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This topic has 17sd replies, 12 voices, and was last updated 17 years, 6 months ago by Holly.

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- 02/25/2008 at 7:08 PM
  jellyrose
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  I just wanted to introduce you all to Benson. He was my second bunny and inspired me to really learn about bunnies and how to care for them properly! I had hime for 13 1/2 years and we had to have him put to sleep after he had a stroke just two weeks before we moved from England to America. We were going to leave him with my sister (who was his babysitter when we went on holiday) and I think he didn’t want to be left behind! He came from an accidental litter of babies that a friends bunny had and I hand reared him after mummy rejected the litter. He was only 1 of 2 babies that survived from a litter of 6. He was a very special bun and I thought he deserved to have his picture on the internet for all to admire! He was so handsome and such a fighter from begining to end! So here he is……
  
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- 02/25/2008 at 7:21 PM
  JK
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  He’s just precious! Wow 13 yrs is a long time. Thanks for posting the picture.
- 02/25/2008 at 8:06 PM
  Holly
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  He’s adorable!!!!
- 02/25/2008 at 11:15 PM
  Gravehearted
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  aww, what a handsome bun. He reminds me of my very first bunny, Droste. He must have been a very happy and well loved bunny to have been with you so long. I really do think they are always with us, even after they’ve crossed the rainbow bridge.
- 02/26/2008 at 12:28 AM
  Lisa_43
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  Now he is worth putting on the internet for all to see, I think he is adorable and was a very lucky bunny to have a great human mum that got him to that ripe old age.
- 02/26/2008 at 2:23 AM
  BinkyBunny
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  Oh, he is soooo beautiful! Perfect name, and wow, 13 1/2, that’s great. How old was he in that picture?
- 02/26/2008 at 5:39 AM
  RabbitPam
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  He’s just beautiful.
  He’s the kind of bunny I would like to find.
  So glad you had so many years together.
- 02/26/2008 at 5:58 AM
  babybunsmum
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  oh he’s so handsome! love the puffy cheeks. so sweet to read that he had so many happy years with you.
- 02/26/2008 at 8:34 AM
  Kokaneeandkahlua
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  Very dignified looking!! 13.5 years is wonderful-Great job! Thanks for sharing his pic with us!
- 02/26/2008 at 9:21 AM
  MarkBun
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  Of course he’s dignified looking – he’s British!
  
  He looks like he had a wonderful mum and a wonderful life.
- 02/26/2008 at 1:18 PM
  osprey
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  I love buns with black ears and noses. 13+ years is quite amazing. He was lucky to have you.
- 03/05/2008 at 6:13 AM
  jellyrose
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  He must have been about 11 in this photo…. he had just got over pnumonia hence the front paws are a little soggy! He loved to sit by the window and give the stink eye to our neigbours cat!
- 03/05/2008 at 10:10 AM
  Sage Cat
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  I can just hear him say – “Here, kitty, kitty. Ha! Now I give you the stink eye!” – In a very dignified British accent, of course.
  
  What a hansom Boy. Love the name Benson.
- 03/06/2008 at 12:01 PM
  jellyrose
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  He was named Benson as`part of a pair, those of you brits out there will get this one, his brother was called Hedges. And for all of you non-brits… Benson & Hedges is a brand of cigarettes back home. What can I say I was a teenager and the name anoyed my mum!! But it seemed to suit him!
  
  I love to hear how people’s buns get their names…. I’m sure there is another chat about that somewhere!
- 03/06/2008 at 12:21 PM
  babybunsmum
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  lol. annoying mum is seemingly effortless when you’re a teen isn’t it? thats a cigarette brand here in canada too. funny, i didn’t associate benson with the cigarettes at all, but rather with a proper british butler.
- 03/07/2008 at 1:02 PM
  RabbitPam
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  Benson & Hedges WAS sold in the US back in the 70s. Benson & Hedges had a popular TV commercial where they spoofed the evening news by saying “Goodnight, Benson.” “Goodnight, Hedges.” (It was a take off on Huntley & Brinkley).
  
  My grandmother and I (during one of her visits) said goodnight to each other that way for at least a week!
  
  Wasn’t Benson the name of the butler in a governor’s mansion played by Robert Guillaume? A TV sitcom, right?
- 03/07/2008 at 1:07 PM
  babybunsmum
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  yes! lol. i guess thats where i must have gotten the butler thing from. too funny.
- 03/07/2008 at 7:54 PM
  Holly
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  I don’t remember about that show, but when I first saw this picture I thought he looked like a butler
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