Domestic Geek

I got a frantic call from Marcus one night about three weeks after we took Trinity in—she was having babies! She gave birth to five, but one was stillborn. They were so tiny and they kept escaping through the bars of the cage. Marcus was constantly rounding them up and putting them back. I remember going back to check on them and kicking one that was on the floor really far away from the cage. We also started panicking when Trinity wouldn't feed them. In fact, she didn't seem to want to have anything to do with them at all. Marcus scoured the Internet trying to figure out what we could do so they wouldn't die. We got tiny baby bottles and canned goat's milk and just as we sat down to feed them, she gave in and did it herself. Yay!!!!!

I know we've got pictures of them smaller than this one, but of course I can't find them. I think they were a little over two weeks old here.



There ended up being one boy and three girls. He named the boy Neo (Matrix again), but being a shortage of female characters in the first movie, he named the remaining ones after Healther Locklear, Brittney Spears and Christina Aguilera. As soon as it was medically possible, we got Neo neutered so that we wouldn't have any more baby bunnies to deal with.

We think that poor Trin was knocked up by a wild jackrabbit while she was out in the wild (Neo looks just like one). We don't know if she got away or was dumped by her owner, but nobody ever posted any signs about missing a rabbit.

Here's some individual pictures of them on a lame page I made in my first html class.