{"id":8686,"date":"2009-05-31T09:34:41","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T16:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/?p=8686"},"modified":"2009-05-31T09:34:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T16:34:45","slug":"yesterday-was-a-tough-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassic-sax.info\/blog\/2009\/yesterday-was-a-tough-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday Was A Tough One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday was a very sad day for me. I had to say goodbye to a beloved member of the family. Schatzie,\u00a0my bunny rabbit, who\u00a0had adopted me 6 years ago, had\u00a0lost an incredible amount of weight in 72 hours. When I took her to the vet yesterday, I heard the worst news possible:\u00a0She had a massive, rapidly growing, cancerous\u00a0tumour in her abdomen. I had no choice but to have her euthanized.<\/p>\n

\"Schatzie\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 While I\u00a0prefer my Cheerios with milk,\u00a0Schatzie\u00a0got hers dry.<\/h6>\n

This July would have been 6 years that I found her laying in my driveway in Fredericton, NB. She was full grown then, and while putting up posters in the neighbourhood to see if I could find her owner, I found out that she had been released on purpose by her previous owner, because they no longer wanted her. She and another bunny had been released together, but the other rabbit had been run over by a car. At that moment I decided that I would keep her, and since that day\u00a0she has been my Schatzie (which is German for sweetie).<\/p>\n

A year after I got her, she flew with me in the passenger compartment, from the East Coast,\u00a0to her new home on the West Coast,\u00a0aboard an Air Canada flight.<\/p>\n

Because I’ve always had sight hounds (a number of borzoi, a whippet, and a rescue, whippet mix) it is rather ironic that I ended up with a live\u00a0“lure” for these lure coursing dogs. However Schatzie\u00a0lived in a huge\u00a0wire dog crate in the middle of the living room, and\u00a0had her 4 hours of “out” time a day, when the dogs were locked up, so she knew she was safe. The dogs never\u00a0tormented her, and\u00a0luckily we never had any “accidents”.<\/p>\n

Schatzie had the kind of life that most rabbits unfortunately never will.\u00a0She will be\u00a0deeply missed by the whole household. She had become a very good companion animal to Buddy, my whippet mix. The 2 of them\u00a0moved from Fredericton together. Buddy is wandering around the house\u00a0today,\u00a0looking for his Schatzie.<\/p>\n

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