My mother was visiting her friend a few years ago and they were walking her dog, the dog ran off and started sniffing at something hiding underneath a bush. It was a baby bunny, not wild, but a baby from a domesticated litter that someone had dumped in the park. Luckily the dog wasn’t violent at all and simply made my mother and her friend aware. They took him home and fed him kitten milk, and my mother decided that our family needed a pet.
Without much research, my siblings and I now had a pet rabbit. We named him Boomer! He was so tiny and sweet, however as he got older he became slightly neglected. I suppose it was my fault too.
Of course we fed him, but we kept him in a cage that must have been too small and we rarely let him out. He’s almost 2 years old now. Because of the quarantine I’ve started feeling guilty. I’ve cleaned his cage, moved him down to an unoccupied room and give him hours of free reign in a fairly large room. He has cardboard boxes, sheets and towels to dig in, lots of greens, hay, water, and treats.
He seems a lot happier now but I still find myself obsessing over how badly I unintentionally treated him. He hasn’t been neutered yet and I’m desperately trying to find the money to make it happen, trying to get him to let me cut his nails, and get him a check up.
Im struggling, badly. But I love him very much and really want to give him a better life, would I be better off finding him a new home?
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