The director told me about a rabbit that she was caring for personally. Apparently the rabbit's owner (a young man) died suddenly two days before Christmas. His parents, understandably distraught and not terribly interested in learning how to care for a rabbit, had been keeping the rabbit in a cardboard box. They reached out to the Haven for help.
The director tries to use her space for medical needs rabbits (since she's the expert) so this rabbit needed to be transferred out to free up his space for an incoming sick bunny. I agreed to take him.
Steve and I picked up the rabbit on January 8th. The rabbit turned out to be a 4 year old spotted dwarf mix. His name was Ari. He does not care for holding still for pictures, so below is the best I could do without harassing him too much.
We don't much care for the name Ari (and he doesn't seem to respond to it), so we were trying to think of another name for him. After describing Ari to my mom, she suggested "Sharky" (short for Leopard Shark, of course). I think it's a fitting name.
Sharky tends to nip if you do something he doesn't like. While most rabbits really don't bite, our very first rabbit Buster was a nipper for the entirety of his 8 years, so it's nothing new for us. Sharky also likes to tear up his flooring. His litter box habits aren't exactly perfect yet either, but he's showing improvement, so I'm hopeful he'll come around.
With his personality "quirks" (the nicest way I could think to say it), he'd be a difficult rabbit to adopt out. Particularly due to his biting tendencies, he'd have to go to a rabbit-savvy home without children... which sounds like us, I suppose. I'd venture to guess there's a pretty good chance he'll be a permanent resident. I can see Steve rolling his eyes as soon as he reads this. But, hey, for the low, low price of living with 5 rabbits, you get to have... me! Well... nobody ever said life was fair.
2 comments:
I'm sure your at least an 8 rabbit wife.
Steve had to explain the Mormon reference to me. He was very amused.
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