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BaaHaus got a telephone call from a daycare teacher asking if we would take a young rabbit. The teacher had found the bunny in a small carry-cage which had been placed on the ground beside a large apartment building dumpster in Vashon. The teacher had thought that perhaps she could keep the bunny in the daycare classroom, but she soon realized that the children were really too young to care for and play with the little rabbit appropriately. We agreed to take the rabbit, and so the teacher and ALL the kids brought Phoebe to BaaHaus on November 1, 2002.

Phoebe's physical at Fair Isle Animal Clinic was perfect, so she joined the rabbit colony where she made friends with just about all the other bunnies. In early October, 2003, we noticed something terribly wrong with Phoebe's right eye. Her eye had to be removed and she made what appeared to be a quick recovery, regaining her jaunty personality within days. But she didn't want to eat any carrots ever again after that surgery. This should have tipped us off that something was still wrong.

Phoebe died in late January of a persistent infection stemming from her eye surgery. Despite weeks of hand feeding and special medications, we lost this battle. Phoebe was a delightful black on white bunny who was only about three years old.