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Oct 7, 201114 min read

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Published: Oct 7, 2011

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Hey love kittens-

How are you?

I've been really stressed. For one, I've got trouble with my beloved dwarf rabbits. I don't know what's wrong with them. On Sunday, when they were out on the balcony, they suddenly started fighting really, really badly. Nails broke off and blood was flooding! So we had to separate them. We don't understand why they're suddenly fighting, but we have a theory. Rabbits always need a hierarchy. When we got our second dwarfie Coco, she and the first dwarfie Kirby fought for days. This is normal. They have to determine who the dominant is. In our case, it was Kirby. That was two years ago. And now, it seems as if Coco has challenged Kirby, because when we were trying to bring them together she always attacks him. It's always her initiative. We still have them in separated cages now, but they're next to each other, so they can see and smell each other. And often, they try to fight each other through the bars of the cages

We tried to let them fight on the balcony a few times again, so they can establish a new hierarchy, but it's not working

They're not really fighting, because Kirby just hides in a carton cave and Coco sometimes tries to enter the carton, but then Kirby wards her off. But they're not really openly fighting. It's as if Kirby just wants Coco to leave him alone and Coco acts as if everything belongs to her. So does anybody have some tips on how to go about it? We're going to try and let them fight again this weekend and remove all the hiding places, so they have to fight, but if that doesn't help, what should we do? ProfelisAurata recommended having them castrated, but the vet said it's not for sure that they will get along afterwards

Does anybody have dwarf rabbits and has any recommendations?

And then, college is driving me insane. I have my oral exam on the 19th and I don't think I can meet the requirements until then. First of, three professors have still not graded my term papers and without that grade, I'm not allowed to enter the exam! And two of those professors are actually my examiners (!) so they know that I need those term papers graded until the 19th! And then I still have to have my credit points verified by a professor, but he's on holiday and not available at the moment! But without his verification, I am not allowed to enter the oral exam! And since you have to speak at least two languages so you can study my course of studies, I have to show my old High School A-Levels graduation sheet. And I can't find it anymore! *sigh* And without that, I'm not allowed to enter the oral exam! As you see, there are so many 'if's and I don't know if everything will work out till the 19th. And I hate the uncertainty of this situation. I would like to know for sure whether or not I will have my oral exam on the 19th or not. It's also an emotional thing. I want to be emotionally prepared for when I have to take my exam.

And then I also got several lousy viruses on my graphic laptop!

Removing it was more expensive than I thought and the pc specialist said that even though I use Sophos as an anti-virus program, I can still be infected by the virus again. He closed the security loophole, but he says they can re-write the virus and then it just finds another security gap

Gah. I have an external hard drive and usually back-up regularly, but I feel so unsafe now, despite the anti-virus program

I've already gotten a lot of ugly viruses over the years and even lost all of my data at one point

I've had bad luck with viruses and such.

And of course my health hasn't been the best, either and I've been gagging a lot

Anyways, it's been a stressful, bad week for me

I hope yours was better.

xoxo
-Kay