Sweet Caramel

Yes, caramel is sweet!  Yum!

But the Caramel I’m talking about today is the rabbit.  My Caramel bunny is one of the sweetest bunnies I’ve ever had, and today was his shearing day.

EXCEPT, Caramel is different from the other rabbits because he molts (sheds his hair), but only on parts of his body.  You can see where he has molted right in the middle of his back — all that brown fur.  Some of it is very short; some of it is longer because he doesn’t molt at the same rate all over his body.  I actually should have started on him a week or so ago.  He got tired of waiting on me, and managed to get the hair off that brown spot on his back by himself!

So a Caramel shearing day is only half shearing. The other half involves gentle tugging.  And when I’m through, I have 2-1/2 ounces of gorgeous biscuit-tan, soft as air, bunny fiber, and one pretty funny looking bunny.

Who’s mad at me. Sort of.  I’ll make it up to him with some carrots!