Starcraft 2 Saves Baby Bunny

Bunny (c) sarnibil1 of Flickr.com

There’s a couple of important things, dear reader, that I would like you to know about rabbit medicine.

• If you can’t fix a bunny for under $60, most people will put it to sleep instead
• Little bunnies are usually owned by little children, for some of which it is the first living thing they’ve truely cares for other than their family.
• Regardless of what the primary problem was, if it’s not something that’s an immediate threat to the bunny chances are the bunny now has Gut Stasis.
• Gut Stasis is what’s going to kill it.
• I can treat gut stasis. This involves force feeding bunny special food as often as possible.

Which is why it’s often difficult to see a sick bunny, even if you have a fairly good idea of what’s wrong.  Even if you don’t know what’s going on, it’s probably gut stasis.

And no parent is going to feed a baby bunny all through the night. They’ve had enough of that with their own child, the reason they have this stupid bunny in the first place.

Step in Dr Vet. Explain condition to parent and take cutest-bunny-in-the-world into hospital.

I was on call that night, so there was a reasonable chance that I was going to have interrupted sleep anyway.  I started treating bunny that evening, and took home everything that I was going to need.

My partner had recently acquired Starcraft 2, a game that it would seem he had been waiting 12 years for, he had been playing it all day and was likely to stay up quite late playing it. It was his new obsession, but cutest-bunny-in-the-world was enough to distract him from hoards of zerglings or Kerrigan or whatever it was. I showed him how to feed it, and asked if he wouldn’t mind feeding it a few times before he went to bed.

There’s an art to force feeding a bunny that isn’t feeling very well. It involved a syringe, lots of patients, and trying to be very gentle with an extremely cute protesting bunny that doesn’t want to eat. It usually involves spreading the special food all over bunny’s fae and your lap. It’s an acquired skill, and more difficult on smaller bunnies.

Nevertheless we managed it, and my partner agreed to feed him every couple of levels, so I went to bed for a few hours knowing that after my dear partner stopped playing Starcraft 2 and went to bed, I would be getting up every two hours to feed this bunny.

I woke up at 6:30am to find myself alone in bed. A brief moment of panic gripped me- momentarily unsure why my partner was not sleeping next to me.

I walked into the lounge room, slightly groggy, to find him still playing Starcraft in his dressing gown, cup of tea beside him, big smile on his face.

“Morning babe. I stormed the very gates of hell! Also, I fed bunny every hour for you.”

Bunny was much brighter, no longer dehydrated, and had gained 30% of her body weight. She was eating on her own and her guts were moving again. Bunny went home the next day to her happy little girl and fairly pleased mother.

So thank-you, Starcraft 2. Feeding that baby bunny every hour is what saved it. Wouldn’t have happened without you.