[yellowted]

I wanted to buy my own house bunnies for ages, only my dissociative motor disorder and the unknown area of treatment for it stopped me. Over xmas by chance whilst fiddling on the internet i found a local charity site looking for foster homes for house bunnies, so I applied. After an interview/home visit last week,I found out yesterday that i have been accepted as a bunny foster mum,,I really love animals, already have one gerbil since her partner died, and know this is what i have wanted for ages, only the tickly feeling i get when i think about it feels like i feel when i get scared, yet i should be excited, only i do not know what excited feels like.

[roads]

Please take comfort from the knowledge that you've been chosen and you'll have backup.

By "being chosen," I mean somebody objective thinks you'll make a great mom. Shelters that go as far as making home visits know what they're doing. So rest assured--this isn't just a whim on your part.

By "having backup," I mean that if problems arise you'll have someone to call. They won't disappear like a number in a newspaper. They will be there and they will help you throughout the settling-in period! I work for the SPCA, & I promise your shelter who picked you wants you to succeed with your bunny every bit as much as you do.

Take a deep breath & spend time with your gerbil. Your lives are about to get LOTZ bunnier & funnier! (Sorry. I tried not to ...)

[Perna]

Knowing what you want and getting to try it out is exciting but, because it is new it is a bit scary too; I think the tickly feeling could be a little apprehension on how it will be, which might be overshadowing the excitement until you get a little more experience and realize you are doing fine and enjoying yourself.

You can join the House Rabbit Society, LOL, http://www.rabbit.org/ start a chapter in the UK.

[yellowted]

thankyou both for your comforting support, i now have had 2 bunnies for the past 5 days. they are gorgeous, totally opposites in character, size and sex! one is rather large,into everything and a rabbit shaped vaccume cleaner, the other is just starting to come out of his shell, food is not an incentive to him and he is happy just pottering aroun the carpet sniffing at my gerbils cage!
my Gerbil is loving the company, she comes right up to the bars of her cage and lets the big rabbit lick her clean!
I have not risked having all three out of their cages at the same time appart from when Milly was in her gerbil ball, when she certainly made it clear to the buns that she ruiled the room by rolling into them and chasing after them when they hopped away!
I am feeling really happy that i took the leap to apply for fostering the buns, it is the best thing that has happened to me in years!