Sunday, June 6, 2010

We lost another kit today. This time a Silver Fox, the breed we're trying to help bring back from the brink of extinction. Life and death, life and death. It's all part of breeding any animal. If you can't handle death, you shouldn't be breeding. It's sad. This was a first litter. The mother rejected the kit. I wonder if there was something wrong with it. It was fat, not thin, like most bunnies which aren't eating. By the time we realized it wasn't getting fed and I brought it in to bottle feed, it may have been too late. Still, six survivors out of seven isn't bad. We've lost whole litters before, first and second. I just wish I could've saved it, that's all.

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