04-07-2009, 12:50 PM
I mentioned our white rabbit Alice back in December on my Albatross thread. She's a huge rescued lab rabbit and we've had her for several years now. Honestly, no one is quite sure how long. Maybe 5 years. Hard to say. One of S's cousins was in vet school at Davies and told us that Alice would be euthanized if we didn't take her. She heard us mention that we were thinking of a pet rabbit, since T is born in the year of the rabbit. That day, a marvelous homemade hutch was being sold at a neighbor's garage sale on our street. I've since made many repairs and improvements to that hutch.
Alice was T's first pet although she's really big, too big for T or Mrs. Dm to handle. She's too big for the ferals in our yard. Once, we let her run about in the yard and the ferals started circling Alice like lions. The alpha tomcat (we nicknamed Tom) charged Alice and Alice charged right back. He flinched. All the other ferals bore witness. They all cowered in the presence of Alice. Alice has been my responsibility for years now.
Since the vet trips in December, Alice has been inside the living room in our small hutch. She's never quite recovered from that operation and there's a large mass growing rapidly growing on her back. Now she's not cleaning herself, so I must regularly wipe her butt. Remember this old joke? A bear and a rabbit are shitting in the forest. The bear says 'do you have trouble with shit sticking to your fur?' The rabbit says 'no'. So the bear wipes his ass with the rabbit. Well, it's not true. Rabbits have a hellacious time with shit sticking to their fur.
We've decided to let Alice go her course and not take her back to the vet. The vet wanted to have the tumor he removed analyzed to see if it was cancerous, but there's no way we could afford chemo for a rabbit and Alice is getting up there in years for a rabbit, at least so we're told. S's cousin gets us meds at cost.
Alice still seems happy to get treats. Her bad leg is pretty lame now. And of course, she's always got shit stuck to her fur that needs to be cleaned. She's pretty mellow about the cleanings. She seems to understand what's going on.
I need to buy a box, one big enough to fit Alice, when the time comes. I already know where I'll dig the hole.
Alice was T's first pet although she's really big, too big for T or Mrs. Dm to handle. She's too big for the ferals in our yard. Once, we let her run about in the yard and the ferals started circling Alice like lions. The alpha tomcat (we nicknamed Tom) charged Alice and Alice charged right back. He flinched. All the other ferals bore witness. They all cowered in the presence of Alice. Alice has been my responsibility for years now.
Since the vet trips in December, Alice has been inside the living room in our small hutch. She's never quite recovered from that operation and there's a large mass growing rapidly growing on her back. Now she's not cleaning herself, so I must regularly wipe her butt. Remember this old joke? A bear and a rabbit are shitting in the forest. The bear says 'do you have trouble with shit sticking to your fur?' The rabbit says 'no'. So the bear wipes his ass with the rabbit. Well, it's not true. Rabbits have a hellacious time with shit sticking to their fur.
We've decided to let Alice go her course and not take her back to the vet. The vet wanted to have the tumor he removed analyzed to see if it was cancerous, but there's no way we could afford chemo for a rabbit and Alice is getting up there in years for a rabbit, at least so we're told. S's cousin gets us meds at cost.
Alice still seems happy to get treats. Her bad leg is pretty lame now. And of course, she's always got shit stuck to her fur that needs to be cleaned. She's pretty mellow about the cleanings. She seems to understand what's going on.
I need to buy a box, one big enough to fit Alice, when the time comes. I already know where I'll dig the hole.
Shadow boxing the apocalypse
