Why Do Bunnies Have To Have Tooth Pain?

I went to the dentist today and was told my tooth pain is going to come back, because it's in the BONE, unless they yank the two teeth involved, which is likely to lead to false teeth.

My parents both got false teeth when they were about 1/2 my present age, because of raging gum disease.  They were in their 30s.  I pushed on through to age 67 before sane dentists agreed my remaining six upper teeth were not good enough to keep.

I came home and found Knuffle my stuffed Bunny and said, "Knuffle, I'm dying, or a part of me is.  Or I'm not dying but this body I'm using is."  That was a religious statement.

Knuffle, whom I have never seen even once in church or mosque or temple, is what my dead (or not) girlfriend Joan called "sweet" (doesn't hurt anybody).  He/she piped up and said, "I like you with or without teeth."

Now that was a gooooood answer.
False teeth seem to be a whole lot better than the alternative.  My mother lived more or less happily ever after with hers for about 40 years.  There are lots of people who live with "the alternative." Dental treatment is not fun the way watching a great movie is, but it's way better than pain and gaps and toothiness and having a hard time chewing.

I was staring at my stuffed Bunny (and the two other bunnies that look lots like him and very recently came to live with us) and in popped the question, "What do bunnies do when they get a toothache?  Cats might go to the vet, if their owners are richer than me, but bunnies, even ones living with people?  My cat had bad breath and the vet said $50 would pay for tooth repairs and I didn't have it or even consider it.  I grew up where you had lots of animals and loved them but didn't "pony up" much cash to fix them, unless they helped you make a living.  That's all changed.  $700 vet bills seem routine, though not at my house.

The wild bunnies hop around and entertain us and invoke our caring feelings, but their dental program doesn't appear to help much with any tooth pain they may have.  If bunnies have to face things like toothaches, going on indefinitely, and might get eaten by coyotes,  why should bunnies even be born?

Why do bunnies have to have tooth pain?  Why does anyone anywhere ever have to hurt, have a bomb explode and knock the roof in on you when you're a Syrian three-year-old?  Why do bunnies have to hurt?  I'm crying as I write this.

It seems like about the same problem if you believe in some wise creator as if you don't.  I think in philosophy class we called this "The Problem Of Evil."  The tooth pain doesn't change for the bunnies, does it, if their nice little lives only come into being along with some fairly tough problems?   How could there be Grand Goodness if life on Earth is such a mess?

Why do bunnies have to hurt?  Why does my son have to have a woman who turns out to not be good for him?  Because that's the price we pay for breathing and trying and living and loving and being able to make choices?

Why do bunnies have to hurt?   Call me when you find out.

Hey, here's another side to the coin.  I throw bread out to some quails and bunnies, maybe ten quails and four bunnies.  It's a great show.  They come up within a few feet.  Both the quail and the bunnies grab pieces of bread and run/hop away and chomp on them.  Now a bunny hops up to a quail with a big piece in its mouth and takes away the bread and hops off.   The quail doesn't contest the robbery--might makes right even for "never hurts anybody" bunny?  I'd think a quail could be quick enough to dart away with the bread if it kept its head up, but how well can you eat bread and keep your head up?  We've seen this twice and the quail just goes looking for a new piece, which is not hard to find.

Why do bunnies and the people who love them have to hurt?  To learn?  To live?  To play?  So they can hop?  So they can say nice things to the people who love them, like Knuffle said to me?

Tomorrow my mother Laura Rasmussen would have turned 90 years old, April 26, 2017.  Born in 1927, lived until 2006.