Tomorrow my family of four double maned lionheads will be going to the vets for a thorough hair trim. As you know, I try and keep their coats shorter for health and maintenance reasons and have managed so far myself. However, their coats are SO thick at the moment that a few mats have appeared around their bottom/tail ends and even I am too nervous to tackle clearing them myself. I say nervous....I had a full on melt down this afternoon about it. I know it is because of the trauma I experienced 2 years ago when discovering Adam with flystrike, so ever since, I DREAD when hair cut time comes around. However, their coats were particularly matted today and I tried, but fear, nerves and panic took over and I phoned the vets. I will be dropping all 4 off at 7am tomorrow morning and leaving them with the vet all day (joys of being a teacher and having zero flexibility for appointments etc!)...then attempting to collect them at the end of the school day to then return to school for 6pm for a parents workshop meeting (otherwise it will have to be around 8pm after the parents meeting...we'll see tomorrow).
It's going to be a long, stressful and costly day tomorrow and I'm dreading it...but it needs to be done as their coats are just too thick for me to attempt on my own.
As beautiful, cute and fluffy these double maned lionheads can look...they are extremely high maintenance and require such dedication, time and care. I am blessed, as well as challenged(!) at having four to take care of, and know first hand the time, energy and stress that goes into keeping these type of rabbits.. It always saddens me when I've occasionally seen such long haired rabbits in pet shops and often wonder what homes they will end up in. I just hope these owners do their full research into what it takes to fully look after one of these rabbits.
Wish my little group well at the vets tomorrow! ...and that I can survive the stress of it all! :? x
It's going to be a long, stressful and costly day tomorrow and I'm dreading it...but it needs to be done as their coats are just too thick for me to attempt on my own.
As beautiful, cute and fluffy these double maned lionheads can look...they are extremely high maintenance and require such dedication, time and care. I am blessed, as well as challenged(!) at having four to take care of, and know first hand the time, energy and stress that goes into keeping these type of rabbits.. It always saddens me when I've occasionally seen such long haired rabbits in pet shops and often wonder what homes they will end up in. I just hope these owners do their full research into what it takes to fully look after one of these rabbits.
Wish my little group well at the vets tomorrow! ...and that I can survive the stress of it all! :? x