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Anyone else lost young buns?

Rufus

Mama Doe
I still find it so hard to accept what is happening to me. I feel like I am doomed.
Over the last years I did not have any bunny that lived over one and a half year.
I know of people that keep bunnies in a cage in a shed, the children lost interest, they forget to feed them, they never cuddle the bunny and still they live for many years. I provide the best care, the best food, the best possible housing but I have to watch fate take my dear bunnies away.
 
I am so very sorry that you are losing your bunnies so young, where do you get them from ? is it the same place because
if it is maybe that is the problem and nothing to do with you at all.

Thinking of you and sending hugs xxxx
 
A lot of keeping healthy rabbits come down to luck. I always feel sad when buns who have a happy life (like yours) are taken so young when many rabbits spend years on end waiting for death to come as a friend as the have such a miserable life. Life is about quality not quantity. If you can have both then brilliant but quality will ALWAYS come before quantity.
 
I know what you feel like, I lost Trixie when she was 10 weeks old and Tallulah when she was 17 months old! :cry: oh well, it seems they were needed up in heaven more than they were down here! :love:
 
It seems strange, doesn't it? I don't have an answer, but agree with Milo+Fizz - quality over quantity. :thumb: Hope that is some comfort to you - your posts always show how well you care for your bunnies and how much you love them.
 
I lost a young bunny who was under 6 months a few years ago - I had only had him for 3 weeks, he'd been myxi'd but not VHD'd. We think it was VHD although we didn't get a PM done. He wasn't actually dead when I found him in the morning, vet had to help him pass, but it was heartbreaking as he was just a baby :cry: So sorry - it must be hard when its more than one :(
 
Tuckerbunnies : my buns all come from different places.
If only I was stronger, I would say "no more bunnies for me" but there's is always one bunny on it's own and my heart breaks at the thought of taking it to a rescue?

I gave up on hamsters, Lucy lived for 5 months, Lana for 4, it's too sad. When I was very young I had two hamsters, one lived for two years and 2 months, the next one two years and 4 months. What I think is that pets are so popular now that they are bred endlessly.
 
I hope you don't give up on bunnies. Perhaps you have just been really unlucky, it really seems the most likely 'answer' although not a very satisfying one for you. Bunnies do hide pain and discomfort as part of their instinctive behaviour, so it is really difficult to spot anything coming on.
 
I hope you don't give up on bunnies. Perhaps you have just been really unlucky,


I know, very unlucky and everytime I hope next time I will be lucky for once.

When I lost the hammies, people used to say (you know how people are:roll:) "o but they don't live long you know" Yes, I'm aware of that, but 4 months....

Well, I will never win the lottery, but at least can I have long living bunnies for once?
 
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