Hello to everyone

Hi everybody,

I joined this forum the other day after Ray (sp?) from the RWA recommended it to me at the Burgess Small Animal Show on Sunday

My name is Catherine, I am 20 and currently at uni studying Finance and Accountancy. My bunny obsession started when I lost both my childhood guinea pigs to old age and my family felt I was old enough (at 17!) for the responsibility of a bunny. A little bundle of fluff entered my life in early Jan 2009 and after a few days the name Misty stuck, we kept her inside initially as she was only a baby and it was a really bad winter that year. She was a lionhead X english and a little ball of mischief! Shortly after this we decided that Misty needed a bunny friend and off we went to get Sweep - a sooty fawn dwarf lop. We kept them both inside and they had alternate run time (and some kissing through the bars) until they both moved outside, both got neutered and moved into their permanent outside setup.

Misty on the day we brought her home


Baby Sweep


All grown up



Sadly we lost Misty-Moo just before christmas, it was completely unexpected - they were free ranging the day before and she was binkying around the garden as usual and when I did the evening hay feed she was bright and alert, then my dad found her the morning after at 7am lay on the floor of the wendyhouse, she had gone to sleep forever. She was 3 years old. Sweep has coped very well with the loss but we were keen to get him a new friend as soon as possible, so the weekend before last we reserved a 3 year old BEW lionhead doe called Jenna who hasn't had the best life up until she went into rescue. We are having a homecheck on Monday and if all goes well Sweep will leave us for a week to be bonded to Jenna at the rescue. Everything crossed

I'm excited to get to know all of you and your furries and thanks for taking the time to read - I am known for rambling a bit

Catherine

Hello

You will fit right in here - you have already got the hang of posting pics. We are very keen to see pics.

Looing forward to hearing all about your buns.

Hello

I am on 2 other bunny forums so am very used to posting pics and navigating my way around fortunately

Bonjourno

Hi hun,

Welcome to HH.

Im sorry to hear you lost your beautiful girl, she was beautiful.

Lovely to have you here - looking forward to getting to know you and your bun (soon to be buns), and hearing all about Misty too.

Please do join in the posts x x x x

Katie x

Welcome to our happy family love, ypur bunnies are lovely. I am sorry to hear about Misty Moo.

Hugs

JO xx

Welcome to the forum!

Sorry to hear about gorgeous Misty, she has such a cheeky face in that second photo. And just look at baby Sweep

Hello

You weren't rambling, I do like a nice intro post. And pics

So sorry about Misty, she was a gorgeous girl. I'm glad that you've felt able to find Sweep a new wifebun, and look forward to welcoming Jenna home

Hello! and welcome to HH!!

I'm so sorry you lost Misty. I lost my girl, Thumper, in December too so I know much you will be hurting

Looking forward to hearing all about Sweep and Jenna

Welcome! Fab intro post!

So sorry to hear about your loss!

Can't wait to hear more about sweep and his new wife!!

Hello and welcome to Happy Hoppers. So sorry to hear of your loss, Misty was a beautiful girl. Sleep tight little one.
Sweep is gorgeous, I hope his bonding with Jenna works out well. x

HI Catherine, and welcome to HH

Sorry for your loss, what a beautiful girl Misty Moo was

It's lovely to have you here, and very kind of Rae to recommend us

Thankyou for all your lovely hello messages :-)

I will be sure to get some lovely pictures of Sweep this weekend before he goes away on his romantic holiday

I am very excited at the prospect of seeing him all cuddled up with a girl again, it's not been nice seeing him on his own, even if it has only been just over 5 weeks it's still too long!

Hello & Welcome to the Forum

hello

Hey Catherine,

I just wanted to say hi and sorry for your loss. I lost a rat in December and it was a very sad experience. She was a gorgeous little bunny.

Hugs
OKsana

Hello from the USA! I'm so glad you hopped in!

Awww....so sorry about Misty; poor old Sweep. Here's hoping he bonds with his new girl-bun quickly.
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