Biscuit Bunny
Alpha Buck
Hi there
More a ponder really, sorry maybe a bit long:
We had a bunny when I was 7 years old and he lived for 11 years, we never had him vaccination (unheard of in the 80s), he had mixed food, access to grass minimum amount of shop bought hay, couple of carrots and a cabbage leaf now and again. He lived by himself, and was extremely healthy and happy.
Were we just lucky??
We lost our bunny Molly to GI Statis about 3 years ago, had not found this forum and had no clue what it was.
With better knowledge we then got Dylan who was paired but then separated, vets missed a serious ear infection then led to stasis and the rabbit savvy vets couldn't save him
Now onto Biscuit, she lived quite happily as an indoor bunny with a different family for a while then they kept her outside, she was on a whole bowl of pellets a day, no hay and little veg loads of shop bought treats. BUT she was with them for 3 plus years with NO health problems.
Then we adopt her and within 6 months she has her first statis episode, and has had about 4 more since, nearly lost her on two occasions. She is on correct diet, has no stress, has whole room to herself and access to whole house after 5pm, plenty of human contact throughout day and evening, etc etc I have followed all bunny advice given.
I just see more and more posts about stasis, what do you think???
Clare xx
Edited: just to add that I do not believe what we did with first bunny was the correct care at all, but just wonder what the hell I am doing wrong now when the care I give Biscuit is in my opinion really good??
More a ponder really, sorry maybe a bit long:
We had a bunny when I was 7 years old and he lived for 11 years, we never had him vaccination (unheard of in the 80s), he had mixed food, access to grass minimum amount of shop bought hay, couple of carrots and a cabbage leaf now and again. He lived by himself, and was extremely healthy and happy.
Were we just lucky??
We lost our bunny Molly to GI Statis about 3 years ago, had not found this forum and had no clue what it was.
With better knowledge we then got Dylan who was paired but then separated, vets missed a serious ear infection then led to stasis and the rabbit savvy vets couldn't save him
Now onto Biscuit, she lived quite happily as an indoor bunny with a different family for a while then they kept her outside, she was on a whole bowl of pellets a day, no hay and little veg loads of shop bought treats. BUT she was with them for 3 plus years with NO health problems.
Then we adopt her and within 6 months she has her first statis episode, and has had about 4 more since, nearly lost her on two occasions. She is on correct diet, has no stress, has whole room to herself and access to whole house after 5pm, plenty of human contact throughout day and evening, etc etc I have followed all bunny advice given.
I just see more and more posts about stasis, what do you think???
Clare xx
Edited: just to add that I do not believe what we did with first bunny was the correct care at all, but just wonder what the hell I am doing wrong now when the care I give Biscuit is in my opinion really good??
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