teejay
Warren Scout
Hi there
I could really use some advice from you knowledgeable RUers.
I run V.I.P. rabbit boarding, and I had a call from our local Social Services team earlier today, asking if we could accommodate a bunny who's owner has been admitted to hospital for a minimum of 28 days (I suspect she's been sectioned).
Thankfully, we were able to help so I arranged to meet the social worker at the house to collect the bunny.
The house was in complete chaos (as I'd expected, TBH) and the bunny was in a tiny plastic pet carrier in the middle of the room. Apparently, he/she (not sure which, I'll refer to him as a he) had been in the carrier since Saturday! :shock:
When we opened the carrier, he was sitting on the plastic and there was an empty glass bowl which had apparently been used to give him/her a drink on Monday!y, but which (of course) had been knocked over. There was one mushed-up leaf of what looked like iceberg lettuce on the carrier floor, but nothing else, not a pellet or a blade of hay
Needless to say, the poor thing was cold and dripping wet with pee. Even his face was soaked I'm not sure if that's discharge from his eyes or if he's somehow got pee on his face, there's a lot of eye-discharge if it is that.
He is not very old (max 6 months, I'd say), tiny, and absolutely skeletal...I could feel every bone and vertebrae. I don't know his name or anything about him. I've decided to call him Marble, as he's a lovely brindle colour (and also it's unisex).
As he's been through such a horrendous time of it, poor little mite, I basically just made him up a hutch an left him in there with a bowl and bottle of water (bowl with probiotic in it), Readigrass, hay and a bit of dried plantain. I haven't given him any veg or pellets, as I thought that might be too rich for his gut in his starved state.
I also haven't tried to clean him or properly check him over, I didn't want to stress him out too much.
Despite his ordeal, though, he seems quite bright and friendly (he must think he's in bunny heaven!), and now he's safe in a dry, warm hutch, he's started to clean himself up thankfully.
I'll see how he is tomorrow and probably take him to the vets for a check up.
So really I just want to know if I;m doing the right thing?
Many thanks in advance
Tracey
I could really use some advice from you knowledgeable RUers.
I run V.I.P. rabbit boarding, and I had a call from our local Social Services team earlier today, asking if we could accommodate a bunny who's owner has been admitted to hospital for a minimum of 28 days (I suspect she's been sectioned).
Thankfully, we were able to help so I arranged to meet the social worker at the house to collect the bunny.
The house was in complete chaos (as I'd expected, TBH) and the bunny was in a tiny plastic pet carrier in the middle of the room. Apparently, he/she (not sure which, I'll refer to him as a he) had been in the carrier since Saturday! :shock:
When we opened the carrier, he was sitting on the plastic and there was an empty glass bowl which had apparently been used to give him/her a drink on Monday!y, but which (of course) had been knocked over. There was one mushed-up leaf of what looked like iceberg lettuce on the carrier floor, but nothing else, not a pellet or a blade of hay
Needless to say, the poor thing was cold and dripping wet with pee. Even his face was soaked I'm not sure if that's discharge from his eyes or if he's somehow got pee on his face, there's a lot of eye-discharge if it is that.
He is not very old (max 6 months, I'd say), tiny, and absolutely skeletal...I could feel every bone and vertebrae. I don't know his name or anything about him. I've decided to call him Marble, as he's a lovely brindle colour (and also it's unisex).
As he's been through such a horrendous time of it, poor little mite, I basically just made him up a hutch an left him in there with a bowl and bottle of water (bowl with probiotic in it), Readigrass, hay and a bit of dried plantain. I haven't given him any veg or pellets, as I thought that might be too rich for his gut in his starved state.
I also haven't tried to clean him or properly check him over, I didn't want to stress him out too much.
Despite his ordeal, though, he seems quite bright and friendly (he must think he's in bunny heaven!), and now he's safe in a dry, warm hutch, he's started to clean himself up thankfully.
I'll see how he is tomorrow and probably take him to the vets for a check up.
So really I just want to know if I;m doing the right thing?
Many thanks in advance
Tracey