Well, the wait is on. It looks like Luna, our one-year old grey girl bunny is pregnant. If she is, she should have her kits within the next few days. This is because I know roughly when the only unfixed male bunny in the house escaped his pen and potentially assaulted Luna. Sidestripe managed this just about four weeks ago, and bunny gestation being about a month, we should have only a matter of days to wait.

Unless Luna's just gotten rather fat for no particular reason. And developed a tendency to run off with socks, mouthfuls of hay, and anything else more-or-less movable and pile it in a heap. Looking rather like a nest... false pregnancy, maybe?

I can hope, can't I?

Sidestripe has since had time to repent, as he was trucked off to the vet's and neutralized two weeks ago.

Next move is to get all the lady bunnies fixed, and as there are seven, it's going to take a while. This is partially because it's a fairly complex surgery to perform on a tiny five-pound rabbit and the vet is only willing to do so many at any one time, and partly because at $120 a bunny, I am having to budget for it. But I want to have it done within the next 6 months for two reasons: (1) no more surprise batches of kits, and (2) there's a staggeringly high (80%) incidence of uterine cancer in female rabbits 2 years of age and older. So fixing them means they'll have a longer life with us.