Happy Hopping
Wise Old Thumper
So I took my bun Andi to the vet, and
the doctor examined his body, and discover something abnormal about his heartbeat. So they did the x-ray and said that there is a tumor in his chest area surrounded by his chest bones. His body weight was 2.3KG in 2025, and in May 2026, he was 2.06KG after he has that fight with Bobo da Bun, and today he is at 1.81Kg. So the weight loss is consistent with the diagnosis that he has cancer.
When he was adopted 8.5 year ago from SPCA, SPCA said she was 2 to 6 yr. old. But he is so full of energy that I thought he should be a young bun of less than 1 yr. old, as he goes around for every part of the house and do all sorts of damage non-stop. So there is no way to know his exact age. The tumor is surrounded by the chest bones, so there is no way of removing it, i.e., it's an inoperable tumor, the risk of removing the chest bone and remove that tumor is very high, especially at his age.
The tumor doesn't affect his diet, as his diet is very good, the volume of bunny poo is the same as always, and it's in the goldish yellow color and at regular to large size. And the doctor doesn't know how many months he has.
1) So for those who own a bun w/ a tumor in the lung / chest area, how many months did your bun lives?
2) So my bun is losing weight as the tumor is absorbing the daily nutrient, I read in the Facebook EC forum that they fatten their buns w/ rolled organic oats, and I have done that successfully with my other bun Fudgie and it works. Should I try the same thing?
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Looking back, Andi has done an highly excessive amount of chewing various objects in the house thru out the past 8.5 years compares to all my other rabbits, and during the bonding of Andi with Fudgie back about 6 to 7 years ago, as well as bonding of Andi with Bucky da Bun last year, and the recent bonding of Andi with Bobo da Bun, he actually lick the under side of my stove, and the kitchen cabinet, and when I switch him back to the pen, he then chew the plastic wrapping of my new dishwasher.
The carpet thru out the house is a $14K wool carpet, even the underlay is natural material, it's guarantee even if a small child chew on it, there is no damage, so the chewing of these carpet should be fine by Andi, and shouldn't cause cancer. But due to the damage of the wool carpet by various rabbits, the PC room's carpet has to be covered by some portable highly dense giant carpet, and Andi was chewing on the edge of those carpets. Further, besides the carpet, there are a good no. of objects in the house thru out the years that it is not natural material, and he does a high amount of chewing all these years. I remember I pulled the Celfort 300 foam from the windows on my bed, and well within a short period of time, he hopped on my bed, discovered that piece of foam and did a high amount of chewing on it, in the end, that piece of foam is unusable and he chew off so much. Likewise, objects on my desk, he has in the past, hop on my desk and damaged them.
This is no difference than a human who smoke too much and got lung cancer. So all these chewing of non-natural substances in the past 8.5 year has now come back to haunt him. I have rabbits for 28 years, I've never seen a rabbit that does so much damage in the house.
He's still having his regular diet of lots of hay, pellet, 2 banana coin and blackberries. Clearly blackberries can only stop regular abnormal cancer cell growth. It cannot stop cancer cell growth caused by ingestion and licking of non-natural material.
