(Slight WIM thread!)
I've been feeling really low recently over Dee. She's nearly six years old and is alone in a hutch (and a run, don't worry!) outside. She had a partner but he was killed in 2010 and they'd only been together a couple of weeks. I have been feeling absolutely awful about this for a long time but as she gets older it gets worse and i honestly do cry over it. We can't afford another rabbit, according to Mum and Dad. We're making loads of cutbacks, one in particular me giving up my lifetime dream and stopping riding .Just the fact we're saving loads of money and we can't afford another rabbit, yet we're buying stuff we don't really need is what annoys me the most :?
I think part of it is that Mum doesn't seem to understand how cruel and unnatural it is, really, to keep a rabbit alone. I've said several times I'll pay for him, I'll do anything she wants, as long as Dee can get a friend. She keeps brushing it off with 'we can't afford it'. Part of me giving up riding was to save more money, yet we're not reaping the benefits of that so I've given up my dream for nothing. I probably sound really ungrateful here and I do understand that we do pay a lot of money out in bills etc but I KNOW if we sat down and figured it out we could afford another rabbit. I'd adopt from a rescue so it'd be neutered, saving us some money, and the food/vaccinations/hay etc wouldn't be a problem. I just feel so so so awful about it. Dee is my absolute soul-bun and the thought of her being lonely is the worst thing in the world. She's spayed and all as well, but I don't really want to risk bonding with my pair because my girl is a right nutcase and is pretty mental/moody!
Anyone else ever felt like this? What did you do to help yourself? could you tell yourself 'well there is nothing I can do about it, end of.' or did you ever get upset over circumstances that you know you couldnt change yet would do anything to change?
I've been feeling really low recently over Dee. She's nearly six years old and is alone in a hutch (and a run, don't worry!) outside. She had a partner but he was killed in 2010 and they'd only been together a couple of weeks. I have been feeling absolutely awful about this for a long time but as she gets older it gets worse and i honestly do cry over it. We can't afford another rabbit, according to Mum and Dad. We're making loads of cutbacks, one in particular me giving up my lifetime dream and stopping riding .Just the fact we're saving loads of money and we can't afford another rabbit, yet we're buying stuff we don't really need is what annoys me the most :?
I think part of it is that Mum doesn't seem to understand how cruel and unnatural it is, really, to keep a rabbit alone. I've said several times I'll pay for him, I'll do anything she wants, as long as Dee can get a friend. She keeps brushing it off with 'we can't afford it'. Part of me giving up riding was to save more money, yet we're not reaping the benefits of that so I've given up my dream for nothing. I probably sound really ungrateful here and I do understand that we do pay a lot of money out in bills etc but I KNOW if we sat down and figured it out we could afford another rabbit. I'd adopt from a rescue so it'd be neutered, saving us some money, and the food/vaccinations/hay etc wouldn't be a problem. I just feel so so so awful about it. Dee is my absolute soul-bun and the thought of her being lonely is the worst thing in the world. She's spayed and all as well, but I don't really want to risk bonding with my pair because my girl is a right nutcase and is pretty mental/moody!
Anyone else ever felt like this? What did you do to help yourself? could you tell yourself 'well there is nothing I can do about it, end of.' or did you ever get upset over circumstances that you know you couldnt change yet would do anything to change?