Time According to Bunnies

       Bonding bunnies brings many challenges. It's a disruption to the daily activities within  a household, a logistical nightmare, upsets schedules, produces anxiety with familial relationships, disrupts sleep patterns, stress inducer, requires copious patience, and demands an extraordinary amount of time. Possibly the most difficult aspect for humans to adjust to is the last one mentioned: time. Although a free resource, humans struggle to battle the ongoing clock ticking in the background, a constant reminder of what we failed to accomplish daily, weekly, yearly. The time constraints we place on bonding usually pair with unrealistic goals. Why unrealistic? Bunnies don't perceive time the way we do. To use, each day that passes without bonding progress or the completion of it glares failure and disappointment. 
           Bunnies are seasonal creatures, regulated mostly by large time intervals determined by climate and weather cycles. Unlike humans who judge time in hours and days and keep vigilant track of how many hours bonding sessions last and the number of days/weeks/months the overall bonding process takes, bunnies perceive a much bigger picture. Adapting to environments in the wild, certain seasons trigger certain behaviors. Typically, seasons come four times yearly and last around three months each. Winter, marked by cold temperatures and storms, indicates hiding in vast underground burrows, storing food during times of limited supply, adding dense fur growth to retain body heat, carefully navigating around the lack of vegetation covers, etc. Spring brings about ample water supplies and foods to forage which helps build muscles and bulk and the physical health necessary for reproduction, vegetation growth for hiding, and the assurance of nesting patterns by predatory animals. Each seasonal timeframe marks milestones bunnies use to their advantage for survival. 
              Bonding is adding new members to the colony. The process requires bunnies to consider restructuring hierarchy, allotment of resources, territorial expansion, etc. Bunnies are inquisitive and intelligent creatures who thrive on challenges of learning and adapting. They work at their own pace; a pace that humans should respect. Instead of judging bonding progress by human time keeping, counting every minute or hour of the inconvenience and the drains on patience, start thinking in terms of seasonal frameworks. Keep calm and rabbit on!