Tribble's Tales

Puppy Love

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 09:28:00 -0800

Whenever the boss takes me down to the beach I think he worries the most about the dogs running wild that might come after me but little does he know, it looks like the pups love buns! Here's a few videos I found as proof of said fact; now I'mma get back to lying around and eating hay.

Wednesday's Bunny News

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:55:00 -0800

I've been hoppin' around the house a lot these days, thinking about life; I enjoy some of these obstacles the boss set up. These boxes are really fun because I can run through them and also chew them up! I'm also trying to get my speed up by running laps around the pulled out couch, then I jump up on the couch, onto the tall part, and back down to the floor. What a work out. Here's some Bunny News for you!

Pacific Northwest Bunnies Returned Safe and Sound
...
Except for ROGER

Praise for the End of the Year of the Rabbit

Dedham Soon to Show Off Bunny Heritage

Leporidae Responsible for Sabotage of $30M Racetrack

Oldy But A Goody

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:03:00 -0800

Here's a video from a couple years back of me acting a fool when we used to live in the OC. I'mma BOSS...bout to go dig up this cardboard in memorial of these good old times in the laundry.

Wednesday's Bunny News

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:53:00 -0800

Log Jammin'

I'm in the process of chewing down my latest podcast so please stay tuned for that later this week; here's a hint, it isn't about the amount of parsley I eat daily...which is zero. In the meantime I've been scouring the web for the most interesting stories of bunny mayhem and mischief and the following are a few stories I thought were good enough for a lil chew.

More Canadian Bunnies To Be Rescued

Signs of the Bunny Signularity (IT MUST BE STOPPED!)

Tales of SoCal Bunnies On The Loose

Family Tree, Summer Tapes

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:41:00 -0800

There's a band I really like called Family Tree and a Lop-Eared friend of mine passed this along to me. It's a 38 song collection of great sing along style songs recorded in 2008. From the band:

these songs were recorded on cassette tape in rest stops, parks, living rooms, venues, and on top of the van, during a twomonth tour in the summer of 2008

family tree was david van patten, kevin klein and lexi lee. with special appearances by tiffany davy, audriana and danny moore.

special thanks to warren woodward for digitizing more than 6 hours of material. which he has yet to be paid for

Hope y'all can hop around to these and enjoy! I know I'll be thumping along to the beat.

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Trib's Endorsement

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 9 Jan 2012 17:25:00 -0800

Today I'm pledging full support for Vermin Supreme who is running in tomorrow's New Hampshire Democratic primary election and is sure to lose. But who can argue with free ponies for everyone?! I sure can't, which is why I, Tribble the Bunny....can't vote, plus I live in Cali so it'd be a lil difficult to vote for this maniac! But please take a moment and get acquainted with Vermin who deserves a few votes just for spending the money to get on the ballot.

Here is some bunny related stuff to get your week going right!

Canmore Rabbits to be Rescued!

For Pennsylvania Girls, Rabbits No Longer Just A Hobby

Pet Bunny Going Home After Harrowing Experience

North Carolina Bun is now Mascot for Yarn

Please check me out on Twitter Now For Daily BS from the Bun!

Is This Real Life Or Dexter??

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:42:00 -0800

It sure feels like Miami...

I know they were filming the show down the street the other day but this is just ridiculous. Apparently a 24 year old German ex-pat got really pissed at America and decided to burn it to the ground! Harry Burkhart is currently charged with 37 counts of arson but is also suspected by both the German and Canadian governments in suspicious fires that coincided with him being in the respective countries. This crazy dude apparently hopped around Hollywood on New Years weekend setting over 50 fires with some sort of device! And as if that's not crazy enough, Burkhart appears to have been set off by the federal detention of his mother on an un-fire-related German warrant.

Burkhart was arrested Monday night on the Sunset Strip

Now I personally have been known to cause mischief in my day--pulling up the carpet, making a mess in my cage, thumping loudly at all hours of the night, and there was the time I chewed through the Kinect cable--but this guy really takes the cake. Germany wants him for insurance fraud (he set his own house on fire then took the money and ran), Canada wants him for something like 12 suspicious house fires, and he's being held on $2.85 million bail for what could be up to 53 fires here in Los Angeles! I personally hope they throw the book at this guy, so many people lost their valuable property and his pony tail is so ugly it's more gross than me eating my own poop all the time.

Animal Horders Are The WORST!

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 4 Jan 2012 17:34:00 -0800

6 is ok...150??? Not ok.

Recently the boss was watching a very disturbing TV show about a woman who had 9 dogs, 12 birds, and hunted ghosts for money; the episode prior featured a woman who's home (trailer) had been over run by my hopping brethren. Now I'm reading a story about a German man who was living with 150 rabbits running wild in his apartment!!!! What the hell is wrong with the human race! We rabbits are quite cute and cuddly I agree but come on! Get it together people, it's not OK to live among feces. German news site The Local reports that, "Following complaints from neighbors about the smell, the police reportedly looked through a window of the apartment to see about 20 rabbits hopping around a floor covered in feces and food remains, with flies buzzing above the unholy brew." But that was just the tip of the proverbial iceberg, when the police were finished 150 rabbits were rescued from these horrific conditions and the man was left holding the bill for the clean up.

Now I've been known to live in a mess or two in my day, but this story is just a little ridiculous. Seems to me if you have to dig through a pile of rabbit poo on your way to cook food to eat, you should recognize that it's not normal to live that way. It only takes about a month to breed so if you set a bunch of rabbits loose in a small space you're going to have a multiplying problem within the first few months not to mention a horrible smell. So a notice to all pet owners from me, Tribble The Bunny, unless you have a nice big farm or a large outdoor area for us all to play in, please don't try to domesticate more than four to five bunnies at a time. K? Thanks!

2012 Resolutions

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 3 Jan 2012 10:58:00 -0800

It's 2012 and I know we're all going to have a banner year! So I wanna take this time to let everyone know my new years resolutions.

1) Torment the bosses as much as possible. I got a good nibble in on him on New Years day and I plan on doing a lot more of that this year.
2) Get some more sun. We're half a block from the beach and I've never seen the ocean so this year I wanna get out on the leash and play in the sand, possibly dig a giant hole to somewhere more exotic.
3) Exercise more. I want to do at least 10 laps in the hutch per day and jump up and down from the shelf at least 20 more times so my hopping legs can get a good work out.
4) Stay on my hay only diet. For awhile I had gotten into the habit of eating bunny pellets and they made me lethargic and lazy so I want to keep on eating hay only to get myself in order.

That's it! I think those four goals are good and I fully expect to stay to them through next December!

Friday's Newsworthy Thoughts

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:21:00 -0800

who run the cage??

I'm sitting here on the last Friday of 2011 wondering what I'll be doing to celebrate its end. I'll most likely be home alone yet again so maybe I'll try stacking all the TP rolls in here and then knock them down with a mighty thump at midnight. Perhaps I'll try and finish up this chew log so the boss will get me a new one for the new year; I think they have some honey chews hiding somewhere, maybe they'll give them to me...yum. Or maybe I'll just run around and around in the cage making a mess for them to clean up on New Year's day. Anyways, here are some bunny links.

Rising From The Ashes

Models Stand Up For Buns
(Leaping Bunny)

Rabbit Farm Beats The Man

Trib Shows Off!!

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:17:00 -0800

Here's a video the bosses and I cooked up for all you loving fans out there! Sometimes I just like to show off how awesome I am by picking up my TP rolls and running around the cage!

Post Christmas Unlinking

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:05:00 -0800

Hey Everyone!

So now that the Christmas holiday is finally over I'm looking forward to getting out of this cage and stretching my little legs. Since the tree went up the boss has been keeping on lock down for reasons unknown--might have something to do with cables and destruction in general; I'm a pretty angry Bun sometimes. I didn't get that leg lamp I was hoping for this year but am very thankful for the great chew toys and treats I did receive, I really enjoy playing in this smaller cardboard house especially. And a big thank you to my girl Jazzmine who hooked it up with some honey chews!

Not-so-Year Of The Rabbit Animal Stories
Aussy Tales of the Boxing Day Bunny

Not a lot of great bunny news as of now so on to some baby bunny videos!

And finally a video of a bun just a tad more ferocious than I!

Bunny Holiday

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:01:00 -0800

ho ho ho!

As the week crawls to a close I get more and more excited for Christmas day. I'm still pulling for the leg lamp but will for sure settle for something yummy to nibble on and maybe a toy or two for this here wooden shack. It's looking like a cool 73 and sunny down in LB on the joyous day, eat your heart out cold weather cities! Perfect weather for stretchin' the old hind legs and listening to the birds sing carols in the alley.

On a side note I really like these shinny colorful lights on the tree, the boss set up his tree right next to my hutch so I can sit on the chill porch and look at the tasty needles with the blinking lights through my window. Here are some seasonal videos to get you in the spirit of things!

Bunny News

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:24:00 -0800

Tips on dealing with you're RABBIT BULLY (The Telegraph UK)
Update on 2000 feral buns in JEOPARDY (CTV)
A Bun as a Pet FOR LIFE (AlgonquinPatch)
Critters who need a NEW HOME for the holidays (Tucson Sentinel)

Orange County's "Bunny Whisperer"

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:07:00 -0800

Yo Santa, I want a carrot

Just a short drive down the freeway from the beach here lives a woman with a passion for long eared friends like me. Marylin Mansdorf has been coined the OC's very own Bunny Whisperer; for the last 7 years, generations of furry hoppers have claimed her yard as their little play pen, "It's just like the swallows that go back to Capistrano, or salmon swimming upstream. These bunnies come back, generation after generation..." Mansdorf captures the antics in photos and has plans to publish up to 4 more books in her Busy Bunny series following the initial release, Bunny's Busy Day earlier this year.

Click through to National Geographic's "My Shot" collection of Marylin's buns. I think I may just have to hop on down to the OC after I finish another bag of hay and get my strength back up. All this lying around being lazy has me out of shape and not quite ready for the long haul. The bosses here don't give me nearly enough toys to play with like this lady would; I'm thinking about making a break for it. Unfortunately, there's a First 48 marathon going on right now so I think I'll wait till it's over before I think about anything else.

HOARDERS MARATHON...yuck

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:37:00 -0800

WOW

This show is pretty disgusting sometimes. This guy in Manhattan has to climb 5 flights of fire escape because his door is blocked, then crawl through a tunnel he's carved out of trash and feces. I mean seriously? It's hard to eat this timothy hay while watching this so I think I'll just chew this log while the boss gets ready to leave.

Here's some bunny vids!!

It's Friiiiiidayyyyyyyyyy!

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:52:00 -0800

Hello everyone!! I know I promised a new Podcast this week but I'm terribly sorry, with all this Christmas shopping and extra chewing I've been doing these last few days I really haven't had the time. I promise I've got some great stuff coming down the pipeline though so check back early and often!

Meanwhile here's a great video of one of my HUGE friends!

Rescue Us All!!!

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 19:00:00 -0800

Chillin'

It was recently brought to my attention--while the owners were watching The Christmas Bunny (this film is rather grim if I do say so but entertaining none the less)--that there's one commonality among a large amount of rabbits in this world. They're casually abandoned. This is a gross display of negligence on the part of all humanity that something as cuddly, cute, and lovable as myself can so easily be discarded like yesterday's news. Now I'm sure that many times when a pet is abandoned it's for fiscal reasons of one way or another but I'm horrified to think that people may just be dropping bunnies off in the forest to find Thumper and his pals and live happily ever after in the fairy tale world of Disney cartoons. The reality is we bunnies, once domesticated, like living with you people! We crave your attention and delicious treats! So please think twice before buying a pet rabbit for your daughter's friend's cousin or whatever other willy nilly purchase of a rabbit you may chose to make. A rabbit is a loyal and loving pet for life, not just till the allure wears off.

Here are some places to adopt abandoned bunnies!

So Cal Rabbit and Pocket Pet Rescue

House Rabbit Society Rescue

Rabbit Rescue Inc

My Main Man's Monday Musings (aka 5XM)

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:51:00 -0800

Hey it's a bear waving! I've been sitting here in my cage listening to the rain outside and thinking about a lot of things. Like I really wish I had some dirt to dig or some water to float in; this cage is big and spacious but what it really needs to set itself apart from other indoor/outdoor hutches is just one extra to push it over the top. In an earlier post I admired the determination of Howard who dug himself a nice little hole and here is another brave bun floating away his cares. All I have in here to do is lie around, chew stuff, and jump to the shelf and back down...I guess things could be a lot worse. (Links follow the jump)
X-Mas Story with Bunnies

More Stuff For My X-Mas List

Quick!! Before You're Caught!

Some Chilly Buns in NYC

Ok that's all for now everyone! I'm gonna go eat some hay and think about what to say in this week's Podcast. It's coming I promise!!

k thnx bi

Trib

Almost Forgot

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:41:00 -0800

John Winston Lennon 10/09/40 - 12/08/80

I would also like to honor my favorite Beatle, John Lennon--who also passed away on December 8th--31 years ago today. His dream of world peace still lives on today in his words and music and memory. Give Peace A Chance.

RIP DIME

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:46:00 -0800

Today me and my fellow metal heads mourn the passing of "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott. Shot dead on stage 7 years ago today, the world will drink tonight for Dime. Metal god Rob Halford said of hearing the news of Dime's death, "...to be fucking brutally murdered is just insane. Absolutely insane. John Lennon is the only other person, isn’t it? They’re both in good company, as far as what they mean and how they’ve lived on in our lives. How Dimebag will always live on. That’s the only bit of solace you’ve got. It’s that the work that they made will live forever. That’s the blessing." (REVOLVER)

RIP
From Vinnie Paul:

"On this day 7 years ago I had the best friend i've ever known takin from me forever!!!!!!! I would just like to say DIMES SPIRIT forever shines on like the stars in the sky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lets celebrate his life,music,LOVE and spirit and do a Blacktooth in his honor!!!! Getcha pull and light em up!!!!! WE MISS YOU DIME , YOU ARE NOT FORGOTTEN!!!!! BIG LOVE FROM BIG BROTHER!!!! THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!!!"

Holy Hutch!!

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 7 Dec 2011 18:54:00 -0800

In the market town of King's Lynn, Norfolk in jolly old England there's a pair of bunnies living the high life. No I'm not talking about some misplaced playmate living the lavish life of the ex-patriot, I'm referring to Runnie and Hunnie two pet rabbits who have recently moved into their very own state of the art hand made and air conditioned outdoor hutch. The 7.5' x 4.5' hutch has heat, air, and of course live web cams displaying it's contents to owners Jason and Mairi Batterbee at a moments notice via their smartphones.

The Batterbee's with Runnie and Hunnie

As you can see in the above photo the incredibly attractive owners have little else to do with themselves other to take care of their hop-along homies and I say more power to them! I wish my owners spent this much time and energy on me instead of watching endless reruns of Storage Wars and/or the X-Files. My hutch feels more fancy then my previous two cages seen here and here but I would kill for some A/C!! So here I am, expressing my jealousy toward you Runnie and Hunnie, live it up in the UK; I'll stay put down here at the beach watching TV.

Tis The Season

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 1 Dec 2011 19:07:00 -0800

It's December 1st and I'm already getting excited for my favorite time of the year! Last X-Mas my owners got me some great toys to make noise with and this year I really want a Leg Lamp! For those of you who live under a large rock or somewhere where they don't have television, the Leg Lamp was made famous in my second favorite Christmas movie of all time, A Christmas Story. So for all you readers out there please feel free to send me one or suggest it to the authors of this site k? thanks.

Also check out this great re-write of the 12 Days Of (Bunny) Christmas!

Some of My Heroes

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:34:00 -0800

This is a great video of some great rabbits performing some amazing stunts. These guys and gals are really heroes of mine, I hope one day to break free of this cage and learn the same stunts. These are some great jumpers at the Burgess Rabbit Grand National but I know I can be this good...one day

Happy 11/11/11 from the Bun!

metaltophat@gmail.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:21:00 -0800

Happy Nigel Tufnel Day! Here's my fave Spinal Tap track, a classic rocker!