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Wise Old Thumper
I am seriously starting to question whether it is in the best interest to vaccinate our rabbits :?
We do have quite a few that can't be vaccinated for health reasons. But of those that are upto date with their vaccinations the majority of them have died within a month or two, some of them within weeks :?
Even though they appear healthy enough to have them they then go one to develop major life threatening problems afterwards. Obviously the vaccinations don't cause these but I am thinking that the vaccination could bring underlying problems to the surface and shorten their lives
On saturday we took Revel to the vets for a check up due to him being 9 and a half and he seemed to be slowing down. The vet couldn't find anything specific wrong so gave him his myxi vaccination. Ever since then he has slowed right down to the point I have to encourage him to start eating. He doesn't move around at all now
Mr Bigglesworth died 7 days after his last vaccination, Marion died 2 weeks after her vaccination, Ella died a few weeks after her last vaccination, etc etc.
The majority of the bunnies we take in are only with us 3 or 4 months, so the chances of them being around long enough to catch myxi or vhd is slim, and if thats all the time they have then I don't want to shorten it. But on the other hand with having so many rabbits an outbreak of any kind could be devastating :?
We do have quite a few that can't be vaccinated for health reasons. But of those that are upto date with their vaccinations the majority of them have died within a month or two, some of them within weeks :?
Even though they appear healthy enough to have them they then go one to develop major life threatening problems afterwards. Obviously the vaccinations don't cause these but I am thinking that the vaccination could bring underlying problems to the surface and shorten their lives
On saturday we took Revel to the vets for a check up due to him being 9 and a half and he seemed to be slowing down. The vet couldn't find anything specific wrong so gave him his myxi vaccination. Ever since then he has slowed right down to the point I have to encourage him to start eating. He doesn't move around at all now
Mr Bigglesworth died 7 days after his last vaccination, Marion died 2 weeks after her vaccination, Ella died a few weeks after her last vaccination, etc etc.
The majority of the bunnies we take in are only with us 3 or 4 months, so the chances of them being around long enough to catch myxi or vhd is slim, and if thats all the time they have then I don't want to shorten it. But on the other hand with having so many rabbits an outbreak of any kind could be devastating :?
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