Our pet rabbit Athena has broken the blockade underneath the sofa. When last updated I'd put the top of our broken coffee table underneath the sofa, making about two-thirds of this space inaccessible, and used a string of empty cardboard boxes, backed up to the wall, to leave the rest blocked off. That's held firm, despite her chewing on the ends of boxes.
No, the gap was a little space between the table and the boxes, which I had filled with two of the legs of the former table. These are long but lightweight blocks of wood and I had supposed that Athena wouldn't be able to do much about them. At any one moment, no, she couldn't do much, but she could keep chewing down on it and tugging one, getting it an inch or two moved, and she could keep at this. Finally she made enough progress to pull one of the legs out of the way, and the other one slid out easily, and then she disappeared inside to attack cardboard from the other side.
We're fine with her chewing cardboard and I'm glad she found a more appealing target than the underside of the couch. But she was also vanished underneath and now somewhere that we couldn't just grab her or harass her with a broom until she left. And I had to go to bed, so ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger would be left waiting for her to come out of her own accord if we didn't act, and she might never do that.
I tried getting a treat and using the clicker to summon her. She would poke her head just enough out of the couch to see me and sniff at the treat, but she wasn't coming out to take it. I also tried pouring in pellets and getting fresh vegetables, which often summon her out from the couch, but she wasn't having it.
(This week she's been more prone to eating her pellets completely. Perhaps not coincidentally we've cut down how much she's getting. It's imaginable that she had been stuffed.)
So, nothing for it. I had to lift up the couch, to I'm sure bunnyhugger's shock that I can do it one-handed, and to a shocked Athena reached in, grabbed her, and tossed her in her pen. There bunnyhugger gave her the belated treats she'd earned by listening to the clicker.
So, I need something better as a barrier for this gap. A brick seems obvious, or maybe getting a four-by-four from the hardware store. Something too heavy for her to move of her own accord. I think we can make this work yet.
Now some more of the Cass County Carousel, in Logansport, Indiana, as we saw it on our anniversary.
Giraffes! And maybe more stunning, ones that look pretty good, compared to the inadequately referenced onces they had on display at the Merry-Go-Round Museum a couple years back.
bunnyhugger and I ready for a ride.
Here's the ring dispenser. It works about like you'd imagine, rings slid into the arm and the arm extended or pulled back depending whether there's still a brass ring to grab.
View that was probably over the back of my shoulder at the horses behind and the band organ.
Little secondary-figure cameo on the saddle, showing a wolf who looks sad.
Another secondary-figure cameo on the saddle, showing a dog who looks sad.
Trivia: The largest salar, or saltpan, in the world is the Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia. Tourists can stay at a hotel made entirely of salt. Source: Napoleon's Buttons: 17 Molecules that Changed History, Penny Le Couteur and Jay Burreson.
Currently Reading: One Heartbeat Away: Presidential Disability and Succession, Birch Bayh.
