Rabbits

I've said it before, I'm definitely a pets person. However, over the past few years I've become less of a fan of the small and fuzzy variety. I'm more of a cat person really, but we have a cat allergy in our house, so I don't have one. I've had dogs, guinea pigs and hamsters over the last few years, and they are OK, but I'm just getting away from them. I'm getting into reptiles more and more, but there is still one small and fuzzy that I do enjoy. Rabbits.

In my experience owning a rabbit is as close as I can get to owning a cat right now. Also, since I've become a rabbit owner, I've grown attached to them in ways you can't with a cat. For instance, rabbits aren't jerks.

The only thing about rabbits that I don't like is that rabbits don't last a really long time. Greg who is pictured above has been our pet for about 4 years now and is probably about 6-7 years old. He's just not going to last all that much longer, and he has been the best pet we have ever had. He's slowly slipping away from us though and has lost a lot of weight and we think he's been having strokes. He's still eating good, but he's got a bad case of head tilt, and very soon he will be gone. I guess if he wasn't so cute, it wouldn't be so sad. We lost another rabbit, Winston a couple years ago, but that was presumably a brain infection, but I've never been positive the vet knew what he was talking about.