Everything you are saying about the weak puppies and weak bunnies makes total sense to me. H and I started out in our R both with weak versions of these two cuddly animals and hence became very fused in a mutually cuddly type R. My own bunny (I think) bounced back within a year or two. His puppy did not. It started to become noticeable to me that he had a weak puppy but I responded with ever stronger cow to try and nurture the pup back to health. Occasionally with lioness when I got irritated. (Monkey got very bored). His response to lioness was generally either even weaker puppy (in an attempt to bring the cow out again to rescue him) or a rather nasty wolf. Neither of which were exactly endearing. Eventually he hid the puppy completely and I put the cow WAY out to pasture. Things degenerated to the point where his wolf and my lioness would circle around each other snarling. The cuddly animals were safely locked in their cages out of harm's way.
I've no idea whether there's a St bernard anywhere.
BTW I'm interested in the lack of response to my new thread - Clearly I'm delusional about the possibilities for a decent R with my H and no-one has the guts to point this out to me yet.
if we can be sufficient to ourselves, we need fear no entangling webs Erica Jong
