ready, and was able to capture this record of my attack.

This bag is infinitely more interesting. First of all, there are some things inside it, which I am not supposed to see. Second, I wasn't supposed to notice the bag on the floor in the first place. And last, there was nothing about this that suggested that it was a human-approved toy.

It's much more fun to pirate your toys whenever you can. You never know what goodies might be found, and (although I never admit this) it's so much fun to aggravate the humans!

I Share My Beauty Secrets

I think it is very important to have a beauty regimen, don't you? One of the most important parts of my day is spent in front of our window fan, conveniently (for me) located on the floor right in front of the big sliding glass door. I spend a great deal of time here, and I have determined that feeling the breeze on my body improves the lustrous quality of my fur. And, since the fan lifts and separates all the individual hairs, it takes me less time to preen the fur in that particular, hard to reach area because it is already fluffed. Sometimes I turn around and let the air currents circulate around my lovely ears. Not only does that feel good, but it's fun to do, too. So, my advice to you all is to try to get your family to get you a fan and use it every day. It also makes a great place to have an afternoon nap on a warm day.

Oh, How Sharper than the Serpent's Tooth

is the ungrateful . . . well, whoever it is, I can never remember. But in my case, it's a totally ungrateful human family.

It all started last Saturday morning, when they left and didn't come back for some time. But when they did, they came back with loads of very, very strange scents all about them. I could sense lots of dog, some cat, some goat, some parrot, and even some llama. Worst of all, there was other rabbit on their clothing. I was appalled.

Flimsy as it was, they excused themselves by telling me they were exhibiting my merchandise at PetExpo, an event that featured all the island pets. Lots of animals were there. Naturally, they didn't ask me if I wanted to go (which of course I didn't but I would have loved to refuse).

I had to give their clothing a thorough going-over. Not to mention the fact that now I have to be on my best behavior because I don't want any of those other beasts thinking they can invade my territory!
Here I am completing my task, making sure there's nothing around I should worry about. Footnote: notice all the little scraps of box I chewed up? That was loads of fun - I can do that better than any of those other animals, I bet!

Blackberry's friend Toad

Here is a little video of a friend of Blackberry's - his name is Toad. Don't you think that's cute? They used to go to Planet Hollywood with their humans for dinner at the outside café, and Toad was at Blackberry's fifth birthday party at Iolani Palace in Honolulu. Here he is at the current Pet Expo at the Baisdell Center in Honolulu - taking in all the sights.

My Favorite Toy

Lots of different bunnies like to play with lots of different toys, and I have a lot in my toy box to chose from, but my very favorite toy is a plain cardboard box. There's so much you can do with them! You can jump into them, sniff them, crawl under them (if they're turned upside down - one of my real favorite passtimes) and you can chomp them. I love to chomp them - tear them up, scatter them around. If you look closely at our floor, you can always see lots of little scaps of box -that's my contribution to our interior decorating! I'm very lucky, because the folks don't seem to mind, except when the phone rings and someone announces that they're going to visit. Then it all gets swept up and I have to start all over again.

Maintaining Standards

Here I am inspecting this week's production, getting ready to put them in their boxes. I think it's important to maintain high standards, don't you? That's why I insist on looking over each piece to make sure the humans aren't goofing off -- they can't get away with anything with me in charge! Would you like to see my jewelry close up? just go to www.rabbittinparadise.com

Updating My Spring Collection

In our family, it's important to keep up on the latest. My company, Rabbitt in Paradise (which you can find at www.rabbittinparadise.com), deals in lots of ladies' accessories (but lots of other rabbit-themed things too), so I have to know what's going on.

Here we are examining this season's trends. There certainly is a lot to go over - sometimes it's hard to concentrate for so long a time. But what's so great about these magazines is that once you've looked at them, they make a great snack!