Chalkboard readers,
I'm sure that almost all of you already know, but I wanted to share with those that didn't that Sunny lost his fight with E. Cunniculi this past week.
Holly and I made the tough decision to put Sunny to sleep on Tuesday evening. While his head tilt had improved (and was largely cured), he had lost a lot of weight in the process. He was starting to put some of the weight back on, but then started having trouble eating and digesting. Over the Memorial Day weekend, he lost all of the weight that he gained back and then some. After completely losing his appetite, we took him to the vet on Tuesday where they ran some blood tests. His kidneys had completely shut down (the readings were off the charts), and outside of bunny dialysis, there would be no stopping the inevitable from happening. The E. Cunniculi that Sunny had attacks the brain and the kidneys, among other organs, and while he was able to fight the parasite in his brain, the kidneys did him in.
He was a fighter to the end, but the odds were stacked too
much against him.
Our friend Ryan was visiting over the weekend, and Sunny had a particularly good day on Saturday before things got bad. We took this opportunity to get Sunny out of his pen and let him run around the living room--one of his favorite things to do. He ran around for a bit to stretch his legs, then as always, gravitated back to us for head-pats and attention. Ryan captured these pictures of Sunny's last "good" day. I post them to show how much of a fighter Sunny was--how he was largely improved from his earlier pictures (in terms of head tilt), and to put some closure to the 4 and a half years Sunny was a happy member of our little family.
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