Purple_Floyd
New Kit
Hi all my first post here. This has all happened so out of the blue I have no idea where to ask or what to do.
Backstory - me and my partner had 2 rabbits mother and daughter (Stormy & Bonnie - was told aged 2 &1) which I adopted from a farm that was closing at the start of the first lockdown March 2020. They were split up during adoption but 1.5 months later I managed to get the daughter and had to rebond them and then they lived in their own room of the house together which we spend every single day in.
Yesterday morning the mother Stormy looked really weird and hardly moved, wouldn't even struggle when I went to pick her up, but still was eating and drinking so I thought she might be having an 'off day'. That night she was so bad - like she deteriorated from fluffy and jumping to skinny and frail within a day/day and half. So we took her to the emergency vets at 10pm and they said she's better off being put to sleep.
Now this is where my guilt kicks in over and over. After we left the vet we went to bury her where we buried one of my partner's pets as we thought we can't keep her all day in the house while I am at work today. As soon as I get home that's when it kicks in and I'm now googling all over what to do and it says I should have brought the rabbit home to show Bonnie for her to grieve. Now I have just one rabbit on her own and she's so confused that her mum didn't come back with us. (spent like an hour looking around the room for her). and I just feel so terrible and have no idea what to do next.
Backstory - me and my partner had 2 rabbits mother and daughter (Stormy & Bonnie - was told aged 2 &1) which I adopted from a farm that was closing at the start of the first lockdown March 2020. They were split up during adoption but 1.5 months later I managed to get the daughter and had to rebond them and then they lived in their own room of the house together which we spend every single day in.
Yesterday morning the mother Stormy looked really weird and hardly moved, wouldn't even struggle when I went to pick her up, but still was eating and drinking so I thought she might be having an 'off day'. That night she was so bad - like she deteriorated from fluffy and jumping to skinny and frail within a day/day and half. So we took her to the emergency vets at 10pm and they said she's better off being put to sleep.
Now this is where my guilt kicks in over and over. After we left the vet we went to bury her where we buried one of my partner's pets as we thought we can't keep her all day in the house while I am at work today. As soon as I get home that's when it kicks in and I'm now googling all over what to do and it says I should have brought the rabbit home to show Bonnie for her to grieve. Now I have just one rabbit on her own and she's so confused that her mum didn't come back with us. (spent like an hour looking around the room for her). and I just feel so terrible and have no idea what to do next.