This is Quincy.

Our beloved boy died February 28, 1997.

He was with us only four months, but we loved him like no other.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about Quincy:

• Quincy was once a 4H bunny, mistreated and starved, so he was taken into foster care by the Massachusetts House Rabbit Society.
• He was painfully thin when they got him. His foster mom loved him so much, she gave him too much food! We reduced his weight and we have a few more pictures to come...
• He was very fond of broccoli and his pellets...he got so excited at pellet time, he'd sometimes nip me if I didn't get them in his dish fast enough!
• When Quincy shed, he dropped all his fur almost at once, leaving him looking like someone took an electric razor to parts of his body. Wanna see a picture? You won't believe it!
• Quincy looked BEAUTIFUL when he finished shedding. What a handsome boy!
• He liked to be petted. He's done the bunny flop in his cage and liked to binky all over the floor at 10pm every night.
• He actually wagged his tail! When he was especially excited, sniffing around and exploring, his little black tail wagged left and right, quick as a bunny. Unbelievable!
• Quincy was solid black (well, dark brown in areas, but you have to look close to see it!). He also had dark brown eyes and the sweetest puffy lips...a big black bear.
• When we first brought him home, we wanted to give him a lot of cage space. So we put him in a HUGE dog crate on its side. It was so big, he never came out of it. And it was impossible to keep clean, since it didn't have a floor.
• Quincy is the only bunny I have ever known that can be trusted with a rug in his cage. He didn't eat it!
• He liked to cuddle with us on the little couch in our living room. When we pet him, he laid his head flat on our chest (whichever of us was lucky enough to have him) and grinded his teeth. But he still liked to get back to his territory in the kitchen.
• Quincy came to us from the Boston area of Massachusetts, via Utica, NY, then Binghamton, NY, and finally home. He didn't really enjoy the last two parts of his trip here. His time with us was much too short, but we hope he was happy here. We loved him so much and we can't believe he's gone. He was the sweetest bunny we have ever known.
  

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