Hi,
I don't post on here very often but I read a lot
Alice at Windwhistle has been helping me with a large rescue in Neath. I first heard of the rabbits through facebook. They were living free in someones garden and having babies all the time, the owner had been giving them away on facebook and gumtree and and selling them to pet shops, so goodness only knows where they ended up, she contacted me for help as she had ran out of friends and relatives to give them too and the pet shops didn't want to take the older ones.
When I went to have a look at what was going on there were two adult females running loose in the garden, a black male with them and two other young males in separate pens. There was a litter living in an open sided box and another litter had just been born in the chicken coup, sadly one of the new babies had died and was being eaten by a chicken. We managed to catch the black male who was in with the girls and I left with strict instructions to keep them separate.
There are very few good rabbit rescues in Wales and I tried to get rescue space for these bunnies everywhere. Alice was the only one who could help (in fact she was one of only three who got back to me) and agreed to take the babies and the three males, and another 10 month old male and female who had been rehomed by the lady but were coming back! The lady wanted to keep the two mums although I tried to persuade her to give them up. I said to let me know when the babies were ready and I would collect them and find rescue space for them.
A lovely lady called Ruth helped with the transport and went to collect the buns, but the night before they were due to be collected I had a message to say one of the babies had hurt his leg, possibly broken. Alice said she would still take him so they were all collected the next day and taken to Windwhistle.
The baby with the broken leg was immediately adopted by Ruth who fell in love with him and has since had his front leg removed, it now looks like he was bitten by a rat.
One of the babies from the first litter then developed problems with his leg and also had to have a leg amputated, due to an infection caused by a bite.
A couple of weeks later I had another message off the lady, the babies had been attacked by rats, three had been taken and killed and the others had been bitten, one had a bite on his jaw, she had separated them from their mum and didn't know what to do, so I went and collected them, they were 3 weeks old. They have been to the vets, all except one has been bitten, the one who was bitten on the jaw has an abscess and I am not sure of his future as it may involve the jaw bone.
The owner then got in touch this week to say that between myself and Ruth visiting the boys had got out twice and the rabbit had had babies again, this time under the greenhouse and that there were rats everywhere. She finally agreed to let us take the two mums and the babies so Ruth went over last Friday to take them, sadly the babies were all dead but she got the mums out safetly and they are now at Windwhistle. One may be pregnant.
I have the six babies here, four of them have come on really well and are doing great, two not so great, one with the abscess and one has today got swollen front legs, they are both on metacam and antibiotics and will be going back to the vets as soon as they open. Alice has agreed to take these in too and so will be making the journey in a couple of weeks.
All in all we have got eighteen rabbits out of there alive, and they all will need veterinary treatment, neutering, vaccinations etc. The one who lost a leg is looking for a very special home. If it wasn't for Alice I don't know what I would have done, I didn't want the rabbits going from the frying pan into the fire and would not have been able to find enough suitable homes in my area.
If anyone can offer any of these buns (or any of the 80 or so other rabbits Alice has for homing) a home, please give her a shout. Alice has given me so much support and advice throughout and Windwhistle is a great rescue and we need more like hers, especially in Wales.
I don't post on here very often but I read a lot
Alice at Windwhistle has been helping me with a large rescue in Neath. I first heard of the rabbits through facebook. They were living free in someones garden and having babies all the time, the owner had been giving them away on facebook and gumtree and and selling them to pet shops, so goodness only knows where they ended up, she contacted me for help as she had ran out of friends and relatives to give them too and the pet shops didn't want to take the older ones.
When I went to have a look at what was going on there were two adult females running loose in the garden, a black male with them and two other young males in separate pens. There was a litter living in an open sided box and another litter had just been born in the chicken coup, sadly one of the new babies had died and was being eaten by a chicken. We managed to catch the black male who was in with the girls and I left with strict instructions to keep them separate.
There are very few good rabbit rescues in Wales and I tried to get rescue space for these bunnies everywhere. Alice was the only one who could help (in fact she was one of only three who got back to me) and agreed to take the babies and the three males, and another 10 month old male and female who had been rehomed by the lady but were coming back! The lady wanted to keep the two mums although I tried to persuade her to give them up. I said to let me know when the babies were ready and I would collect them and find rescue space for them.
A lovely lady called Ruth helped with the transport and went to collect the buns, but the night before they were due to be collected I had a message to say one of the babies had hurt his leg, possibly broken. Alice said she would still take him so they were all collected the next day and taken to Windwhistle.
The baby with the broken leg was immediately adopted by Ruth who fell in love with him and has since had his front leg removed, it now looks like he was bitten by a rat.
One of the babies from the first litter then developed problems with his leg and also had to have a leg amputated, due to an infection caused by a bite.
A couple of weeks later I had another message off the lady, the babies had been attacked by rats, three had been taken and killed and the others had been bitten, one had a bite on his jaw, she had separated them from their mum and didn't know what to do, so I went and collected them, they were 3 weeks old. They have been to the vets, all except one has been bitten, the one who was bitten on the jaw has an abscess and I am not sure of his future as it may involve the jaw bone.
The owner then got in touch this week to say that between myself and Ruth visiting the boys had got out twice and the rabbit had had babies again, this time under the greenhouse and that there were rats everywhere. She finally agreed to let us take the two mums and the babies so Ruth went over last Friday to take them, sadly the babies were all dead but she got the mums out safetly and they are now at Windwhistle. One may be pregnant.
I have the six babies here, four of them have come on really well and are doing great, two not so great, one with the abscess and one has today got swollen front legs, they are both on metacam and antibiotics and will be going back to the vets as soon as they open. Alice has agreed to take these in too and so will be making the journey in a couple of weeks.
All in all we have got eighteen rabbits out of there alive, and they all will need veterinary treatment, neutering, vaccinations etc. The one who lost a leg is looking for a very special home. If it wasn't for Alice I don't know what I would have done, I didn't want the rabbits going from the frying pan into the fire and would not have been able to find enough suitable homes in my area.
If anyone can offer any of these buns (or any of the 80 or so other rabbits Alice has for homing) a home, please give her a shout. Alice has given me so much support and advice throughout and Windwhistle is a great rescue and we need more like hers, especially in Wales.