tlcwrites
Mama Doe
Not since I first rescued Persephone Floof have I had a bun on their own.
A week tomorrow Iris passed, and it's strange to see how similar and different Arce's behaviour is to Seffy's.
Seffy, when we first rescued her was full of binkies, and I mean full of them. But she was previously being kept on her own, in a hamster cage. She was very very affectionate with her grooms and loved spending time with people. Bonding her to Morpheus led to 'sacrificing' that ridiculously close bond, but she's so happy now I wouldn't have it any other way.
Arce, meanwhile, I 'adopted' at 4.5 from a well-known pet store with Iris. Unless the thing involved noise (Iris was deaf), Iris led where Arce followed. Although she's finished grieving for Iris, I definitely can see she's missing rabbit company. It's been nice for us humans to get to know Arce alone, but she's got extra skittish around unexpected noises and movements. She still comes to us for fuss, and she jumps on my bed to get me up in the morning (that was Iris's 'job.') But she's just missing that edge of confidence that came from keeping her with Iris. That edge of confidence Persephone *had* when we rescued her because she'd been kept alone.
She has a husbun reserved and paid for but we've had to delay our getting him as he didn't recover from his neuter as he should. It's mostly my fault she still hasn't a partner, because there's another boy or 2 ready. But I don't know - I have a 'feeling' about the boy I reserved. The same kind of 'special' feeling I had when I first saw Iris. And when I saw another rescue rabbit I ultimately didn't end up getting (wrong gender; I still have way more does than bucks). I don't want to miss out on that right feeling but I equally feel selfish.
Argh just rambling, not sure if this makes any sense.
A week tomorrow Iris passed, and it's strange to see how similar and different Arce's behaviour is to Seffy's.
Seffy, when we first rescued her was full of binkies, and I mean full of them. But she was previously being kept on her own, in a hamster cage. She was very very affectionate with her grooms and loved spending time with people. Bonding her to Morpheus led to 'sacrificing' that ridiculously close bond, but she's so happy now I wouldn't have it any other way.
Arce, meanwhile, I 'adopted' at 4.5 from a well-known pet store with Iris. Unless the thing involved noise (Iris was deaf), Iris led where Arce followed. Although she's finished grieving for Iris, I definitely can see she's missing rabbit company. It's been nice for us humans to get to know Arce alone, but she's got extra skittish around unexpected noises and movements. She still comes to us for fuss, and she jumps on my bed to get me up in the morning (that was Iris's 'job.') But she's just missing that edge of confidence that came from keeping her with Iris. That edge of confidence Persephone *had* when we rescued her because she'd been kept alone.
She has a husbun reserved and paid for but we've had to delay our getting him as he didn't recover from his neuter as he should. It's mostly my fault she still hasn't a partner, because there's another boy or 2 ready. But I don't know - I have a 'feeling' about the boy I reserved. The same kind of 'special' feeling I had when I first saw Iris. And when I saw another rescue rabbit I ultimately didn't end up getting (wrong gender; I still have way more does than bucks). I don't want to miss out on that right feeling but I equally feel selfish.
Argh just rambling, not sure if this makes any sense.
