09/24/2026
GOOD NEWS! The colony disaster from back in March is OVER!!! (if you don't know what I'm referring to, I'll post a link in the comments if I can).
The gentleman's daughter called me in the morning on the last Friday in August, and said her dad was FINALLY ready to offload the remaining rabbits he had.
So after clearing it with le hubby, I agreed to help out and get them gone before he changed his mind.
She loaded them up in her SUV while I got travel cages prepped and ready. At the time (and now, still) I didn't have the ability to take on, treat, house and rehome 20+ MORE hot messes, so I agreed to take them in, because the "local" (45 min one way drive...🤷🏼♀️) livestock auction was the following morning. It took the entire day, BUT... worth it.
So I called Heather, who dropped what she was doing and came over to help me clean up and treat the salvageable ones, decide who needed culled (fortunately only 3 or 4). The "20 ish" turned out to be 28 half- or full-grown rabbits. Fortunately I'm a cage and carrier hoarder... 🙃
Despite the MANY hours of work, gas money, and time flushed down the drain (the "profit" from a livestock auction this late in the year is always "meh" at best), the point wasn't to make money.
The point was to keep my word and help finish a problem I said I'd help with, AND to get them away from him and out of his wildly misguided care, once and for all.
GOOD. LANDS. I feel so much better.
I'm not a huge fan of selling (or buying for that matter) at auction, but at the time and given the situation, the auction was the only option in which we kept our threadbare sanity 😅
I told EVERYBODY there what the situation was, which is also why they, as I predicted, didn't sell for much, but I don't sell anything without being painfully honest, even when it absolutely will cost me what would have been a potentially higher "profit".
