The Easter Bunny comes
Yesterday we had the rabbits out for sunshine and fresh grass. We had bought a buck and two does. We hadn't done short-arm inspections, because it's hard to tell when they're young, and it really takes two to keep the beast under control, and it's spring and there's just so much to do. But the two "does" have been very snuggly and affectionate, like something you'd see at a Womyn's Music Festival.
Well, we caught one going thumpa thumpa.
I freaked. That doe wasn't supposed to be bred for another 2 months; teen pregnancies are no better for rabbits than for humans. So I put Romeo in with the other buck, trying to keep a close eye on who was who. Meanwhile, Rusty had a scheme to mark Romeo...she ran out with some food coloring and began dabbing him with green.
Then the bucks started to fight, with the green still wet.
So we moved Romeo back in with Juliet, who now has a green ass. Wonder why that is?
We're getting another cage today...and I'll be getting a tattoo set, to distinguish the variously-green rabbits. And I guess a nest box, to be put in a month before...oh hell, how long have they been doing this?
Rusty passed a dead rabbit on the road, on the way to work. When she passed it again, somebody had left a spilled Easter basket next to it. R.I.P.
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