Q-Tip
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Gotcha Day November 16, 1996
ATB May 16, 2001
This is Q-Tip. I found him at a no-kill shelter where he had been for
three years in a small 1.5 foot cube of a cage (and Q-Tip was a big
rabbit, weighing eleven pounds). The guy at the shelter told me he
almost got adopted a couple of times, but the people never came
back. I really felt that if I didn't adopt him, no one ever would and
he would spend the rest of his days in the back of the shelter in that
small cage, not moving, staring out at nothingness and slowly losing
the rest of his life. I couldn't leave him there. I just couldn't.
I'd never had a rabbit before, and I didn't think they even got this
big, but I couldn't leave him in the shelter, so I took him home the
very next day (I needed to get all the supplies before I could adopt
him). I wound up taking the day off from work so I could get all the
supplies and set everything up, and then of course pick up the bunny
and introduce him to his new home.
He took to his new home immediately, and I knew that he knew this was
his home. His favorite treat was cinnamon graham crackers and banana
yogurt dips, and his favorite foods were carrot tops and celery
leaf. He had free run of the house, and he loved to lay behind the
blinds by the sliding glass door. Every now and then he'd come tearing
out of there, spooked by a raccoon or other curious animal that came
onto the balcony. For a bunny that spent such a long time cooped up in
a cage, he sure could run when he wanted to. Whenever I had visitors,
if he liked them he showed it by chewing on their shoes and tossing
their keys around. He loved eating when I was eating - whenever I
would eat, he'd run into his cage and eat start eating too, so we
always dined together. He also loved tipping over drinks, and he soon
learned to check what the drink was - if it was water, I'd only throw
down a towel, but if it was something else I'd have to use the carpet
shampooer and he didn't like the noise, so he learned to only tip over
glasses with water in them. He passed away in his sleep after four and
a half years with me, and I was heart-broken, but he definitely had an
impact on my life. After a little while I rescued another rabbit, and
the story continues.
This candle will alway burn for you, Q-Tip.
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