Ha, thanks for the vote of confidence, Brenda!
We love our bunny family and I wouldn't want to be without any of my babies.
Speaking of babies, here are the pictures of Podgie that I promised earlier! I think he's such a handsome boy. Quite photogenic, but he looks way more grown up in some of these photos than he does in person. Some of the cutest ones didn't turn out sadly. Padraig definitely has a more babyish look about him in person.
Next to my foot to show his approximate size
Not too thrilled with having his adorable tummy showed off. This photo does not depict the true pudgosity he possesses. Tonight I'm going to have Paul help me get a photo of his roly poly belly!
I feel that I should back up a bit and share the story of how Padraig Theodore Pudgerton came to be with us. A couple of weeks ago, Petfinder showed that our local animal shelter had 9 bunnies. Our shelter usually has somewhere between 0 and 1 bunnies, so 9 is a huge deal! Then another came in. 10 bunnies. Yikes! The shelter is a kill shelter and when I called and asked, they said they would need to euthanize some of the buns if there were too many. Paul and I talked it over and decided we wanted to help. Yes, 7 buns is a lot, but we had 7 in the short time Nomi was here and we both miss her presence a lot
I know I've said this before, but Padraig is our last bunny for a while! I call him our little caboose
Down to the shelter we went. I had my eye on an adult broken mini lop male I'd seen on Petfinder (sound familiar to anyone??), but he had been adopted before we got there! Yay! So had another very cute adult mixed breed bun. That left a litter of 8 approximately 10 week old babies. They told us that the owner lived out of town and had been going to deliver them to someone here in town (sounds ominous to me, I'm thinking meat bunnies), but the deal fell through at the last second and she brought them all to the shelter. Anyway, to the babies. They were separated into two pens, with boys in one and girls in the other. The shelter volunteer was super nice and let me handle each baby. The babies were pretty shy (not handled much) and all ran away. The bun who ended up being our little big Padraig was actually the first I picked up. He was SO CUTE! Super chubby, adorable face, beautiful fur, soft and fluffy... I was smitten. He was the biggest baby and also the calmest. Pretty sure my mind was made up right then, and I asked the volunteer to hold him while I handled all the other buns.
They were all very cute, but the tubbo definitely had my heart and the decision to go with him wasn't hard. I was briefly tempted by his brother Mike, who is a lovely all black bun. He reminded me of TinysMom's boy Tiny. But I wanted Padraig. No particular reason, I guess... He was one of 4 agoutis, I liked that he was big, I liked that he was the calmest, but none of those were deciding factors. Most bunnies are shy around strangers at first. Heck, Tallulah acted like she HATED me for the first week and she ended up being the loviest bunny ever! I just felt drawn to little Podgie though and had his name in my head right when I held him.
So, Padraig was chosen. We took him home and got him set up. I tossed around other names for a little while, but knew he'd be Padraig the whole time really. I actually came across the name a couple months ago on St. Patrick's Day when I read somewhere that Podge is a nickname for Padraig (which is pronounced PAW-drig) and it just seemed like a perfect bunny name! I saw my pudgy little man and the name just fit. The last name of Pudgerton followed soon after, and Theodore is his middle name because it seemed to fit... and he's like a teddy bear
Something that's a little funny: I counted back to figure out his birthday, and guess what? It's St. Patrick's Day! Rory's birthday AND the day I came across his name. It was meant to be! Rory is short for Rhiordan, so now I have two handsome Irish agouti bunny boys
