#merel rants

but something that apparently happens all too often, is bunny owners who want to get rid of their pet, coming to the farm and leaving it there. because hey! bunny area! full of bunnies! one more couldn't hurt, right?

...completely ignoring the fact that dropping a new bunny in a group will most likely result in bunny fratricide. yikes, indeed.

so these bunbuns are put in separate cages and, since the farm can't really put them anywhere properly, are sold to the chicken farmer whenever he comes by, to go to the slaughterhouse. yikes, once more.

there's one bunny who's been there for a while and she's the cutest little thing; creamy fur and big shiny eyes, but she's petrified of humans and overly stressed, and just freezes up whenever you touch her, doesn't even fight back. i don't want her stressful life to end in a slaughterhouse so... i e-mailed the farm this weekend and they were more than alright with me taking the bunny off their hands.

they're all genuine smiles and don't condescend when you don't floss often enough, they explain what they're doing if you get nervous (i could never get nervous around these people, they're so zen) and they're always happy to hand out dental cleaning supplies. last week, yolanda, the dental hygienist, got really excited when she realized she had a matching yellow toothbrush to go with my yellow microbrush, and she told me about her plans to repaint her garden fence while gently cleaning my teeth.