Being labelled as ''the backyard rescue centre which went wrong'' we have an inordinate amount of these lovely animals. That said, we are trying to rehome 2 and a further 4 are reserved: this should comfortably leave us with 11 rabbits... that is, until we find another one needing a home 
This has been requested by Mischief and Tinker's Mum on this thread: http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/showthread.php?p=4374381#post4374381
Our first two bunnies - from a breeder - were TigerLily and Rolo:
A close up of Rolo:
Next we got a netherland dwarf house rabbit from the adoption centre... but sadly he died of a virus. We got him to the vets early morning and he was put on a drip, but he had a horrible case of green diarrhoea that had developed alarmingly fast over 12 hours. R.I.P Monty.
The next three were from a family who kept these three large Rexes in a box-like cage, and rarely cleaned or let them out of their hutch. They also thought it would be appropriate to breed from the brother and sister - although the babies were so badly looked after that only 1 out of 6 survived. As soon as we found out about them - they belonged to the head of chemistry at school - we offered to take them in and they brought round the cage and the un-tame rabbits. Their claws were incredibly long, their hutch was quickly discarded, and they were terrified of people.
Duchess, Dinah and Dimples:
Dimples enjoying his weekly run around the garden:
We soon seperated the daughter from the parents, planning to put her with the female we had just rescued. Except... Mistletoe wasn't a female.
Dinah and Dino:
Her other baby Deliah - recently gotten by a fox. R.I.P my lovely.
The next rabbit was 'Mistletoe'. The owners didn't know the gender, age, breed nor had they ever named the rabbit anything apart from 'doughnut'. I credit that he had sufficient hutch and run space, but what use is that when he was never held or cleaned out ? They estimated he was roughly 4 when he got him at Christmas, and I missexed him to be female and we called him Mistletoe.
Following his incident with Dinah, he was quickly renamed Minstrel.
Next up were two netherland dwarf house rabbits from the adoption centre. After 2 days the girls fought violently and we had to take the 9 week old baby to the vets for an eye injury. Intensive medicine administration followed over the next week, and her eye was saved.
They were kept seperately and the attacker was rehomed (Button - she was actually a very placid rabbit on her own) with a young male (Bobby), to a family with children aged between 10 and 15, who had hutches for giant rabbits and our little bunnies were... dwarfed by the size
Mitten went on to get pregnant when escaped in next door's garden -.-. We were not pleased. She had 5 babies - Frankie, Fidget, Benjie, Muddle and Niblet. She was kept with Muddle, the rest were rehomed, and eventually she and Muddle were rehomed to a suitable family who could give the more attention.
Next was Kimble and Bobby:
Their owners were a single mother with two children - 4 and 7 - who lived in a council flat and thought it would be cute to breed rabbits. She had no guilt about giving them to a rescue centre, and we stepped in to take the two boys. (She is our neighbour's daughter and a lovely person - for the record. We were not going to report her.)
The boys both had neutering appiontments. Bobby went to live with Button - see above - in the giant hutches.
Kimble, the white one, was due to be introduced to Deliah... but we realised he was incredibly aggresive towards any other female, spayed or not, and have decided to keep him on his own near other rabbits.
And then, unfortunetely, was Duchess's litter.
Might I add that Duchess and her brother - and infact any relative - are the most adept escape artists. They are incredible. They always manage to escape when other, smaller bunnies having lived in the same place for weeks have not. She managed to get pregnant with a male we were looking after, and here's the result:
Yoda:
She had six healthy babies: we successfully rehomed 3, and kept the remaning 3. They will be castrated and vaccinated, and are currently 4 months old.
I think that's it for now
We have a large, white lop coming in soon, and I'll post information about him - although we've decided to keep him long term.
Thanks for reading... I think I went on a bit!
Becky.
This has been requested by Mischief and Tinker's Mum on this thread: http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/showthread.php?p=4374381#post4374381
Our first two bunnies - from a breeder - were TigerLily and Rolo:
A close up of Rolo:
Next we got a netherland dwarf house rabbit from the adoption centre... but sadly he died of a virus. We got him to the vets early morning and he was put on a drip, but he had a horrible case of green diarrhoea that had developed alarmingly fast over 12 hours. R.I.P Monty.
The next three were from a family who kept these three large Rexes in a box-like cage, and rarely cleaned or let them out of their hutch. They also thought it would be appropriate to breed from the brother and sister - although the babies were so badly looked after that only 1 out of 6 survived. As soon as we found out about them - they belonged to the head of chemistry at school - we offered to take them in and they brought round the cage and the un-tame rabbits. Their claws were incredibly long, their hutch was quickly discarded, and they were terrified of people.
Duchess, Dinah and Dimples:
Dimples enjoying his weekly run around the garden:
We soon seperated the daughter from the parents, planning to put her with the female we had just rescued. Except... Mistletoe wasn't a female.
Dinah and Dino:
Her other baby Deliah - recently gotten by a fox. R.I.P my lovely.
The next rabbit was 'Mistletoe'. The owners didn't know the gender, age, breed nor had they ever named the rabbit anything apart from 'doughnut'. I credit that he had sufficient hutch and run space, but what use is that when he was never held or cleaned out ? They estimated he was roughly 4 when he got him at Christmas, and I missexed him to be female and we called him Mistletoe.
Following his incident with Dinah, he was quickly renamed Minstrel.
Next up were two netherland dwarf house rabbits from the adoption centre. After 2 days the girls fought violently and we had to take the 9 week old baby to the vets for an eye injury. Intensive medicine administration followed over the next week, and her eye was saved.
They were kept seperately and the attacker was rehomed (Button - she was actually a very placid rabbit on her own) with a young male (Bobby), to a family with children aged between 10 and 15, who had hutches for giant rabbits and our little bunnies were... dwarfed by the size
Mitten went on to get pregnant when escaped in next door's garden -.-. We were not pleased. She had 5 babies - Frankie, Fidget, Benjie, Muddle and Niblet. She was kept with Muddle, the rest were rehomed, and eventually she and Muddle were rehomed to a suitable family who could give the more attention.
Next was Kimble and Bobby:
Their owners were a single mother with two children - 4 and 7 - who lived in a council flat and thought it would be cute to breed rabbits. She had no guilt about giving them to a rescue centre, and we stepped in to take the two boys. (She is our neighbour's daughter and a lovely person - for the record. We were not going to report her.)
The boys both had neutering appiontments. Bobby went to live with Button - see above - in the giant hutches.
Kimble, the white one, was due to be introduced to Deliah... but we realised he was incredibly aggresive towards any other female, spayed or not, and have decided to keep him on his own near other rabbits.
And then, unfortunetely, was Duchess's litter.
Might I add that Duchess and her brother - and infact any relative - are the most adept escape artists. They are incredible. They always manage to escape when other, smaller bunnies having lived in the same place for weeks have not. She managed to get pregnant with a male we were looking after, and here's the result:
Yoda:
She had six healthy babies: we successfully rehomed 3, and kept the remaning 3. They will be castrated and vaccinated, and are currently 4 months old.
I think that's it for now
We have a large, white lop coming in soon, and I'll post information about him - although we've decided to keep him long term.
Thanks for reading... I think I went on a bit!
Becky.
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