The Duchess
Wise Old Thumper
Bless this little mite that has left us all so heartbroken.
I am too tired to write much but needless to say she has left an enormous hole in David and my lives having lived in our lounge with us since she arrived because she was too small and frail to live outside.
I had to take the awful decision to PTS. She had been seen several times over the past few weeks and we all felt that there was no fixing her. We didnt know how right we were until the PM.
She was not fully developed inside, with her kidneys being tinier than they should be and they were in chronic failure. They were atrophied.
She also had lungs that weren't right either and part of her caecum that controls the movement of contents was missing altogether. This may explain why she never flourished in her life and was so tiny, weighing in at just over 500g. She had an absorbtion problem that meant no matter how much she ate, she didn't get the goodness of the food. She ate constantly but she never gained weight. She couldn't eat any veg as her gut would never tolerate it and would cause her to have a very mucky bum straight afterwards, every time.
So, there was nothing we could have done to sort her out and she had always really been living on borrowed time. She is atleast reunited with her sister from whom she was parted when her sister died last year. This being the reason her owner didn't want her any more - his magic act needed a pair of white bunnies not just one
She went to the vets in Angus McWooly's lovely blankie so she was safe and warm and I held her while she went. I think she knew her body had given up on her and she didn't fight it.
I keep looking over my shoulder to see her and she's not there any more, she's missing and I can't believe she won't be coming back.
I am too tired to write much but needless to say she has left an enormous hole in David and my lives having lived in our lounge with us since she arrived because she was too small and frail to live outside.
I had to take the awful decision to PTS. She had been seen several times over the past few weeks and we all felt that there was no fixing her. We didnt know how right we were until the PM.
She was not fully developed inside, with her kidneys being tinier than they should be and they were in chronic failure. They were atrophied.
She also had lungs that weren't right either and part of her caecum that controls the movement of contents was missing altogether. This may explain why she never flourished in her life and was so tiny, weighing in at just over 500g. She had an absorbtion problem that meant no matter how much she ate, she didn't get the goodness of the food. She ate constantly but she never gained weight. She couldn't eat any veg as her gut would never tolerate it and would cause her to have a very mucky bum straight afterwards, every time.
So, there was nothing we could have done to sort her out and she had always really been living on borrowed time. She is atleast reunited with her sister from whom she was parted when her sister died last year. This being the reason her owner didn't want her any more - his magic act needed a pair of white bunnies not just one
She went to the vets in Angus McWooly's lovely blankie so she was safe and warm and I held her while she went. I think she knew her body had given up on her and she didn't fight it.
I keep looking over my shoulder to see her and she's not there any more, she's missing and I can't believe she won't be coming back.