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| Name: |
Q-Tip
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Age: |
Deceased
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| Gender: |
Male
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Kind: |
Rhinelander rabbit
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| Home: |
Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
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This
is Q-Tip. I found him at a no-kill shelter where he had been for
three years in a small 1.5 foot cube of a cage (and Q-Tip was a big
rabbit, weighing eleven pounds). The guy at the shelter told me he almost
got adopted a couple of times, but the people never came back. I really
felt that if I didn't adopt him, no one ever would and he would spend
the rest of his days in the back of the shelter in that small cage. I'd
never had a rabbit before, and I didn't think they even got this big,
but I couldn't leave him in the shelter, so I took him home the very
next day (I needed to get all the supplies before I could adopt him).
He took to his new home immediately, and I knew that he knew this was
his home. His favorite treat was cinnamon graham crackers and banana
yogurt dips, and his favorite foods were carrot tops and celery leaf. He
had free run of the house, and he loved to lay behind the blinds by the
sliding glass door. Every now and then he'd come tearing out of there,
spooked by a raccoon or other curious animal that came onto the balcony.
For a bunny that spent such a long time cooped up in a cage, he sure
could run when he wanted to. Whenever I had visitors, if he liked them
he showed it by chewing on their shoes and tossing their keys around. He
loved eating when I was eating - whenever I would eat, he'd run into his
cage and eat start eating too, so we always dined together. He also
loved tipping over drinks, and he soon learned to check what the drink
was - if it was water, I'd only throw down a towel, but if it was
something else I'd have to use the carpet shampooer and he didn't like
the noise, so he learned to only tip over glasses with water in them. He
passed away in his sleep after four and a half years with me, and I was
heart-broken, but he definitely had an impact on my life. After a little
while I rescued another rabbit, and the story continues.
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