Sunday, September 13, 2009

A bunny with babies

Anchovy a middle aged dwarf rabbit has had many litters of rabbits, so many that I neglected to keep track of what times they happened and when the ones that succeeded in life were born. The first batch was the worst, she had already birthed one of the over sized dead babies when we found out that she was pregnant (this was from a regular sized rabbit that died soon after, then we baught a male dwarf). But she simply couldn't get the next one out, it was stuck. We tried pulling it out without tearing the baby in half but failed. It was midnight so the regular vet wasn't open, we just had to hope that Anchovy would last the whole hour drive to the vet. She was still alive when we got there, but they said that they would have to do a 500$ surgery to get it out. We agreed, and in the morning we didn't have to pay nearly that much. The doctor told us that after we left she decided to wait until morning when another vet would be there to help pull it out, and Anchovy did last all night with a dead baby half way out of her. So she lived.
Most of her first litters of kittens starved to death, some of those ones we tried feeding goat milk, but all of those ones drowned as we fed them. On just about the 5th litter she started eating them alive. It was a couple times after that that she had her first babies to get furry with big ears, sadly those ones died of dieases. A little while later she had a litter of 4 and one lived,
Fredbobadeddy (his father being named Pipkin). Soon after that we got Pipkin and Fredbobadeddy fixed, but apparently one of them had gotten Anchovy pregnant before that. From this litter Mini Pipkin and Freddobabeddy were born and survived to adulthood.
Pipkin died of dieases later and Minipip mated with Freddobabeddy and anchovy, Freddobabeddy gave birth to one baby and the other was coiming out side ways, we tryed to pull it out but it tore in half, and she died. But both of Anchovies babies lived, Fiver and Pip, restoring the bunny population in my household back to five.

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