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Tonight, while I was making dinner, Scooter went in to check on the bunnies and say hi to them after getting home from work and noticed that Reno wasn’t quite right. She was fine this morning when they got their breakfast banana. She appeared to be fine when I looked at them earlier, although they were quieter than normal today. But the four of them (Bailey, Reno, Aeryn and Tegan) tend to kind of pack together into a bunny bunch when they’re resting so it’s hard to say if she was affected then or not. But she didn’t respond to Scooter’s talking to them when he got home, and so he picked her up and found she was in rough shape. I think she’d probably had something like a stroke – her eyes were glazed, she was mostly limp and barely responsive, her mouth was opening and closing, she was wheezing and her back end was wet with urine. We called the emergency vet clinic who again told us they don’t see rabbits, but they referred us to another one that does and we called them to say we were on our way. We got the carrier ready to go, I put my boots on, got the dog in the car to take over to my mother’s and Scooter said “she’s not breathing”. She was gone. She died in his arms.
We adopted Reno from the shelter as a companion for Bailey. She was always cantankerous and stubborn. She took a long time to bond to each of the subsequent bunnies (and never did bond with Keelie and Kylie), but once bonded “the quartet” was quite a force to be reckoned with. It’s Reno that lost part of her ear earlier this year likely as a result of a scuffle with Keelie, despite our best attempts to save it. When we adopted her we were told she was 3, and that was 3 years ago which would make her 6 – if she was really 3 at adoption. We always suspected that the previous owner may have lied about her age thinking that a younger bunny would be more appealing to adopt.
The rest of the quartet has been saying their goodbyes to her. We believe they knew she was close to her time, and they were keeping her company while they could. She knew she had a good home, that she was loved by her bunny pals and her human slaves, and she died while warm and snuggled in Scooter’s arms. And she will be missed.
– Annette
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I am so sorry to hear about Reno. Our thougths and prayers go out to you all. I have lit a candle in her memory…
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/message.cfm?l=eng&cid=7580459
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Thank you to everyone for your kind words and warm wishes. This has brought us a great deal of comfort.
Looking back, we realized that Reno has been slowing down the last few months. When the quartet was let out to exercise, Reno would spend less time out of their cage, and more of it relaxing inside it. We’d commented on that a few times. Not that she didn’t go out or looked sick when she was in the cage, just that she wasn’t as active. And when we did her nails last Sunday, two days before she passed, we also noticed she didn’t struggle quite so much. Normally she kicks up a storm.
We are also glad that she hung on long enough for us to say our last goodbyes to her while she was still here. Kind of an odd confluence of events that came together, otherwise we would have only noticed after she was gone.
We also think even Keelie and Kylie knew. The twins live in the other half of the bunny complex, physically separate from the quartet’s (now trio’s), because they don’t yet get along. Keelie had basically destroyed a phone book on Tuesday, the day Reno passed. Then she wasn’t interested in hacking a new one. We think she was upset, even though she was the one that fought Reno a few months ago, which resulted in Reno eventually losing half an ear!
The one good thing we could say about all of this is that Reno and Keelie were the two that really hated each other, so maybe we could bond the trio with the twins a bit easier now. Maybe.
It was hard giving the bunnies their vegetables the day after Reno passed. We had bought some parsley for the dish for Monday’s supper, but decided not to make it. The bunnies love parsley and would get the rest of it. But Reno never got her share.
We did find a pet cremation place in town, and Reno’s ashes are now mixed with Keiran’s in his urn. Now their urn. We lost Keiran as a baby bun, so his ashes barely filled the urn. We decided that we really want to minimize the number of canopic jars in the house, and it’s fitting that our bunnies are together forever.
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