Won't forget by Vuurstern on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

Yeah... I couldn't leave these guys in my memory without ever drawing any of them. And another tl;dr ahead. You're welcome.

(Silver had completely lost her lighter fur upon reaching adulthood, and Wombat gained a cut in his ear because of unknown causes

I suspect Fred

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We only had them for a year. Yeah, unfortunately, they're all gone now. :c

Fred was released in August because of my dad. He hated the animal because he kept escaping (sometimes dragging the others along) and catching a rabbit is a pain, let me tell you. Especially in a garden with hedges that a rabbit can go through while a human cannot. He kept destroying my father's plants and vegetables and nothing seemed to make the cage rabbitproof. Basically my father told me that if I didn't want to release him, he'd do it himself and if he ever saw the rabbit in the garden again he'd kill it on the spot. He wouldn't let me try keeping him anymore and I couldn't find anyone who wanted to take in a rabbit that kept escaping. And no, I wasn't a supporter of that plan either, but I had no choice.
And yes, I still regret it. There's no need to keep pointing out how wrong and unfair that was. I'm not dumb and I'm not heartless either.

The other three didn't really escape anymore after that (or maybe they did, but I can't remember... yeah, they probably did). That is, up until a week or so ago. I wasn't even there, I was in Italy. My sister was told to feed the rabbits, but she left the door open. So yeah, surprise... they escaped. Duh. Can't blame the rabbits for that.
They managed to catch them after a really, really long hunt. And then they were fed up with them. So instead of just PUTTING THEM BACK WHERE THEY BELONG SO THEY COULD JUST GO ON LIVING THEIR LIFE INSIDE THE ENCLOSURE AS THEY HAD DONE FOR MONTHS, they released those as well.
They didn't even bother to tell me until I came back from Italy, and I thought it was a joke at first. Until I saw the empty space in the garden where their shelter used to be.
Gah.

They will probably be the last pets I've had. At least for now. My mom said that if our financial situation ever gets a lot more stable than it is now, she wants to get a puppy, but honestly I don't think that's ever going to happen. I'll have to wait until/if I get to move out. If I ever get enough responsibility and money... I don't see that happening any time soon either.
I often wonder how they are doing today. Are they still alive? I know, "THE FOREST OMG THAT'S PREDATORS AND WEATHER THEY WON'T SURVIVE ONE DAY" but really, this is Belgium. We don't have any big predators except for the fox, and there are no foxes in this area. As for the weather, these were outdoor rabbits, all year long. Plus the place they got released into was really close to houses. I can see them just crawling into someone's backyard. Anything could happen
I just wish all of this hadn't happened sometimes. Even if that had meant not adopting them.

My mom said they don't really look like rabbits in this, more like cat-dog-rabbit mixes. Whoops. Made with deviantART muro.