I think it's just a natural hazard of having older and less 'well bred' animals Jane - you have such a kind heart you are bound to suffer for it
Just you haven't had time in between each loss so it's a pile-up
If you only take on healthy, young rabbits, whose background you know is good, then you won't have as many losses, but you are drawn to the damaged and unwanted ones and they need you too
My mum used to play this song when I was a child, and the words always stuck in my head - women must weep, because we are the carers.
Three Fishers lyrics
Artist: Joan Baez
Album: Joan Baez In Concert, Pt. 2
(John hullah – charles kingsley)
Three fishers went sailing out into the west
Out into the west as the sun went down
Each thought on the woman that loves him the best
And the children stood watching them out of the town
For men must work and women must weep
For there's little to earn and many to keep
And the harbor bar be moaning
Three wives sat up in the lighthouse tower
They trimmed the lamps as the sun went down
And they looked at the squall and they looked at the shower
And the night-wrack came rolling in ragged and brown
For men must work and women must weep Instant Song Lyrics
'Though storms be sudden and the waters be deep
And the harbor bar be moaning
Three corpses lay out on the shining sand
In the morning gleam as the tide went down
And the women were weeping and wringing their hands
For those who would never come back to the town
For men must work and women must weep
And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep
And good-bye to that bar and its moaning
For men must work and women must weep
And the sooner it's over, the sooner to sleep
And good-bye to that bar and its moaning