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ra7751 wrote:
Oh they are so precious, I hope they all make it! Sending good thoughts.
Oh they are so precious, I hope they all make it! Sending good thoughts.
I am going to be part of the bunny-train transporting JoJo! This will be my first transport (there are not that many transports out of Florida) and I am so excited to be taking part. I will be transporting JoJo from Jacksonville to Savannah, GA. I only wish I could be taking JoJo all the way to NC so I could meet Randy.Just wanted to ask for everyone's healing thoughts for a rabbit that is coming our way. Efforts to provide transportation from Florida to North Carolina are nearly complete and JoJo should be here soon so was can start treatment.
ra7751 wrote:I am going to be part of the bunny-train transporting JoJo! This will be my first transport (there are not that many transports out of Florida) and I am so excited to be taking part. I will be transporting JoJo from Jacksonville to Savannah, GA. I only wish I could be taking JoJo all the way to NC so I could meet Randy.Just wanted to ask for everyone's healing thoughts for a rabbit that is coming our way. Efforts to provide transportation from Florida to North Carolina are nearly complete and JoJo should be here soon so was can start treatment.
Hi All,
Today is a sad day, a happy day and a day of remembrance here at Sabrina's House. One year ago today, Sabrina came back for her soul mate Yoda and he made the journey across the bridge. He is very much missed by us and I would like all of you to know this wonderful bunny.
Randy, I remember receiving your email last year that Yoda had gone to be with his "Breenie Girl." I cried then and share your tears again today. How fitting it is that you share a tribute to him on this anniversary of his crossing.
But early in 2004, Sabrina lost her battle to all her ailments. Yoda was heart broken. I remember the night we lost her. I brought her body back so Yoda could spend time with her. He came over and sniffed her and sat right beside her. Then he turned and just stared at her empty house. That was very difficult to deal with. He knew.
I, too, can remember when we placed Stewart's lifeless body down next to Gingivere. How she groomed him and nudged him...wanting her sweet friend to wake from his "sleep." She sat for weeks in the areas of the house that had been their favorite snuggle corners...staring off...longing for him to be there. It nearly broke my heart. And to this day I am certain she still misses her dearest friend. "My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today." - That heartfelt quote of Hazel in Watership Down on the loss of his friend seems to sum up all the emotion of such grief.
Yoda and Sabrina are our inspiration in this rescue and why I am so determined to find out all I can about EC. The spirits of Yoda and Sabrina live in every rescue we do. And oddly enough, we just got in a rabbit that has severe head tilt...just like Yoda suffered.
I, too, am thankful for the lives of Sabrina and Yoda. Because of Yoda's fight with EC you have been determined to research this dreaded condition. It was your wise words just months ago that compelled me to have an EC titer drawn on Gingivere. Her strong positive was a blow. And though she's not developed any of the neurological symptoms to date...I know that should that happen you will be there with more words of experience and comfort that will help me yet again. All because Yoda was your teacher in life. Our household is indebted to him.
I take comfort in knowing that things are back as they should be. I miss him terribly. But Yoda and Sabrina are back together again...and this time it's forever.
And I take comfort in knowing that Stewart waits with them for his Gingivere to join him when it is her time.
Again, my thoughts are with you. Your rescue work is a tribute to the bunnies who inspired you. Their spirit lives on in all you do for the others who come into your care. -Mary Ellen
He looked up at me and I felt Sabrina there...she had come for him. I told him it was OK for him to go with her.
OMG....Randy.....this was exactly the way I felt when Puck died and when SugarBear died. Crazy as it sounds...it felt like GingerSpice was there. Those three had been really close when they were young and they played together and slept together.
When my two boys died last week it was so hard to cry or grieve because somehow there was a feeling of "rightness" - as if they'd gone to be with GingerSpice.
I never told my family for fear they'd lock me up - but I know exactly what you mean about feeling Sabrina there...for that is what I felt.
And then an amazing thing happened. He looked up at me again....but it wasn't the tired and sick rabbit he had become. That howdy-doody face, those perfectly lopped ears and those huge deep brown eyes were there for a final time. It felt like he was saying "thank you". And he nodded his head as I felt his last breath.
GingerSpice sort of did that near the end...and I think it helped me accept her passing. Or at least I keep dreaming that every once in a while...
I take comfort in knowing that things are back as they should be. I miss him terribly. But Yoda and Sabrina are back together again...and this time it's forever.
I agree. There are three rabbits that have passed on that I haven't grieved about as much because it now seems "right" for them to be with GingerSpice. One was R2D2 - he and Ginger were very close when they both were very ill. The other two are Puck and SugarBear.....and they were a trio with GingerSpice when they were all young.
Its hard to be sad about them being gone. I miss them - but everytime I think of them (unless I go to their empty cage when I'm feeding) - I picture my threesome binkying at rainbow bridge.
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