Surgery should be performed on rabbits only as a last resort, because rabbits, the vet told me, are less likely than other domesticated animals to survive general anaesthesia. It’s believed this is because rabbits lack the requisite will to live. I was involved with a French lop at the time, big as a small dog […]
So much gusto-grabbing among people my age, have you noticed? Adrenaline junkies all of a sudden, gnawing at the windblown teat of high adventure. For the first time in our lives, we’re jumping out of planes. We’re extreme sporting underwater and way high up on hard vertical services. Mr. Mole, though, he doesn’t relate to such things. […]
