My bunny Portia had a still born baby bunny today. I think it's so sad, but Portia seems fine. I feel sad like when a person looses a baby, but I don't connect to Portia like a person. I feel that she is a rabbit.
She is a small brown bunny, shy and skittish, a 4-H reject. According to the person I got her from, the bunnies of a single color are not a very popular 4-H choice and most pick the multi colored ones. I do not see Portia as a single color, she is brown with lovely darker brown lowlights and a lighter brown undercoat. She's a tiny lop, but sometimes she holds her ears out sideways and she looks like an airplane.
So she does not seem to care one tiny bit about the lost baby, she is very excited about the ears of fresh corn I put next to her food bowl. She doesn't seem to know that she could have had a little baby friend, and I guess that's better. I would hate to think that she is missing a baby that never really was, and longing after possibilities and hopes. I wouldn't know how to console her, as I do not speak rabbit.
People feel sad when they loose babies, they miss their babies, even if the babies grow up, they sometimes have to mourn what they hoped that the babies could have been. Sometimes the babies turn out very badly, and they just have to be accepted for what they are. Not all people are fountains of joy. Some are duds. Sometimes the babies are a dream come true and a total delight, and even those babies might get lost. You just never know what's going to happen.
Good thing for Portia, she really doesn't care.
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