Saturday, April 12, 2008

Peter, the Neglected One...

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Despite the name, Peter is actually is a female rabbit and I didn't know the bun was a she until she humped Roger! I named her after Peter Rabbit and even after learning what the bun was a she, we didn't care to change her name. I first met her when she came into our backyard accidently and when somewhere by night. For another week, I didn't see her. Due to my ignorance and not even caring to research about rabbits, I fed her raw rice and dried carrots in which she seemed to like on a daily basis whenever she came by. Even now, she munches on whatever she gets fed like bread, crackers, and food scraps from neighbors which are not healthy for buns. She crosses the street everyday to go into the neighbors backyard and on every day basis, I went there with raw rice and dried carrots and spent time with her. Soon, I learned that the owner of Peter was two houses down from my house. As it tuns out, they do not care about Peter and eventually locked her out of their backyard by putting bricks under the gap between the gate and the floor so she can't get into their backyard. From what they said, they have a baby now and that the baby is more important for them than Peter and that their son picks up Peter's poop up and tries to eat it. From my point of view, that is not an adequate reasoning to just lock out Peter and run loose, getting almost hit by cars several times. Anyways, soon, little did I know that Roger would be dumped next to Peter and they would later become bonded. Now, Peter comes and waits patiently right by the door of our house for Roger to come out or waits in our backyard. There are some days when I do let Roger let out with Peter for a day and they start grooming each other and become all cuddlely. I must admit though that they do hump each other but its practially impossible due to Roger's disability. However, to show dominance, Peter humps Roger more than you can really can ask for. My dream is to adopt Peter into our house and would like to give her much love! However, my parents are very anti-animal type of people so it is really hard to convince them of adopting animals.

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