Leesa
Warren Scout
We sadly lost our Coco bunny yesterday, needless to say we are devastated. The vets were confused about what was causing her urinary incontinence and she went into gut statis. She stopped eating Sunday and went to the vets first thing Monday and stayed til Tuesday evening when she came home as she had improved and started eating vegetables again. Sadly by Wednesday morning she had gone down hill again and although they tried to save her she went into hypothermia and died at the vets.
I did ask the vet about bringing home the body for Fudge bunny to understand that she had passed, but he said as they had been separated for a short period already he should be ok, I was so upset I didn't really think. I hadn't really done any research her death came as a bit of a shock so we took her home yesterday to bury her in my parents garden. Fudge had been separated from her back in February when the meds she was trialling caused her to become aggressive and I had to separate them, she stayed overnight in the vets then too for statis, but I managed to rebond them after the meds were out of her system.
Up until today Fudge bunny has been fine, but today he looks a little lost. I'm not sure if it's just we are sad, but he just looks a bit lonely when he's sitting still. Thankfully I'm at home as I've been trying to set up a business, so I can spend plenty of time with him, but he's not a snuggly bunny so I'm not sure how to comfort him. I've sat there and let him lick me, he likes doing that and the odd stroke but he just liked being groomed by Coco.
I read about getting a teddy, but he's a nightmare for eating anything and everything, so today I have put a penguin puppet I had already, in for now but he's not that bothered and I'm a bit scared to leave it overnight in case he eats it. Do you have any tips for trying to make him happy? I worry that he's waiting for her to come home. He did see her pretty ill and lethargic on Tuesday and Wednesday but he didn't really seem to understand and was more interested in trying to eat her vegetables. We had to separate them as she came back from the vets with critical care dried around her mouth and he was trying to bite it. Even after I cleaned it up, he was still too interested in sniffing her after her syringe feeds and so I only let him see her whilst I supervised he wasn't in her face as scared in case he tried to bite her again. I separated them to sleep.
We weren't going to get another rabbit as we wanted to go travelling after they both had passed (we'd even looked at a tiny home on wheels to see if we could all go together if my business worked out, although sadly that's not really an option moneywise if it would even work). He's 5 and a half years old, so could still have a good amount of life left in him. But I don't know that it's fair to leave him as a single bunny. I just don't know what to do, I am so sad and worry that I wouldn't love a new bunny as much and would be gutted if he died first. I know that sounds really selfish, but I'm also scared of him not bonding with another bunny.
I did ask the vet about bringing home the body for Fudge bunny to understand that she had passed, but he said as they had been separated for a short period already he should be ok, I was so upset I didn't really think. I hadn't really done any research her death came as a bit of a shock so we took her home yesterday to bury her in my parents garden. Fudge had been separated from her back in February when the meds she was trialling caused her to become aggressive and I had to separate them, she stayed overnight in the vets then too for statis, but I managed to rebond them after the meds were out of her system.
Up until today Fudge bunny has been fine, but today he looks a little lost. I'm not sure if it's just we are sad, but he just looks a bit lonely when he's sitting still. Thankfully I'm at home as I've been trying to set up a business, so I can spend plenty of time with him, but he's not a snuggly bunny so I'm not sure how to comfort him. I've sat there and let him lick me, he likes doing that and the odd stroke but he just liked being groomed by Coco.
I read about getting a teddy, but he's a nightmare for eating anything and everything, so today I have put a penguin puppet I had already, in for now but he's not that bothered and I'm a bit scared to leave it overnight in case he eats it. Do you have any tips for trying to make him happy? I worry that he's waiting for her to come home. He did see her pretty ill and lethargic on Tuesday and Wednesday but he didn't really seem to understand and was more interested in trying to eat her vegetables. We had to separate them as she came back from the vets with critical care dried around her mouth and he was trying to bite it. Even after I cleaned it up, he was still too interested in sniffing her after her syringe feeds and so I only let him see her whilst I supervised he wasn't in her face as scared in case he tried to bite her again. I separated them to sleep.
We weren't going to get another rabbit as we wanted to go travelling after they both had passed (we'd even looked at a tiny home on wheels to see if we could all go together if my business worked out, although sadly that's not really an option moneywise if it would even work). He's 5 and a half years old, so could still have a good amount of life left in him. But I don't know that it's fair to leave him as a single bunny. I just don't know what to do, I am so sad and worry that I wouldn't love a new bunny as much and would be gutted if he died first. I know that sounds really selfish, but I'm also scared of him not bonding with another bunny.