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Rescued Spring 2002
Happily adopted 4/7/07
Rainbow Bridge 8/19/08
 Cicely Jane had a little less than 1-1/2 years at home, after having spent 5 years in the BHRR shelter, where she was very well cared for and much loved by all the volunteers. She went through a terrible head tilt and was lovingly cared for by a special volunteer. She bounced back with no sign of head tilt.
When she came home with us in April 2007, Cicely didn't know at first what freedom was. It took about a week and she had that down. She insisted on not being in her cage at night (vigorously rattling door to wake us up) so we used playpens around the dining room. Cicely loved being petted but not so much being held. She would thump on me, then voice her displeasure when I let her down and finish off my scolding with a good, firm thump on the floor before hopping a few feet away from the arms of love. She didn’t like dressing up but looked so cute in her little pink Princess hat!!
She loved bananas, and would literally climb her cage to get some every morning. Same for her bedtime treats!
 A couple months before she went to the Rainbow Bridge, I noticed she seemed to have trouble eating carrots. I started cutting them smaller, and ended up shredding them. I cut greens into small bits, crushed her bedtime treats, anything to make it easier for her to eat. I noticed a lump under her chin, thinking she had an abscess. Her doctor removed it and gave the sad news that it was a fast-growing cancer and he could not get it all.
We were on a vacation when our pet sitter called in tears saying she had Cicely with her in the car, that Cicely was not doing well, and they were almost to the veterinarian’s office. We talked again on the phone a few minutes later to say a tearful good-bye to our beautiful girl before she was helped to her new life of peace.
Here's to Cicely, happily greeted at the Rainbow Bridge by Taylor, Piper, Sid, Cosmo, Silver Bullet, Lucy, Linus, Flopsy, Ranger, Jerry & Kramer, and all the other bunnies and furkids we have known and loved in our lives. Sorely missed by her Mommy and Daddy, always and forever in our hearts.
-- Chris & Curtis Clark
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