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Vincent's PageWent to the Bridge on 9/27/02
I rescued this bunny on Saturday evening, January 9th, 1999. This bunny came to my attention through another member of PetBunny. I contacted the Ashtabula Humane Society and the woman brought several of the bunnies out to my home. She explained that there were many bunnies taken from a mans shed. The shed had no light in it at all and the bunnies were only being fed a few times a week. Since this cutey only had 1 ear, I figured he didn't have much chance of being adopted into a different home so I knew that I had to have him.
When Vincent first came to live with us, he was a very nervous bunny and very untrusting. He was one of my most difficult bunnies to get bonded with others and it probably had something to do with his life in the shed and how he may have lost his ear.It took me a few months before I got Vincent to be comfortable with the other bunnies. He lived happily with Snugglebunny, Mocha and Teenoke. He had gotten so comfortable that he actually came up to me and sniffed and didn't run when I reached out to pet him. I would get down on the floor with him while he ate or drank and call his name and he would look at me and then come to sniff. I was so glad he no longer saw me as a threat, he really was a sweet bunny.Update: Vincent got sick like many of the other bunnies. He had a continuous white discharge coming from his eye and that was the only visible symptom. I had been giving him eye salve and an antibiotic but the eye just keep getting worse. The fur was coming off his face from the moisture of the discharge. I realized that his eye was no longer running but had turned into a corneal ulcer. It wasn't getting any better and I knew it had to be extremely painful. I took him to the vet to see what else she could do for him and we left him there overnight. The vet told me that the medicines he needed to try to clear this up would cost $118.00. I have never had to make a decision based on money but we are currently so broke with all our other recent vet bills and there is no way to guarantee that this medicine will help him either. I had to make a very difficult decision to let him go to the bridge and let him stop his suffering. If I spent this much money on one bunny then I wouldn't have anything left to try to help the others. Due to this, I believe this was one of the more painful deaths for me because I also felt guilty on top of having lost another bunny.To find out how this story continues, click here to read Daffy's page or click here to read the story of Mycotoxin poisoning.
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