This photo is from a while ago...she was 6 weeks old when it was taken, and she's 17 months now, but I recently found it again and it's one of my favourites. I love her so much. Ever since I was a little kid, I've been somehow magnetized to animals, and them to me. My parents didn't want me to have any pets though- I had two goldfish, Wanda and William (don't blame me, I didn't name them!) But you can't really play with, or hug a fish...So I found a snail in the garden and kept it as a pet. That was great until I took it to school for show and tell, and my 6th grade "buddy" killed it. On purpose. Mean. If I remember right, it's name was Sunbake. When I was 8, I was allowed to get my first bird- a budgie called Pecksie. He had a wife, a few kids...I've now had 15 birds in total, over the years! I got my first bunny when I was 12- mainly because to mny parents, it seemed like a quieter, less messy, alternative to a dog. But I ended up really loving rabbits! I've had 6 over the years (Cottontail, Misty, Lucky, Cottontail Junior, Ruby April, and Peter Cottontail.) They were all lovely and equally special, but as a kid, I would always dream of having a particular type of rabbit...the kind that Ruby is! She looks exactly like a stuffed toy bunny I had. She's the most gentle and sweet animal. She would never hurt anyone and just wants to be loved. She's also very shy. I was going through a pretty bad time, when I got her...reflecting on that, she's the one good thing that came out of that chapter of my life. "Picked all my weeds, but kept the flowers."
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