Rest In Peace Morgan - another sad day - 08/05/2006
Morgan died yesterday after a very short mystery illness that remained totally unresponsive to all intervention. We have taken the difficult decision to have a post mortem undertaken on our vets advice as her death was so untimely and inexplicable.
Her death leaves us, and more importantly our other house rabbit Misty, reeling with shock yet again, only a few short weeks after the loss of our beloved Bailey bunny. It seems a terribly cruel blow to Misty to be bereaved twice in such a short time. For us too the pain is unbearable and as dreadful as her loss is in its own right, it comes heaped upon the sadness and desolation already in our hearts from Baileys death. We are all feeling confused and emotionally battered.
Its possible that Morgan may have been on borrowed time from the moment she arrived at the rescue. A tiny scrap of a thing, perhaps only 5 or 6 weeks old, she was cold, dehydrated, emaciated and covered in dirt, bite wounds and blood from some kind of attack that she was clearly lucky to have survived anyway. But Morgan was a fighter and that evening as I sat with her wrapped in a warm towel encouraging her to eat and syringing water into her dry mouth, we looked deeply at one another and she and I made a deal. If she lived, she could stay with us and we would show her a wonderful life living with Misty and Bailey.
I feel we both kept our sides of the bargain. Morgan didnt just live, she lived to the full! She enjoyed every new experience, every new food, every new toy and drank the world around her in with a real thirst for what we could offer her. In quieter moments she spent time curled up with best pal Misty, or flopped out next to one of us on the sofa, legs out at the back, offering us little warm licks and snuggles.
Mog enjoyed the garden the most. It seemed to bring her to life to be outdoors, whiskers fanned out, nose up, ears flapping on the breeze and eyes wide. She would often treat us to the most amazing display of bunny acrobatics. We thought she must have had springs hidden in her legs because a bunny so small should never have been able to jump so high!!
Her life was so short but I hope it was full of joy for her. She gave so much to us and I hope that at the end, despite her pain, she was able her hear us tell her how loved she was, how special, how beautiful and that Bailey would be waiting for her at the bridge.
There is no sense to why she should have become ill and died when she did, just when life was getting good for her. It feels as if fate can be terribly cruel sometimes.
Rest in peace our beautiful little Moglet. You were loved.
