[dogscoff]

When I lived with my parents we had 2 cats. Now I live with my girlfriend and we have a rabbit named Snuff.

He is utterly fearless, perpetually active, impervious to discipline, unreasonably cute and quite the most destructive pet I could ever have imagined. I guess it's my own fault for naming him after a punk band...

Everything that he can reach is a target for chewing and/ or digging activity: wires, furniture, rugs, walls, shoes, people, laundry, paperwork, curtains, laptops, doors, houseplants (especially the houseplants), mobile phones... He's only about 9 inches tall when he stands upright so you'd think you could just put stuff out of reach, except now he's big enough to jump and/or climb onto just about any surface in my home. I swear he runs up walls when we're not looking like some kind of lop-eared spiderman. Oh, and he's nowhere near his full size and destructive capacity yet, being only 4 months old.

And I haven't even mentioned the little poo-pellets I keep finding on the floor, in the bed, under the sofa-cushions, in my laptop, in my trouser pockets (how..?), in my filing cabinet and just about anywhere else. Still, it's good fertiliser for what's left of the houseplants.

If anyone's interested I'll post some pictures later.

So I've decided the pet I really want is one of those Sony robot-dog things. Clean, obedient and cute. Perfect. Shame they cost about 1500 quid. Maybe I could get the rabbit chrome-plated...