My, what big ears you have

Slim Jim

Teyla

I was playing with my new vacuum this evening (again with the lameness, I know) and pondered an interesting thought.

Of my two rabbits, whose hearing is the more sensitive?

My assumption has been that Teyla’s sense of hearing is the greater as her ears are several times bigger than Slim Jim’s. Since I wanted to use the vacuum on Teyla the English Lop’s cage, I was concerned about making sure she left the room while I did it. Being the nosey bunny that she is, Teyla didn’t stay gone long and came back and hopped into her cage while I was working, apparently nonplussed by the loud noise of the vacuum.

Heartened by this, I decided to then vacuum the hay and fur from the lounge chair in the rabbits’ room. As I did this I kept an eye on Teyla to make sure she was still doing alright — only to then discover that Slim Jim was the one being driven crazy by the noise. Poor Slim Jamison. His erect Mini Rex ears, while smaller than Teyla’s, must be more difficult for him because they’re stuck open and he can’t really control what he hears. I’m still convinced Teyla’s ears are more senstive (she’s the one that freaks out in the middle of the night to noises Slim Jim, Rebecca and I can’t hear) but I think Slim Jim has the disadvantage of not being able to shield himself from the noises around him. As I rock out to loud music most of the time I’ll have to be mindful of this in the future. The good new is that he, like Cassandra before him, seems to enjoy my taste in music. You’ll perhaps recall that Cassie was a big fan of System of a Down’s first album and liked to sit in front of the subwoofer during certain tracks.

Silly wabbits.