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About
Fair Run Rabbits is an organization that gives you the chance to adopt a rare breed of rabbit. The Coloradan Fairen, or Fae, is a specifically bred working rabbit made to withstand extremely cold temperatures. They have an extremely large body, averaging around 25-40lbs in weight and about 3-4ft in length. Much like other large breeds, Faes feature large eyes and an unusually fluffy tail. Their ears are short and thick, as are their paw pads. Able to run for long distances while also being extremely agile, they are commonly used for agility competitions. Faes make great pets for young children due to their advanced intelligence and dog-like attitudes, though many professional breeders can assure you they make fabulous companions for everyone.






This buck is quite a bit aggressive and dominant, but he's pretty good condition even from being where he was. It seems he fought regularly considering the almost fresh scars on both eyes. We're guessing he went blind from the most noticeable scars only a week or so before the rabbits were found.



Required Tasks:
#1: Meeting your rabbit. -- completed
#2: Cleaning your rabbit. -- completed
#3: Training your rabbit. -- completed

Completed #6 and #7

Breeding Notes
As a harlequin bun, they have ten breeding slots instead of five.

Rescue
Foundation
Username: Lady Sif
Show Name: Lady's Cottontail
Pet Name: Cotton
Gender: Buck
Color: Black/Orange Harlequin
Eye Color: --
Weight: 37lbs
Length: 4'2"
Offspring: ---

[Lady Sif]

Username: Lady Sif
Show Name: Lady's Cottontail
Pet Name: Cotton
Gender: Boy


I'll write these up tomorrow.

[Lady Sif]

Meeting my rabbit~

Rose stood there, horrified

Her elder sister Sif had just gotten her first rabbit and had told her that she was allowed to get one too. She had been on her way down to the pet store to look around when Hound who had been walking with her had started acting odd. When she finally managed to get into the site, she couldn't even understand what she was seeing. As soon as she could, she was helping, even before the others managed to get there. Hound was coaxing some of the rabbits out of the more dangerous cages and moving them to safer spaces while Rose did her best to treat injured kits with the little med-kit she carried on her. Finally the other showed up and she was able to start moving cages onto the trucks.

But then one of them caught her eye. Under his muddy fur, she could see fresh scars on his eyes but when she tried to move his cage he nearly bit her finger off. Despite having no sight, he actually seemed to be in fair condition, and he was a fighter for sure. She looked at him for a few seconds, then made up her mind. He was coming home with her.


Rose looked around and found one of the volunteers who was running around and helping get all the rabbits out. "I'm keeping him." She said and once all the rabbits were moved and safe, she spent the next hour filling out paperwork and getting everything all sorted out, calling home so Sif would have an area (and a bath) set up for him before they got there.

Bathing~

The next step after getting him home was bath time. Well, not an actual bath since that would panic him, but pretty close to it. Sif had prepared a bin for her, filled with warm water with a towel at the bottom for his feet. A shower head was up above and they had washcloths ready to clean and then throw away.

Rose took a deep breath in and then began.

Getting him in the tub wasn't as much as a fight as she thought it would be. If anything he seemed glad to have the water under his feet and quickly set about using it to start cleaning himself. He was even okay with the washcloth, enjoying the attention he clearly hadn't been getting for a long time.

His fur was matted and had to be cut off in lots of places, soap was rubbed into every part of him and rinsed off with the show head, until finally he's fur was clean and hopefully free of fleas. Still, just to be safe he was give a dose of flea treatment after being dried and having his fur brushed out.

And then came nail trimming. The bath may have gone well, but he had to be wrapped up in four towels before they could even starting cutting his nails and Sif had to hold him down to get the job done. He was not a fan of being restricted or having his only form of defense taken away. Once it was over he spent the next hour hopping away from them and looking at them in a way that would've made them feel guilty if they didn't know it was for his own good.

Tomorrow, Rose would start with his training, he would need to learn to trust her and walking with a harness was going to be very important, but today he needed rest, so she let it be.


I'll do training tomorrow, I need sleep.

[Lady Sif]

Training~
While bathing and trimming had gone okay, the same could not be said for training. Cotton, as he had been named, was a nightmare. Rose was kind and took things slow, she understood what kind of life he had been living before her, but her fingers were always wrapped up in bandages from all the bites she was getting and she could tell that Sif was starting to worry.

At least she was making a little progress. Sometimes she could stroke him while he was eating or otherwise busy, but the moment she tried for a harness, he'd bite her and run off again. Today though, today she was determined to get this done. Her hand reached out and stroked him, giving him gentle touches as he nibbled on a carrot until he was fully relaxed, then, she moved the harness into his sight. Cotton eyed it warily, but didn't reach out to bite her quite yet, waiting her her to make her move.

Slowly, very slowly she wrapped the harness around his middle, holding his eye contact the whole time. This was as far as she had gotten before, but this time she had a plan. Once the middle was done, she let go of the harness, reached out and very softly mushed his head down, pushing down the fur. It did the trick and e relaxed, she then quickly got the neck part of the harness on and grinned when she finally got away with her fingers unbitten.

[Lady Sif]

Extra Tasks:

#6
In the two weeks that Rose had Cotton, he'd truly grown to embrace his name. His mean and aggressive stance and power had largely faded, leaving him content to cuddle in laps and even able to handle new people. Which meant that it was time for his first trip to the vet. He was wary about getting into the car, but Rose had coaxed him in with sweet words and a handful of his favorite greens and he had finally complied and hopped into the back seat. Rose slowly shut the door as he eyed it, pulled Cotton up onto her seat and signaled for Sif to start driving the car.

Cotton seemed nervous about the whole thing, not liking the way that the car moved and twisted, but Rose was stroking his ears just right so he let it pass. Until they finally reached the vet’s office, where he was subsequently removed from the car with his harness one. That wasn’t too fun as the new environment was starting to freak him out a little and his shortened nails dug into Rose’s arms as she lowered him out of the car. Getting him into the vet wasn’t much fun either, there was a dog that almost got mauled for yapping at Cotton. Luckily Rose pulled him back just in time.

Then came the vet. That was a scene to behold. It took ten minutes for them to figure out that the lab coat was a problem, and another twenty for the vet to be able to actually check Cotton out. But in the end, everything came out clean and even the scars were looking good. Shots were hell, but the vet and two girls managed and in the end, Rose managed to take home a healthy but not so happy bunny!

[Lady Sif]

#7
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Hound and Cotton had yet to meet. Part of it was Rose had wanted as much bonding between her and Cotton as possible, part of it was they had to be sure that Cotton couldn't pass anything on and part of it was that Hound was going to rip Cotton apart. Actually, it was mostly that.

But everything had to come about eventually, and so, on a day when Anarai was gone doing whatever it was deer gods of space did, and Hound seemed to be in an okay mood, Rose slowly brought Cotton her play space, far enough away that Rose could pull him out but not so far that Hound wouldn't notice him right off the bat.

Hound looked up and everyone was tense, Cotton was shaking. This rabbit was clearly in charge around here and he didn't know what she might do to him. He had meet she rabbits that once tried to claw his eyes out for getting to close to them.

His shaking got worse and Rose almost pulled him out of the pen, but Sif put a hand on her side and gave her a little smile.

"Let Hound have a chance." Her elder sister muttered to her, and Rose did her best to relax.

Hound got up from her lazy sprawl and hopped over to Cotton, sniffing at him warily. But she didn't bite or scratch at him or even say anything mean as she most often would when presented with another rabbit. No, instead Hound just reached over Cotton and pressed down on his head.

It was a rabbit form of comfort that both Sif and Rose recognized right away. Cotton's shaking slowed and stopped and once he was doing okay, Hound hopped off him and went off to eat her hay as if nothing had happened.

[ShadyBro]

Hey gators, could you add this babes breeding notes?

'Breeding Notes: As a harliquin bunny, this babe has 10 breeding slots rather than 5.'