« 11 » Rocking Rabbit
26th April 2009
Richard restores a Rocking Rabbit for the baby.
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« 12 » Eulogy for Cream, the Dwarf Lop Rabbit
18th July 2006
This weekend, our oldest rabbit, Cream, passed from this place. He was such a placid, gentle creature with a heart of gold.
When we first purchased him, along with Cookies, he was a tiny frail little bundle of fur. We thought Cookies (who was the stronger of the two) would far outlast him. Yet Cookies passed only a couple of weeks after he came to us, and Cream grew into part of our family.He loved being held like a baby and letting us rub his tummy for him, and his front legs would twitch as we groomed his face, rubbing his whiskers down and giving him the love he revered in. In the early days, when we were at Padbury, he'd follow us around and run rings around us - wherever we were he'd run and play, exploring the world and enjoying his life. Being a happy bunny.
When Eunice was laying in the lounge, working on her laptop, he'd jump up on her and fall asleep on her back.
He lavished in the food we fed him; when he was our only rabbit he'd often get to stay in his cage indoors. The cage was open, but he'd return there to sleep and when we weren't around. He was a good rabbit, apart from the often gnawing of the carpet, clothes, and anything else that looked slightly edible (including hair!!). His sparkly eyes and soppy looks always got him out of trouble.
Having two "photo crazy" "parents" taught him from an early age how to pose for the camera and we got many shots of him being himself, doing "binky's" (a term Eunice coined that we use for our rabbits when they jump in the air and spin around) some of them are available elsewhere on the site, but I've archived some of them here for posterity.
Our other pets accepted him as part of the family, there was no hostile activities towards him. The cats sniffed him and kept a distance, although he loved to chase them around and run around them. The faster the cats ran, the more he enjoyed the chase. He dug holes, as rabbits do, and played and frolicked in the backyard; I remember the time he ran away, managing to find a hole in the fence where it was not quite "bunny proof". We posted pictures up on the street corners, at the local shops, at the pet shops, and the next day a kind lady in the next street returned him. He'd been gone for 36 hours, and when we were re-united, I'm not sure who was happier. He never ran away again.
But sorrow and joy are all part of having a pet, and around Christmas Cream sired the first of his offspring with Princess, a female we bought (along with Prince) in October. There were another 3 sets of kittens after this that Cream fathered, some of whom we have kept, others were sold or given to friends.
Sleep well, Cream. We'll miss you.
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« 13 » Rabbits and Kittens
14th July 2006
Some photos of the new rabbit kittens as they wander out and explore the world. We see their older brothers and sisters eating on a rabbit feast, and some pictures of Cream, the dwarf lop rabbit.
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« 14 » Rabbit Run
29th April 2006
Richard and Eunice build a Rabbit Run down the side of the house.
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« 15 » Rabbit kittens, batch two
26th February 2006
Princess got pregnant again, and has brought six more rabbit kittens into the world. These photos were taken between two and four weeks old, when their eyes are just starting to open.
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« 16 » Rabbit Kittens at 4 weeks
14th January 2006
Some more pictures of the rabbit kittens, who are now four weeks old.
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« 17 » Rabbit Kittens between 2 and 3 weeks old
7th January 2006
Pictures of the rabbits' kittens whilst between two and three weeks old. This is the time when their eyes start to open, and the face becomes a bit more like the parents.
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« 18 » Rabbit Kittens
24th December 2005
Photos of the rabbits, with the new kittens (baby rabbits) at 9 days old. The Father (Cream) is a Drawf Lop, and the Mother (Princess) is a Dwarf Rabbit, in some of the photos you can see how they look a bit like Cream, but because we can't disturb the nest too much, we haven't seen what all of them look like.
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« 19 » New Rabbits - Prince and Princess
5th October 2005
We bought two new dwarf rabbits, which we name "Prince" and "Princess". Later we changed it to "The Rabbit that was formally known as Prince", but then we changed it back.
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« 20 » New dwarf rabbit, Lychee
4th September 2005
We purchase another rabbit to add to our growing collection of furry friends, a dwarf rabbit that we named Lychee. She is a white rabbit, with red eyes.
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