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 We have had shearing weekends.

This is Mr Gynter himself. He really enjoys me using scissors to cut his wool. He stands so still and makes pleased sounds. He really doesn't like to be angora rabbit with long wool. This time I took him to take his wool off two weeks earlier what comes to the schedule. He stopped most of eating and just sulked. After shearing I scratched him with the  hard comb and he was so so happy that I almost heard him laughing! In the middle of the shearing he looked like a robot vaccuum cleaner with customised duster at the bottom.

This is Viola. See too is standing or laying very still when shearing. Most of all she loves me to cut her face wool off. Rather at first. This is the position in which we have found best to shear the stomach side. I hold and he cuts. I myself find it a bit difficult because they get so relaxed that they get heavier and so soft that I feel they are slipping through my hands. Despite of her teenage pregnancy (which was a terrible accident) she has grown well. She weights now 3,7kg. After stopping breast feeling the kits she had still unlimited access to food and that seemed to help her to catch the desired growth.

About Lulu's shearing operation I don't have any pics because I was doing it alone and forgot the camera. And when shearing the stomach side I didn't think about the camera but just holding her because we had some problems. She fell asleep every now and then and then she always suddenly woke up and got spooked up where she was. During the time she got used to it but still she became so limp that I really need to pay all my attention on holding her instead of dropping. She was really cute! Almost snored! I also forgot to weight Lulu because of this falling asleep syndrome. I'll do it on some other day.

Little Pernilla weights now 2,3kg. She was -as usual- very suspicious about the operation. She's been in once before when she was 10 weeks old. But then she was very small and scared so I cut just a bit and cuddled a lot. Now she needed to go through it all. I let her watch what was going on and took her after finished with the others. And she again did so fine. After that she has not been so scary and timid. Perhaps she understood that nothing bad happens to her and this is what it is up of being an angora rabbit in ethic production. I bet she has heard the news about horrible industrial angora rabbit farms. Poor one. Now she knows her life is different. She loved shearing a lot and since that she has been very friendly, active and initiative towards me when I daily go in their box for cleaning and feeding.

Sleipnir weights 2,1kg. 200g less than Pernilla. I bet it is because she is very hyperactive. Always galloping wild around. She doesn't like to be on his back when shearing the stomach. But when she is put in the way that she can see the world around she accepts it and relaxes. She too had to be sheared all over. Unfortunately I don't have proper pic of her yet in her new coat. Her wool has strated to fade from black to grey but it still was surprisingly dark after shearing.

And here's one more pic for you. Sulo and Rumpali. Rumpali is on the right. His upper pic doesn't show the right blue shade. And the other pics are a bit too lilac. But they both are blue. Also they face full shearing. And loved it. I think it eases their life and feeling. When they notice it they let you to do it easy. We don't tie them up. They just stand on the table and then lay on the arms. They don't fight or bite. They are used to handling and us. Of course that helps a lot too. We never hurt them or scare them so they trust in us despite we'd do something new to them.