RandomWiktor
Critter Keeper
Let me start with what I don't want to talk about: my previous rabbits. Via a combination of a very traumatic bout of contagious illness and the re-homing of those not impacted, I have been more or less bunny-less for approximately two years. Everything that happened was so profoundly upsetting that I've been avoiding rabbits and all things rabbit-oriented - including this forum - like the plague. I have had two foster rabbits very briefly, both times unavoidable since they were strays, but I have generally directed people needing bunny aid elsewhere.
Until today.
I was out shopping and poked my head into a pet store, where there was a cute baby bunny that I spent a good deal of time longingly watching. I did not get him; I do not buy rabbits, least of all from stores. But it was interesting that in the same day that I really looked at a rabbit without feeling completely put-off and traumatized for the first time in years, I also got a message about a sweet little Netherland dwarf bunny left at a high-kill municipal shelter who was very stressed by the loud and chaotic shelter environment.
I found myself driving an hour to go retrieve the rabbit.
Will I be keeping the bunny? Who knows - the tentative arrangement right now is foster. In the mean time, I'm back to brush up on rabbits, network with some fellow Alabama/Southern rabbit lovers, and hopefully find a recommended local vet to get the little one fixed. Oh, and to share pictures, which will be forthcoming.
Nice to see "y'all" again.
Until today.
I was out shopping and poked my head into a pet store, where there was a cute baby bunny that I spent a good deal of time longingly watching. I did not get him; I do not buy rabbits, least of all from stores. But it was interesting that in the same day that I really looked at a rabbit without feeling completely put-off and traumatized for the first time in years, I also got a message about a sweet little Netherland dwarf bunny left at a high-kill municipal shelter who was very stressed by the loud and chaotic shelter environment.
I found myself driving an hour to go retrieve the rabbit.
Will I be keeping the bunny? Who knows - the tentative arrangement right now is foster. In the mean time, I'm back to brush up on rabbits, network with some fellow Alabama/Southern rabbit lovers, and hopefully find a recommended local vet to get the little one fixed. Oh, and to share pictures, which will be forthcoming.
Nice to see "y'all" again.
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