maxysmummy
Well-Known Member
So i decided it is time for me to make a blog. I think my rabbit related life is probably interesting enough now, haha.
Let me start from the beginning.
hi, my name is Holly. I am a 20 year old student, studying Law and Psychology. I used to hate animals... I mean, really hate. they used to scare me and gross me out. I think it was the trauma of losing pets as a kid? that was untill Llew suggested we get a rabbit. I became obsessed with the idea and eventually we bought our lovely Buster. Buster only lived with us 2 weeks, he died suddenly and horribly from terrible diarrhea. RIP.
ever since then I wanted another rabbit, but Llew was far too traumatised to let another one in. Buster was Llew's heart bunny.
eventually my nagging got the better of him and along came the rabbits:
Here is max, the love of my life, my 'heart bunny'. Llew often jokes that max was my husband in a past life. max is about 6 months old now and such a spoilt little brat.
this is wolfgang. wolfgang hates human beings... and rabbits. he'd much prefer to run amok around outside than be anywhere near us. wolfgang is only a few days younger than max.
this is the love of my life, Llew. he is what started me onto this bunny obsession... i think he might regret that one a little, lol!
for the past 4 months that was my family.
happily pottering along with little to no excitement or drama
a few weeks ago i was looking on the website of an organisation that did rabbit rescues. They had a section on there for "rabbits on death row" (the organisation didn't have a shelter facility, just fostered animals out). I noticed that the two gorgeous rabbits were set to be executed at 4pm. I looked at the clock and i was only 3 hours late. I felt sick. it was honestly a feeling that haunts me to this day. When the website put the "new" bunnies up i seriously couldn't let it happen again. I didn't plan to have them forever, even if i could just save a few, take them home and find them NEW homes, i'd be happy.
The website had advertised
Rabbit - Gray with white feet - sex: (blank) Picture to come
Huge Rabbit - Brown and white - sex: Male Picture to come
if both werent sold by "tender" (silent auction) 4pm New years eve 2010 they would be executed.
I called up a few times and asked them to call me back if they weren't sold and I would take them. Every time i received the same answer - call back at 4pm on the 31st of December 2010.
finally new years eve came around. Llew and I were going to 2 separate parties and i left very early in the day (about 12pm).
I'd spent the afternoon drinking by my friends pool, and by the time 4pm came around I'd become too nervous to call myself. I made Llew call up, and from what he recalls here is how the conversation went.
"Hi, we called a few times about rescuing the rabbits if no-one bought them, we were just wondering if they've been sold yet"
"no, neither of them have been sold"
"oh fantastic, well we will happily take them off your hands"
"not unless you put in a tender..."
(at this, llew was shocked. he told them we were going to be fostering them through sydney pet rescue and we thought they'd be happy we would take them off their hands so they didn't have to KILL THEM)
Llew decided to put in a tender of $5 per rabbit.
They told us the rabbits could be picked up on sunday and hung up.
slowly sunday pulled around and I was working from home so Llew went to pick up the rabbits.
to my delight, he bought home these 2 amazing specimins at around 1pm. (the relevance of the time will be made clear when you read further, haha)
The mini lop who Llew named Jemima. (i added the suffix of Puddleducks because i thought it suited her quite aptly). Llew fell into insta-obsession with Jemima. although he wont admit it, she is his heart bunny.
Llew also brought home a HUGE Flemmy (or some sort of heavily flemmish mix) who I named Barry Manilow.
pictures don't do him justice... he is HUGGGGGE and has beautiful blue eyes.
So llew introduced me to the rabbits and i gave them a quick health check. As I was feeling around Jemimas stomach, something felt not right. I've never owned a female rabbit before, but as soon as i felt her belly i just KNEW. She was pregnant. I told llew and I'm not sure if he believed me fully, i'm massively obsessive and turn mountains into molehills.
Looking at Jemima it just felt all wrong. Her Dewlap was really large and her belly was HUGE but she was too skinny. you can feel her spine very easily. this further cemented into my mind that she was pregnant.
at about 3am I wake up with really really bad cramps. I went to the bathroom and Llew starts screaming at me from the other side of the house "HOLLY COME QUICK, SHE'S PULLING OUT FUR, YOU'RE RIGHT SHES GOING TO HAVE BABIES, THERE IS SO MUCH FUR IT LOOKS LIKE SHES GOT HER OWN TAIL IN HER MOUTH"
back from the bathroom i run and there is miss jemima making a nest. we tried to put a shoebox in there for her and she ignored it. we decided to just give her a buttload of hay and leave her too it.
We couldnt sleep all night and were watching her like a hawk. we covered her NIC pen in towels to give her some privacy but there was a small opening that we could see in.
at about 6.30 nothing had happened, just nestbuilding nest building nestbuilding. Llew convinces me to have a quick 1/2 hour kip. it's 6.45 and we set an alarm for 7.15.
surprise surprise 7.15 comes along and we wake up to miss Puddleducks sipping on her water and some little hairless sausages wiggling around in the nest.
arent they beautiful!
when we checked up on them last night we took this photo:
you can't see the markings very well from the picture, but it looks like there are 2 spotties, one charlie and one black one.
how very exciting!
I will keep you guys updated as their lives progress.
(the most amusing part of this for me is, in a 24 hour period we went from having 2 rabbits to 8...)
xoxo
Let me start from the beginning.
hi, my name is Holly. I am a 20 year old student, studying Law and Psychology. I used to hate animals... I mean, really hate. they used to scare me and gross me out. I think it was the trauma of losing pets as a kid? that was untill Llew suggested we get a rabbit. I became obsessed with the idea and eventually we bought our lovely Buster. Buster only lived with us 2 weeks, he died suddenly and horribly from terrible diarrhea. RIP.
ever since then I wanted another rabbit, but Llew was far too traumatised to let another one in. Buster was Llew's heart bunny.
eventually my nagging got the better of him and along came the rabbits:
Here is max, the love of my life, my 'heart bunny'. Llew often jokes that max was my husband in a past life. max is about 6 months old now and such a spoilt little brat.
this is wolfgang. wolfgang hates human beings... and rabbits. he'd much prefer to run amok around outside than be anywhere near us. wolfgang is only a few days younger than max.
this is the love of my life, Llew. he is what started me onto this bunny obsession... i think he might regret that one a little, lol!
for the past 4 months that was my family.
happily pottering along with little to no excitement or drama
a few weeks ago i was looking on the website of an organisation that did rabbit rescues. They had a section on there for "rabbits on death row" (the organisation didn't have a shelter facility, just fostered animals out). I noticed that the two gorgeous rabbits were set to be executed at 4pm. I looked at the clock and i was only 3 hours late. I felt sick. it was honestly a feeling that haunts me to this day. When the website put the "new" bunnies up i seriously couldn't let it happen again. I didn't plan to have them forever, even if i could just save a few, take them home and find them NEW homes, i'd be happy.
The website had advertised
Rabbit - Gray with white feet - sex: (blank) Picture to come
Huge Rabbit - Brown and white - sex: Male Picture to come
if both werent sold by "tender" (silent auction) 4pm New years eve 2010 they would be executed.
I called up a few times and asked them to call me back if they weren't sold and I would take them. Every time i received the same answer - call back at 4pm on the 31st of December 2010.
finally new years eve came around. Llew and I were going to 2 separate parties and i left very early in the day (about 12pm).
I'd spent the afternoon drinking by my friends pool, and by the time 4pm came around I'd become too nervous to call myself. I made Llew call up, and from what he recalls here is how the conversation went.
"Hi, we called a few times about rescuing the rabbits if no-one bought them, we were just wondering if they've been sold yet"
"no, neither of them have been sold"
"oh fantastic, well we will happily take them off your hands"
"not unless you put in a tender..."
(at this, llew was shocked. he told them we were going to be fostering them through sydney pet rescue and we thought they'd be happy we would take them off their hands so they didn't have to KILL THEM)
Llew decided to put in a tender of $5 per rabbit.
They told us the rabbits could be picked up on sunday and hung up.
slowly sunday pulled around and I was working from home so Llew went to pick up the rabbits.
to my delight, he bought home these 2 amazing specimins at around 1pm. (the relevance of the time will be made clear when you read further, haha)
The mini lop who Llew named Jemima. (i added the suffix of Puddleducks because i thought it suited her quite aptly). Llew fell into insta-obsession with Jemima. although he wont admit it, she is his heart bunny.
Llew also brought home a HUGE Flemmy (or some sort of heavily flemmish mix) who I named Barry Manilow.
pictures don't do him justice... he is HUGGGGGE and has beautiful blue eyes.
So llew introduced me to the rabbits and i gave them a quick health check. As I was feeling around Jemimas stomach, something felt not right. I've never owned a female rabbit before, but as soon as i felt her belly i just KNEW. She was pregnant. I told llew and I'm not sure if he believed me fully, i'm massively obsessive and turn mountains into molehills.
Looking at Jemima it just felt all wrong. Her Dewlap was really large and her belly was HUGE but she was too skinny. you can feel her spine very easily. this further cemented into my mind that she was pregnant.
at about 3am I wake up with really really bad cramps. I went to the bathroom and Llew starts screaming at me from the other side of the house "HOLLY COME QUICK, SHE'S PULLING OUT FUR, YOU'RE RIGHT SHES GOING TO HAVE BABIES, THERE IS SO MUCH FUR IT LOOKS LIKE SHES GOT HER OWN TAIL IN HER MOUTH"
back from the bathroom i run and there is miss jemima making a nest. we tried to put a shoebox in there for her and she ignored it. we decided to just give her a buttload of hay and leave her too it.
We couldnt sleep all night and were watching her like a hawk. we covered her NIC pen in towels to give her some privacy but there was a small opening that we could see in.
at about 6.30 nothing had happened, just nestbuilding nest building nestbuilding. Llew convinces me to have a quick 1/2 hour kip. it's 6.45 and we set an alarm for 7.15.
surprise surprise 7.15 comes along and we wake up to miss Puddleducks sipping on her water and some little hairless sausages wiggling around in the nest.
arent they beautiful!
when we checked up on them last night we took this photo:
you can't see the markings very well from the picture, but it looks like there are 2 spotties, one charlie and one black one.
how very exciting!
I will keep you guys updated as their lives progress.
(the most amusing part of this for me is, in a 24 hour period we went from having 2 rabbits to 8...)
xoxo
