The Bun Report

WHAT ABOUT DOOMED SIBLINGS

What to do if you find a baby bunny.

The stick method is not effective. We reccomemd sprinkling flour around the nest instead or setting up a camera if you are unsure if mama is returning to the nest. A few major things to add:

Never move the nest. Ever. Mom will not go searching for babies. She returns to her nest spot and if its empty she will grieve her babies.

Never block off the nest. People do this to protect the nest but if mama rabbit cant easily stand over the nest they will not be fed.

If the babies are injured DO NOT RETURN THEM TO THE NEST. take them out and put them in a box with soft cloth on the bottom with a heat source (heat pad under the box on low, a rice sock wrapped in a towel, warm water bottle etc). Keep them indoors in a safe and QUIET place while you get a hold of a rehabber. Injuries are prone to fly strike and this is disastrous for any animal. Cat caused injuries are lethal unless treated with the right antibiotics.

Most importantly:

DO. NOT. FEED. THE. BABIES. EVER.

Most of the cottontail deaths i see are actually human induced. Ive held too many kits that were choking to death or having full organ failure in my hands because someome decided to feed.

Guess what! I finally gathered my pages of scribbled notes, my camera of haphazard in-progress pictures, and finally compiled a set of instructions for making one of these bad boys!

And not only that, but I've got two versions of this baby. I like mixing and matching my unit families because sometimes 1/32 inch sparks joy and sometimes 14 mm is just so convenient, but especially since all of my chipboard comes in english thicknesses, here's a version of the processfor my fellow imperial units weirdos:

And here's one for the sensible folks of the world, raised on a base-ten system rather than dividing everything in half and then in half and then in half-- I won't subject you to inches, when there's a workaround, but I was tempted! Have your localized version of the story and have fun with it:

Mad credit of course goes to Hugo Peller, who developed these things in the first place, but also to Jack Fetterer, who preserved a set of notes from a 1990 class, which, as far as I can tell, are the most complete set of instructions available online. But I'm an engineer, I couldn't be satisfied there, I had bludgeon it into a system of equations, sorted by usage and material. And I also go into some of the hiccups I ran into trying to follow those class instructions, like being a green amateur at leatherwork, or not having the equipment to saw plywood boards in my apartment.

What does your character's laugh sound like?

What does your character’s singing voice sound like?

Is your character obsessed with anything?

How would your character react if they were gifted something handmade?

What is your character's favourite season+weather+time of day combination?

If your character could erase one thing from the world, what would it be?

What about your character still remains a mystery to you?

Someone shows your character a photograph of themselves when they were five. How do they react? What is the picture like?

If your character had to name a cat right now, what would it be?

How does your character feel about people seeing them cry?

What's the easiest way to annoy your character?

What's the easiest way to entertain your character?

How would your character react if they learned they're immortal? (if they are, how do they feel about it?)

What thought or memory your character is aching to share with someone but for whatever reason, never has had the chance?

If your character had to get a (new) tattoo right now, what would it be?

How does your character think whatever they're going through is going to end? (if they already survived, did things go as they once thought?)

What is your character's most unique physical attribute?

When your character has nightmares, which emotion is the most present?

Does your character have a catchphrase or something they repeat a lot?

Which sense is the most important to your character?

Who does your character think about when they want to feel safe?

On a scale from 1 to 10, how much does your character's past haunt them?

What does your character value more than anything?

Does your character follow any routines?

Will your character ever get to live normal life?

here's the first piece, inspired by that cathartic scene in I Saw the TV Glow (if you're trans or a furry, or unsure about either of those, you must watch it).

if you saw what was inside of you, in your perception a ridiculous and unexplainable and forbidden version of yourself--would you allow it to breathe? would you take it seriously?

lobsters live for a ridiculously long time in the wild (average 45-50 years). they molt their exoskeletons several times throughout their lives and the process is extremely physically demanding, in fact, it is the most common way for a lobster to die. imagine physically trying to turn yourself inside out and exposing your fleshy, soft and vulnerable insides at the bottom of the ocean. a lot of times they lose their claws during this process, abandoning the part of their body meant to protect them, obeying the natural mechanisms to allow a rebirth and transformation.

people don't take furry art seriously. it's cringe, it's bad, it's unserious. it exists to be mocked & laughed at. with my pieces i am forcing them to take it seriously. i don't leave room for these lobsters to be perceived as a joke. lobsters are a fundamentally un-furry animal, they are insect-like and aren't cute or cool, and that is precisely why i chose them--i wanted to approach them as an outsider, and understand how it is that i've come to grow so attached to an animal that, before this project, i at best thought of as, well, a joke.