Bunny Rescue SAD UPDATE ;_; (read first post)

Ashura · Post by **Ashura** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 11:49 am

Wow, that is so horrible when loved ones are gone. I lost my Uncle, his wife and kids a month and a half ago. They were supposed to visit us this summer, but that isn't going to happen now. It was really hard to explain it to one of my nieces why they weren't coming. She caught me off guard when she walked into the room the moment I got the news.

I can't imagine being right there when it happened. Must have been so horrible! I'm sorry for your loss. *huggles*

shellie · Post by **shellie** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 12:21 pm

Awww. I'm so so sorry, misa.

Nene · Post by **Nene** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 1:43 pm

I can understand how much you can love a bunny, I was devasted when mine passed away and one in not very good circumstances which made me feel worse. I always thought that little bunny of yours looked like my old boy Charlie who was a French Lop with very similar colouring. Couldn't find a too good picture but I like his pose in this one.

Hope you start to feel better soon and at least you can rest easy knowing you saved Leo from a much worse fate and gave him a great life.

aernath · Post by **aernath** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:21 pm

majinuub · Post by **majinuub** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 2:36 pm

When I first saw the new topic of the post I braced myself for the worst. Thats so sad, it truly is heartbreaking to lose a pet(I should know having lost my previous cat to an illness).

hobbywhelmed · Post by **hobbywhelmed** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:36 pm

My deepest sympathy on your loss. I've had rabbits for over 20 years, and have felt even the longest-lived went too quickly.

I can appreciate your need to do a necropsy, even though that brings its own kind of guilt. A couple of years ago, I had been given a rabbit, Sybil, who had been living in the basement of a new age store. She was loose, and regularly attended seances and meditation classes, picking out favorite people to get petted by and to hop around. When the store was sold, I was asked to take her. She was only with me for a month, and suddenly died. I felt so bad about asking for a necropsy, but had to know what had happened. In her case, it was widespread ovarian cancer. At least I knew it wasn't something I'd done or been remiss, which is something that unfortunately always gets thought of.

I do know that, being prey animals, rabbits respond very differently than cats and dogs to the stress of illness. Some seem perfectly fine, and you don't realize something that would be considered subclinical is going on, stressing their systems out, until they go past a point into giving up.

At least you were a good owner, friend and parent (and platonic lover - I've been desperately in love with a few special rabbits I've had). I'm sure all his brief time was quality time.

thezelgoddess · Post by **thezelgoddess** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 7:41 pm

I'm so sorry to hear about your bunny! I will be a wreck when my kitties go, and I have lost pets before.

Be good to yourselves and hug all your other "children"!

Doing some sort of nice memorial always helps as well. I hope you will post a link here when the page is up.

Izobel
the Zelgoddess

misa · Post by **misa** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 2:13 am

Hi everyone,

There is a movie up here:
http://www.anime-online.com/bunnies/leo.php

And his gallery is here:
http://www.anime-online.com/bunnies2/ca ... ?cat_id=14

Thank you so much for your kind words. We have been pretty darn devastated, I didn't go to work the past three days.

Making the movie and the gallery seem to have helped a little bit to at least have something to remind me of the good things about his life.

We may be slow responding to e-mail.

Thank you, again, for your thoughts for us during this very sad time

Marisa & Casey
A sad Wesley and Amelia (Leo's bondmates)
And the rest of the bunnies

Post by **sensei** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 7:56 pm

Dear Marisa:

I am sorry to hear about Leo. We had exactly the same thing happen to a rabbit that we owned for about a year and a half: healthy and playful one afternoon, visibly out of sorts the next morning, convulsing and dead as soon as I came out to take him to the vet. Sudden onset pneumonia must be a risk for some varieties (our looked just like the photo, with a little more brown), as several of our neighbors either had had or had heard of similar stories. You can only believe that animals, in some cosmic way, gift us with their friendship, and your act of kindness in saving Leo from being a snake's dinner was repaid in an all-too-concentrated-and-abbreviated way.

My sincere sympathies.

S

yoshito · Post by **yoshito** » Sat Mar 04, 2006 8:35 pm

Sorry to hear of your loss, but glad he got to have at least a chance to have a wonderful life with you and his friends.

kira · Post by **kira** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 4:39 am

*hugs*i'm sorry to hear about the loss.*lets go*

that's good that the making the movie has helped to aliveate(sp?) some of the sadness you were feeling. i agree with sensei on that your usagi had good parents and friends to live with.

HotIce · Post by **HotIce** » Sun Mar 05, 2006 5:10 am

I am really sorry to hear about your loss

*hugs*