Thanks all for your kind words.


I'll be alright but I still miss Proudfoot alot. Keep thinking about her. And it feels weird to have only 1 more rabbit around.

What makes it even more difficult for me to let go actually is the fact that I bought my rabbits long long time ago as part of my recovery. I was sick then, hospitalized and out of school for a very long time and got depressed, so my doctor suggested pet therapy to help me get well faster. So I got the rabbits, Proudfoot and Sprinkles, and they both helped nurse me back to health as well as keep me happy. They'd come and lie down with me when I'm sad, run up to me to kiss my forehead when I'm depressed, and all that. Until today, people who've seen me and my rabbits are amazed at how tame my rabbits are and how they can just lie down happily in my arms without squirming. THey were more than just a pet... really more than just a pet.

For my father, my two rabbits were his "replacement daughters" when both me and my sister left the "nest" for studies and then later, settled down in KL for work. He really took very good care of the rabbits while I was gone.

So for me and my father, Proudfoot's death really hit us quite hard. For the first time in my life I saw my father bend his head in his arms, trying to compose himself after burying Proudfoot...

This post has been edited by djspinnet: Jun 16 2008, 08:08 PM

Sprinkles seems alright for now, although the whole of yesterday she was hiding under a cabinet in the garden instead of digging, and she kept running to Proudfoot's grave (that spot is Proudfoot's favourite digging spot) although we've covered it up with loads of heavy pots so that Sprinkles doesn't dig it up.

Up till the moment Proudfoot died, we've always let Sprinkles play with Proudfoot or at least rest near Proudfoot's cage when Proudfoot's resting in it. She knew Proudfoot was going to go. And when Proudfoot died, we put her body on the ground, and Sprinkles came over to the body. This part was especially heart wrenching for me and my mom. Sprinkles came over to Proudfoot, sniffed her, and then she nuzzled Proudfoot's head lovingly, groomed the head slightly, kissed Proudfoot's forehead before bounding off...

Ala.... in apartment je...

Wait till you have to chase a bunny who has an entire garden to run around... or hide in burrows... under the hot sun.

That is real exercise.

Same here. My rabbits used to hide under car lah, this lah, that lah, cabinet and whatever not. So my father build barricades to where they can and cannot go. But even that didn't stop my rabbits... well now only 1 left, from finding ways to overcome the barrier.

Yep, I lure mine out with fruit peels. They love it.

kenji_britney, try not to use stick if you can help it... it scares them and sometimes you're just going to end up startling them and accidentally chase them into another hiding hole. Use gentle coaxing, stroking or luring with treats.

Luring Sprinkles out from under the cabinet...


Run, Sprinkles, run.

For me cos my bunnies live in a custom built roofed hutch in the garden, cleaning is very easy...

Every day just take a cangkul and scrape everything down into the compost heap and wash the rest away.

My mom's vegetable garden's been ever so fruitful since my rabbits came into the family... seriously. Wonderful!

The main idea of spaying/neutering is to prevent more strays on the streets than anything else!

Especially cats and dogs where the owners sometimes let them out to play and later come back and the next thing you know your unspayed pet goes out and impregnates another stray and the stray female produces more stray litters which the Majlis Perbandaran has to clean up. And what happens to the strays that MBPJ/DBKL/etc cleans up? They get killed! Sometimes someone picks up the poor stray and sends it to SPCA and SPCA is bursting at the seams trying to find place to find a place to house all the strays while awaiting adoption. That is more cruel than spaying/not breeding your pet.

End of story.

It just so happened that spaying happens to have other benefits too.

Aye, I agree.

But the main reason is still birth control (at least in the case of cats and dogs, and even rabbits in certain countries), above health benefits.

I guess until the community is better educated on spaying benefits, the SPCA pitch will still be stray control... which, when you think about it, is quite sad, considering hardly anyone wants to adopt a former stray.

Vets specializing in small animals, no. In fact, have never found one at all.

But usually (at least with Proudfoot when she had her stroke, and my hamsters a long long time ago), I usually go to Gill's Vet along Gottlieb Road. They're quite good, although they do mostly cats & dogs (cos majority of pet owners in Penang are cat & dog owners), they also do some other common small animal pets like rabbits etc. They even have a website here: http://www.gillsvet.com/Home.htm

But I find the youngest son (Amreet) a bit... arrogant. He was the one who took a look at Proudfoot. He gave good advice (except maybe the yoghurt bit which is debatable cos its not easy to find live bacteria that's not swimming inside a lake of lactose in Penang).

I find Gill's vet a good place to socialize with other pet owners... funny but a nice touch nonetheless.

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Added on June 27, 2008, 2:22 pmIf you lock a male rabbit in a cage with food and a "pretty" girl rabbit...

You'll end up with hundreds of rabbits within one year...

Believe me, that's how my aunt accidentally ended up with 100 rabbits within 1 year a long long time ago...

Not to mention by the time you're 1-2 breedings down the road... you'll probably run out of space in that one locked up cage and have to find another one.

This post has been edited by djspinnet: Jun 27 2008, 02:22 PM

My new addition to the family

Baby Navi says hello!





This post has been edited by djspinnet: Jun 28 2008, 07:27 PM

Baby Navi is not in Penang. Sprinkles is still alone.

But I did try to bond Baby Navi with Snowball and Furball... and well Furball sniffed Baby Navi and ran off, Snowball tried to hump the poor Baby after sniffing and establishing the pecking order between them!

Hehehe...

Baby Navi also looking for his father...

Is he in here?


Or outside there?


This post has been edited by djspinnet: Jun 29 2008, 03:06 PM

Sprinkles curling up with me... comforting each other (this was taken the morning after Proudfoot passed on). Sprinkles and I always do this whenever I feel sad, she'd curl up in my arms and let me hug her.


Baby Navi perching on fyire's shoulder...

Sprinkles is fine... so am I.

Navi... erm long story. Hahahaha. No Navi is not navigator.

But I have this plush rabbit toy that has a name tag attached to its leg called "Baby Ivan", its face looks exactly like Baby Navi, but its ears are super super super long and loppy. Whereas Baby Navi is the opposite... short short ears and not loppy eared. So Navi = opposite of Ivan. Navi, Ivan... get it?

aww if you come for beh's gathering in august maybe we'll bring baby navi for you to play with

hehehehehe why do you think i kidnapped baby navi away and ran away fast fast

well maybe not the ran away fast fast but the kidnap part is true saw baby navi, took it out of the cage and won't let go

they were not around today cos we were doing this....

Nope, not mine...

I got lucky

Another teaser of what we were doing this afternoon with Beh & Yo...

two hands holding bunny...

blue sheet...

hospital?

Here's another hint

Aaa?

Still don't get ka?

Maybe this will help you along...