Etsy Pets: Suki

Name: Suki

Owner: Alanna of Bobishi

Nicknames: Suki-La

Breed: Blue Point Mini Lop Bunny

Age: Five

Acquired: We got our beautiful fur baby from a breeder when she was 8 weeks old. We found her on an website where we bought her without seeing her. When we arrived at the breeder she was the most perfect tiny baby bunny you could ever meet :)

Favorite activities:

Because Suki is a house bunny she spends all her time with people:) Suki loves snuggling on the couch and taking turns exchanging bunny kisses for pats. She loves people who are "gentle patters" and feels very strongly about people who have dogs or children who may step on her mat! Suki loves nibbling, chewing and eating of any sort! When people come to visit we have to make sure all their stuff is off the ground or else they may just find the lovely Suki-La snuffling in their handbag looking for a stray receipt or other piece of delicious to nibble on:)

Suki also has what can only be described as a touch of OCD, she must smooth things and everything must be arranged as it pleases her:) My husband learnt very quickly that leaving your clothes on the floor wasn't an option with a house bunny around, unless you want extra air holes...

We live in Australia where it is illegal to vaccinate again Myxomatosis so Suki lives inside and on sunny days is free to go outside in the garden:) She loves the garden! So much delicious grass and places to hide. One of our proudest fur baby parent moments was when Suki dug a trench... not a hole, a trench under a bush for laying in.. This is where we see her enjoy herself the most:) She bounds and twirls in the grass, sprinting around at high speed, always checking to make sure someone is watching out for her.

If Suki could help with your shop, what would her job be?

She would love to arrange and organise the fabrics. She loves to smooth things and although she does love to organise, she could never be involved in packaging orders because she just finds envelopes way too delicious...

Tell us about your shop, Bobishi

Before we found our fur baby we lived in Japan for a year and on the super cold winter months I started sewing hand bags out of beautiful fabrics. I couldn't use them all! So when we got home I started selling them on etsy. At uni I studied industrial design so I now use those skills to create things I love for my etsy store. I love practising different skills and get a bored at creating the same thing over and over again so I don't focus on one product or technique in my etsy store. I figure if I love it someone else will too:) It is difficult to let go of many of the creations but I have to remember I can't keep everything!

Where do you and Suki call home?

Suki and I live with my husband on the Mornington Peninsula about an hour and a half outside of Melbourne. It is a summer holiday spot popular with city visitors, it is a little bit country, very beachy and close enough to the city to not be too inconvenient! Although Suki is an inside bunny she still loves living on the peninsula because she can play outside without the threat of cats, because there is a 24 hour cat curfew because of all the native animals.

Tell us about the first pet you ever had

The first pet I ever had was a cocker spaniel called Tara. She was very old when I was born but she looked super friendly in photos and my mum used to have to peg her ears together on top of her head when she ate:) The first pet I actually remember loving was our super cute Siamese cat Tyler:) He was a house cat, loveable but a little strange:) He hated new shoes and love to spend his evenings snuggling inside your sweater...

What animal does your personality most resemble and why?

I have aspects of bunny:) I share Suki's love for snuggling on the couch. Although she hates when I knit... I share her love for smoothing fabrics and we both love spending time in the garden, although I don't eat the foliage! I also share her love of routine and timelines. Suki knows at 7.00am its breakfast time and she will come and wake me up if I haven't got it for her! We both enjoy spending time with smaller groups of people and we both find thunder a bit unnerving:)

What is the best thing about being a pet parent?

Because bunnies live in groups Suki feels that someone needs to be on guard :) So when we are sleeping Suki sits on the end of the bed watching out for predators. It is nice to know that our beautiful fur baby feels such unconditional love for us humans that she is willing to stay up all night watching out:) I also love when her beautiful little face that comes to greet me every morning. I love to hear her run towards me grunting with happiness when we see each other after I have been at work or she has been napping.

You can keep up with Suki and Alanna by visiting her blog and following her on Twitter orFacebook.

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