Sunny - 5 year old dwarf French lop.
This is my totally nuts little man! After I lost my previous rabbit (Fudge) I went looking at rabbits from a woman who runs a rabbit rescue center and also breeds show bunnies, selling some of the babies. Sunny was one of the babies, and he was very friendly and outgoing, sniffing my hands and looking for attention. He was about 11 weeks when I brought him home. He's completely bonkers! He doesn't do sitting still, he clamors for attention and follows me around the garden when I've got him out loose with me. |
| Ashey at about 13 weeks |
Ashey (Ash technically, but I rarely seem to call her that) - 1 year old dwarf lop
To explain a little of Ashey's story, I gotta go back. Last March I lost my baby, Bracken, a dwarf lop mix. Brax was my angel, a snappy madam who took chunks out of everyone, except me. Well, she tried a few times. Left the odd mark, but mostly I was her safety net and she trusted me only. She got sick and I had to make that hellish decision to have her put down and I was devastated. Later that night my mom mentioned that when she'd been in the little flower shop where she bought hay for the bunnies that they had some very cute tiny baby bunnies in. Now, my mom loves my bunnies, and loves cute babies too. But she doesn't normally mention seeing the babies they sell there. And even rarer still to mention them with the affection she did that night.So the next morning, having gone outside and put Sunny out in his run and tried like hell not to brake down over Brax's empty hutch, I head out to take a look. I was heart broken, I was driving along thinking what the hell am I doing? I just lost my baby and I can barely breath past the pain and I couldn't talk about it. So why the hell was I going to look at these guys? I got there. Sat in the car for a minute and then took a deep breath and went in. I was there so I may as well right? Three hutches on top of each other, all with cute babies in them. One has 2 black and white dwarf lops in, one has 2 brindled babies in (couldn't look too long, too close to Brax's color), and the other has 3 tri-colored dwarf lops in it. All completely different colorings and markings, but they all reminded me of my first bunny, Flopsy. I put my fingers to the mesh, let them sniff, trying not to cry cause dammit I wanted my baby back! And one of them licked my finger. Reason we picked Flops from the litter? She licked my finger. So that was it, that babe was coming home with me. So Ashey joined the family. My tiny baby girl with ridiculously long legs, a wiry body and half her face light, half dark. She still loves to lick everything, very cute! And she's bonkers too, races around the garden at top speed, jumping over anything.
I've also got Honey, who is a gerbil, but I don't have any decent pics of her to share. Damn creatures are FAST! Trying to get non-blurry pics is a little tricky. Anyway, I've got Honey and she's a friendly little gem. She's old now, but she used to love running around my floor and hiding under my bed. In the house my sister also has a mouse (who is very cute and sweet) and a very evil rat (who is not at all sweet, seriously, he stares at you and lunges trying to take chunks out of you through the bars. I sort of love him anyways). They complete my 'at home' four legged family.
I may have mentioned this already, but I'm a total horse nut as well as a book worm. I can't ride at the moment as I'm too ill (generally speaking I mean, not just with this flu bug) but I do help out for a couple hours at the Riding for the Disabled Centre near me once a week. Obviously none of the horses there are mine, but I love them as if they were. I've got my three angels there too:
 |
| Poppy & Jake watching me clean tack |
4 comments:
The bunny's are so cuuute <3
and the horse are beautiful :) I hope you get to ride them more often ^_^
I have three cats, I love them so much <3
Sylvester - Black, 12, the king of the family he demands respect of everyone (and usually gets it) he has my Dad wrapped around his little finger, unfortunately he isn't very well, this time last year he got cancer, and had to have one of his back legs removed, but he's a fighter and was running around barely a week after the op. However the cancer has come back, this time in his front two legs, he still hops around with not a care in the world, and loves having his medicine every night, but I worry about him, as we could lose him at any time, although being the fighter he is he's already passed the Vet's expectations, so fingers crossed we'll have him around for longer :)
Next is Pippy - Girl, 4, Black and white and very very fluffy, she hates me XD She runs away from me all the time, but she's a sweety too, she guards the house and keeps the boys in check, so i love her all the same ^_^
Finally we have Felix, MY baby, black, 4 (Pippy's brother) hes very active, always running around (apart from when he's lounging on my bed) and is so funny, hes very cuddly and alwasys sits in the strangest of positions, he reminds me of Nermal a cat I knew since birth and died when I was 14, so it's lovely having him around <3<3
It's nice to learn more about you outside of your book interests! Ashley is adorable!
I have 5 cats... 3 live at my house and 2 live at my parents store. One is Momma cat and Ruffles and Runts are her baby (they are all orange and super adorable). Momma was a stray that we brought in 2 years ago when she was preggos. Then we also have Marbles who was a stray who we have had for about a year... And my new little man, Oreo, who was also a stray who we have had for about a month. Oreo is the love of my life, seriously.
;)
I agree, it's fun to read about other sides of a person. :-)
Your four-legged family is adorable! We've had rabbits, guinea pigs, gerbils, cats (and fish) through the years. Now we have two cats. I guess both are actually mine, but I think the old man in the family is kind of my dad's and the younger woman is kind of mine, which seems appropriate.
The old man is 17 years old this year, and he definitely has some age problems, like stiff joints and some dementia, but he's pretty spry for his age.
The young woman is actually getting on in age as well. She's going to be 8 this year! I really can't believe it! I got her as company when I'd lived away from home for a while, and I was just getting too lonely. It was lovely to have some company, but she's really not the kind of cat you can have in an apartment, so she's pretty much moved back to my dad (where I spend most of my time at the moment anyway).
This cat is particularly crazy (at least when she was younger). I have a friend who's bred persians, and she didn't believe it when some of her customers told her how different it was to have a persian compared to a "normal" cat. Not until she'd spent a night in the same room as my cat. Next time she slept over, she took the inflatable mattress to the kitchen, so she could get a decent night's sleep, without my cat! After that, she understood why I always shut the door on the cat every night.
However, at my dad's, where the house is pretty big, and she can go out whenever she wants to, she's like a completely different cat. She really is a lovely creature, and we're very close. :-)
Oh my god, I actually cried reading about your grief over Bracken :( That must have been so difficult for you. Thank you so much for writing this post. I thought it was really interesting to read about your beautiful bunnies and the horses.
I wish that I had four-legged family of my own, but I don't. We always dogs back with my family in America, but N never had any pets (unless you count fish, which I don't) and it's been hard convincing him that our family needs one. I'll wear him down one of these days..
Post a Comment