Derek and Fern
I’m not sure if Fern actually realises she is a bunny. Climbing on the furniture in the house was odd, but she is obviously a bunny who likes adventure, which is why she lives in the garden where its more exciting. Now she has started jumping on us. It is not anything I remember the bunny books we read ever warning us about
When we let her out of her outdoor bunny run, we always like to stay out with her, even when its cold. Our main reason is to keep her safe, but we also just like being with her. Fern is a member of our family and it’s fun to spend as much time as we can with her. Plus as a lone bunny it is very important to make sure Fern isn’t lonely.
After we’d known our little bunny, Fern, for a few months it became apparent she wasn’t going to be a quiet little house bunny. No, Fern wanted to live outside and she made sure we knew it. We had hoped that as a house bunny Fern would be happy with our company, but outside in the garden we were worried she would be lonely. So, along came our second dwarf bunny Fawn.
The bunny run we bought Fern had a ramp up to the bed box. Fern has removed it. We went out to see her one afternoon and it was laying flat on the floor. Foolishly we thought it was an accident, so we stuck it back up. The ramp had been attached with screws and she had pulled it clean off, but we managed to reattach it.
Fern may be a little bunny but she really is a handful.
Our little Fern has been having trouble jumping in and out of her cage and she keeps getting her toes caught in the open doorway. Rather than wait for Fern to hurt herself, Derek has made her a fancy wooden ramp, so Fern can hop in and out of her cage whenever she wants.
Who can live in a home without bunnies? Obviously not us and a gorgeous little bunny called Fern has joined our family.
We had to make the difficult decision to have our special little bunny Thumper put to sleep. When we woke up on Sunday morning we were horrified to find he was showing the same symptoms that his brother Flower had suffered from. To see him struggling with his balance broke our hearts. Thumper had shown no symptoms before and so suddenly he was struggling to stay on his feet. Our vet confirmed our worst fears and took care of our little bunny for us. It was a terrible shock, we had hoped Thumper would fill our home with his antics for many years to come. Since he has gone our house just isn’t the same, but we have made the difficult decision not to have any more bunnies for awhile. We miss you Thumper.
Our precious little Flower passed away. His seizures had been under control for many weeks but Friday morning he had a very severe one and then continued with several more seizures as the day progressed, until he passed away peacefully at home. Sadly both Derek and I were away from home while Flower was ill, we had been in Cornwall for the week and my mum had been taking care of our family for us. She had called us early in the morning as we were preparing to head home, at first we just thought it was a normal seizure Flower was having. Mum told us that although Flower was back on his feet he was still quite wobbly. It was very difficult being so far away and we phoned home several times during our six hour journey home. Flower had several more seizures throughout the day and we were very relieved to finally be home. Mum greeted us at the front door saying that she had just checked on Flower and he seemed okay. Lindsay went upstairs to see him, but he had passed away. It was a terrible shock for all of us, but at least we knew he had not suffered.