Remembering Georgie

This is a post that should have been made a long time ago but wasn't, mainly due to the break mum took from blogging.....

Some of my readers from back in 2007/2008 will remember MY Georgie, my GIANT bunny. For my new readers, you will get to read about MY Georgie for the first time!


We got him as a little 9 week old bun bun,



And watched him grow to almost 20 lbs.... (that's a dog harness he was wearing)



You may recall how much I loved MY Georgie.....

We went hunting together and I protected him,


We played in the yard together,


We celebrated Easter together,



And when mum wouldn't stop bringing STINKIES home, we moved out together,


Then one day, he stopped using his litter box and couldn't move his back legs anymore. Mum took him to a vet who specialized in bun buns. After a week, he couldn't use his front legs anymore, and then he wouldn't eat anymore.... (mum: Vet said he had some kind of infection that was in his brain.)

Mum said he was sick, so we brought him upstairs with us. (mum: Georgie's cage was in the garage.) I looked after him,


And stayed by his side 24/7,


A few more days later, mum left with MY Georgie, and all she bought back was this,


I looked and looked and looked and looked for MY Georgie.... (mum: this video is long and not very interesting. You can skip it if you want. It was shot the first time I let Sunshade down to the garage after Georgie passed away. She kept thinking he must have been hiding in the crawl space or by the boxes since those were the places he had gone to when he was let out of the cage to roam.)

(mum: Video below showed what Sunshade did for the next two weeks following Georgie's death.)

(mum: Georgie died on my birthday, he was only 1 year old. Three days after these videos were taken, Jaffa ate a 250 tab bottle of Advils and went into kidney failure. We didn't know if he would recover for the longest time. It was a stressful time, and I took a long break from blogging.)

DING-DING-DING

BREAKING NEWS: STINKY is alive and well, and still VERY annoying. The little glimpse you saw of him from one of the videos above is stilllllllll him today, except it's 3.5 years later. He was NEVER allowed to interact with MY Georgie, because I would pin him whenever he got close!!

My Georgie never came back and I don't know why.... I really hope I will get to play and protect him again one day because I really really love him.....

Below are just a few of our many happy memories together:

• Introducing Giant Georgie
  
• Hunting at UBC with Georgie
• Bunnysitting Georgie
• Easter with Georgie
• Moving out with Georgie (must read)
  

SHE did it AGAIN!!!

Yea you read it right, I'M MOVING OUT with MY Georgie!!!!! I packed Georgie's pellets, MY RING, MY special rockies, MY pine cones, and some Turkey Parme Biscotties.


We are ready, now we just need to know where to go!

You must be wondering WHY I would want to leave my seemingly wonderful home and my seemingly not so EVIL mum. Well, this is why!

SHE DID IT AGAIN!

She left with ONE STINKY,


Came back with TWO STINKIES! (Just look at their leashes, that's enough to make you go nutty....)


I was *almost* gonna forgive her when I saw she had bought me HUGE new bed, a bag of Innova EVO (the grain free kibble), some treats, some new toys, and the best of all - a huge container of COOKED shepherd's pie (minus the mashed potatoes).


But guess what she told me??

Those aren't for you Sunshade, those are Stella's.

WHAA.....WHAT!!

To make things worse, the STINKIES (original STINKY + STINKY # 2) completely ignored my presence,


HELLLLLLOOOOOOO-OOOOOOOOO!!


How dare they ignore the QUEEN in HER own castle???

Here I was trying to tell them how rude it was for them to ignore ME, and well, did they look like they paid any attention to the low growl I was giving??

Not only that, they STUNK up my bed, so I had to sleep on the floor while they slept on their comfy beds. Where is the justice in that??


I found it hard even to sleep with their presence.... they stink! Now, did they look like they care their poor Aunt was having a hard time breathing??


Even when they saw me dying, their tails were wagging non-stop, no remorse whatsoever. (the reason you don't see either of their tails in this picture is because they were waggging too fast...)


Did they care when I finally succumbed to their stinkiness??


Just look at them, not only were they totally oblivious of their poor Aunt, STINKY #2 even mocked me by copying my dying position!

Now, do you blame me for wanting to LEAVE???


I'm taking MY Georgie because I love him and I don't want him to get stinkified if I left him behind.

Here is the application form if you like us, (click on the picture to enlarge it)

Only qualified homes will get to have us!

(Mum: Stella is only here with us for 10 days while her family goes on vacation. I don't think I would ever get her back even if I wanted to. Her family is too in love with her!!)

Eat WHAT on Easter???

Mum had her Easter din din, and decided to feed me my din din. Most of you know I eat a BARF diet. Because of the nature of my diet, I get lots of varieties in the types of meat I get.

So tonight, when I saw mum take out all these rolls of meat, I thought WOW!!!!







Until I saw this...............


That crazy woman wanted me to eat RABBIT on Easter?!?!?!



SERIOUSLY, how can I eat anything that smells like MY Georgie?? Especially on Easter???

(mum: sorry, camera ran out of memory)

I, of course, refused to touch the Georgie meat!!

EWW..... EWWW... EWWWWWWWWWWWWW...

However, it wasn't always like this. I used to eat any kind of meat mum gave me, yes, even RABBIT meat.

When it comes to meat, I'm not a picky girl, I eat any kind of meat. This all changed when mum got Georgie. I never tried to be mean to Georgie even tho I, as an Airedale, was bred to kill critters like Georgie. Don't get me wrong, I have killed and will kill critters I meet outside if I come in contact with them. But I refuse to hurt anything that is considered part of my pack. So after mum got Georgie, I decided to become a "Non-Rabbitarian", because I just couldn't stand the thought of eating anything that smells remotely close to my Georgie.

So now, I will eat most types of meat EXCEPT rabbit meat.

(mum: isn't she an interesting girl??)

Anyway, after my Easter Non-Rabbitarian din din, mum decided to take some photos of me, Georgie, and STINKY together for Easter.

However, not only did STINKY eat all the left over Georgie meat, he started biting at Georgie as if Georgie was one of his stuffies!!!!!! Neither mum nor I was happy about STINKY's behaviour, soooo....


Did I tell you my Georgie is a big 20 lb boy??


He kept wanting to go in between my legs, so I kept moving away cause I didn't want to step on him.......


I love my Georgie, and I know he loves me too because he always treats me by pooping in my face. YUMMY!!!

I will NEVER eat you or your kind Georgie!

Me and Georgie at UBC

We had really strong wind all day today, and I knew what that meant...... NO BEACH!!! Sigh... However, I wasn't completely disappointed since mum took Georgie and me to my favourite hunting ground - UBC (University of British Columbia).

Since mum decided to bring Gerogie along, we went to the Thunderbird Soccer Field instead of my usual walk on the squirrel rich campus.

To ensure we got a fun, uninterrupted walk on the field, Georgie and I made a pack. We swore to the big guy above that should mum got into her trigger happy mode, we would NOT look into the camera no matter what. This way, mum would get frustrated and stop taking photos of us. Here are some good examples!!



Georgie kept his promise at first, but when he thought I wasn't watching, I caught him doing THIS!!


WHAT WAS HE THINKING POSING FOR MUM?? To make matters worse, he even gathered a fan club!!! Just look at these people...I mean... MEN .... awwwing and oooooing over Georgie...


Where was MY fan club?? That guy identified by the arrow, he looked like he was petting me right? Well, he was actually only doing that to stop me from stealing his soccer ball... What's wrong with these people?? If you like a GIANT rabbit better than a SuperDALE, then FINE! But the least you can do is let the SuperDALE aka. future captain of Team Canada take your soccer ball. You should feel honored!

Needless to say, I was in a bad mood and decided to ignore Georgie! I didn't want to have anything to do with him, and was honestly happy that he got stuck with the camera!!

(the speed you saw Georgie move at in the video is his TOP speed so far. Mum has him attached to a cable in case one day he does decide to move like a normal rabbit.)

This is Georgie pretending to be cute eating a piece of leaf. (I hate suck ups!!) Thank doG I don't need to eat leaves to show that I'm FANTABULOUS!!

So what better way to take my mind off Georgie than HUNTING??

I surveyed the construction ground next to the soccer field. The old Thunderbird Arena was torn down and a new one is being built for the 2010 Winter Olympics.



THEN............

I FOUND MY REMEDY!!!



There were live things (I didn't want to tell mum what since she was after me with her camera!) behind the wire fencing. I tried to jump up hoping that I could bring the fence down, but it didn't work. I demanded help from mum, but my EVIL mum refused my request!!

There is a bit of a sound delay in this video for some reason

I moved on to the next targeted area,


My EVIL mum stood there with her damn camera in hand, and watched me struggle. She not only didn't try to help, she also stopped me from doing what was necessary to get to my prey.....

She told me this is the reason why she tried to stop me from doing whatever I was doing,


Georgie DID IT!!! Can't you tell? Those are obviously teeth marks of a GIANT bunny!!


*ahem*



To see my other hunts at UBC:

• I NEED some pointers!!!
• Where is the BAD MOUSIE??
• Squirrel Patrolling at UBC

BAD BUNNY SITTER!!!

Mum called me a BAD BUNNY SITTER today while she was cleaning Georgie house. She saw Georgie do this,


and this,


and then she saw THIS!


How ungrateful was mum to call me a bad bunny sitter when I was helping her clean Georgie's house?? Even though Georgie is very good about using his litter box, he does miss from time to time you know mum? I was helping you!!


Mum wouldn't listen to my explanation, so I decided to sulk and let Georgie do whatever!!


I was a little disappointed at Georgie too because he got me into trouble. I expect all pets of mine to be just as well behaved as I, especially after all the time I've put into his training.....


Why couldn't Georgie just be a good boy and not shred the newspapers?? If he needed more fiber, he could have let me know and I would have gotten him some timothy hay.

So when Georgie came to "suck-up", I decided to give him the cold shoulders.


However, it was very hard for me to stay mad at my Georgie, especially after seeing him do those tricks I've been teaching him: "Rear up" and "Wipe face". He made me so proud because it proved that I'm a better trainer than mum!!! You see, I got Georgie doing "Rear up" and "Wipe face" in less than a day, whereas mum, she still can't get me to do it after weeks of trying....hehe!

Georgie doing "Rear up",


Georgie doing "Wipe face" - ( FuFu watch out, Georgie is catching up!!)


I was so proud of my pet bun bun that I decided he needed a reward for performing those tricks to perfection. So I went into the storage room to look for a treat for him..........

I think the treats are around here....


Oh here it is, now I just have to get it out!


GOT IT!! Funny how it says "Meaty Bones" on the box.......hehe!

This is Georgie eating his favorite food - a BANANA! He can eat one whole banana at once, can you believe it??

Just look at his face..... now do you see why I can't stay mad at my Georgie??