He wasn’t eating or drinking. I decided to leave him in his indoor cage and let him grieve. Everything reminded him of Cotton. Her smell was everywhere, and he would sit with his back to us clearly remembering her, you could tell just by the pose he was in. It was such a sad sight to see a devastated rabbit. His world had been turned upside down.

I picked him clover and clover flowers, because I knew that:

1. he hadn’t eaten and clover was sweet, it may stimulate his eating again, and,
2. he hadn’t eaten clover much with Cotton (because of the calcium) so it wouldn’t have any ties to a memory

I laid down on the floor next to him and fed him a clover flower. He ate it! It worked! He started to eat. It took a bit of convincing, but he did it!

Buttons just wanted company. He was lonely.

I’d put him outside during the day and he’d run around a little, then suddenly stop. He missed Cotton a lot. Everything reminded him of her.

I went nuts and washed everything with disinfectant, not because I had to, but to remove her smell and help him move on. It was hard, because she was everywhere but nowhere all at once.

I decided that he needed a brand new life. No indoor cage any more, a brand new off-the-floor-on-wheels bed. I found this one and thought it would be totally different to his old bed. Having wheels, it’s easier to shift around, and clean.

UPDATE:Buttons hated the new wheely-bed. The grey plastic tray was too deep – he couldn’t see over the edge. He also didn’t like jumping up on the platforms, they were too small and flimsy.