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Rehomed: Duke, Looking for a special home. Rehomed

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RSPCA Macclesfield

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Duke is a gorgeous boy, full to the brim of character! He is so much fun to be around & has been waiting a long time for a home. Duke has snuffles, which hasnt so far responded to treatment but it is still being investigated. It is however, a possibility that he will always exhibit the symptoms. Duke has battled more than his fair share of health problems since he came into our care, but he has tackled everything head on with amazing spirit, and has never let anything get him down. Duke is neutered, vaccinated and microchipped. For more info please contact Rspca Macclesfield enquiries@rspca-macclesfield.org.uk
 
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:( I am so gutted to see he is still looking, I was so hoping he would have found his own home by now, such a shame he wasn't allowed to come to a Retirement Home :(
 
:( I'm so gutted to see you couldn't get him into a special home Becki.
I really wish I had more room, I'd take him in a heart beat!

Good luck Duke, beautiful boy x
 
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He is so special, the first person who meets him will adopt him without a shadow of a doubt! Its just getting someone through the door, and beyond the vet bills!
 
RSPCA Macclesfield said:
He is so special, the first person who meets him will adopt him without a shadow of a doubt! Its just getting someone through the door, and beyond the vet bills!
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I'm certain he will find a forever home, he's just like a tatty teddy after all!:love: If circumstances were different back when I enquired I would have taken him, like I said. It's been a rocky couple of months though.
 
RSPCA Macclesfield said:
He is so special, the first person who meets him will adopt him without a shadow of a doubt! Its just getting someone through the door, and beyond the vet bills!
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I'm confused!! I would have took Duke on but everything I have looked at on the web indicates that it is highly contagious, and so I don't see how he can in that case be kept with other buns. It's a shame if that is the case, as I feel confident that if anyone could have got on top of this, it would have been my own vet, as he is so experienced in dental work on rabbits and guinea pigs, and everything with snuffles seems to suggest problems with teeth. What do you think? By the way I am the lady who has got Bodger.
 
Snuffles is contagious but he could be renamed with an existing snuffle bunny. I'm not a vet but my understanding is snuffles has nothing to do with teeth. It's a condition in it's own right. Lots of bunnies have snuffles, I'd go so far as to say most of mine have. It rears its head every so often when antibiotics are required. If kept separate from other bus with the usual quarantine measures the risk of transfer s minimal.
 
bunniesgalore said:
Snuffles is contagious but he could be renamed with an existing snuffle bunny. I'm not a vet but my understanding is snuffles has nothing to do with teeth. It's a condition in it's own right. Lots of bunnies have snuffles, I'd go so far as to say most of mine have. It rears its head every so often when antibiotics are required. If kept separate from other bus with the usual quarantine measures the risk of transfer s minimal.
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I see. He unfortunately wouldn't be able to come to me then because none of my buns have snuffles. My friends bunny however, had snuffles and was doing really badly, almost to the point of having to be pts, but she then took her to my vet who only works with buns and guinea pigs, and specialises in dental work, and after removing some teeth, Cassie made a full recovery and doesn't even appear to have snuffles anymore. Simon said it was because Snuffles is a chronic infection in the tear ducts and nasal sinuses, and often caused by tooth roots passing very close to the tear duct as it drains from the corner of the eye to the nose. In Cassie's case the teeth had become maloccluded, and the tooth roots were pushing up and obstructing the tear duct. That was then preventing normal drainage and allowing the bacteria to grow, and her snuffles just got worse and worse. She was very lucky in that by then removing those teeth, flushing the tear ducts with an antibiotic solution a few times, and intensive antibiotics over a 5 week period I think it was, she is now snuffle free.
 
Just remembered my vet saying that there are 3 main causes of suffles. Poor teeth, poor diet, especially if lacking in vitamin A, and poor ventilation in hutch, and rabbit inhaling urine fumes.
 
RogerRabbit999 said:
Just remembered my vet saying that there are 3 main causes of suffles. Poor teeth, poor diet, especially if lacking in vitamin A, and poor ventilation in hutch, and rabbit inhaling urine fumes.
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I think those are the causes of running/weepy eyes & nose, but not actually snuffles - that's a disease in it's own right, not just a symptom.


He's a stunner. Hope he finds a home soon
 
I had a longterm snuffles bun who was on medication and a nebuliser for years. I had 11 other bunnies, non of which ever got snuffles including his bonded partner, so it isn't always contagious.
 
Amy104 said:
I had a longterm snuffles bun who was on medication and a nebuliser for years. I had 11 other bunnies, non of which ever got snuffles including his bonded partner, so it isn't always contagious.
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Really. That's useful to know. I have just had Bodger from the RSPCA Macclesfield, and I need a companion for my blind french lop male, as for some reason, my 3 'special needs' bunnies all hate him, and so hopes of moving him in with them have gone out the window now, which leaves him on his own. I've emailed Becki to see what she thinks as she knows me now and how well Bodger is doing.
 
Just looked on the RSPCA website to see that this lovely boy has been rehomed!! I met him when I went to meet another rabbit I was adopting as I needed a female. Duke is lovely and very friendly and I am really pleased he has found a new home...
 
Yes, Duke went to his new home on Saturday. To the loveliest family :love: He has free range of the house & will be very pampered. Julie, Did I respond to that email? I dont remember reading it! :oops:
 
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