Hi folks,
I haven't been on here for ages (trying to cut down internet use), so I hope you all don't mind me popping back up with a question.
One of our buns suffers from urine burn due to incontinence (vet is stumped as to the cause of the incontinence BTW - apparently she has the biggest bunny bladder he's ever, um, experienced :shock: and these are tiny nethies). Recently she has got considerably worse, and when we went to the vet on Tuesday he was talking about having her put down We've got baytril, metacam, sudocrem, and are now on a daily bathing schedule (it was once every 3 days before this) and she's doing *much* better - took her back to the vet for a check-up today and he was really pleased and is now talking about long term management of her condition :thumb:
So: we're going on holiday for a week in the north of England (we're in the Midlands), and obviously we're going to have to take the buns with us. Normally they stay at home and a friend checks in on them every day. The vet says that taking them would be ideal, and we've arranged another appointment for just before we go for a check-up and medication renewal.
Has anyone ever done this before? Any tips?
We're planning to hire a car; they're generally OK with travel & just lie down after a while; but we've never taken them on such a long journey and I'm not sure what to do re litter trays - should I put a litter tray in the carrier for them to lie in?!
We're staying in self-catering accommodation, which says pets (other than dogs) not allowed, so we are going to have to be naughty here :? I'm planning to get hold of one of those house rabbit cages (you know, the ones that aren't actually suitable houses) for them to have as a holiday house, as I assume the deep plastic bottom will help to contain any stray poops or hay or fluff (they are litter trained) and means that any incontinence can be easily cleaned up; we can put their normal litter trays in it.
Basically, we want to leave no evidence that we ever snuck bunnies into the property - dogs are allowed, but they do say no other animals :? I'm feeling hugely guilty about it (and worried they might discover the bunnies), especially as we love this self-catering company and have stayed in loads of their properties. But I don't want to check with them in case the answer is a firm no, and then we'd basically have to cancel our holiday and lose all our money.
I haven't been on here for ages (trying to cut down internet use), so I hope you all don't mind me popping back up with a question.
One of our buns suffers from urine burn due to incontinence (vet is stumped as to the cause of the incontinence BTW - apparently she has the biggest bunny bladder he's ever, um, experienced :shock: and these are tiny nethies). Recently she has got considerably worse, and when we went to the vet on Tuesday he was talking about having her put down We've got baytril, metacam, sudocrem, and are now on a daily bathing schedule (it was once every 3 days before this) and she's doing *much* better - took her back to the vet for a check-up today and he was really pleased and is now talking about long term management of her condition :thumb:
So: we're going on holiday for a week in the north of England (we're in the Midlands), and obviously we're going to have to take the buns with us. Normally they stay at home and a friend checks in on them every day. The vet says that taking them would be ideal, and we've arranged another appointment for just before we go for a check-up and medication renewal.
Has anyone ever done this before? Any tips?
We're planning to hire a car; they're generally OK with travel & just lie down after a while; but we've never taken them on such a long journey and I'm not sure what to do re litter trays - should I put a litter tray in the carrier for them to lie in?!
We're staying in self-catering accommodation, which says pets (other than dogs) not allowed, so we are going to have to be naughty here :? I'm planning to get hold of one of those house rabbit cages (you know, the ones that aren't actually suitable houses) for them to have as a holiday house, as I assume the deep plastic bottom will help to contain any stray poops or hay or fluff (they are litter trained) and means that any incontinence can be easily cleaned up; we can put their normal litter trays in it.
Basically, we want to leave no evidence that we ever snuck bunnies into the property - dogs are allowed, but they do say no other animals :? I'm feeling hugely guilty about it (and worried they might discover the bunnies), especially as we love this self-catering company and have stayed in loads of their properties. But I don't want to check with them in case the answer is a firm no, and then we'd basically have to cancel our holiday and lose all our money.