The first rabbit we had was Clover a white dwarf male.
A couple months later
someone I knew was giving their black Havana rabbit Jackie
away so we took her.
We didn’t really want baby rabbits but it happened.
I found seven little babies one palomino one white
one grey with a cream underside
two that were almost identical in color
except for one had a little white on his nose
one white with a little light brown on her
and finally one white with dark brown patches around her eyes.
I took them out to make sure they were being fed every day
even before their eyes were open.
One by one the babies went to new homes except three,
the grey twin without the white on his nose and
Dotty the one with dark brown patches around her eyes.
Then we didn’t realize our cage for the mother
was a death trap.
It had been given to us with the mother rabbit.
The lid was half the top of the cage.
The rest was chicken wire.
Dotty was high stung and one day
when I was putting her back
she jumped from my arms to the chicken wire and
tried to jump into the cage.
Her leg got caught she squealed and squirmed then fell.
Her leg was snapped and the bone was nearly through the skin.
We jumped in the car and drove to several vets.
The price was raging from 700- 1,500 to fix it
when we remembered a relative
who runs a vet.
He fixed it for 200 and she was fine for a month.
Then on April 8 at ten
I took her out she was having trouble standing
and she was straining to breath.
Half a hour later
she was dead.
We buried her beside my rat Tiki the next day.
My poor little Dotty I knew her
before she had seen the light of day.
She was just a baby.
Alexandra
| Dotty |
| Alexandra |