My Dearest Kajoor, After 7 years you died in my arms Options

[CarissaP]

Hi Kajoorsmom & Cheryl83

I have a bunny too. Still alive for now. Your stories make me so sad. Rabbits are some of the best animals to have. It angers me some think cats and dogs are self aware but not rabbits. they say rabbits can't love you or be as close. What bollocks. Having a rabbit and studying new research all the time they are very similar to cats and dogs. you can train then and everything. they run to you when you get hoe like a dog does, sit on your knee and cuddle like a cat. there is a site where they teach you rabbit language to know their ear signals even. they are very communicative. I live in daily fear knowing one day takhisis may just die or get sick. He was poorly the other day but seems better now. He likes to give us a fright i think.

Hes not a house rabbit as hes a rex eared buck so still intact and marks territory and naughty rexed bite through cables. he loves that. but we have him in doors alot in the dinning room, he has an indoor pen, dining room playtimes and a massive outdoors pen big enough for humans to stand and run about in so I can play with him with hutch inside.
hes 7 so pretty old. how many years did they live?
mind if i asked what they died of. rabbits are so fragile i'm always worrying what tak has when he acts ill but then he hes fine.

I think rabbits are amazing.you can even teach them tricks. so nice to see other people who think rabbits are as good as dogs or cats and who miss them like they were people because they are people!

[Cheryl83]

Hi Kajoorsmom & Cheryl83

I have a bunny too. Still alive for now. Your stories make me so sad. Rabbits are some of the best animals to have. It angers me some think cats and dogs are self aware but not rabbits. they say rabbits can't love you or be as close. What bollocks. Having a rabbit and studying new research all the time they are very similar to cats and dogs. you can train then and everything. they run to you when you get hoe like a dog does, sit on your knee and cuddle like a cat. there is a site where they teach you rabbit language to know their ear signals even. they are very communicative. I live in daily fear knowing one day takhisis may just die or get sick. He was poorly the other day but seems better now. He likes to give us a fright i think.

Hes not a house rabbit as hes a rex eared buck so still intact and marks territory and naughty rexed bite through cables. he loves that. but we have him in doors alot in the dinning room, he has an indoor pen, dining room playtimes and a massive outdoors pen big enough for humans to stand and run about in so I can play with him with hutch inside.
hes 7 so pretty old. how many years did they live?
mind if i asked what they died of. rabbits are so fragile i'm always worrying what tak has when he acts ill but then he hes fine.

I think rabbits are amazing.you can even teach them tricks. so nice to see other people who think rabbits are as good as dogs or cats and who miss them like they were people because they are people!

Hi CarissaP,

I totally agree with everything you said about rabbits. They can be just as affectionate and loyal as dogs or cats -- my bunny, Daisy (a lop-eared/lionhead) was a real love-bug. She was a house-bunny, and would follow me all around the house. She would nut my hand for strokes and cuddles, and whenever I stroked her she'd lie down instantly and start making these content little chattering noises. She was fully litter-trained, and slept in a small dog bed, where she'd curl up and cuddle her teddies. She knew her name and would come to you whenever you called her. So anyone who thinks of a rabbit as an unresponsive pet, that just sits in a hutch eating straw, is so, so wrong!

Daisy died aged 5 during an operation to remove a cancerous tumour. Rabbits are very sensitive to anaesthetic and the vet suggested that the cancer had maybe spread to her lungs and that's why she didn't survive it. You're right -- rabbits don't show pain or sickness very well, they're very good at hiding it. The only thing I noticed with Daisy at first was that she'd gone off her food (which was a big thing, as she LOVED her food), but then I noticed some blood in her urine and rushed her straight to the vets. An X-ray confirmed the tumour. So all you can look out for really are any noticeable changes in your rabbits behaviour, and if anything concerns you, take him to your vet for advice.

I also used to constantly worry about Daisy and dread the day she died. I even used to have regular nightmares about it. She was my baby, and I'd only have to look at her and would feel like the happiest girl alive. I really thought I wouldn't be able to cope losing her. But this forum really was a life saver, and gave me the strength and support I needed to get by. It's been over a year since she died, and I still miss her, and still cry. But I feel her presence with me and realise that a part of her is still here and always will be.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

Take care, Cheryl x

[kajoorsmom]

Hey Carissa,
Kajoor died of a jaw abscess presumably spreading to his brain after surgery to drain the abscess. It's hard to say when rabbits need surgery--as it seems both Cheryl and I lost our kids trying to do what's best for them. I think we have rare cases though, as Kajoor had had two other procedures which he tolerated just fine. KJ was 7.
Rabbits are fragile and I too had weekly nightmares that something happened to him--he passed away in my arms, which was better than any other way I could have imagined.
Enjoy your bunny! They can live up to 10 years, some even longer--but KJ was from a petstore (never doing that again, but I believe we were meant to be ), and he had many minor health problems that may have shortened his life--including the chronic jaw abscess.
We only post here to continue expressing our love for them--I think i speak for both of us when I say we'd never trade a minute with them even though they were taken from us too early.
~Rachna

[Gretta's Mom]

Hello Kajoor's mom

I have to say again what a beautiful, funny bunny your Kajoor-baby is! And thank the bunny people for enlightening us cats-or-dogs folks about the heart of a bunny. Shame on people who say that bunny's can't love. EVERY animal can love. especially such special ones as your Kajoor. (I love that name. Where did it come from?)

Please rest assured that these special spirit-animals neve leave us - in fact they have been with us from the beginning of time. They searched the universe over to find their soul-mate, then put themsleves in our paths so we would find them - and BOOM! instant recognition through instant love. One day we WILL meet them again because love is infinite in both time and space.

Gretta (the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived), stroll on over and look for a beautiful bunny named Kajoor and ask her about her special mom. She'll talk your ear off, because a mother's love cannot be told completely.

Take care,

Gretta's mom

[CarissaP]

Don't get me wrong I love cats and dogs too and all animals, reptiles and everything.

I just hate the way many people devalue rabbits and see them as less sentient than cats and dogs and incapable of love ugh.

I have a special place in my heart for cats and rabbits...and cows for some reason.

I also have a cat who is very old, 16 now and has start of kidney failure :'( although it was caught very very early stage. I knew something was wrong and demanded him taken to vet even though mum didn't want to.

we didn't trust vet after mistakes they said about Takhisis but i knew they are more knowledgable with cats so now he is on special diet and that takes strain of kidneys and prolongs life and it worked he is 100% fine now. This won't last but i am hoping it will last a few years not months so he can live a full life and die at a reasonable age which i think he will we caught it so early and acted immediately and were so lucky he likes the food as he is such a picky eaters.

so both my pets are old, one has start of problems and one wont stop eating things that are bad for him so it concerns me everyday that i could loose one of them. I have had the cat Pierre since I was 5 and cannot remember life before him and Takhisis since I was 13 and grew up with both of them.

I think the way you remember your bunny and mourn him is good and respectful and wonderful. They should be mourned as though they were human. After all they gave unconditional love humans can't.

[Gretta's Mom]

Hello Kajoor's Mom

Thank you for posting such wonderful, loving messages to your beautiful bunny Kajoor. I'm coming up on the 6 month anniversary of the passing of my Gretta (the kindest chocolate lab who ever lived). Dogs, cats, bunnies, birdies, fishies, the lord God made them all. Sometimes I think I can feel you Kajoor in my arms - such a warm, cuddly, loving bunny. The universe meant you two to be together. Someday we'll all get to meet wach other in the Perfect World to come.

Thank you, my friend.

Gretta's mom

[kajoorsmom]

Hi everyone
Sorry for not replying to your beautiful messages in a while. My residency has been really grueling! Today I missed Kajoor a lot and just wanted to thank you for your support. A year and half later it's so difficult, but his memories are perfect. Stay in touch
~Rachna