purplebumble
Warren Veteran
ok i will fess up my worst..please dont think me awful...we have all made errors and some more than others..well i beat the lot of you
my first bun was from a pet store...we got her and her cage etc all on the same day after seeing her many times the week before. it was a big mistake due to health probs we found..but i wouldnt go back and not get her..she taught me everything..and i loved her loads.
first off decent bunny care books were limited...i got the rabbitlopaedia and carole james guid to bunnys i think it was..very short cutely cartooned book.
the only net we had was on the ntl box..the actual internet wayyy before BB appeared.
sites working on it were few and far between but i did my best. I also sought advice from pet shops and finally when i got a decent bunvet..asked the vet.
but before that...i used to think she was bored with her food and change it every now and then..the type that is..and when i ran out i gave her dry weetabix and cornflakes till i got to the petshop in the morning.
The pictures in the rabbit books showed a full food bowl..so like an idiot i copied it
she was very il after her jabs and the vet said she couldnt be from the jabs but might be..what? then she had the runs one day...actual runs and he gave her some antibx.
i went saying she smelt funny and her mouth was sore....all buns smell he said.
so i had to get her spayed as she was soo aggressive but she was too oyung. the new bunvet needed to do a dental and spayed her at the same time as she was having a phantom pregnancy followed up by her toy cow becoming a baby substitue for ehr and our cat! oh yes she never left him alone.
i fed her lots of curly kale..she loved it..carrots...apples..pears..strawberries...peanuts in shells only the odd one now and again but even so:shock: also used to feed her corn on the cob with the green husks still attached:shock:
looking back.....i know only too well how bad i was even tho i tried. the vet told me about special hays but they didnt sell any..and i had no net at all by then.
the reason i didnt feed her more hay...her jaw was so badly misaligned...shed had oral syphilis.....and had her front teeth damaged by a water bottle whos secure thingy..snapped!! but id pick her soft grass..cut hay into pieces....etc.
she had terrible eye and ear infections....dentals every month at least.....she was a determined bun.
looking back...it must have been elongated tooth roots doing the damage too...but the vet never said anything and i was so naive to trust the vet totally.
her aggression was from pain i now realise...but learning what i have over the last 6 yrs she was actualy a very friendly bunny who indeed did love me...the only bun who ever has!!
i just feel so awful about her life and tkaing the vets advice to have her pts as another dental wasnt fair on her. now i could kick myself....
with each bun ive learnt something new..usually too late but also soemthing about their wild bunny ways stillaffecting their actions as a house bun.
i have been able to go to librabries and my best ever read was living with a house rabbit. since then of course i have bought books and have access to the internet and several really helpful forums about bunnies..including this one.
so sad that even now the same attitude and advice is being handed out in most pet shops and vets...really shocks me.
i have a lot yet to learn about bunnies....id had cats for 13yrs but have only been keeping buns for 7 or 8 yrs......
i look at what ive typed and it makes me fume...how could i have been so stupid...
my first bun was from a pet store...we got her and her cage etc all on the same day after seeing her many times the week before. it was a big mistake due to health probs we found..but i wouldnt go back and not get her..she taught me everything..and i loved her loads.
first off decent bunny care books were limited...i got the rabbitlopaedia and carole james guid to bunnys i think it was..very short cutely cartooned book.
the only net we had was on the ntl box..the actual internet wayyy before BB appeared.
sites working on it were few and far between but i did my best. I also sought advice from pet shops and finally when i got a decent bunvet..asked the vet.
but before that...i used to think she was bored with her food and change it every now and then..the type that is..and when i ran out i gave her dry weetabix and cornflakes till i got to the petshop in the morning.
The pictures in the rabbit books showed a full food bowl..so like an idiot i copied it
she was very il after her jabs and the vet said she couldnt be from the jabs but might be..what? then she had the runs one day...actual runs and he gave her some antibx.
i went saying she smelt funny and her mouth was sore....all buns smell he said.
so i had to get her spayed as she was soo aggressive but she was too oyung. the new bunvet needed to do a dental and spayed her at the same time as she was having a phantom pregnancy followed up by her toy cow becoming a baby substitue for ehr and our cat! oh yes she never left him alone.
i fed her lots of curly kale..she loved it..carrots...apples..pears..strawberries...peanuts in shells only the odd one now and again but even so:shock: also used to feed her corn on the cob with the green husks still attached:shock:
looking back.....i know only too well how bad i was even tho i tried. the vet told me about special hays but they didnt sell any..and i had no net at all by then.
the reason i didnt feed her more hay...her jaw was so badly misaligned...shed had oral syphilis.....and had her front teeth damaged by a water bottle whos secure thingy..snapped!! but id pick her soft grass..cut hay into pieces....etc.
she had terrible eye and ear infections....dentals every month at least.....she was a determined bun.
looking back...it must have been elongated tooth roots doing the damage too...but the vet never said anything and i was so naive to trust the vet totally.
her aggression was from pain i now realise...but learning what i have over the last 6 yrs she was actualy a very friendly bunny who indeed did love me...the only bun who ever has!!
i just feel so awful about her life and tkaing the vets advice to have her pts as another dental wasnt fair on her. now i could kick myself....
with each bun ive learnt something new..usually too late but also soemthing about their wild bunny ways stillaffecting their actions as a house bun.
i have been able to go to librabries and my best ever read was living with a house rabbit. since then of course i have bought books and have access to the internet and several really helpful forums about bunnies..including this one.
so sad that even now the same attitude and advice is being handed out in most pet shops and vets...really shocks me.
i have a lot yet to learn about bunnies....id had cats for 13yrs but have only been keeping buns for 7 or 8 yrs......
i look at what ive typed and it makes me fume...how could i have been so stupid...