R.P.B.G.G
Mama Doe
A few years back a new mother and daughter moved into the culdesac I live in 2 doors away,
It became quite clear she was an avid animal lady, with cats, dogs, chinchillas, degus and then she clocked on to the rabbits we have,
At the time we had the litter of buns that my 'friend' handed to me because she was going on holiday,
She took 2 on,
In all now, she has had 12 buns off us,
Everything seemed to be going really well, they were in brand new hutches to size,
had everything they needed, if she ever wasnt sure she would pop over,
One day she stopped mum on the way in and 2 of the buns she had from us had passes away, now this litter were left with no mum from 4 weeks and a few of the others had passed also,
She then 'LOST' 2 in the garden, and just said 'if you see them, erm, their mine' she managed to find one, but the other, was one from the litter she first took, dwarf lops, so not small,
After we lost a few buns to myxo we warned her about it, advised on the best way to prevent (vacc, citronella, keep clean etc) she pulled us up last week and said one of the buns was snotty, swollen eyes and ears, mum advised to move rabbit away from all other buns, do not touch her then other etc etc, and to check her genitals, but advised it was most likely myxo and to take her to the vets,
She tried to self treat, ignored our advise, a delivery came here for her, so i popped it over and she asked me to come in, AND LOOK AT THE BUN!!
There sitting in the bottom of the chinchilla cage was a little nethie in a chinchilla box, eyes swollen shut, runny nose, swollen ears and face.
Said to her as nice as I could, 'Im not being rude, but im not touching her, I dont need to, its Myxo and she needs to go to the vet, at the stage she is at, she needs to be pts, she wont survive being self treated, and she will suffer a horrible slow painful death'
She took my advise and booked bun at the vets, and she was pts on vets advise,
She spoke to mum and said another 2 have it, I suspect she didnt take our advise about cleanliness, disinfecting etc,
She has also left these ill, until she text me yesterday morning and asked for my vets details as now 1/2 her bunnies have myxo symptoms, I texted her last night and she 'hadnt got round to phoning them yet'
I feel like im banging my head against a brick wall,
I have tried explaining in the most kind way possible how horrible myxo is, what it does to the bun and chances of survival etc.
I guess she will probably lose all the buns if she doesnt do something about it, which is gutting as most of them were rescue buns, or buns that we have watched grow from the day they were born,
I even allowed a bun I so wanted to keep go to her as she was only over the road I could visit him when I liked,
Never again will I allow one of our buns go to her, not because she doesnt care for them, but because the lack of urgency, If one of my buns went missing from my garden id be jumping fences to find it, and wouldnt give up until we had, and every bun we have found to have myxo has gone to the vets almost instantly.
Sorry just needed to vent
It became quite clear she was an avid animal lady, with cats, dogs, chinchillas, degus and then she clocked on to the rabbits we have,
At the time we had the litter of buns that my 'friend' handed to me because she was going on holiday,
She took 2 on,
In all now, she has had 12 buns off us,
Everything seemed to be going really well, they were in brand new hutches to size,
had everything they needed, if she ever wasnt sure she would pop over,
One day she stopped mum on the way in and 2 of the buns she had from us had passes away, now this litter were left with no mum from 4 weeks and a few of the others had passed also,
She then 'LOST' 2 in the garden, and just said 'if you see them, erm, their mine' she managed to find one, but the other, was one from the litter she first took, dwarf lops, so not small,
After we lost a few buns to myxo we warned her about it, advised on the best way to prevent (vacc, citronella, keep clean etc) she pulled us up last week and said one of the buns was snotty, swollen eyes and ears, mum advised to move rabbit away from all other buns, do not touch her then other etc etc, and to check her genitals, but advised it was most likely myxo and to take her to the vets,
She tried to self treat, ignored our advise, a delivery came here for her, so i popped it over and she asked me to come in, AND LOOK AT THE BUN!!
There sitting in the bottom of the chinchilla cage was a little nethie in a chinchilla box, eyes swollen shut, runny nose, swollen ears and face.
Said to her as nice as I could, 'Im not being rude, but im not touching her, I dont need to, its Myxo and she needs to go to the vet, at the stage she is at, she needs to be pts, she wont survive being self treated, and she will suffer a horrible slow painful death'
She took my advise and booked bun at the vets, and she was pts on vets advise,
She spoke to mum and said another 2 have it, I suspect she didnt take our advise about cleanliness, disinfecting etc,
She has also left these ill, until she text me yesterday morning and asked for my vets details as now 1/2 her bunnies have myxo symptoms, I texted her last night and she 'hadnt got round to phoning them yet'
I feel like im banging my head against a brick wall,
I have tried explaining in the most kind way possible how horrible myxo is, what it does to the bun and chances of survival etc.
I guess she will probably lose all the buns if she doesnt do something about it, which is gutting as most of them were rescue buns, or buns that we have watched grow from the day they were born,
I even allowed a bun I so wanted to keep go to her as she was only over the road I could visit him when I liked,
Never again will I allow one of our buns go to her, not because she doesnt care for them, but because the lack of urgency, If one of my buns went missing from my garden id be jumping fences to find it, and wouldnt give up until we had, and every bun we have found to have myxo has gone to the vets almost instantly.
Sorry just needed to vent