Le Gasp!

[MimzMum]

Boy, Mimzy sure scared the jeepers out of me this evening! Bad enough I am in high emotional gear over all the people and animals in the Santa Cruz fire area, all the terrible things that have been happening with all our furbabies lately, and I’ve been spending WAY too much time in the Rescue Bunnies thread (I really have to stay out of there, it just breaks my heart!); but tonight I am going past Mimzy’s pen (gathering things up for garage sales this weekend) and he is in a ‘bun loaf’ position and his eyes are TOTALLY CLOSED and I can’t see if his flanks are moving at first.

0___o

YIKES ON TOAST!

I suddenly stop and squeak out, “Mimzy?!” and the poor thing startles awake and looks around for two seconds like, “Who?What?Where?Why?How?” Then he realizes it’s me and his eyes start to close again and he gives me this stink eye like, “Hey! I was sleepin’ here!”

Gadzooks! I swear I thought he was dead! I’ve never seen his eyes close while he’s sleeping before. I’m lucky my own heart didn’t stop right then and there! >_<

I really need to calm down. The last time I got this scared for him was when he did his first ‘dead bunny flop’ in front of me…lolz! 0_o; I’ve always had an anxiety condition, but this was a bit much even for me!

I could only come here and talk about it. My daughter thinks I was being silly and I don’t dare mention it to the son or hubby, they’ll laugh me off the face of the earth. I’m so glad I have the Binky Family to come to with my bunny worries! ^_^

 

[RabbitPam]

As a new bunny owner with no on-line info. at the time, I had plenty of those heart stopping moments, too. I can’t tell you how many times I have watched for breathing or deliberately spoiled a deep nap with a noise. Of course everyone here understands.

You know, MM, when I am in a down funk, I’ve been told to avoid a few things that will make it worse. (Prone to anxiety also.) Like, get the news headlines but don’t watch it very much. Don’t start the day with it on TV for example. If you know that reading the Rescue posts are upsetting, and you know you absolutely can’t do anything to help (I feel that way because I live in FL and the best opportunities to rescue so many sweet little guys is in CA) try to avoid it until your spirits lift. It isn’t cruel, just the means to make you feel better sooner.

Like mothers of children, it is natural to be anxious about your own when a series of misfortunes have befallen others. I feel just awful about the bad news that has come so fast this past month for so many bunnies here. Sometimes these things come in waves, and sometimes everyone has buns of similar ages or their health changes with the seasons. It will pass.

[JK]

OMG!  I sure know what you mean!  When Edson did his first and ONLY flop I totally freaked out because he always sleeps in the meatloaf position.  I was sure he was dead so I did what you did – “Edson, are you ok?” Of course he was startled and resumed the meatloaf position!!!! Back when my boys were babies I would occasionally poke them to see if they were still alive!   

[bunnytowne]

knowltons you crack me up you poked them to see if they were still alive  ahaa  poor buns ahahahah   I had been reading on here about the bunny flop but never experienced it for 1 whole year. then one day flop. I am glad i was aware of this cuz I did go and see if his stomache was still moving and he was still breathing. if not for this website talking about it I probably would have poked cotton awake too ahahhaha

yea I stay off the rescue buns myself. especially when my bipoler state is going strong the mania cuz then I go out and get more buns and it didn’t work out.   impulse buys and they were so cute too. I was really manic when all that happened otherwise I think I would still have them. gosh dont’  you just get irritated any bipolar people out there. gosh.

so now when I get a bun I will be sure my episode is over and I think it thru for a month or so. and bring cotton to be sure they have a chance of getting along.  some buns he likes others forget it. anyway. and now I have NIC cubes too. enuf babbling here.

[babybunsmum]

(((minzmum)))  boy do i know how you feel.  prior to baby’s surgery last year she was quite unsocial & kept to her room mostly.  though she didn’t run about a whole lot she still had projects to keep her busy inbetween pet-sessions but thinking she had passed was literally a daily thought of mine.  her hearing has gotten pretty bad & she’d be sleeping so soundly in a flop that she wouldn’t hear me calling her at all.  not would she wake up if i stepped over the barrier (keeps the dog out).  i’d always think she was gone.  then i discovered if i blew in her direction a breeze would gently drift to her & she’d wake up without a start and let me know she was still alive.

i tend to avoid tv news these days i think since i hear local news all day repeatedly on the radio.  also i get a daily paper & lightly scan the headlines so i have a general idea about what’s going on but since dad died (6 yrs ago) i just do not want to surround myself too much with the negative.  when 9-11 happened my dad was receiving palliative care and he died exactly one week later.  i avoided all reports regarding the twin towers tragedy until years later after i had healed enough.  that was an obvious one but i’ve noticed that if i do not consciously protect my ‘negative news intake’ it can really build up on me and start to cloud over everything surprisingly quickly. 

good thing the reverse is true too… if i surround myself with things i love & am passionate about it also starts to build up on me and clouds over everything

i’m so glad mimz is okay & has dicovered a new & deep way to catch some zzzzz’s!

[MarkBun]

Not to sound morbid, but a bun doesn’t pass on in bunny loaf position. They will almost always be on their side although a few are found stretched out on their bellies or their backs. It is scarey though.

[notjulesverne]

The winds have died significantly so I they will getting the fire under control soon. I can see the burning smoke from my house and this morning on the way to work I saw a long line of fire trucks on their way back to the fire. The Firefighters have set up their base camp at a park not too far from my house.

[kimberleyanddarren]

i know how u feel mimzmum!

[MimzMum]

Thanks everyone! It is so nice to be amongst those who can relate!
Markus, thank you for that information. It’s not morbid at all, it is good to know. I will not worry about Mimzy’s bun loaf positions anymore. He has seemed a little on the sleepy side in this last day or so, which is odd. Perhaps as the weather changes, he gets tired more easily. (It’s been pretty cold for the end of May.) He can’t be more than a year old now, but I know that pressure changes tend to really get my old bones creaking!
And boy has he gotten into the heavy cuddle sessions! He will be visibly pouty if I don’t take him onto my lap for about half an hour each day and just rub him down from nose to tail! He will shove his head under my hand and insist on pets!

I am glad to hear the winds are dying down. I’m afraid I tend to keep the radio on in my ear so I have up to date news, there is something about needing to fee l a part of the world that is important to me. But yeah, I’ve made some donations lately for bunnies and that makes me feel better, but the emotional roller coaster has been pretty bad lately.
Thank you rabbitpam, for your kind words. I think we are very much alike in some ways, you and I. We’ve been through a lot of the same things. And yes, ‘these things too shall pass away’. I think often of the concept taught to me by one of my English teachers (she was into eastern mysticism) about the “Yugas” and how they cycle through. (Kaliyuga being the time of vice and immorality and suffering) I’d sure like to ‘cycle through’ these rough times a little faster.

[notjulesverne]

Ick the smoke is really think now, it has shifted north and now it’s hard to breathe outside. I feel bad for the firefighters.

[RabbitPam]

I agree MM – and sometimes the cycle seems to stall out and get stuck! Well, I’ve taken to wishing Karma on really lousy people and situations. I think it was this week that I asked my mother to turn the fan on to blow away that black cloud over my head. I didn’t want to rant here, but I had my brakes start to fail on Tuesday afternoon, pulled right over to park and was FINE, but needed $300 worth of brake lines and a bald tire fixed the next day. Get this, it was the money I had left in my checking account to pay the overdue Dr. bills for last month’s surgery! Can you hear the violins???

Knowltons you made me laugh, too. My grandfather used to poke my grandmother to see if she was sleeping and not dead, but she wasn’t quiet about it like a bunny!!!

P.S. Fires all over here too. Torrential rain yesterday and much lightening, but all we could think was “good. It will put out some fires.” Sigh.

[JK]

We are actually getting some of the smoke up here near San Francisco which is about 2 hours north of the fires.  I really feel for you all and the firefighters.  They say it’s supposed to rain this weekend so that should help.  Stay safe.

[MimzMum]

Fires, especially large ones, tend to create their own weather. I truly hope all our Florida and California members get the gentle, long-lasting rain they need to quiet the burns. Up here, we had fires that lasted so long that they sunk down into the mossy undergrowth and the snows fell over them, and come spring (we had a dry winter without a lot of snow) they sparked up anew. Isn’t that weird?

Here’s a few photos I took during the summer of ’04. I was using a flash in the first one and it was during the day…that’s how thick the particulates were and you can see bits of ash floating through the photo.
The second is midday sun during the fires. The third is the sunset, same day.
It was terrible.

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[BinkyBunny]

I found two words/phrases that really made my day from Mimzmums first post:

“YIKES ON TOAST!…and….Gadzooks!”

I know that has nothing to do with anything in this thread, but I just couldn’t resist – For some reason that made me laugh. Funny!

[kimberleyanddarren]

wow its a UFO!!! hehe

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