Category Archives: Rainbow Bridge

With my deepest condolences, I would like to light a candle for Follie owned by Lindsey of 4 Kings Rabbitry. We know Follie has been having bloody diarrhea, the after effect of stress due to the onslaught of Hurricane Ike.

Binky Free little one…

It is totally heart breaking and extremely sad to sit down here and write this blog entry. As you would have guessed, Little Miracle died. I came home this afternoon with a pack of Just Born puppy milk(liquid) to help him/her along the way because this morning she did not seemed to be drinking much out of BlueBerry.

I found the nest box soaked with BlueBerry’s pee and was kind of furious but I guess, she knew better than me. We are going to loose that little kit.

I gave a few drops of the milk replacer and placed her on top of the towel wrapped hot water bottle. She/he was a little cold to touch.

Not long after that she/he started going into fits and each time she/he would squeak. I knew there and then what to expect because rabbits almost never squeak and the squeaks sent chills down my spine. Not a good sign at all.

The squeaks and fits became a regular thing for the next 30 minutes and the interval shorten as time passed. It was such a sad sight and I went ahead preparing a grave for him/her. My wife then asked me how was she/he and she knew exactly what my facial expression meant. I told her it is really sad because she/he just did not want to die. My wife gave a sigh and said, “you should just say a prayer and release her/him”.

I did just that. As I prayed, I felt that I was being too selfish to be expecting so much from this little fellow. I laid my hand on the poor little one (was in the midst of the fits) and I asked God to relief it from all the pain. And I asked Little Miracle to just let go and that I do not hold anymore expectations. I also told her/him that it is enough of a miracle that it was now 4th day. Peanut do not live more than 3 days and making it to the 4th day is indeed a miracle for this little fellow. The will to live is just amazing.

I remembered seeing quite a full stomach last night after letting her/him suckle on BlueBerry. I guess things just do not work out that way. This morning she/he was all wrinkled and it was indeed a sad sight.

Thank you all for your prayers. I guess, Chris Zemny’s line is not destined to come to Malaysia after all. One day perhaps.

Here are some pictures I have taken while she/he was suffering:

All wrinkly and drying up

RIP finally

If you ask me whether I feel sad losing another kit I would definitely answer YES. Mainly because I always hope for 100% survival rate in my breedings. Unfortunately, nature does not give you a perfect picture all the time. I have tried to do whatever that is within my control to intervene so that a life could be saved but somehow, mother nature is always an impossible force to reckon with.

Somehow being a breeder, I learned that it is a must to let go whenever I need to. I even console myself with the believe that only the best should survive and losing a runt can be seen as a good thing because other reputable breeders also mentioned that most runts will grow up with complications and they somehow go through a slow and painful death.

The expected happened. LiL^Peanut died. When you breed 2 true dwarfs together, you will get peanuts. I learned this from Laurie Stroupe’s home page and well, true enough, LiL^Peanut survived only for a couple of hours. I believe even Adinna knew the outcome herself because she did not even clean up its umbilical cord nicely.

It was buried next to our beloved Unix. Its grandmother.

May it rest in PEACE…