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| Name: |
Little Angel
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Age: |
Eight days old
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| Gender: |
Female
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Kind: |
Lionhead Bunny
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| Home: |
Coatesville, Pennsylvania, USA
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This
is Little Angel, sound asleep in her human mom's hand. I knew Boo,
my Lionhead Rabbit, was pregnant. Being the night person that I am I
was up till 3 am. I shut off the lights etc., in the animal room and
went to the kitchen for a second. When I was walking back I noticed
flickering lights coming from the animal room. I ran in to the animal
room and Boo's cage was entirely in flames. The flames were
setting the hay in the cage above her on fire too. Boo was up in the
corner trying to get out through the wire. Being that she was off to the
farthest point she did not get hurt at all. I opened the cage and
started hitting the flames with my hand. Then I reached and grabbed a
water bottle and poured it on the fire. I kept pouring bottles until I
got it all out. The fire was all around the floor around her cage as
there was hay etc., there.
What caused the fire was my Holland Lop, Bunny "sprayed" urine on the
wall and it hit where the computer was plugged in and started a spark.
The spark hit the cages in front of the plug and the fire just became
flames. The whole house was full of smoke. Moving everyone to safety and
three hours later I was able to go to bed. First thing I did when I got
up was to check in on Boo and what did I see? Seven babies in Boo's
cage. She had the babies just a few hours after the fire ordeal. Thank
God I was awake when the fire started and that she did not have the
babies a day earlier. So this is why I call this litter of Lionhead
Rabbits a miracle. Guess every name for the ones I keep will have to
follow suit.
Little Angel and all her siblings are precious to me, even more so
because of the fire, and they and their mom Boo surviving. She's too
young in this picture to show the "lion's mane" she'll have as an adult,
but she is beautiful to me. I am still shaken by the fire but we are
fortunate that it was caught when it was. Please make sure you do not
have any animals that may spray housed near electrical outlets. Or if
you do, please get outlet covers. I am grateful that I learned this
lesson the easy way. This could have been so much worse.
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