We Have Become an Animal Shelter

Saturday afternoon we went to my parents house for swimming and dinner. As we were all relaxing on the deck watching the kids swim, my Dad's eagle eye noticed a Bunny hopping in the backyard. It was not a wild bunny, but a cute little floppy eared speckled bunny. Taylor, the future Veterinarian/APL President jumped out of the pool and was on the bunny's trail armed with a towel while Paige and Chloe ran with crates shortly behind her. Me, my Mom, my Dad and my sister all chasing after them yelling..."Grab him from behind! Throw the towel over him! Catch him! Run, Taylor!" Taylor finally caught him in the next door neighbor's yard and carried him back to my parents with a grin on her face like she just won the Boston Marathon.

All the kids decided to go from door to door, with the help of my brother in law, to detemine whom he belonged to. The third house was the winner. To the kids horror, the owner said, they didn't want him and that the kids could keep him. Who in their right mind would let a bunny go simply because they didn't want him? What is wrong with people?

Here comes the dilema. Dum, Dum, Dum.......Who takes him? Sucker Nick and Sucker Sandy will take him. They can handle it. Their kid is the one who caught it. It's only right. Nick's response was "There is no way that bunny is coming home with us." One hour later and many arguments and tears later, we drove down the driveway with a bunny in the back of the car.

He spent the night in our laundry room with the expectation that he would be taken to the animal shelter at noon today. This morning, Nick suggested that we let him run around on the deck so that he wasn't confined to his soggy cardboard box. Sheriff Nick then decided that we should keep him for one day and put him in a pen in the yard and take him to the shelter on Monday. So we borrowed a metal pen from the kid's father and put him under a shady tree for the entire day. This rabbit thinks he won the lottery since he has been petted and hand-fed carrots all day long. He is spending the night in our laundry room again, with clean sheets and towels for his comfort and enough carrots and lettuce to feed 10 rabbits. Tomorrow his vacation will come to an end and he will be traveling to Rescue Village. Sorry bunny rabbit, but 4 kids is enough for me. I don't have the time or energy to clean up your poop or make sure you have food and fresh water every day. And no matter what Taylor and Shea tell me to the contrary, I am always the one that has to take care of the animals.