Apologies in advance for the massive post, and sorry to be one of those who only posts when they need something :/ I do really love reading all about your babies.
following lovely Craig's advice, I got fifi a husbun
( I was told she needed to be a single bun when I rehomed her). I wanted to go down the rescue route, but there was such a wait for home checks due to 'c' word, and I didn't want her to be alone any longer.
I got chatting to this lady who told me she could bond any two male and female buns ( which I did think was quite an outrageous claim, but somehow just intuitively trusted her). Anyway, she told me to find a neutered rabbit for sale and she would bond them- she just told me to make sure they were a similar age.
Oh my god, those ghastly for sale sites...pre loved and pets for homes... absolutely heart breaking... people just waking up to the reality of the rabbits they got their kids for Christmas, and throwing them out like rubbish.. separating bonded pairs..anything to get some money back. I sent so many "please don't separate your rabbits, it will f them up" messages.
Anyway, I quickly discovered that neutered bucks are something of a scarcity on these sites - people who care enough to have their bunny neutered don't get rid, but I managed to find a suitable boy.
They spent 5 days at this 'bunny whisperers' and came back totally loved up.
It was soooo lovely to see them snuggling up and grooming etc.
Fifi had been such an easy single bunny, she had the run of the whole downstairs, never wee'd outside the box, never chewed anything she wasn't supposed to. A few rogue poo's but nothing too bad.
Since Christopher Robin ( I've named the boy), came a few weeks ago a lot has changed. He loves a strokey sesh, which is lovely because fifi is really hands off for the most part, but I cannot pick Christopher Robin up- he kicks like mad. Also he has had a wee outside of the litter box quite a few times. For these reasons I've confined the buns to their room and the kitchen, where it's easy to deal with mop ups. This is still a very spacious area for 2 buns.
There are poos everywhere, but the worst thing is, Fifi has stopped eating the squidgy, smelly poos, and at least three times a day, and every morning, I walk into poo carnage- HUGE PILES of this squidgy poo- smeared every where - bear in mind this is my kitchen..
I've stopped giving them greens in an attempt to get her eating the poos again, but I almost think it was better when they had greens.
At the moment we are both at home- my fiance working at home because of the c word, and I'm able to clean up every time I go in there, but on the few occasions we've been out most of the day I've come back to poo smeared every where, puddles of wee on the floor, normal poos everywhere, huge piles of the soft poo. I've cried twice- not to sound like a total drip, but it's really taking it out of me, and I can't imagine what it's going to be like when there's no one at home during the day.
Also I'm so stressed out because Fifi is a really, really fluffy lion head, and her bum is constantly a stinky mess, and it's so stressful for us and for her to have to hold her and cut and soak the poo off of her.
Food wise, they both have a large tablespoon of burgess pellets in the morning, and hay all day. That's it.
I realised quite soon after getting Christopher Robin that he wasn't eating the hay I was giving, and his poos were tiny and I could feel his spine!! So I swapped them to the hay that the lady who bonded them were giving them, and they are mad for it. I saw him eat properly for the first time. I was starving him!! [emoji31][emoji173]
this hay is farm hay ( that's all I know). Its much greener than the strawy type Timothy hay they were on. So the likelihood is that it's this hay that is stopping fifi eating her squidgy poo, right? I mean she quite often would not eat it, but now it's the rule rather than the exception. Sometimes she'll lay in a spot for a while, and when she gets up..oh my god...The hugest pile of stinky shiiizz, she'll run through it before I can get to it quickly enough, there are normal poos everywhere no matter how much I put them back in their 2 litter boxes. I have no kitchen anymore, their toys cover the floor, which I am absolutely fine with, but everything is getting covered in smelly sh**, I'm so scared of fly strike with fifi, I can't pick up Christopher Robin, he's wee'ing. I'm not bonding properly with them because they are separate in the kitchen, I do spend time with them in the kitchen, but I desperately want them in the living room too, and really as part of the family, but I dare not bring the wee and poo to the rest of the house- carpet etc.
Please help, I am SO stressed out, it's a constant battle. I don't know how I'll ever be able to have people in our home when lockdown ends- no one would ever eat here that's for sure!
I can't give them each different hay for obvious reasons. I'm so happy that they are loved up and together, but I wish I could enjoy these bunnies just a little. I wake up every morning dreading what awaits me downstairs, and throughout the day. I won't put them outside.
Any advice would be SO GRATEFULLY RECEIVED!! [emoji120] if you've read all this, THANK YOU!!!
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following lovely Craig's advice, I got fifi a husbun
( I was told she needed to be a single bun when I rehomed her). I wanted to go down the rescue route, but there was such a wait for home checks due to 'c' word, and I didn't want her to be alone any longer.I got chatting to this lady who told me she could bond any two male and female buns ( which I did think was quite an outrageous claim, but somehow just intuitively trusted her). Anyway, she told me to find a neutered rabbit for sale and she would bond them- she just told me to make sure they were a similar age.
Oh my god, those ghastly for sale sites...pre loved and pets for homes... absolutely heart breaking... people just waking up to the reality of the rabbits they got their kids for Christmas, and throwing them out like rubbish.. separating bonded pairs..anything to get some money back. I sent so many "please don't separate your rabbits, it will f them up" messages.
Anyway, I quickly discovered that neutered bucks are something of a scarcity on these sites - people who care enough to have their bunny neutered don't get rid, but I managed to find a suitable boy.
They spent 5 days at this 'bunny whisperers' and came back totally loved up.
It was soooo lovely to see them snuggling up and grooming etc.
Fifi had been such an easy single bunny, she had the run of the whole downstairs, never wee'd outside the box, never chewed anything she wasn't supposed to. A few rogue poo's but nothing too bad.
Since Christopher Robin ( I've named the boy), came a few weeks ago a lot has changed. He loves a strokey sesh, which is lovely because fifi is really hands off for the most part, but I cannot pick Christopher Robin up- he kicks like mad. Also he has had a wee outside of the litter box quite a few times. For these reasons I've confined the buns to their room and the kitchen, where it's easy to deal with mop ups. This is still a very spacious area for 2 buns.
There are poos everywhere, but the worst thing is, Fifi has stopped eating the squidgy, smelly poos, and at least three times a day, and every morning, I walk into poo carnage- HUGE PILES of this squidgy poo- smeared every where - bear in mind this is my kitchen..
I've stopped giving them greens in an attempt to get her eating the poos again, but I almost think it was better when they had greens.
At the moment we are both at home- my fiance working at home because of the c word, and I'm able to clean up every time I go in there, but on the few occasions we've been out most of the day I've come back to poo smeared every where, puddles of wee on the floor, normal poos everywhere, huge piles of the soft poo. I've cried twice- not to sound like a total drip, but it's really taking it out of me, and I can't imagine what it's going to be like when there's no one at home during the day.
Also I'm so stressed out because Fifi is a really, really fluffy lion head, and her bum is constantly a stinky mess, and it's so stressful for us and for her to have to hold her and cut and soak the poo off of her.
Food wise, they both have a large tablespoon of burgess pellets in the morning, and hay all day. That's it.
I realised quite soon after getting Christopher Robin that he wasn't eating the hay I was giving, and his poos were tiny and I could feel his spine!! So I swapped them to the hay that the lady who bonded them were giving them, and they are mad for it. I saw him eat properly for the first time. I was starving him!! [emoji31][emoji173]
this hay is farm hay ( that's all I know). Its much greener than the strawy type Timothy hay they were on. So the likelihood is that it's this hay that is stopping fifi eating her squidgy poo, right? I mean she quite often would not eat it, but now it's the rule rather than the exception. Sometimes she'll lay in a spot for a while, and when she gets up..oh my god...The hugest pile of stinky shiiizz, she'll run through it before I can get to it quickly enough, there are normal poos everywhere no matter how much I put them back in their 2 litter boxes. I have no kitchen anymore, their toys cover the floor, which I am absolutely fine with, but everything is getting covered in smelly sh**, I'm so scared of fly strike with fifi, I can't pick up Christopher Robin, he's wee'ing. I'm not bonding properly with them because they are separate in the kitchen, I do spend time with them in the kitchen, but I desperately want them in the living room too, and really as part of the family, but I dare not bring the wee and poo to the rest of the house- carpet etc.
Please help, I am SO stressed out, it's a constant battle. I don't know how I'll ever be able to have people in our home when lockdown ends- no one would ever eat here that's for sure!
I can't give them each different hay for obvious reasons. I'm so happy that they are loved up and together, but I wish I could enjoy these bunnies just a little. I wake up every morning dreading what awaits me downstairs, and throughout the day. I won't put them outside.
Any advice would be SO GRATEFULLY RECEIVED!! [emoji120] if you've read all this, THANK YOU!!!
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