Lisa F
Mama Doe
I now know why some people say that the hardest part of losing a bun is putting your feelings aside and thinking of the bun you have left.
Eric has never been alone, he's been with his brother his whole life. Thankfully, he was the one in charge and much more independent than Ernie so he's currently coping okay.
The difficulty for my OH and I is that we didn't think we'd be dealing with this for a few more years. The main problem being is that we didn't want to carry on keeping rabbits after our boys were gone. We HAD discussed this as we knew it would happen eventually and the plan we had in our minds, when we were one day left with one (hopefully) elderly bun was to try and arrange a long term foster situation with a rescue. Possibly bonding our boy into a trio or similar with a rescue pair, with the agreement that, after we lost our remaining boy, we'd carry on fostering the rescue buns until a good home could be found for them. I "think" there are rescues that do that, at least.
However, Eric is still only six years old. I have no idea what the expected age expectancy is for mini rabbits like him but that seems youngish to me?
So, we are thinking of trying to find an older girl to bond with him (if we can find one), preferably somewhere that will do the bonding for us. Size is an issue too as Eric is small (only 3.5 pounds) so we'll need a little girl, probably a mini lop or Nethie or similar.
I'm in Cambridgeshire so I'll be contacting the rescues that I know are near me (that do bonding) to try and find a little, older lady for Eric.
Eric has never been alone, he's been with his brother his whole life. Thankfully, he was the one in charge and much more independent than Ernie so he's currently coping okay.
The difficulty for my OH and I is that we didn't think we'd be dealing with this for a few more years. The main problem being is that we didn't want to carry on keeping rabbits after our boys were gone. We HAD discussed this as we knew it would happen eventually and the plan we had in our minds, when we were one day left with one (hopefully) elderly bun was to try and arrange a long term foster situation with a rescue. Possibly bonding our boy into a trio or similar with a rescue pair, with the agreement that, after we lost our remaining boy, we'd carry on fostering the rescue buns until a good home could be found for them. I "think" there are rescues that do that, at least.
However, Eric is still only six years old. I have no idea what the expected age expectancy is for mini rabbits like him but that seems youngish to me?
So, we are thinking of trying to find an older girl to bond with him (if we can find one), preferably somewhere that will do the bonding for us. Size is an issue too as Eric is small (only 3.5 pounds) so we'll need a little girl, probably a mini lop or Nethie or similar.
I'm in Cambridgeshire so I'll be contacting the rescues that I know are near me (that do bonding) to try and find a little, older lady for Eric.
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