Yeah--guess I need to use my imagination.

We're not at a critical stage of his life where this is a firmly set pattern, but if it goes on very much longer like this, he could wind up being an obese non-responsive bunny. Which I'm sure would shorten his life.

Louie likes to be invited places: Like, maybe if I pay more attention to making his immediate environment fun & show him "Hey! Have a look at this, bro," he'll take more active interest. These days he gets upset if the cage door is closed; on the other hand, even with it open all the time, he rarely ventures out. And after I've held him & petted him a while, if I put him on the floor he scampers right back inside the cage.

He's pretty nervous on his back; I have to support his head, rub his ears & eyes to keep him still. Sometimes when I rub his eyes he does that tooth-clicking thing, which I'm told is a good sign. Then when I take my hands away, he flips back over onto his paws in a blur! Everybody laughs at that.

I check him for lesions on his belly & legs; he hasn't had any of those for about 18 months, but when he first came to live with me (he was an abandoned road-rescue bunny), he got those every few weeks. I don't know what caused those, but they always healed on their own just as fast as they had appeared.

Can you recommend a good kind of nail clipper? I've seen the ones where you put the nail through a hole & squeeze the blade oveer it. Louie does NOT like having his nails clipped, and it takes an extra pair of hands to try that with regular clippers without hurting him. He struggles quite a bit and I hate to do it.