Duke

It's been a rough month in our household.  We lost our mini lop Duke this past Saturday; Andrew found him almost 13 years ago at one of our local parks.  We don't know how old Duke really was and he was an adult rabbit when found.  He was the King of the rabbitry and in his younger days the entire yard.  He would nudge at the door to his cage and push the door open with his nose and hop to the ground.  Once he was out for a couple days. Andrew used to chase him with a fishing net in order to capture him and put him back into his pen.  In his older days I would lift him out of his pen and put him on the ground and he would do a couple slow laps around the yard and then come back and wait for me to put him back inside.  He and Daisy got along famously and they were a pair of comics when they were together.  The first year we had him we were out in the backyard and heard Daisy barking.  Duke was eating the tops off of my first year tulips and she was tattling on him.  I took the photo of me and Duke and Duke with his letter to his friends on Wednesday.  He was ailing and I didn't think he would be around much longer.  I was right. He was a special bunny will be greatly missed.

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