I have posted on the RU for a couple of weeks now and it's about time I introduced myself and my 4 bunnies.
Pls excuse the typos i am posting from my phone as i have just moved and my broadband hasn't been set up yet.
8.5 years ago I got my 1st bunny : Little Man
I was at my local fruit and veg market where they also sold bunnies and there was this card board box with over 20 of the smallest bunnies i had ever seen (i was very naive and had no clue about bunnies) All the bunnies lookes the same, tiny and black and white. One caught my eye, he was desperately trying to get my attention and he was sneezing. When he sneezed small drops of yellow puss came out of his nose. I told the guy selling them that this baby was sick and needed a vet.
I left the bunnies and did my weekly shopping. I did not intend to buy a bunny but something made me go back to check on him.
The bunny was gone. I asked the guy if he had sold the bunny and he sad no, he couldn't sell it any more cos it was sick.i asked him where the bunny was now and he pointed to the back of his truck to.a small card board box.
i somehow couldn't picture this guy taking this little bunny to the vet. So I bought little man.
I was very naive. The next day I took little man to the.vet who told me that little man was a very sick little bunny and his chances of survival were very slim. Little man was too young approx 5wks, very under nourished and had a very high temperature. Little man went through many courses of baytril, i was determined not to give uP on him. He survived. Little man got a name and moved into my living room where he had 24 hrs free.range.
The vet told me a bunnies diet should be 80% hay and 20% fresh veg and absolutely no pellets etc. This is what he is fed on untill today and every vet tells me he has got the most amazing fur and fantastic teeth.
I troed bonding him with a .female from a rescue.center twice, but little man is a bully and he didn't allow the girls to eat- ever. So he was a happy single bun for 6 yrs.
2 yrs ago i saw a little white bunny in a park near where i live. I tried to catch her for 2 month. She took the food i gave her, but there was no catching her.
One day suddenly she was a changed bunny and just let me pick her up. I took her to the vet who told.me she was full of fleas, too skinny and approx 4 month old.
she also told me i was very stupid.to just introduce a bunny to my bunny without at least 4 wks quarantine.
little man decided that after 6 years of no food shortage, there would be enough food for 2 bunnies and it was a 5 minute bond.
The next night Hoppla started building a nest underneath my bed and had 3 half wildie babies. She was a great mum, even though she was still a baby herself. she fed them until 12 weeks old. 1 baby staid with us and 2 babies were rehomed.
The baby which staid is called little mouse. Little mouse is great with his family but would kill any other bunny and i mean literally kill.
3 month later Hoppla's syphilis broke out my vet thought it was myxi and wanted to pts her.
when i told my vet that myxi would take 21 days max to break out and we had vaccinated all the bunnies against myxi and vhd, she still didn't believe me and insisted on ptssing Hoppla. I told her over my dead body and that she most likely had syphilis which i read about on the internet. My vet said she never heard about bunny syphilis and phoned a so called bunny expert. I can still hear this arrogant guy's voice over the phone "bunny syphilis doesn't exist it is myxo and you have to pts the bunny"
I told my vet she would not get her hands on my bunny and that she would certainly not be ptssed against my will. I think we stood there staring at each other for 5 minutes.
I then told her to google it on the net and luckily the first site.She opened was from a well known exotics professor who wrote about how to treat bunny syphilis.
If I hadn't been that determined and more of a push over, I would have lost Hoppla that day.
A year ago one day before.my birthday I found a box that was moving next to a rubbish bin. I took the box and told myself no matter how cute whatever was in there would be, it would go straight to a rescue center (who was i kidding). While i was holding the box i could feel something binkying in the box.
At home i opened the box and the cutest little ball of white fluff binkyed out of the box and around.my room. Lola was.the cutest bunny i ever saw, but with a very runny nose with yellow puss coming out of her nose. Her illness didn't scare me. I had done it before and would be able to do it again. I immediately started her on Baytril, it was Sunday and no vet available.
I saw the vet the next day.
Lola survived and.is a spoiled.little princess.
The family of 3 has one room to.themselves and Lola lives in my bed room.
I cannot bond lola with the other 3 as the half wildie would rip her to shreds. I tried and he attacks immediately with maximum aggression.
So Lola is.a.spoilt single bun and my bed room is her kingdom.
The girls are.spayed and the boys had the snip. And of course they have their little passport with all their regular myxo.and vhd vaccs. These are my bunnies.
Thanks for reading...:wave
ictures will follow
Pls excuse the typos i am posting from my phone as i have just moved and my broadband hasn't been set up yet.
8.5 years ago I got my 1st bunny : Little Man
I was at my local fruit and veg market where they also sold bunnies and there was this card board box with over 20 of the smallest bunnies i had ever seen (i was very naive and had no clue about bunnies) All the bunnies lookes the same, tiny and black and white. One caught my eye, he was desperately trying to get my attention and he was sneezing. When he sneezed small drops of yellow puss came out of his nose. I told the guy selling them that this baby was sick and needed a vet.
I left the bunnies and did my weekly shopping. I did not intend to buy a bunny but something made me go back to check on him.
The bunny was gone. I asked the guy if he had sold the bunny and he sad no, he couldn't sell it any more cos it was sick.i asked him where the bunny was now and he pointed to the back of his truck to.a small card board box.
i somehow couldn't picture this guy taking this little bunny to the vet. So I bought little man.
I was very naive. The next day I took little man to the.vet who told me that little man was a very sick little bunny and his chances of survival were very slim. Little man was too young approx 5wks, very under nourished and had a very high temperature. Little man went through many courses of baytril, i was determined not to give uP on him. He survived. Little man got a name and moved into my living room where he had 24 hrs free.range.
The vet told me a bunnies diet should be 80% hay and 20% fresh veg and absolutely no pellets etc. This is what he is fed on untill today and every vet tells me he has got the most amazing fur and fantastic teeth.
I troed bonding him with a .female from a rescue.center twice, but little man is a bully and he didn't allow the girls to eat- ever. So he was a happy single bun for 6 yrs.
2 yrs ago i saw a little white bunny in a park near where i live. I tried to catch her for 2 month. She took the food i gave her, but there was no catching her.
One day suddenly she was a changed bunny and just let me pick her up. I took her to the vet who told.me she was full of fleas, too skinny and approx 4 month old.
she also told me i was very stupid.to just introduce a bunny to my bunny without at least 4 wks quarantine.
little man decided that after 6 years of no food shortage, there would be enough food for 2 bunnies and it was a 5 minute bond.
The next night Hoppla started building a nest underneath my bed and had 3 half wildie babies. She was a great mum, even though she was still a baby herself. she fed them until 12 weeks old. 1 baby staid with us and 2 babies were rehomed.
The baby which staid is called little mouse. Little mouse is great with his family but would kill any other bunny and i mean literally kill.
3 month later Hoppla's syphilis broke out my vet thought it was myxi and wanted to pts her.
when i told my vet that myxi would take 21 days max to break out and we had vaccinated all the bunnies against myxi and vhd, she still didn't believe me and insisted on ptssing Hoppla. I told her over my dead body and that she most likely had syphilis which i read about on the internet. My vet said she never heard about bunny syphilis and phoned a so called bunny expert. I can still hear this arrogant guy's voice over the phone "bunny syphilis doesn't exist it is myxo and you have to pts the bunny"
I told my vet she would not get her hands on my bunny and that she would certainly not be ptssed against my will. I think we stood there staring at each other for 5 minutes.
I then told her to google it on the net and luckily the first site.She opened was from a well known exotics professor who wrote about how to treat bunny syphilis.
If I hadn't been that determined and more of a push over, I would have lost Hoppla that day.
A year ago one day before.my birthday I found a box that was moving next to a rubbish bin. I took the box and told myself no matter how cute whatever was in there would be, it would go straight to a rescue center (who was i kidding). While i was holding the box i could feel something binkying in the box.
At home i opened the box and the cutest little ball of white fluff binkyed out of the box and around.my room. Lola was.the cutest bunny i ever saw, but with a very runny nose with yellow puss coming out of her nose. Her illness didn't scare me. I had done it before and would be able to do it again. I immediately started her on Baytril, it was Sunday and no vet available.
I saw the vet the next day.
Lola survived and.is a spoiled.little princess.
The family of 3 has one room to.themselves and Lola lives in my bed room.
I cannot bond lola with the other 3 as the half wildie would rip her to shreds. I tried and he attacks immediately with maximum aggression.
So Lola is.a.spoilt single bun and my bed room is her kingdom.
The girls are.spayed and the boys had the snip. And of course they have their little passport with all their regular myxo.and vhd vaccs. These are my bunnies.
Thanks for reading...:wave
ictures will follow
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