Walden — a mostly white mixed dwarf rabbit, with a few handsomely placed black markings — whom Mina had entrusted to me while she is in Iran, passed away on a cold muggy morning just before Christmas. He had been sick for less than a day. Unfortunately, I didn’t recognise the his symptoms immediately, and in rabbits illnesses kill quickly. In retrospect, his behaviour had been somewhat strange since the previous morning, and maybe even the evening before that. By night it was obvious, but it was too late. The necropsy showed that he had died of a stomach infection, which could have been caused by just about anything. He was just under one year old.
Walden had been living with me for several months. In that time, a lot of people have asked me whether rabbits make good pets… » [Expand post] [Permalink]