So sad....

We have been discussing the idea of giving layla a pet rabbit for almost a year now. She keeps asking for a dog but we've been through that one out here already....not a great story. So a couple of days after her birthday we went to all of the four pet stores in town and purchased 2 rabbits. PETA would have a field day if it saw the conditions of those pet stores. At least they stayed alive.

We are very sad to say that one of the rabbits was killed tonight by a horrid, disease-ridden cat that cruises through our yard on the way to the neighborhood trash can which is just about 20 feet from our house on the other side of our privacy wall. Ugh.

We didn't even get pictures taken! I can't believe it. We'd been letting them out in the yard in the late afternoon while we sit and play with the kids but tonight they just didn't come back and didn't come back and then kids had to be put down for bed and this and that happened and now we only have Salalah the light brown rabbit in the cage. Thankfully this is the one Layla chose....she didn't really give much attention to Bob, the one who died.

Anyway. Salalah was truly frightened and we are hoping she'll make it through the night. Apparently rabbits are very fragile emotionally (!) and can literally die of fright. It is too late to write more.