Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

underhuntressmoon:

ladyofthehouse:

hime-bun:

The face of regret.

Ooh! Ooh! can I tell you a little bit about this? No? Too bad! I’m going to tell you anyway.

What’s happening here is that our lovely speckled guy (or gal) on top is establishing or reasserting that he (or she) is the boss in this pair. What?! Bunnies have a dominance thing?! YES, YES THEY DO. They literally sit on the heads of other bunnies to say they’re boss. This behavior is common, especially in bonded pairs. So while that lil’ dude (or dudette) on the bottom looks like maybe this is not a great moment–IT’S TOTALLY OKAY.

What may be happening here is top bun is saying to the other one, “Nah, it’s cool. You don’t have to make decisions today. I’m Top Bun.” And bun who is being sat upon might be thinking, “Okay, yeah. That’s pretty sweet. I was having a hard time deciding between whether or not to eat carrots first or hay, but if you’re making decisions I’ll just eat whatever you’re not eating. Cool cool.”

Buns also do this with PEOPLE!  My bun and I sometimes have a little back and forth about who’s boss. If I smush his head down gently (GENTLY) he generally calms right the f down and stops his shenanigans. Sometimes he’ll just come right on up and stick his head under my hand, not just asking for pets, but asking for a little head smush. “You’re boss right now, okay? Okay. cool.” Sometimes he chins my hand or leg or whatever (because he can’t really smush my head). This basically means, “Yeah, you’re my person. Also I’m probably boss so bring me stuff and praise my handsome self.”

Just as an FYI.

Bun on the bottom looks like might have been in need of the head smush he just received.

That is all.

Smush.

–TLOTH

mrikul

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