HeatherMarie
Well-Known Member
Well, let me tell you bout my buns. I just stumbled across this site last night. I have searched so much on the web for online "rabbit groups" and it never came up..... hmph, well here goes.
Last April I adopted my first bun out of the blue. SugarBunny. SugarBunny had the high life and we moved from Kentucky to Louisiana and I built him a huge bunny condo that took up half the living room, even tho he spent most time with me on the couch. He would do crazy binkies and figure eight between my feet as we walked around the house. He was the love of my life. Then one day about a month ago, I came home at lunch from work and SugarBunny was sick. Real sick. I scooped him up and ran him to the first vet I could get to, and they said they couldn't do anything I had to take him to my real vet which is farther away. I finally get there, and the Doc said he heard one last heartbeat before my baby passed. He checked his stomach and everything and has no idea what happened. He was fine just hours before when i left to work.
About two weeks ago i decided to save a new bun in honor of the Sugar so while I intended on adopting from a rescue i was just looking at pet shops and I wandered in to a petshop downtown. He only had one rabbit out but when he saw me looking at him, he said he had some more "in the back". I followed him so far back where he kept extra food and there were two little girl bunnies in the cold and dark stacked underneath boxes. My heart broke. I said give me both of them. Enter Patches and Widget. Patches is supposedly a dwarf but looks exactly like a teenie tiny Checkered Giant. Widget looks kinda like a Dutch bunny (which SugarBunny was) except without the white chest. A tiny white streak on her forehead and a little bit of white on her front paws but the rest is pure black. So I'm not sure what she is either, but they are both fitting into this new life wonderfully.
Newest surprise. Four days ago, I wake up in the middle of the night and as always check on my sleeping buns, and lo-and-behold there is MOUNDS of hair in the very back corner of their run. Then it starts to move. Widget was pregnant. So at 8 a.m. I call my vet to ask for advice....and long story short 4 days later, we have three very healthy babies...4 did not make it, but the vet tells me this is normal......it is still heartbreaking if no one has experienced this.
It's nice to be able to share with out rabbit lovers, but this is my rabbit story and it's nice to meet you all.
p.s. could someone tell me how to post a picture and i have a gorgeous one of the babies and Widget & Patches.
Last April I adopted my first bun out of the blue. SugarBunny. SugarBunny had the high life and we moved from Kentucky to Louisiana and I built him a huge bunny condo that took up half the living room, even tho he spent most time with me on the couch. He would do crazy binkies and figure eight between my feet as we walked around the house. He was the love of my life. Then one day about a month ago, I came home at lunch from work and SugarBunny was sick. Real sick. I scooped him up and ran him to the first vet I could get to, and they said they couldn't do anything I had to take him to my real vet which is farther away. I finally get there, and the Doc said he heard one last heartbeat before my baby passed. He checked his stomach and everything and has no idea what happened. He was fine just hours before when i left to work.
About two weeks ago i decided to save a new bun in honor of the Sugar so while I intended on adopting from a rescue i was just looking at pet shops and I wandered in to a petshop downtown. He only had one rabbit out but when he saw me looking at him, he said he had some more "in the back". I followed him so far back where he kept extra food and there were two little girl bunnies in the cold and dark stacked underneath boxes. My heart broke. I said give me both of them. Enter Patches and Widget. Patches is supposedly a dwarf but looks exactly like a teenie tiny Checkered Giant. Widget looks kinda like a Dutch bunny (which SugarBunny was) except without the white chest. A tiny white streak on her forehead and a little bit of white on her front paws but the rest is pure black. So I'm not sure what she is either, but they are both fitting into this new life wonderfully.
Newest surprise. Four days ago, I wake up in the middle of the night and as always check on my sleeping buns, and lo-and-behold there is MOUNDS of hair in the very back corner of their run. Then it starts to move. Widget was pregnant. So at 8 a.m. I call my vet to ask for advice....and long story short 4 days later, we have three very healthy babies...4 did not make it, but the vet tells me this is normal......it is still heartbreaking if no one has experienced this.
It's nice to be able to share with out rabbit lovers, but this is my rabbit story and it's nice to meet you all.
p.s. could someone tell me how to post a picture and i have a gorgeous one of the babies and Widget & Patches.
