We got back Roger's remains today. As ever, they seem small for a rabbit we had, especially one with so strong a personality and still so full of muscle as he had been.
The box it's in is pleasant enough, a wooden piece with a panel that slides out. This one has his Roger's name written on a sticker on the bottom, so we can't lose track of which rabbit this had been. It has my last name on it, instead of ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger's, the side effects of one time when I took Sunshine to have her heart examined and since bunnyhugger couldn't be there we supposed it would make less trouble if the rabbit's last name matched mine. I don't know how it's caught on with her successor.
We did get the pawprint that we'd worried so much about. Once again they did it differently from last time. This time his pawprint --- just a front paw --- is embedded in some modelling material that promises to never dry. The company that makes this promises it offers you a pawprint that's more resistant to cracking --- there's no cracking possible --- and that you can add decorations to after the fact, like, charms or tags or something else of sentimental import, that will stick with the print. Which all sounds good but it does mean you can't touch the pawprint, not without the risk of damaging it. I'm tempted to pull my camera up to whatever its maximum resolution is and take some macro photos from every angle, and maybe send that to a friend with a 3D printer or something.
A strange and I'm sure unintentional slight is that the vet clinic hasn't sent us a sympathy card, the way our other rabbits had gotten. I don't know if this is because having had to bring Roger in on a Sunday evening for an emergency appointment threw the process off. Or maybe the card just got lost in the mail, part of Republican crook Louis DeJoy's ongoing plan to destroy the post office.
As I was examining the remains, and making sure we had the remains and the pawprint, the receptionist looked over my file (I suppose) and said how she loved the name of our poor lost mouse Fezziwig. It didn't take anything to get me to talk about that charming, happy little round mouse. She said it was amazing he responded to his name and came to see bunnyhugger calling it, saying that was a show of the good care he was receiving.
She did say, though, that Fezziwig caught her eye because of its resemblance to Fizzgig, from The Dark Crystal. This brought us to a short side track trying to think of the names of the two sides in the movie. I could identify the Skeezix and neither of us could think of the others (the Gelfling). Skeezix is a character from Gasoline Alley. I should have been thinking ``Skeksis''.
It's still hard to reconcile with how two weeks ago he was shuffling his way into the kitchen when he thought he could get away with it.
Taking in some more Potter Park Zoo Wonderland of Lights pictures here.
Happy Holidays from the Hoofstock Team, an organization I definitely know who they are and what they're about! Also, the rainbow wall of light behind that.
Here's a view of a bunch of the decorated small trees. I'm not sure if these are all the holiday trees we just saw or if some of them are for dentists or the Hoofstock Team.
bunnyhugger examining the rainbow wall, which almost looks like you could pass through to the alternate dimension beyond of ... uh ... patio furniture?
Indoors! We took a couple minutes inside here to look at the lemurs or, as people who forward animal pictures to me call them, ``probably coatis or something''.
Lemur trying to sneak in and eat another's belly.
Lemur wondering what it's going to take to get their roommate to stop eating their knee already.
Trivia: Myomancy is the technique of fortune-telling by studying mice. Source: The Uncyclopedia: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted to Know, Gideon Haigh.
Currently Reading: His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine, S C Gwynne.
PS: What's Going On In Dick Tracy? Is Mike Curtis ever coming back to Dick Tracy? June - August 2024 The answer is 'yes, he already has'.
