Rabbit review and more....

I will start out with an update on the bunny...first of all, my daughter came up with the perfect name for it: Clover. I like it because it could be for either gender. Not sure how good I will be at calling it that. The miracle of it all is that it is still alive, even after last night. You might wonder what kind of parent I am after I tell you, but it just has to be told.

I feed it every 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 hours during waking hours, and probably the most it has went is 5 to 5 1/2 hours at night. I usually try to time its last feeding before I go to bed to be around midnight...Saturday night the timing was off and it was between 10:30 and 11:00 when I fed it. I was up for just a short while afterwards, and went on to bed.

I woke up at 2:30 knowing I should get up and feed it, but was just so dead tired I wanted to go back to sleep. Yet I knew if I did lay there that I would not wake till morning so I made myself get up and warm its formula. I took it to the living room and placed it on the end table and went to get the bunny out of the cage. In this case it is not a real cage, but a cat carrier. The 'door' to it is wires of a sort. They are heavy duty, but spaced about 1 1/4 inches apart.

Well, Clover has been traveling inside the carrier but he usually just snuggles deeper into the towel I have in there. Not this time! I felt back in the folds--no bunny! I took the towel out and unfolded it. Still no bunny! And you have to picture this...but everything I am doing I have at least one cat trying to help me. It is comical to think of now, but at that time I was getting agitated.

You don't even have to think to know what I was feeling. I was just sure a cat had gotten the baby. I got my flash light and peered under the couch right by the cage. No bunny. I don't know why I stood up, I was planning on turning around to look under the other end of the couch, but I just stood up to glance around and see if I could see any remains of the bunny. And I happened to look down at the end of the couch and there it was right at the corner of the couch--its little nose just working and sniffing! (Still has its eyes closed.)

I was so happy to find it...I fed it and just sat and held it for a bit before hunting a box to place it in, inside the cage!

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I forget where I originally got this little sketch/diagram, but at the time and even now, it sure fits me. Especially the part about time spent looking for things I just had.