Let’s start at the end of the story…

It was a warm windy day, and I pegged the shade cloth to the bunny’s fence. It wasn’t too windy, but enough to inflate the cloth like a balloon, and then deflate each time the wind puffed and swirled around.

The wind blew and the fence became undone and left a huge opening in the fence. Of course, Buttons decided it was a brilliant idea to go exploring. Nova, not super sure, left the pen a few hops, then returned to the safety of the pen. She then went a few more hops away, and returned back.

I was preoccupied in the WC when I heard my sister yell “The rabbits are out!”. I couldn’t do anything, and I hoped that everything would be OK.

By the time I got there, my sister had somehow got Nova back into the pen and closed the opening. But Buttons was gone.

My family members were around the car, because one family member was about to pull the car out and leave. Another family member had seen what he thought was a plastic bag flicker and go under the car. He bent down to get the bag out from under the car, and noticed it was Buttons.

By that time I was trying to call him to me, he wanted to come, but he was scared. He crunched himself under the underbelly of the car and stared ar me not sure what to do. He finally decided to make a run for it back to the pen. I cornered him and picked him up. He didn’t want to be picked up, he wiggled a bit, and even gripped my arm-skin between his front teeth.

I sat down with him on a chair in the pen, but he didn’t want to. So I let him go. He immediately went back to where the opening was in the fence and sat there. Nova went over and tried to figure out where the opening went.

They sat there for a while, minutes, trying to figure out how the opening disappeared, and checking everything because the opening must still be there, somewhere. Nova even tried to bite the fence.

I decided to lock them into the Omlet enclosure for a while, until I could figure out what to do with the fence. The bunnies were happy to be in there, they immediately laid down next to each other and thought about the wonderful time they had on the outside.