He was pretty old for a rabbit, at least 12 years old. He had been looking a bit ragged for awhile, getting a bit thinner, and hopping around more stiffly but... I dunno. It's weird. I'm sad but I haven't cried, and I feel terrible about it. I think all of us in my family knew his time was coming soon, but I always thought he would start to get very noticeably sick and we'd have to take him to the vet (that's how all the other pets we've lost, besides our fish, have gone out)... But no, my mom and her friend just found him lying on the floor...
I feel guilty that I didn't get to pet him one last time, or give him some veggies so he could've had a good last meal. Heck, we've had him out on our screened in porch for a few days so he could hop around more freely, he could've been laying there dead for over a day and no one came to check on him... Honestly, there were a couple periods in his life where we probably weren't taking care of him as well as we should, and now I really wish I could go back in time to fix those mistakes. He didn't have a bad life by any means but...
So... we found our pet bunny dead today...
He was pretty old for a rabbit, at least 12 years old. He had been looking a bit ragged for awhile, getting a bit thinner, and hopping around more stiffly but... I dunno. It's weird. I'm sad but I haven't cried, and I feel terrible about it. I think all of us in my family knew his time was coming soon, but I always thought he would start to get very noticeably sick and we'd have to take him to the vet (that's how all the other pets we've lost, besides our fish, have gone out)... But no, my mom and her friend just found him lying on the floor...
I feel guilty that I didn't get to pet him one last time, or give him some veggies so he could've had a good last meal. Heck, we've had him out on our screened in porch for a few days so he could hop around more freely, he could've been laying there dead for over a day and no one came to check on him... Honestly, there were a couple periods in his life where we probably weren't taking care of him as well as we should, and now I really wish I could go back in time to fix those mistakes. He didn't have a bad life by any means but...
I just... I don't really know...