July 5, 2007, 4:14 am : Bunny Rabbit
Filed Under: About Me, Cute, PetsDiscussion:
I had my day nicely planed out on Tuesday. First i had to drop my sister into work so i could have the car for the day. Then i had to go to the doctors office to pick up a letter, then back to town. I parked in the mall and walked the short distance to Blue Banana, went to the back of the shop and asked for my eye brow to be pierced. They told me the room was being disinfected but i could fill out the forms and pay then and come back at midday. It was a little longer than i had thought, but i went window shopping in the mall as i had planed to do after i got my eye brow done. It had been suggested i have something to eat before i went back so i had an early lunch then headed over.
Long story short, i bled, a lot. I’d had it pierced before but that fell out, so the new one went through scar tissue, which hurts as well as bleeds. But it does look good in my opinion, it’s purple and in my left eye brow.
I intended to spend the rest of my day doing art at my local Mind, i don’t normally go on a Tuesday, but thought i would for a change. Of course as soon as i got there i was told the art group was cancelled due to lack of staff and everyone had to be gone by 2pm, this was about 12.30pm so i decided to sit there and chat a little until 2 so i actually had something to do before having to pick my sister up at 5.15.
Of course, after i left the group i still had 3hrs to kill so thought i would go to the market at the bottom of town. This is where things went wrong in a very good way. There is a pet shop in the market, which i don’t like very much. I got my hamster there and still feel she was too young to have been sold. Another thing i dislike about it is the tiny cages they put rabbits and guinea pigs in. One of the cages is at most 2 foot by 2 foot and tucked under a load of other cages so it’s almost out of sight. In there was a small silver rabbit hardly moving. I did ask if she was ok in there and they told me she was fine, they just told me they sulk when in smaller cages, my only thought was, “of course, they have no space for anything else.” I thought a while about if i could afford to keep a rabbit and in the end i just thought i had to get the poor thing out of the tiny cage, if it then turned out i wasn’t able to look after her i would find her a good home that could. So i paied for her and told the shop staff i would be back about 4.30 to pick her up so she didnt have to stay in a(n even smaller) box for too long. I walked around the market a bit but that doesn’t take long so soon enough i was sat outside the pet shop just waiting. After a while though, the keeper came out to me and explained that the breeder had called and was worried about the rabbit, they weren’t well and wouldn’t be sold to anyone, the breeder was coming in to take them back and bringing two healthy ones with her. I said i would have a look at them and decide if i still wanted one (i was thinking that if they were the same sex they would both go in the larger cage so i would leave them, but different sexs i would take the female (so the temperment is more likely to be suitable with the guinea pigs). It turned out it was a boy and a girl, both completly black, netherland dwarf / lionhead crosses. They were beautiful, but i could only take one and the girl was kept aside for me. It wasnt too long from then until i had to get my sister so i got the rabbit box and walked back to the car. Securing the box in the front seat i drove to the car park by my sisters work and got out the bunny to hold while i waited.
She was late coming out, and in that time i saw an old science teacher come and go from the car park and even had someone mistake the rabbit for a puppy, but they still thought she was very cute. Finally my sister came out, but once she saw the rabbit she asked a bit about it then asked to take it in to her office to show some people how cute she was. Few minutes later she was back in the car and we headed home.
I think the rabbit softened the blow of the metal in my head, there were fewer comments on that than the new fluff ball. She settled in very well to her new home and is getting along great with Shammy and Connie.
So, here is the latest member of my furry family, Franc the rabbit:
And to explain the name, like with pork products for hamsters and cosmetics for guinea pigs, rabbits are named after money as males are bucks and females are does. Don’t worry, the logic works for me!