New Bunnies!

Mood: Happy

Yay! I`ve got 2 new bunnies!

Me and Vinnie II were looking for new bunnies from the pet stores in a neighbor town, but it was surprising to notice how expensive they nowadays are. In 1 store they were selling mixed race lion-hair bunnies for 45?(/$), 1 store didn`t have bunnies publicly avaible but the owner would have had 1 bunny with hanging ears for sale. Price would have been 60?(/$). The third store was selling ordinary bunnies for the price of 30?(/$), tiny races for 45?(/$) and special races for 51?(/$), and I was thinking "Holy loony mouse! Massive inflation at the bunny-prices!" Y`see, 8 years ago we paid from our first bunny only 3,20?(/$) and when we took Pupuliina`s 4 siblings to 1 petstore in a different town than the one from where her mother was bought from, the price of the bunnies which were for sale was ca. 8,20?(/$) per bunny.

I was totally shocked by the high prices at the pet stores, especially when used to that fact that at countryside people give often their rabbits away for free. I was also totally upset about the lousy service at 1 pet store and I was already somewhat ready to say "Ok, no bunnies for me anymore." Fortunately my dad`s contacts came into the picture and he called to me and gave me a number of somebody who didn`t live that much distant from my place, to have some bunnies to give. I called to that person and first he was a bit of willing to give just 1 rabbit but then after discussing with his children, he agreed to give 2.

So, that meant me and Vinnie II drove to that place and found a vivid, very much human-loving mother bunny with 4 cubs of hers. 2 of the children were from her earlier set and the smallest 2 were approximately 2 months old already. We took 2 black cubs, 1 from the new bunch and the another 1 from the previous bunch. The older bunny has a nice little "collar" from the white fur and her nose is also white. She also has white "kneesocks" on her front paws and a little bit of white also on her backfeet. The younger one is almost completely black, except the white "anklesocks" on the front paws. We tried to choose 2 females, but when I re-checked at my place I notices that we had accidentally gotten a boy and a girl instead of 2 girls. Well... That means a visit to the vet. After all we don`t want them to start to make babies. Eww! They`re sibling after all!

Well... You`re probably curious to know the names of these two jumpers, so here they come:

The older female: Raisa Puputti

The younger female: Pipsa Puputti

Bunny pictures © Vincent "Vinnie" van Wham II, 2nd of Aug 2004

The Death of Pupuliina Jussiina

Mood: Sad

Who would have believed from the picture of my bunny Pupuliina which was published here on this blog a couple of days ago that she would die about 3 weeks after taking the picture. I at least wouldn`t have believed that if somebody would have claimed that to me.

But the Lord decided to call her to the Heaven where her mother Pupu Tupuna(Most often called as Tupuna or Tupsu.), father and probably most of her siblings - if not even all of them are already.

Late on last evening I was going to sauna which is in a separate building near of the main building and I had to go to an oldfashioned outside toilet because Vinnie II had already booked the toilet in the mainbuilding. After the necessary visit to the "Hotel Relief" I has a strange feeling I should check out how my bunny was doing. And there she was, in the darkest corner of the cage, shaking at times pretty much and her eyes were full of pain. Vinnie II said she looked like the bunny which they had to put in sleep when he was somewhat younger. Pupuliina`s stomach seemed to be overfull and in a panic I called to my parents, crying that my bunny is really sick now. Mom told Pupuliina`s stomach had most likely gone upset from flowers which my neighbor liked to bring for her and which she could eat, but not too much because the plant which I`m now talking about, is quite heavy stuff for a bunny`s stomach.
So, me and Vinnie II removed all the older hay off the cage and the cabin, threw away all food from there and put new, dry hay instead and hard, dry, white bread into her cage for her. And of course we did change her water too and washed all the dining pots with boiling water. (I even burned my hands with that +100C water!)

**Sighs** Now that feels a bit worthless but at the same time I feel that at least we tried to do our best in that situation. I wouldn`t have been able to get a vet at 11.30PM here anymore. They would have told me to bring the bunny to the pet doctor in the morning then.

On this morning I was sleeping a bit later and I got up at 8.45AM to prepare myself to go to work by 10.00AM and I rushed in my nightshirt (Which looks like oversized T-shirt.) to check out if Pupuliina was still alive and perhaps getting better.
But first thing I notice is that the bread is untouched and that I can`t see her. Then I lifted the roof of her cabin away from its place and found her lying on her left side, frozen still, eyes half closed, paws streched straight - just like Tupuna was right after she had passed away, letting out a little squeack. Vinnie II was next to her to prove her dying-moment but now there was nobody to be next to Pupuliina when she let out her last breath and her heart did its last beat. All I know about when she has died is basing to the odour of death. She didn`t smell then when I found her but already on this evening, around 9.00PM when dad was finally closing the box which became her coffin, she was smelling clearly. My mother had taken her off from the cabin of the bunny cage on this morning around at 9.30 and even she said the bunny didn`t smell, so she must have died early in the morning. But at least that much early that she was dead already when the old man from my neighbor had again brought those flowers for her. Y`see, Pupuliina always came out of the cabin or anywhere where she was, to the feeding place when this man brought those flowers. She never skipped her fave food if her fave people brought it. (And she was a big fan of that old man.)

**Sighs again.** I always take very heavily the deaths of those who/which I have liked/loved the most. Dad fortunately did the burying of her, so I was saved from the worst part. Though when they told me to drive back to my own place with Vinnie II and let them bury Pupuliina next to her mother, behind my and Micronian`s play house where we used to play when we were little kids, I couldn`t just drive but had to run to dad who was just in the middle of diging the grave for Pupuliina`s coffin.
There they lie now, side by side, mother Tupuna and daughter Pupuliina. They both lived quite long lives, Tupuna 6 years and 10 months and Pupuliina 7 years and 3 months. Both of them were inspirating me to create my character Thureson, Rocky`s son who has specialized in the area of shape-shifting. Fave form of him was a brown-furred bunny.

Now I have no bunny anymore. And I couldn`t even move my fishes into this house, so I had to leave `em to my parents`place when I moved in here.
Oh well... At least Pupuliina has no pain anymore. She`s freed from `em all.

Have a good journey to the Heaven of The Animals, Pupuliina!

Mood: Tired

Ok, I`m ready to be taken to the mental hospital. I guess it must be the lack of sleep, or then the precence of Vinnie II makes me feel so happy that even the most discusting duties becomes nice. **Sarcastically:** Who would have expected that on 1 day I find myself LIKING to wash the toilet seats!
True! I was today doing some cleaning job in 2 different places and there I had to was the toilet seats. (Eww!) But funniest part was that I didn`t find it as gross as it has felt before. I guess I must be really tired. At least now I am and Vinnie II is messing around with my table computer, so I either have to use my laptop or then go to sleep. Guess which I chose? Yes, the laptop session - though now I think I have to go to sleep.
Hopefully it would be raining on tomorrow. I wound`t have to go to mow the lawn for anybody and could spend a day with my family and beloved ones. Been working even 12 hours long days during the last 4 weeks while co-workers are having their holidays. And since last week here`s been quite hot in my opinion. +16 to +18 Celcius degrees it woud be the best working conditions. If it`s not raining of course. Fortunately my currently primary job is weather sensitive.!

Good night everybody!

Yeah, I should have learned to do that. Vinnie II had recommended me to read a Throttle & Carbine -fanfic named Learning to Let Go (Rated: G) and my insticts were immediately saying that despite of liking T/Car -pairing in the fanfics, I shouldn`t read this.

And they were right.

I got so sad when reading it.
Though the story itself was well written. I haven`t really seen that much fics where Carbine would be the main character and especially not being described as a total b###h.

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Legendaric Bunny

My bunny Pupuliina Jussiina (or just plain Pupuliina) at the age of 7 years and 3 months.

Picture © Vincent "Vinnie" van Wham II, 2004

Mood: Excited

Yay!
After planning to do this for 2,5 years I finally got a chance to do a proper-looking blog! Vinnie II, who is visiting me currently, is playing some "kill-a-bogy" -game with his laptop while I`m writing this. I should already go to sleep because I must get up early tomorrow (or today actually) but I`m too excited about this. :P
I got a fiberglass connection 1 week ago to roll and since then I`ve tried to catch up the messages more also at the Discussion Board of Unofficial Biker Mice from Mars Fan Club and go through my e-mail boxes too.(And there`s a lot of `em!) Mostly I just get spam which I hate a lot, so therefore I beg and ask you not to become a spammer too. Reasonable e-mails are always ok, but the commercial junk can skip me. I don`t need any >beep< enlargements, Viagra, or spy anybody anywhere -trash.

Also virus-makers better not to bother to e-mail me. I hate it when my or my family member`s computer gets choked after I have removed some virus/viruses from my/their computer(s).

For the rest of you I wish you would stay and enjoy on my pages. :)

Ride free citizens!

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