Rabbits Update.
Its been a while since I have put here any news about my rabbits.
Late last year, Stychrome, the wild one, died. He has really old. I was sad about it at the time but it is a sad fact of life in this world that things die all the time.
We buried him in the garden and put a big brick on top, and some flowers on that.
Photo: Stychrome at his prime. Click for Video in new window.
Katrina the (boy) rabbit was upset. You could tell he knew. Stychrome’s house was still there but he was empty and it made me feel a bit empty too looking at it. It is really strange to see something alive one minute and then dead. Physically its the same but it has no life. Is this the reverse of what happened when God breathed life into Adam? (Genesis 2:7)
Just as death is horrible, it is wonderful that God creates life, and even allows us to continue living. And there is another kind of life called Spiritual life. Because life made out of flesh, as I have just been talking about, will always decay and die, if we are to live forever (as Jesus promised for those who believed in him) then we have to be reborn of the Spirit. Living things on earth can only recreate the same type of life, which eventually dies, but God gives true life.(See John 3)
Back to the rabbits: Katrina was very depressed so I borrowed my brother’s wife’s rabbit which is a big fat lop eared blob compared to Katrina. We put her in Stychrome’s old house after we cleaned it. That cheered them both up a bit. Then near the end of December Katrina got very sick and was collapsed - which is the the technical term for when their legs cant hold them up and they cant even move to go to the toilet. I thought he was going to drop dead as well but I took him to the Vet and the Animal Hospital which ended up costing heaps but a few days later he was back home. They said to keep him in a cool place so I had an excuse to put the air conditioner on.It was 40 Degrees C outside. He was still sick as anything and for some reason would only eat carrots so I was dipping the carrot in other things to try to get him to eat it!.
Photo: Katrina at the vet, much better than he was. Click for full size.
After another few days he was ready and eager to go back outside so I let him out. At first he was still weak and just sat in his house but he started to get more and more adventurous and go into the yard. I would say hes back to normal now except he likes to sit still a lot. Hes an old man rabbit now. The lop-ears has gone somewhere else much to Katrina’s disappointment.
Photo: Katrina next to Belinda, feeling a bit better but tired. Click for full size.
Paul
Add comment January 31, 2008
