Coyote Crossing

Thistle, again

How many times have I saved this rabbit’s life? Once by adopting him eight years ago, certainly, less than a week before his “deadline” at the animal shelter. Again a year later, the first time he went into GI stasis and I found him cold as death

A hare’s breadth

California counties in which Thistle has been, as of today:

• Contra Costa
• Alameda
• San Joaquin
• Stanislaus
• Merced
• Fresno
• Kings
• Kern
• Los Angeles
• San Bernardino
• Riverside

Note: any travels prior to April 2004 are undocumented and thus not

Bunniversary

Six years ago this past weekend, a certain person came to live with me.

I guess that makes him about 9 years old now.

A couple months ago he was denied health insurance due to a pre-existing condition. If only we’d … (continues)

Thistle

And then when I woke up my pillow was gone.

When he came down to Los Angeles to live he had that head tilt issue, a common symptom of inner ear infections in rabbits. The corresponding dizziness made it hard for him to groom himself in the way

Arcane and mysterious texts, deciphered

There’s a cultural document with which you are almost certainly familiar that for most of my life has occupied a place central to my cosmogony — the nature aesthetic, the trickster worship, the sharp inhalation of joy that each new moment in life

Significant absence of rabbit mortality noted

I seem to have left a few people hanging as to Thistle’s fate.

He’s recovered about 98 percent from the head tilt thing, and about 99 percent from Interstate Five through the Central Valley. All that’s left of either of those traumas is a slightly

Settling in

Though my ex- did get Thistle through the worst of his head tilt it’s still disconcerting. To himself most of all. He’s disoriented, his sense of balance is affected, and it’s clear whatever is causing the head tilt involves some discomfort.

The

Five years ago this week

An excerpt from Walking with Zeke:

March 23, 2004
We’ve named the rabbit Thistle. Or he named himself: that was the one name he responded to at all. Smart bunny: the second-runner-up name was “Stu.”

Thistle was running around in the back yard

Random shot in the neighborhood

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