Jaffacake
Alpha Buck
I've told this story so many times before on here, so I won't go into too many details!
We got two girl buns who turned out to be poorly snuffles boy buns (P@H ), they began to fight quite severely over night and we didn't realise until Merry had done some proper damage to Foxie, at which point they were separated. Merry died whilst being castrated probably due in part to his snuffles, and the fact we went with a cheaper vet than our usual vet. He'd been on 2 courses of antibiotics which didn't work, and the vet advised we get him done anyway as he'd started attacking us and the cats.
We went back to our usual vet and tried Foxie on a stronger course of antibiotics which also didn't work. The vet said as it was such a mild case if we were careful he would probably live a normal life.
But he was sad He stopped binkying, he sat in the corner on his own all day, he needed a friend- he's just that type of rabbit.
He had never shown any sexual behaviour after Merry's attack on him that left him quite damaged, so we thought it would be fine to introduce a girly. We talked to our local shelter who let us adopt the spayed bunny Bella as long as we signed a contract saying we would risk having Foxie done before we returned Bella to the shelter if things didn't work.
At first, we were worried. He chased and humped her more than I thought was normal, and she just ran away from him. However, after reading different accounts we decided to try just letting them sort it as neither has ever shown any aggression to the other. It worked! They cuddle up and groom each other, they are currently flopped out next to each other in the garden. He doesn't chase her anymore really, and they were happy.
And then the sun came... and in the last couple of weeks he has decided that he is going to repeatedly try and hump our cats, which they are not impressed by :roll: He's started chasing Bella a bit more, and he's started circling us when we are outside.
So we've booked him in to be done tomorrow at a rabbit savvy vet (I got details from this website) that is 25 minutes away from our house. My mum is not impressed about driving that far, until I told her she is welcome to take him to our regular vets- but if he dies then how will she feel? She then said the journey wasn't too bad...
I am terrified something will go wrong and we'll lose him. I am terrified that I'll have to feel guilty forever, because I am the one who made my parents get him a friend. I just want him to be happy and I know he wasn't! But if this goes wrong I could lose him completely...
So good vibes for Foxie please
We got two girl buns who turned out to be poorly snuffles boy buns (P@H ), they began to fight quite severely over night and we didn't realise until Merry had done some proper damage to Foxie, at which point they were separated. Merry died whilst being castrated probably due in part to his snuffles, and the fact we went with a cheaper vet than our usual vet. He'd been on 2 courses of antibiotics which didn't work, and the vet advised we get him done anyway as he'd started attacking us and the cats.
We went back to our usual vet and tried Foxie on a stronger course of antibiotics which also didn't work. The vet said as it was such a mild case if we were careful he would probably live a normal life.
But he was sad He stopped binkying, he sat in the corner on his own all day, he needed a friend- he's just that type of rabbit.
He had never shown any sexual behaviour after Merry's attack on him that left him quite damaged, so we thought it would be fine to introduce a girly. We talked to our local shelter who let us adopt the spayed bunny Bella as long as we signed a contract saying we would risk having Foxie done before we returned Bella to the shelter if things didn't work.
At first, we were worried. He chased and humped her more than I thought was normal, and she just ran away from him. However, after reading different accounts we decided to try just letting them sort it as neither has ever shown any aggression to the other. It worked! They cuddle up and groom each other, they are currently flopped out next to each other in the garden. He doesn't chase her anymore really, and they were happy.
And then the sun came... and in the last couple of weeks he has decided that he is going to repeatedly try and hump our cats, which they are not impressed by :roll: He's started chasing Bella a bit more, and he's started circling us when we are outside.
So we've booked him in to be done tomorrow at a rabbit savvy vet (I got details from this website) that is 25 minutes away from our house. My mum is not impressed about driving that far, until I told her she is welcome to take him to our regular vets- but if he dies then how will she feel? She then said the journey wasn't too bad...
I am terrified something will go wrong and we'll lose him. I am terrified that I'll have to feel guilty forever, because I am the one who made my parents get him a friend. I just want him to be happy and I know he wasn't! But if this goes wrong I could lose him completely...
So good vibes for Foxie please
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