Hugo's There
Wise Old Thumper
I guess we are just feeling a bit sorry for ourselves today, but I'm starting to wonder how anyone is able to carry on doing what we are doing.
Today we lost Bessie after a week of battling hard to do our best to pull her through. It is the third rabbit we have lost this month, the 5th rabbit we have lost this year and we are only in the middle of March. Tomorrow Moses is booked in for a dental check and will probably need a GA next week. If we loose him too I really don't think we can take much more.
I know we choose to take in the special needs bunnies but we never expected it to come with quite so much heartache. I don't think we have ever had what people might call a "success story" ie. a bunny that has come to us poorly and we have been able to nurse it and make it well so it can go on to lead a happy healthy life. All of ours have chronic or serious health problems that mean we are just managing the best we can for as long as we can. Nearly every bunny we have taken in recently has turned out to have a lot more wrong with it than we initially thought when it first arrived and it is heartbreaking.
I know a lot of our bunnies aren't with us for very long so you might think we do not get as attached to them as someone who has had a bunny for years, but we do. Because they have so many problems we spend hours with them, bathing bottoms and eyes, giving injections, changing bandages etc, etc So the bond we have with them develops really quickly and they leave a huge hole in our lives when they are gone.
I'm not posting this for everyone to say we do a great job or whatever, I know we do the very best we can for our bunnies, what I want to know is how do we carry on doing it without becoming emotional wrecks? Every time we loose one it seems to be harder to deal with not easier
Today we lost Bessie after a week of battling hard to do our best to pull her through. It is the third rabbit we have lost this month, the 5th rabbit we have lost this year and we are only in the middle of March. Tomorrow Moses is booked in for a dental check and will probably need a GA next week. If we loose him too I really don't think we can take much more.
I know we choose to take in the special needs bunnies but we never expected it to come with quite so much heartache. I don't think we have ever had what people might call a "success story" ie. a bunny that has come to us poorly and we have been able to nurse it and make it well so it can go on to lead a happy healthy life. All of ours have chronic or serious health problems that mean we are just managing the best we can for as long as we can. Nearly every bunny we have taken in recently has turned out to have a lot more wrong with it than we initially thought when it first arrived and it is heartbreaking.
I know a lot of our bunnies aren't with us for very long so you might think we do not get as attached to them as someone who has had a bunny for years, but we do. Because they have so many problems we spend hours with them, bathing bottoms and eyes, giving injections, changing bandages etc, etc So the bond we have with them develops really quickly and they leave a huge hole in our lives when they are gone.
I'm not posting this for everyone to say we do a great job or whatever, I know we do the very best we can for our bunnies, what I want to know is how do we carry on doing it without becoming emotional wrecks? Every time we loose one it seems to be harder to deal with not easier