It's never easy to lose a bunny. One of my sport ND does (BBF's Alisha) passed away this week after delivering two kits, one doa and one got cold and passed too. We don't know why she died, she didn't hemorrage, but did have a little blood on her mouth. Perhaps she choked on the afterbirth. The previous week, I'd found a cold singleton shortly after a doe kindled it and two doa littermates. I thought it was a goner. I warmed it up some and put it in with a different mom in a litter of two. The other two warmed it up more, it nursed and thrived for 5 days. Then doing a nestbox count one night it was missing and I found it on the floor. It must have hung on when the mom exited the nestbox after nursing, got out on the wire and then went thru the front wire by the food dish and finally to the floor. The other three cage sides have urine guards. But no, Murphy's Law was against this little kit and even with saving it 5 days earlier, it perished anyway. No matter how long you are in rabbits, it still makes the heart sick when you lose bunnies. Each captures your heart in some way.
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Gwynn LaPoint
2/19/2012 10:29:52 am
Ain't that the truth! :(
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