Zara
Mama Doe
Hiya, another thread I know, but I'm having serious problems here. I live with my boyfriend and his Mum, it's primarily his Mum's house, so what she says goes. I'm fine with that, but not when I feel that my rabbits are in danger.
The rabbits are supposed to live outside in the shed and play in the garden, Batbunny is currently in the shed and little Rascal is inside in an indoor rabbit cage until he's snipped, vaccinated and bonded with Bats. Now as you know Firefly died just over a month ago, we still don't know why (He'd not eaten anything poisonous as he'd been in his hutch all day, and his vaccinations were up to date and there was no bleeding from the nose or anywhere so I've ruled VHD out) and ever since then I've been paranoid something will happen again to Batbunny or Rascal. I decided to research as many poisonous plants as I could to make sure the garden was safe, my vets had supplied a leaflet of poisonous plants, but there wasn't a lot on the list so I've been researching online.
I found out Wisteria is toxic to rabbits, and guess what? All over the shed and the garden canapy is wisteria, plus the garden is full of ivy. I'm now too nervous to let Batbunny play in the garden, and I'm not allowed to attach a roofed run to the shed as it would be "unsightly"
The garden is full of birds, we have fieldmice under a bush and even a hedgehog, so it'd be very easy for one of the rabbits to get ill, but my BF's mum doesn't want the rabbits to live inside, even though the cats are inside and little Rascal has done nothing wrong while he's been in.
I'm scared, I don't know what to do. I don't know how to convince her that they'd be safer inside, a bit if bunny proofing would certainly cost less then a decent sized rabbit run, and getting rid of the wisteria and other toxic plants is out of the question, Sean's Mum has been wanting to make the garden lovely to be in for a while, and she doesn't want to get rid of any plants. Please everyone, help me fidn a way to keep my boys safe
The rabbits are supposed to live outside in the shed and play in the garden, Batbunny is currently in the shed and little Rascal is inside in an indoor rabbit cage until he's snipped, vaccinated and bonded with Bats. Now as you know Firefly died just over a month ago, we still don't know why (He'd not eaten anything poisonous as he'd been in his hutch all day, and his vaccinations were up to date and there was no bleeding from the nose or anywhere so I've ruled VHD out) and ever since then I've been paranoid something will happen again to Batbunny or Rascal. I decided to research as many poisonous plants as I could to make sure the garden was safe, my vets had supplied a leaflet of poisonous plants, but there wasn't a lot on the list so I've been researching online.
I found out Wisteria is toxic to rabbits, and guess what? All over the shed and the garden canapy is wisteria, plus the garden is full of ivy. I'm now too nervous to let Batbunny play in the garden, and I'm not allowed to attach a roofed run to the shed as it would be "unsightly"
The garden is full of birds, we have fieldmice under a bush and even a hedgehog, so it'd be very easy for one of the rabbits to get ill, but my BF's mum doesn't want the rabbits to live inside, even though the cats are inside and little Rascal has done nothing wrong while he's been in.
I'm scared, I don't know what to do. I don't know how to convince her that they'd be safer inside, a bit if bunny proofing would certainly cost less then a decent sized rabbit run, and getting rid of the wisteria and other toxic plants is out of the question, Sean's Mum has been wanting to make the garden lovely to be in for a while, and she doesn't want to get rid of any plants. Please everyone, help me fidn a way to keep my boys safe