T & C? Term and Conditions? Of course not! It is Thunder and Clark and coincidentally, TC can also be Timothy Chan. Yeah, that’s me!
I’ll just let pictures do all the talking.
Monthly Archives: March 2009
Clark’s Prayer For The World
Brought Clark out to watch the sun rise today. I am not too sure if he got the right direction to pray but I believe he was facing the sun. LOL! I guess the following was his prayers.
Dearest BunGod,
Thy pray that Thee will keep us all buhnies safe and sound,
Please not take our legs away for every bun show,
Deliver us from the risk of G.I. Stasis,
May mankind be truly kind to buhnies,
Please keep all cousins and relations happy always,
For those that need to die, may they not suffer a slow death,
May all Bun Masters keep their jobs to fill thee stomach full and round,
Last but not the least, please get this bazoooka off my face!
In Buns We Trust
Filed under Bucks
We’re Listed On HLRSC!
The Holland Lop Rabbit Specialty Club is a very interesting and enthusiastic club to join. They send superb newsletters that put a lot of newsletter I have seen to shame. Each issue is packed with information and there are nice pictures to enjoy as well. Although, I have only received 2 issues thus far, I love the Hollander!
If you are into Holland Lops, be sure to visit HLRSC‘s website too. There are many informative articles written by many renown breeders & judges.
There is a link to the list of breeders around the globe registered as members with HLRSC and I am very happy that TLR has been listed as one of them. Truly honored to share the list with so many amazing and great breeders.
Filed under Random Topics, Recommendations
Watching The Sunset
I brought Thunder out to the park today and he watched the sunset with me. Thank God the only thunder around was him. The weather was superb and as you can see, he enjoyed it very much. I love taking his pictures. This guy is so cute he could stop anyone dead in their tracks.
And naturally, he attracted the attention of many both young and old.
Filed under Bucks
The Art Of Intimidation
One of my all time favorite movies happen to be Gorillas In The Mist. The relationship between wild beasts and humans really intrigues me. And the role of Diane Fossey was very well played by Sigourney Weaver.
As of late, I cannot help but to recall certain parts of the movie and one particular scene stood out among the rest. It was the scene where Sigourney Weaver wore a mask and pretended to be a witch to intimidate the poachers.
In many cultures, intimidation using the element of fear can be very powerful. Certain primitive cultures similar to those of people from the stone age can be very amusing to watch sometimes. For example, most Asians upon sighting a Caucasian, they could be very well behaved and takes every word he/she says as prophecies from God. Please do not get me wrong. I totally adore most Caucasians because they are darn good looking & drop dead gorgeous but on the other hand, I am a strong believer of respect and unfortunately, being good looking does not automatically earn my respect at first sight. One must gain my respect instead of instilling fear in me. There is no fast rule for commanding respect. Unfortunately, there are many that I know whom are easily moved by fear. Someone can just wear a mask and that in itself is enough to intimidate.
With that said, I would like to share with you how Sigourney Weaver looked like when she wore that mask and made the poacher peed in his pants. I am sure anyone will command a great deal of respect if he/she comes here in such costumes. But for me, I’ll take it as Halloween came early this year. LOL!
So when the time comes, I hope my fellow friends can spit at the face of the witch instead of pee-ing in their pants!
People who happens to be big in stature, normally uses their huge body as a form of intimidation and some uses their loud voices. Rabbits on the other hand uses a type of growl that send chills through your spine. Do watch out for the growls because they may be entailed by nasty bites or scratches.
At the end of it all, do know the nature of the person or animal you are dealing with in order not to get yourself hurt. At the meantime, do watch this beautiful movie!
Filed under Random Topics
Earth Hour: Switch Off Your Lights!
Let’s switch off all the lights in your house in unison just for 1 hour. The earth is in dire need of conservation. Let us all do our small parts to make it a big contribution back to mother nature. If we could do this on our own effort once a day, a week, or a month, although a small tiny contribution will impact the world in the long run. So when do we switch those lights off?
Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009 Time: 8:30pm – 9:30pmWherever you are, let’s do it for our EARTH! Just that 60 minutes without lights!
For more information: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=54175421409#/event.php?eid=48479031289
Spread the word on your blogs!
Filed under Community Service
Classic Examples
I just want to write 2 classic examples as regards to the fate of rabbit in Malaysia that I have observed myself and also by friends.
The first classic example is taken from an encounter with a pet store selling rabbits. The first glance I had at this pet store, I did not realize that they sell rabbits except for an adult in a cage which is in poor condition. As I was passing the store again with SB & D, being very sensitive to the presence of rabbits, they found a few 4 week old looking kits in the cage above the adult rabbit I saw earlier. They also realized that the kits had no water and some were seen struggling to reach for water. D then approached the store owner to inform her of the struggling kits. To all of our surprise, the shop owner told D that rabbits should not be given too much water! And upon questioning, she said that too much water causes diarrhea. How amazing is that!? They are having diarrhea because they were too young! Either way, we concluded that the kits are fated to die.
Another classic example is about backyard breeders. We just stumbled across some very interesting people setting up rabbitries and blogs to promote and breed PET QUALITY. A rabbitry that specializes in PET QUALITY? Don’t you think this is hilarious? I found it very hilarious because the rabbitry owner don’t even know what he/she is doing. Joke aside, I only pity the rabbits.
So what’s the relationship between these 2 examples? I am sure the Pet Store owner could be the bestest of friends with such ignorant breeders. They can hold hands and say they are champions! Because birds of the same feather flock together and the only thing they both have in common is the lack of knowledge.
Let’s take a little walk down the future with more of these pet store owners and backyard breeders in this world. More rabbit owners will give less water to their rabbits and more pet owners will be owning/breeding pet quality. So we have lousy quality rabbits being treated in the lousy lack of knowledge manner and ultimately what happens?
DEATH.
Maybe death is a good thing because no more rabbits should suffer then. But death also may spell something good for certain people who believe in REPEAT SALES!
Kudos to all these IDIOTS!
Filed under Random Topics
The Actual Use Of A Pedigree
A grand champion listed on your rabbit’s pedigree do not guarantee grand champion kits from breeding it. Then what is the actual use of a pedigree?
Let me explain first what I mean by my first statement above. When you breed a rabbit, you must know that the traits that you see currently is exactly what that is going to be passed on to its offspring. You should always go back to the fact that each parent rabbit will contribue one part of the gene. So how could you expect a rabbit from 2 generation above manifesting itself?
Here are a list of usage for pedigree:
1. Knowing the birthdate/age of your rabbit
2. Compatibility of your rabbit with other lines
In order to keep the desired traits, related rabbits near or far are bred to keep the gene pool in tact. Certain lines do not work well together and certain lines do because they may come from the same descendants. Knowing the ancestry will tell you roughly if 2 rabbits can compliment each other in that sense.
3. A rough guide to colors
Knowing the color of the ancestors may tell you roughly what color gene your rabbit carries. For example, Holly Hope is a lilac (dilute of chocolates) and Skor’s a chocolate carrier because one of his parents is a chocolate rabbit. So the cross between Skor and Holly Hope will always yield chocolates and blacks chocolate carriers. So their kits will have both Skor and Holly Hope listed. If the kit happens to be a broken black like Truffles, you are sure to know that Truffles is a broken black chocolate carrier (chocolate gene courtesy of Holly Hope).
So what does all this means to a breeder? A pedigree is very important for a breeder that cares a great deal about what he/she is working on and most importantly for someone that needs to ensure exactly what they strive to produce. For a breeder that couldn’t care less except to get kits, a pedigree is definitely not important to him/her at all because at the end of the day, there is no objective in what they are doing except for producing more rabbits with reasons only known to themselves. That’s a big shame actually.
Filed under Random Topics
Kits Update
Time really flew by quickly. The kits are growing up pretty fast too. It will be very exciting to see how they grow up to be. Here are a few of their photos.
Truffles
Seychel
Milkyway Shiro
Camior
Filed under In The Nestbox
Natural Beauties!
Thunder says: Hear Ye! Hear Ye! We would like to thank thy SB, P & D for dropping by to baby us all today! Special thanks & gratitude goes to SB for holding on so tightly to the heavy piece of black thing that has a fat telescope protruding out from the front, while following our every move tirelessly and clicking away (what a mouthful-that’s what the cheeks are for)!
Please note that Master Tim did not make us pose in these photos since we are given full authority over our publicity budget & planning. These are our own very creative poses. Not everyday is show day here in Malaysia!
Ivy Crescent’s Thunder
Ivy Crescent’s Haley
Miller’s Clark
Miller’s Carmel
Tru-Luv Rabbitry: Quality Holland Lops in Malaysia 