parsnipbun
Wise Old Thumper
Well actually it felt more like living a lie to be honest.
Its a long story (but an old one). Many of you know we have an unneuetered male (Parsley) who will remain unneutered for a variety of reasons but mainly due to initial diagnosis of a heart problem - though he has since had to have numerous ops for other things we would really never ever ever forgive ourselves if something snapped during a measly neuter op. after all he has been through.
What nobody knew (including us) was that we also had an unneutered female. We had been told she was neutered when we rescued her, and that she had been living with a male (who was not neutered) with no babies resulting - we didn't believe it of course and were planning to have an op done even if it was just to double check - and we would have neutered if we had found she wasn't. But as she was too underweight for an op. when we got her we just kept her separate and then over time as she showed no signs of hormones at all and got on very well in her group of neutered males and females with no aggression or phantom pregnancies etc we decided she must be neutered after all . . .
Keeping 21 buns in their appropriate groups is usually fine . . and after all with only Parsley unneuetered (as we thought) there is never an issue even if there is a slip and someone escapes onto the lawn when another group s there. . .
Well I guess you all know what is coming . . . and I have to thank Angie65 and Ali (RubyTed) and Vicki for their huge support at what was a very difficult time as neither I nor Steve knew what on earth to do (I have never even had my own babies let along bunny babies . . I had NO idea blood was involved:mrgreen::shock. They have also kept my guilty secret whilst I plucked up courage to confess
Its taken me almost 4 weeks to own up to this and I feel very very silly. The mum will be booked in to have a spay as soon as she gets the vets all clear and the babies are weaned etc.
We have thought long and hard about what to do with the babies (6 of them) and have decided that as they are our fault we cannot possibly try and rehome them as that would mean taking possible homes away from deserving rescue rabbits - so we will keep them all (and before anyone says that that takes up space a rescue rabbit could have had I can assure you there is NO WAY we were planning to increase our 21!!!).
If anyone would like to see them they are on:
http://www.bunspace.com/blog_view?bunid=2205
http://www.bunspace.com/blog_view?bunid=2205
My partner writes the Bunspace blog and it is rather more lighthearted about the situation than it deserves - but bear with it as he writes in the character of Parsley (the father0. Those who know Bunspace will know what I mean. . .
So there it is . . . . in the words of the classics 'Even Homer Nods'. (google it if needs be!)
a very red faced parsnibun
Its a long story (but an old one). Many of you know we have an unneuetered male (Parsley) who will remain unneutered for a variety of reasons but mainly due to initial diagnosis of a heart problem - though he has since had to have numerous ops for other things we would really never ever ever forgive ourselves if something snapped during a measly neuter op. after all he has been through.
What nobody knew (including us) was that we also had an unneutered female. We had been told she was neutered when we rescued her, and that she had been living with a male (who was not neutered) with no babies resulting - we didn't believe it of course and were planning to have an op done even if it was just to double check - and we would have neutered if we had found she wasn't. But as she was too underweight for an op. when we got her we just kept her separate and then over time as she showed no signs of hormones at all and got on very well in her group of neutered males and females with no aggression or phantom pregnancies etc we decided she must be neutered after all . . .
Keeping 21 buns in their appropriate groups is usually fine . . and after all with only Parsley unneuetered (as we thought) there is never an issue even if there is a slip and someone escapes onto the lawn when another group s there. . .
Well I guess you all know what is coming . . . and I have to thank Angie65 and Ali (RubyTed) and Vicki for their huge support at what was a very difficult time as neither I nor Steve knew what on earth to do (I have never even had my own babies let along bunny babies . . I had NO idea blood was involved:mrgreen::shock. They have also kept my guilty secret whilst I plucked up courage to confess
Its taken me almost 4 weeks to own up to this and I feel very very silly. The mum will be booked in to have a spay as soon as she gets the vets all clear and the babies are weaned etc.
We have thought long and hard about what to do with the babies (6 of them) and have decided that as they are our fault we cannot possibly try and rehome them as that would mean taking possible homes away from deserving rescue rabbits - so we will keep them all (and before anyone says that that takes up space a rescue rabbit could have had I can assure you there is NO WAY we were planning to increase our 21!!!).
If anyone would like to see them they are on:
http://www.bunspace.com/blog_view?bunid=2205
http://www.bunspace.com/blog_view?bunid=2205
My partner writes the Bunspace blog and it is rather more lighthearted about the situation than it deserves - but bear with it as he writes in the character of Parsley (the father0. Those who know Bunspace will know what I mean. . .
So there it is . . . . in the words of the classics 'Even Homer Nods'. (google it if needs be!)
a very red faced parsnibun
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