Oh thankyou!
I was worried that I'd 'over-loved' Barley and over protected him, my first bunny died when he was 9...or 10...I think he was almost 10, and I didn't think I'd given him a particularly full life, I hadn't tried him on all different sorts of vegetables etc and I got him when I was 5, so I didn't really develop a relationship with him early on, plus I didn't have the right sort of attitude about cleaning his hutch out, so I vowed I'd give my second little bunny all the chances and fulfillment I could, I tried him on all sorts of things and saw cleaning him out, not as a chore, but as something good because he always used to come over and see what I was doing! (I'm beginning to cry now...
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He was my special little man and I always used to go out and check up on him like every two minutes (He was allowed to go into the compost heap and the shed etc, we have a little enclosed bit of garden.) so I was worried about him, but I think that used to irritate him, he always gave me dirty looks if I disturbed him!!
Barley was only 7 months old, so it was unfair, which is why I think maybe someone accidentally put him into bunny form and had to take him away again...if you see what I mean...!
Another reason I think it may be a curse, is that it's always the second animal that dies young...my cat was youngest of two, my hamster was youngest of 2, and my Barley bun...! Spooookkkyyy.... Well I've still got my manky mog, Big, who's deaf and actually going a bit senile, and is sat on my lap at the mo...licking my trousers....
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Thanku for what u said though.