BUNNYFEST!

Late saturday night, Missy got a message from her friend Abby, who works with the CAT ZIP ALLIANCE. Abby told Missy that there was going to be a BUNNY FEST in Stone Mountain, Georgia on Sunday, and that she was thinking about going to check it out. As soon as Missy read the words "BUNNY FEST" it was immediately put at the top of our agenda for the following day...I got down Nilla's pet carrier from up high in our supply closet, and prepped it for our bunny, OREO, the next morning...







We left Athens around 12:30 yesterday afternoon, and got to the ST. TIMOTHY CHURCH in Stone Mountain about an hour-and-a-half later. The event was in the recreation center behind the church. We followed the signs leading us to the festival, like Alice chasing after the White Rabbit...









We paid for our admission at the check-in desk...and then paid for memberships in the North Georgia chapter of the national HOUSE RABBIT SOCIETY...and then bought Oreo a ticket for the BUNNY SPA, which included a BUNNY MASSAGE, and a ticket for the BUNNY PORTRAIT STUDIO...we even ended up buying tickets for the raffle. How could we not resist the lure of pet pampering and fabulous prizes?





There was a table with a buncha grab bags full of goodies, and then behind that even more tables filled with tons of food...and of course, there was CARROT CAKE...







The recreation center was a CARPETED BASKETBALL COURT...there were little islands of paper-covered tarps where rabbit enthusiasts could set up little pens for their bunnies. We hopped from pen to pen, looking at all the early bird bunnies...













We found the BUNNY VERSION OF NILLA!















Since we were there early, we decided to take Oreo to the BUNNY SPA before it got too busy...at the grooming station they brushed her, cleaned her "vent" and ears, and clipped her nails...











After her grooming, Oreo was treated to a BUNNY MASSAGE and had her spine stretched and realigned by a professional CHIROPRACTOR, who was also a bunny enthusiast..."I do this to my bunnies all the time!" It was funny to watch Oreo being pulled and twisted like taffy!

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After the bunny spa, we stopped off at the photographer's table to have a "SEARS-STYLE" PORTRAIT made of Missy and Oreo...































We went back to the massage table to see one of the huge FLEMISH GIANT rabbits get it's spine stretched out...the rabbit was so large that it took two people to do it...







We stayed till the very end of Bunny Fest, to see if we would get lucky in the raffle...WE DID! I ended up winning the big prize - a huge dog-sized metal EXERCISE PEN! Best four dollars I ever spent! Lucky too, because we were actually in the market for such a pen to put in our craft room for Oreo. With summer upon us, it'll soon be too hot for our bunny to stay out on our enclosed patio, no matter how shady it is. Now she'll be able to relax all summer in air-conditioned comfort, with plenty of room to roam without getting into trouble with electrical wires and craft supplies...not to mention NILLA! I got up on stage to dismantle my prize, which was on display...everyone else was frantically packing up their bunnies so that the kids waiting to play basketball could have their court back...