What Pets Can Teach Us
A few weeks ago, I introduced our pet bunnies here on Hive. They are named Cookie and Bun-Bun. They have connected with us already - super clingy pets that I can almost liken to puppies. They love following us around (around means our small porch area) just by our villa entrance.
- Responsibility
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Every morning, the kids need to make sure that they clean up any droppings that these bunnies left overnight. Cookie and Bun-Bun have a litter box but I think when it becomes filled with lots of poop, then they wouldn't do it in there anymore. Besides, would you use dirty toilets?
The contents of the litter box (grass and droppings) all go to our compost to be used in our garden. Yey! We now have a natural fertilizer source.
What they all love to do is to feed these lovies. They would go and get water spinach from our garden and feed to the bunnies. Seriously, these bunnies eat a lot and I am scared we will run out of water spinach for our own consumption very soon. LOL.
- Emotions
The kids would go out and play with the bunnies whenever they would feel overwhelmed with school work. They teach them tricks (ahhhm, can bunnies we taught tricks?) and just well, simply hang around with them.
With all the fondness and attachment the kids develop towards their pets, they dread the day that their pets would be gone. They experienced pets who got lost, sick, and died. I cannot forget how heartbroken my youngest was when our pet kitten, Maxxie left us too soon when he got so sick out of the blue. That the first ever loss that my son really cried so hard over a pet.
- Love and Respect for Nature
As they interact with their pets, they also learn how to love and respect nature in general. They would feed stray kittens that wander around our villa and the birds that build their nests in our little vegetable garden.
Learning how the animals behave also opens their eyes to their needs. They learned to respect the space these animals need, just as we as humans also need ours.
