Hi there Lovely Lady,
I’m so sorry it’s taken me so long to get my act together and write this; I just didn’t want to face it.
We first met WAY back in 2011, when you came into the RSPCA with Fluffy and Inca. Inca was PTS very quickly and you and Fluffy stayed together, although she then developed her hormones and you and her had to be separated.
You were single at the RSPCA for a while, with no interest and then I found myself with a lonely adoptable boy, Butterfly. I took him round and dated him with a few ladies, and, out of all of them, he chose you. You were the only bunny that came to me when you didn’t need to. YOU didn’t need to come to me (at least, not at that point), but he needed you too. So you came home, that day- 5th March 2012.
You and he bonded in my living room and you were so happy and so comfortable together, right from the word go. He knew what indoor life was, but you didn’t. You found it a life of luxury and just melted into this pool of blissfulness at being inside.
You guys bonded quickly and soon moved into your new permanent home in my room.
The pair of you didn’t last there for long because you were both super destructo bunnies, so out you went, into a lovely set up outside. That seemed to work much better for both of you. Wherever you were though, you were super loved up with each other.
You were both still up for adoption, and I was looking for a special home for you both. Then some horrific negligence happened at the RSPCA and I knew I was going to have to leave. Before telling them, I arranged to adopt you both, so that, when I left, there would be no lose ends and I would know you were both ok, and you wouldn’t be neglected if you went back to their centre. You officially became ‘mine’ on 5th August 2012, and you were here to stay.
You and he were such a beautiful couple- attractive and cheeky, all in one go. You LOVED to get out and run around and you did binkies like I’ve never seen before- even higher than Candyfloss!
And, along with all of that, we got to know each other and our trust grew, and you started to trust me. You were a ‘bunny’ bunny, rather than a cheeky little toddler bunny, but that was part of your charm. Your little heart of gold.
You showed, quite quickly, that you did have dental issues, and you would occasionally go into stasis with those, but with some warmth, and fluids and pain relief, we would bring you round.
And you guys lived that happy little fluffy life until April 2014, when you started to develop breathing issues. After a couple of months of diagnostics, and a visit to Iain Cope, he diagnosed heart failure. This was sad news, but it made me so glad you had come to me, because I knew that I had seen it, I would treat it, you would be looked after and, most importantly, you wouldn’t suffer. At all. You’d live a happy life for whatever weeks, months or years you had left.
So we medicated and treated and you got used to ‘the pink box’ (your nebulizer) and you were a dream to give oral meds to and you and your fluffy friend were up at the front of your enclosure all the time.