Re:do I laugh or do I cry???????????

December 15, 2007

I just? HAD to share our bunny story here, maybe it will make you feel better. .

.. maybe not LOL.?

We left Willow, our 3 year old bunny, in the care of my sister-in-law as we went

to Florida with the kids.? She had brought over her new puppy and it spooked

Willow, who jumped through a space between a dining room chair and the leg of

the table, snapping his hind leg as he went.? I came home to find him behind the

couch (he was a house bunny, no cage) shivering and clearly not well with a

dangling leg.? It's a Saturday, off to the Emergency bunny Vet.? It's clearly

broken (clean break of both leg bones) and she splints it until the next day.?

Off to Cornell Veterinary hospital for emergent setting.? They take him back and

place a cast, YES an actual cast, from his hip all the way to is foot.? I take

him? back every week for an x-ray to be sure it's healing, all looks good.? The

final visit to have the cast removed has arrived, but during the night, Willow

seems off.? They take him for his x-ray and come back with grim faces and tell

me the fracture has become an open break and he is septic.? He needs and

emergency amputation from the hip down.? 3 days in the ICU for high dose

antibiotics and recovery from a 3 hours surgery, removal of one leg, 6 weeks of

casting and x-rays and a bill of $1500 (for a $10 rabbit).? I take him home, but

have to feed him a special ICU diet by syringe every 2 hours around the clock,

check his bandages and lift his butt as he relieves himself.? It was a very,

very, very long week but in the end, he did fine.? He was no longer able to be a

house bunny and he had to be caged.? He seemed depressed, so we got him a little

girl bunny.? We tried to put them together, but she attacked him, so we pay $200

to have her spayed.? Back home to try again, no luck.? Now we have to buy

another cage, since she likes to eat the cords.? Willow still seems depressed,

but have come to the conclusion that he's just going to have to snap out of it,

because I'm NOT buying him another rabbit friend!?

That was 6 years ago. Willow passed away last year about this time and Sara (the

girl rabbit) is still with us and going strong.? SIGH.? LOL

So that's our bunny story.?

Take Care and God Bless,

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