A myraid thousand smells reached my nose as the cage I was in rumbled every closer to the biggest building I have ever seen in my life.So much to smell and see and hear ..too much in my opionion.I thumped my hind legs in irritation as I turned and stretching up to see better I sniffed deeeply.Yes there she was my human..right next my cage .I caught her attention and she touched the top of my cage briefly and made her rumbleing noises before turning away. I turned to the cage next to mine and seeing it was my mother,thumped briefly in recognition .Turning again to the front of my cage to look out. Where are we I asked my mother? I heard the proudness in her voice as she said .We are at the biggest show you will ever be in ,our human calls it a convention..whatever that means. she chuckled I just like seeing other rabbits like us here too.
I think I will back up my story a little bit..to my beginnning you might say.
My first memories are of pressure than cold followed by the feeling of my mothers warm tongue . I sqeeked my displeasure at the cold ..oh but the feeling of her warmth was wonderful.I wiggled closer to the warmth of her and following my nose I found what I had not known I was looking for.
I remember most from those early days that all I did was sleep and nurse from my mother.I remember using my sense of taste and smell to get around the others that I could not see . That was the worst thing ever,not being able to see.Knowing there is a huge world out there just by the smells drifting past my nose. The smell of my mother ,warm and her milky scent,my brothers and sisters much the same scents as mine.The hay and wood we lay in mixed with the warmth of more of our mother surrounding us to keep us warm.Further away from us and slightly foreign was scents of other rabbits,even then I could distingush who was a male or female or as my mother later told me buck and doe.
The days following my birth were a blur, sleeping then our mother uncovering us and then the frenzy of feeding followed by more sleeping.My fur started to grow as the days went by and then I could all of a sudden I could hear.The slightest gust of wind or a rabbit stomping was enough to wake me.But I soon grew used to this strange new sense I had .I remember vividly the day I could first see.My mother was the first I saw and oh she was beautiful.She was pure white and her fur framed her head and face so she looked like an angel to me.I jumped towards her and she cuddled next to me and washed my face until I went to sleep.Time from then on seemed to fast forward for me.It wasnt long till I was chaseing her around the cage with my brothers and sister.There was 4 of us ,myself included.Three boys and one girl and from the start my sister was smaller than us.I remember being jealous that my mother paid more attention to her but it was all for nothing.I remember waking up next to her and she was not moving ,that is also the day I was handled for the first time by my human.My mother tells me I was just about 2 weeks old when that happened and I did not handle it well. Yes I will admit it I was so scared at being handled I opened my mouth and screamed my bloody head off. I am ashamed to admit it now knowing that my human will never hurt me but there it is.