Heartbroken

[Eileen S]

I have had Krimpet, my first bun ever, for 4.5 years now (he is 5). I love him so much and he has such a great personality. I recently got a new cat who is terrorizing my bunny. At first he was okay with him and tried doing binkies when the cat was jumping in the air at his toys. It was so cute. But now the cat just wants to play and chase him. Krimpet doesn’t want to come out anymore. He hides a lot and will only come out and play and binky when the cats asleep. (I do keep them apart when I’m not there).  I’ve been struggling with whether or not to get another bunny and keep the two bunnies in their own space, away from kitty. 

A great opportunity appeared, and it seemed like fate, when a co-worker said he’d been keeping his bunny in the garage because they got a new puppy. I thought about it for a few days and then offered to take the bunny. He was thrilled and said he’d bring her to me yesterday. Yesterday came and went and no bunny appeared. Today, the co-worker said that his ex-wife found out that he was going to give away the bunny and became revengeful. She said she was going to take her and give her to her new step kids. He promised that she was just being spiteful and he’d get the rabbit back for me.

I have no idea if I’ll ever see her. I am just so sad. I’ve been expecting her for a week and preparing for her and shopping for her. It was like expecting a child. For those of us without children and whose pets are our kids, you know what I mean. I am just so broken up about this. I am trying to be happy that, hopefully, the bunny isn’t in a garage anymore, but I am just heartbroken.

No one seems to understand how much pain I’m feeling right now, which is why I decided to write my story here. It feels good to say what’s on my mind, but I’m sitting here at work now, crying my eyes out. 

[NuggetBuns]

So sorry to hear that you won’t be getting the new rabbit. Stories like this make me mad… why didn’t the ex-wife take the rabbit in the first place? I hope the bunny gets a better life and doesn’t end up in another garage again. I can’t understand what you must be going through, but I can tell you would have made a great owner to this poor bun. As for Krimpet and your new cat, I think you should block your cat from getting into Krimpet’s space. He needs his own territory where he can feel safe and call his own.

[bunnytowne]

I am sorry too that the new bunny never came.  What a time to become spiteful. Thats so sad.  I hope the bunny has a good home.  That she doens’t get stuck in the cage after the novelty wears off. If so perhaps she can go to you after all.  I totally understand your dissapointment.  It can be very heartbreaking.  They are our children. 

when I first got Cotton he was 2 months old.  I had had him a while. When he was about 6-7 months  I adopted a cat off craigslist.  At first all seemed well.  I had 2 rabbits at that time.  I let Cotton n Laith the bunny sleep with me. Before I started caging them at nite. (Kept me up and peed all over my bed n pillows lol) Didn’t last long lol.  Anyway…. The cat seemed fine.  Then one morning Cotton zoomed into the living room in a terror attack running into things I caught him and calmed him.  Then put him in his house. 

I took Laith he was milder and didn’t panic like Cotton.  I found the cat under the bed where Cotton had come tearing out of there.  I figured something had happened between them.  I took Laith and put him by the cat.  The cat took a swipe at him not a playful swipe but a I am going to catch capture and kill swipe.  I knew then I couldn’t keep them all.  

Fortunately I found a neighbor who was able to take the cat.  The person I got it from didn’t want it back.  Very unfortunate for the cat was very sweet.  I lived in a small apartment so it was very very hard to give them their own space.  The place wasn’t big enuf to put the buns in the living room and the cat in the bedroom.  It just didn’t work out.  That was a nice cat to.  I never did that again.  No cats no dogs.  

Your place is more than likely bigger than mine was lol  and you are able to work it out that the 2 CAN have their own space.  My situation wasn’t like that.   It doesn’t take long to get attached either.  I bet that cat is like your family already

[Eileen S]

bunnytowne — thank you for your words of wisdom; it’s providing food for thought Nuggetbuns — Thank you; I have been a good bunny owner — no..great bunny owner And…the ex-wife that took the bun — he got the bun after they were divorced. Her only claim to the bun is through the kids.

[Zombie-Sue]

I’m really sorry. I know how things can hit you really hard when you were looking forward to it so much, and you knew it was going to happen, and then it doesn’t.

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