The Rabbit Thread
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Lord Snot
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SummerRain
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
Nawwwwww adorable. When I go home for Christmas I'm going to get loads of cute rabbit pictures to share! I bought mushroom a wicker tunnel to play with indoors and a ball of hay with a bell in the middle... he'll destroy it within 30 minutes, but every rabbit deserves a fun 30 minutes on Christmas!
Lord Snot
Parsley Provider
I think we will wrap them up a box with a toilet roll in the middle, I can't imagine anything that would be more fun for them 
OP
OP
Opal's been feeling poorly for about a week and a half now.
She grooms Benjamin and swallows tons of his thick, dense fur and it clogs her up. She's been to the vet for it in the past, and they gave her sub-q fluids and sent me home with meds. I haven't taken her in for it this time, have just been trying to treat her with meds I have at home.
She went off her feed last Monday, but she'd passed a *lot* of fur over a couple days and started eating again Thursday evening. She ate well all weekend, and ate her salad yesterday morning, but wouldn't eat her dinner. This time she doesn't seem to be passing a whole lot.
She's still energetic enough to fight me like a wild beast when it's medicine time, and she's still grooming Benjamin whenever he asks her.
She grooms Benjamin and swallows tons of his thick, dense fur and it clogs her up. She's been to the vet for it in the past, and they gave her sub-q fluids and sent me home with meds. I haven't taken her in for it this time, have just been trying to treat her with meds I have at home.
She went off her feed last Monday, but she'd passed a *lot* of fur over a couple days and started eating again Thursday evening. She ate well all weekend, and ate her salad yesterday morning, but wouldn't eat her dinner. This time she doesn't seem to be passing a whole lot.
She's still energetic enough to fight me like a wild beast when it's medicine time, and she's still grooming Benjamin whenever he asks her.
SummerRain
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
I hope Opal is feeling better now RabbitLuvr.Here is Mushroom over christmastime, enjoying the wicker tube and grass ball with a bell santa got him!
He's looking pretty darn good for 8 years old
OP
OP
Mushroom! 
Opal has been on-again-off-again sick. I'm pretty sure she has a condition called megacolon, which is basically IBS in bunnies. It's a chronic condition, and from my research her breed is genetically predisposed to have it. I'm just trying to learn to manage it.
Opal has been on-again-off-again sick. I'm pretty sure she has a condition called megacolon, which is basically IBS in bunnies. It's a chronic condition, and from my research her breed is genetically predisposed to have it. I'm just trying to learn to manage it.
I particularly like the one on the bottom left... all you can see is his nose and mouth.
SummerRain
I dreamed that God would be forgiving.
CrazyCatLady
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I am tempted to adopt a couple of bunnies later this year. There seem to be so many homeless ones, and from the research I have done so far, they should be able to coexist well with the parrots in the bird room. Everything in the new birdroom will be either chew proof or no harm if chewed anyway, because of the parrots.
Although past experience has taught me that, with each new species, a new level of complexity is added to one's life, so if I'm smart, I will not do it.
Although past experience has taught me that, with each new species, a new level of complexity is added to one's life, so if I'm smart, I will not do it.
Fromper
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Flash is seriously shedding lately. He's been with me more than 5 years, and this is the first time he's shed this much. But we also lived in Florida most of that time, so this was his first real winter. Even though he's always indoors with heating, he seems to have figured out the whole winter coat thing, and realized that it's time to shed it. So I have white fur all over my living room rug, even though he's a mostly reddish-brown bunny. The undercoat is white.
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OP
OP
I feel like I'm finally making progress on bonding Amelia and Cody. I took them to the Rabbit Club meeting this past Saturday, and they were in a pen together there for two hours with no problems. Plus being together in a laundry basket all the way there and back.
We purchased a pet stroller, and I think it's been a very helpful bonding tool. My current strategy is to give Cody a small dose of Rescue Remedy to help calm him down, then push them both through the house in the stroller for four to five minutes. I then immediately put them in a pen in a neutral area.
Cody still has a tendency to dart forwards towards Amelia, but he hasn't growled at her for awhile. He keeps asking her for kisses, and she has groomed his forehead VERY briefly for a few seconds, but most of the time she just sits there.
She is very comfortable around him, and I'm hoping he will get over his issues soon. Amelia is already about 8 years old, and she just wants someone to snuggle with. I'd like to get them into the nicer, bigger, more comfortable pen soon. (And then try to fix my wood floor that used to be really nice before Amelia expressed her annoyance at the bonding pen by peeing on the floor.)
We purchased a pet stroller, and I think it's been a very helpful bonding tool. My current strategy is to give Cody a small dose of Rescue Remedy to help calm him down, then push them both through the house in the stroller for four to five minutes. I then immediately put them in a pen in a neutral area.
Cody still has a tendency to dart forwards towards Amelia, but he hasn't growled at her for awhile. He keeps asking her for kisses, and she has groomed his forehead VERY briefly for a few seconds, but most of the time she just sits there.
She is very comfortable around him, and I'm hoping he will get over his issues soon. Amelia is already about 8 years old, and she just wants someone to snuggle with. I'd like to get them into the nicer, bigger, more comfortable pen soon. (And then try to fix my wood floor that used to be really nice before Amelia expressed her annoyance at the bonding pen by peeing on the floor.)
Digoa
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I live on an island with thousands of wild rabbits because for some reason there are no foxes or anything else that eats rabbits here. I got a nasty shock today when my dog found a rabbit on a walk that was obviously ill, it had very swollen eyes and wasn't running away from my dog even when he tried to pick it up. I went home to look up the symptoms in case I should call a vet or something and I think it had myxomatosis which is a rabbit disease that involves the developing of lots of tumours and death in a few days. I found out there's actually a lot of it going around on the island and it was introduced here just to get rid of rabbits. It's horrible to think that people would purposefully do that to an animal
CrazyCatLady
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Excited that il soon be joining in on this thread.
I have signed up as a fosterer for the small animal section of Wood Green Animal Shelter (uk) xxx
I have signed up as a fosterer for the small animal section of Wood Green Animal Shelter (uk) xxx
