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As of January 1, 2019, we have closed our forums. This is a decision we did not come to lightly, but it is necessary. The software our forums run on is just too out-of-date and it poses a significant security risk. The server software itself must be updated, and it cannot be without removing the forums.
So it is with a heavy heart that we say goodbye to our long-running forums. They came online in 2000 and brought together so many wonderful Disney fans. We had friendships form, careers launch, couples marry, children born ... all because of this amazing community.
Thank you to each of you who were a part of this community. You made it possible.
And a very special thank you to our Guides (moderators), past and present, who kept our forums a happy place to be. You are the glue that held everything together, and we are forever grateful to you. Thank you aliceinwdw, Caldercup, MrsM, WillCAD, Fortissimo, GingerJ, HiddenMickey, CRCrazy, Eeyoresmom, disneyknut, disneydani, Cam22, chezp, WDWfan, Luvsun, KMB733, rescuesk, OhToodles!, Colexis Mom, lfredsbo, HiddenMickey, DrDolphin, DopeyGirl, duck addict, Disneybine, PixieMichele, Sandra Bostwick, Eeyore Tattoo, DyanKJ130, Suzy Q'Disney, LilMarcieMouse, AllisonG, Belle*, Chrissi, Brant, DawnDenise, Crystalloubear, Disneymom9092, FanOfMickey, Goofy4Goofy, GoofyMom, Home4us123, iamgrumpy, ilovedisney247, Jennifer2003, Jenny Pooh, KrisLuvsDisney, Ladyt, Laughaholic88, LauraBelle Hime, Lilianna, LizardCop, Loobyoxlip, lukeandbrooksmom, marisag, michnash, MickeyMAC, OffKilter_Lynn, PamelaK, Poor_Eeyore, ripkensnana, RobDVC, SHEANA1226, Shell of the South, snoozin, Statelady01, Tara O'Hara, tigger22, Tink and Co., Tinkerbelz, WDWJAMBA, wdwlovers, Wendyismyname, whoSEZ, WildforWD, and WvuGrrrl. You made the magic.
We want to personally thank Sara Varney, who coordinated our community for many years (among so many other things she did for us), and Cheryl Pendry, our Message Board Manager who helped train our Guides, and Ginger Jabour, who helped us with the PassPorter-specific forums and Live! Guides. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. You made it all happen.
There are other changes as well.
Why? Well, the world has changed. And change with it, we must. The lyrics to "We Go On" for IllumiNations say it best:
We go on to the joy and through the tears
We go on to discover new frontiers
Moving on with the current of the years.
We go on
Moving forward now as one
Moving on with a spirit born to run
Ever on with each rising sun.
To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
But eventually, we must move on and move forward. It is the right thing to do.
So we are retiring this newsletter, as we simply cannot keep up with it. Many thanks to Mouse Fan Travel who supported it all these years, to All Ears and MousePlanet who helped us with news, to our many article contributors, and -- most importantly -- to Sara Varney who edited our newsletter so wonderfully for years and years.
And we are no longer charging for the Live Guides. If you have a subscription, it's yours to keep for the lifetime of the Live Guides at no additional cost. The Live Guides will stay online, barring server issues and technical problems, for all of 2019.
That said, PassPorter is not going away. Most of the resources will remain online for as long as we can support them, and after that we will find ways to make whatever we can available. PassPorter means a great deal to us, and to many of you, and we will do our best to keep it alive in whatever way we can. Our server costs are high, and they'll need to come out of our pockets, so in the future you can expect some changes so we can bring those costs down.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for your amazing support over the years. Without you, there's no way us little guys could have made something like this happen and given the "big guys" a run for their money. PassPorter was consistently the #3 guidebook after the Unofficial and Official guides, which was really unheard of for such a small company to do. We ROCKED it thanks to you and your support and love!
If you miss us, you can still find some of us online. Sara started a new blog at DisneyParkPrincess.com -- I strongly urge you to visit and get on her mailing list. She IS the Disney park princess and knows Disney backward and forward. And I am blogging as well at JenniferMaker.com, which is a little craft blog I started a couple of years ago to make ends meet. You can see and hear me in my craft show at https://www.youtube.com/c/jennifermaker . Many PassPorter readers and fans are on Facebook, in groups they formed like the PassPorter Trip Reports and PassPorter Crafting Challenge (if you join, just let them know you read about it in the newsletter). And some of our most devoted community members started a forum of their own at Pixie Dust Lane and all are invited over.
So we encourage you to stay in touch with us and your fellow community members wherever works best for you!
Best wishes for a wonderful and magical new year!
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08-21-2003, 07:37 PM
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Community Rank: Traveler 
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Penndel, PA USA
Posts: 376
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Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
Back in May, we discovered a nest of baby bunnies. My son was cutting the neighbors yard and flushed out the nest. We waited and the mommy bunny came back and took all the babies...all but one. [img]images/icons/frown.gif[/img] This one that we found was much smaller than it's siblings, was not able to hop or even sit upright on it's own. The fur was all matted. The mother obviously wasn't taking care of it. Fast forward to now...Thumper has been in our care since May, is growing well, does all the things bunnies do. I do understand why the mother left it...she seems to have a birth defect....her neck muscles (on the left side) seem very weak and when she tires or is stressed, her head rest to one side of her body. I call her my "special needs" bunny! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] Her defect doesn't make me love her any less. Anyway, next week, we are going away for 3 days....I am so afraid to leave her!!! [img]graemlins/cry2.gif[/img] I've been trying to prepare her by leaving her alone for longer periods of time, but still....SHE'S MY BABY!! I syrienge fed her 4 times a day for 3 months!! I actually just "weaned" her from the formula last week...it about broke my heart! (OK, I know I sound pathetic! [img]graemlins/ukid.gif[/img] ) She has her box, her bed, her blankie, her stuffed friends, her food dish and water bottle. Please tell me she'll be ok til I get home! We've had hamsters and had no problem with them for that much time.
Gosh...I feel like I'm leaving one of my kids!! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] We're talking some serious seperation anxiety!! [img]graemlins/dizzy.gif[/img]
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08-21-2003, 07:53 PM
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Community Rank: Navigator 
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Chester County, PA
Posts: 6,404
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
That is so great of you to adopt this special bunny! And it has really responded to the TLC you've given her. I'm sending lots of pixie dust but I'm sure she'll be fine for 3 days (but is there a neighbor who could take a peek in to help relieve your anxiety?!)
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08-21-2003, 08:17 PM
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RED SOX NATION!!
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Connecticut
Concierge Level: 9
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
What a great Mom you are to be taking care of that baby bunny!! Good for you [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img] I'm sure she'll be fine, but I second having someone check in on her. Would make me feel better too!! Good luck [img]graemlins/wavin.gif[/img]
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08-21-2003, 09:29 PM
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Community Rank: Legend 
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Florida Big Bend
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
Aaaaaaw how sweet. I think she'll do just fine, but as others have suggested, is it possible to have a neighbor check in once or twice a day?
Elaine
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08-22-2003, 09:39 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Penndel, PA USA
Posts: 376
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
I think I'll ask my dad...I know he won't be brave enough to touch her (and I really don't think she'd LET him!) but he can look in her box and I think I'll have him give her a small handful of cheerios! She TOTALLY loves cheerios! [img]graemlins/love.gif[/img]
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08-22-2003, 10:29 AM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North Dakota aka frozen wastelands
Posts: 2,025
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
aww, what a nice thing to do!!! I hope your bunny comes out A-OK!!!
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08-22-2003, 10:51 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Oak Park, IL
Posts: 535
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
Since she's a "special needs bunny", how about dropping her at the vet's while you are gone? That way, she'll have lots of medical care in case something happens. Or maybe a zoo or local animal wildlife rescue organization can help too?
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08-22-2003, 11:38 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Penndel, PA USA
Posts: 376
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
Since she is a "wild" cottontail, no normal vets will even look at her...they need a special license to treat wild animals. As far as the wildlife center goes....that is a real sore spot with me! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] The night we found her, I called the local wildlife center....got their voicemail so I left a message, telling them I HAD the rabbit in the house. They never got back to me. I called Petsmart and asked them if they had anything I could feed this poor little thing. Baby bunnies can take kitten replacement formula so I bought a can. I found a woman who runs a rabbit rehab center in FLA and they actually found that baby wild cottontails do better in a home environment than in a traditional rehab center. I contacted the woman, who gave me great advice, and I started to syrienge feed this little bunny. About 2 weeks later, I had a question and contacted our local wildlife center again. This woman who I reached was a real 'treat' to talk to! She tells me they can not help me...I am a horrible person for taking care of this bunny....I don't know what I'm doing....I'm going to stress the rabbit out and they can die from stress....I have no right to have her in my house and I can be fined if someone turns me in!! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img] Now, keep in mind, I called them the first night and made it clear I HAD the rabbit in the house!! If it is so bad to have one inside, you would think they would of called me back the next day! As it was, Thumper wouldn't eat for anyone but me! She imprinted me as "mom" and had total trust in me. It would of been stressful for her to of been taken some place else with total strangers. They told me the only way they would help me is if I agreed to turn the rabbit over (her words were "you can bring us the rabbit but we won't give it back"!!! [img]images/icons/mad.gif[/img] )
Thumper seems quite healthy, aside from her head leaning to one side. She eats (and poohs!) normally and has never shown any signs of agression.
Sorry for going on like that...it's just when I think of how that woman treated me.....GRRR!!!! [img]images/icons/shocked.gif[/img]
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08-22-2003, 11:50 AM
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Community Rank: Adventurer
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Oak Park, IL
Posts: 535
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
Wow! I had no idea!! What a -ahem- "witch" of a woman!!! Some of the wildlife rescue people can be a little too intense for my taste. If the mom didn't want her baby, and the baby is disabled, and rabbits certianly aren't endangered, what's the harm with taking care of one?
Plus, home care is good for lots of animals. At Tiger Island in Australia, they home-raise all their tigers so that they will be less agressive and easier to work with (too much Animal Planet!) If the bunny could go back out into the wild, then I would say a more hands-off approach would be good. But she can't, so why not make her a pet? She's a bunny, easily domesticated--not a bobcat or racoon! Sheesh! That woman sounds awful--it's a wonder she could care for anything! [img]images/icons/tongue.gif[/img]
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08-22-2003, 02:47 PM
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Community Rank: Jetsetter
Join Date: May 2002
Location: georgia
Posts: 2,818
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
congrats on raising your special little bunny. i just wanted to say how sweet it is of you to take her in and raise her even when the so-called experts were not encouraging or helpful. i hope your dad can lookin on her. i'm sure she'll be fine. good luck! p.s.- if i was closer, i'd do it myself.
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08-22-2003, 03:23 PM
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Community Rank: Trekker 
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 1,798
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
You are my kind of gal!!! Good job, Bunny Mom!
When we go out of town for a few days and leave George behind (Cheney is small enough to go along, usually), we always ask someone to come over not to just check on him, but to sit with him for a while and watch a movie or something. I think it really helps the little guy.
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08-23-2003, 12:45 AM
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Community Rank: Traveler
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Penndel, PA USA
Posts: 376
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Re: Please tell me my bunny will be ok!
I watched that same Animal Planet special on the tigers!! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
My first goal for Thumper was to release her. When we first found her, we weren't sure the neck problem was a birth defect or just because she was so tiny. As she grew and started to sit up on her own, it was apparant that it was a birth issue. I have helped it quite a bit on my own....I would always syrienge feed her from the opposite side so she would need to not only move her head but hold it up. It has strengthened the muscles a great deal. [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
I wonder if I would of turned her over to those people if she would of survived. She has taken a lot of attention and I don't know if they would of been able to. Heck, would they of been there at 3 am to feed her?! [img]images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/img]
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