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I acquired a stray rabbit recently (well, about 7 months ago) - she was found wandering on the street, and a lady brought her in to her garden but couldn't keep her or find a no-kill rescue that could take her, so I took her in having a secure garden, got her spayed, and got her all her shots, with the intention of bringing her to an animal rescue. That didn't happen! She was happy enough living outdoors in a large secure insulated covered hutch, but recently we've had a bit of a cold snap with temps reaching 30 degrees F so I'm moving her indoors. We have a bathroom we don't use, its 6 foot by 4 foot, would she be okay in there? To add, it does have lino on the floor, she's not a fan of lino ( her hutch is carpeted) so we've carpeted the bathroom now for her. Silverfish fucked around with this message at 17:36 on Nov 3, 2012 |
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She is littertrained too, that was easy enough to do, I was hoping that being littertrained and spayed that she'd find a home easier - which I suppose she did! The trouble with her being a fulltime housebunny is I have lots and lots of fishtanks, and lots and lots of electrical items, so that's a lot of cables for a little bun to chew on, and also we're hoarders. And renters. So I'm hoping since she's confined to an empty room with nothing to destroy that she'll be okay - we actually just moved her up there (she was in our downstairs bathroom but she'd just hide under a little table) and she was exploring and happy, so she likes the carpet at least! I'm hoping we can buy a house soon so I can have a specific bun room that's rabbit proofed, but we're stuck here for the next 12 months at least. Here she is watching me read outside last summer: 
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Nov 3, 2012 19:21
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I decided the bathroom was too small for bun so I got some carpet tiles for our upstairs hallway so she can gallop around there as well. It's a small and narrow hall but she has more space. Mr Silverfish isn't 100% happy but he's not a fluffy bun and fluffy buns always win, its just the way it is. She is super-chilled, she's very well behaved. She was very anti-social when she first came to us, she wouldn't allow any petting or touching, and would run away if we came within a foot of her. She would hop into her hutch at night-time, but it did take some time before she got used to us. Eventually she'd come over and lie down next to us, or chase us, or we'd get bunny headbutts  I've put a lot of work and effort into making her happy so far, she's not going anywhere now!
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I'm looking to get a friend for my lovely bun, she's quite lonely. She's about 3 years old and I'd rather adopt than buy from a petshop, because there seems to be a few buns needing a home. Would I be best getting a bun that's similar in age, or would there be a preference for older / younger? She's quite a big bun,so would a dwarf breed be okay, or would she need a bigger bun? I did adopt a rabbit from a shelter, but bun was completely panicked by the new bun ( even though they weren't left together) and the new rabbit just kept trying to bite her, so since bun had been through some tough times and I didn't want to stress her out further, I returned the other rabbit. But now I know that she's happier, and a lot more relaxed and friendly, so I think she might be ready, and now she's a housebun I can take the time with bonding them properly. I'd be planning on getting a male bun, and keeping them apart until he's neutered and has all his shots. Any help or advice would be much appreciated 
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luscious posted:I would get a mature lop. Dwarves are terror machines (females especially) and I would not recommend getting one at all ever. Lops are more relaxed and it would probably be better for her to have a chill friend than a friend who is, what someone in this thread coined, a firehose of destruction. What about a mature three year old fuzzball lionhead? This guy is looking for a new home, and he looks so sad in his cage   EDIT: Bonus picture because awwwwww 
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The cute lionhead rabbit was gone when I called about him The rescue has the most beautiful rabbit I've ever seen in my whole life, but she's female and so is Bun, so I'm not sure how well they'd bond, she didn't take to the previous female (but they were both unspayed at the time). If I did take the beautiful rabbit, I'd get her spayed before introducing them. They also had a lovely large male lop, but I won't be able to take him until next week, as he's going to be neutered, and the rescue guy said 'sometimes they don't make it' I'd like to have taken him and gotten my vet to neuter, but he didn't seem to like that idea. So now I'm torn - beautiful heart-stealer female bun, or easier-to-bond male lop? Why can't I adopt ALL the bunnies?
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Oh Paterson  He is adorable. What a squdgy face! This is the female bun they have at the shelter  Isn't she gorgeous? I am smitten with that little face. But I think I'll hold out for the lop boy instead. He's huge and white and floofy. Rabbits seem to inspire a lot of made up words and high pitched talk from me. Also require pictures of a lionhead who looks like santa. EDIT: actually, every time I post a pic in a thread, they're gone when I eventually decide to adopt them. I'm going to stop jinxing it now :/
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Okay, I trust you guys. When I went into her enclosure she did a big bunnyflop and lay down all stretched out and chilled, but now I know that it was a cunning trap. It's in the eyes. I'll hold out for big floofy lop, and hope that he and Bun will get along. Hurry up next week, I can't wait!
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We had to forego a christmas tree this year because RABBITS  I adopted a male lop that looks like a juggalo as company for bun, we have them separated by a baby gate at the moment. We tried an introduction, but he humped her face and she ran upstairs and refused to come back down She keeps looking from him to me and back again as if to say 'Him? Really? REALLY?! HIM?!!' We had him checked out by a vet and he has an ear infection and is slightly deaf, so he's on antibiotics and ear drops. He's not used to being handled so that's a load of fun.
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I was lucky enough to get to spend Christmas with my buns! I'm trying to bond them at the moment, it's not going well Bun will groom Blaze's face, then she'll put her head down to be groomed in return, he'll sit and stare at her and she'll move closer...and closer...and he doesn't move a muscle - then she gets impatient and growls and bites him. The vet said that Blaze seems to have been very abused in the past, and is very confused and a bit depressed. Though he binkied a few times today so we're on the right track. Bun has no time for him at all unfortunately, she's an impatient bun.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Harriet is being weirdly affectionate lately. Like constantly poking me to play with her or pet her. She's following me around more often and will rarely run away anymore unless we're playing. Has she adapted to me now? Sounds like it, I have a stray bun that was found wandering the streets, and it took a while before she liked any sort of attention and interaction. Now she loves her humans and needs to be near them all the time. My fiance works from home and she drags in her towel and sits under his desk all day. This is a point we never thought we'd get to. I have a question re: bonding - we rescued another behaviorally challenged rabbit (a male lop) from a rescue centre. We introduced them a few times, but they don't seem to get on very well. They're okay at the start, they groom each other and don't pay much heed to the other, but after a short while he'll start trying to mount her, or even try to go near her, and she'll growl, lunge, and either start grooming him, or else run away. We've switched over their rooms, swapped their bowls, beds and litter trays, but its been a couple of months now and she still seems to lose patience with him and growls. At what point do I give up and send him back?
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Yes! I rang the guy from the rescue about him afterwards, to say he was a) deaf and b) COMPLETELY CRAZY with the biting and the claws and the "DO NOT TOUCH!!", he said if he wasn't working out to bring him back, that he may just not be suitable for adoption. I know what that means, so he's not going back, I suppose. He might be Satan Incarnate but I don't want him to die I just don't want my precious little lady bunny upset, and hearing her growling is AWFUL. Okay well, if it can still happen after two years, then that's something to work towards, I guess. They interact quite nicely, then the grooming starts, then he tries to get on top of her, she growls, and then the slowest chase ever begins - she hops about two feet away, he hops after her, tries again, she hops two feet away, he hops after her....then eventually she growls at him if he even makes eye contact with her.
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Yup, she's spayed and he's neutered. She was spayed last October, and he was neutered sometime towards the end of November, just before I adopted him.
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alucinor posted:This is actually a great sign that they're bonding well, because they're using appropriate social cues to discontinue unwanted behaviors. I was home sick from work today, so I decided to leave them together all day. No bloodshed, no fighting, lots of cuddling when I was using the hoover, some grooming, lots of bunny flopping within a few feet of each other, some chasing and some growling but not a lot. I think we're getting somewhere. Also Mr Rabbit decided to jump over the barrier into the hallway and hid under an armchair, I discovered this because Ms Bun started thumping non stop until I recovered and returned him. So that's good too, I guess.
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Rule of thumb, don't separate till there's bloodshed.
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alucinor posted:Those are all REALLY good signs. If I was doing a bonding and saw all that, it would be Bunderdome time. Two buns enter, one pair leaves; they just stay together unless they ever actually tried to murder each other. Yay! This is brilliant, I'm very excited that I might actually have two buns that are happy. He's been abused in the past, and is terrified of people, and she was dumped in the street, so I really want them to have the best lives now. I do have an exotics vet, who is brilliant with buns, but she's a bit of a drive away, however I have a vet across the street should an emergency occur. I just hope he doesn't teach her all his bad habits, including but not limited to: preferring his litter tray upside down, flipping his food bowl upside down, and the thing where he dunks his face in his waterbowl, waits for you to bend down, then faceboops you with a wet bun face
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Oh Butter! Hana your rabbit brings joy to my day. I've to deal with two sets of nails, teeth, headbutts, spillages and complete disregard of litter training. I bet he poops rainbows (but only in the litter tray)
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For everyone that has free-range buns, how do you manage the poop? My two buns are restricted to an unused bathroom and hallway, (and I put a cover on the bath so they have a 2nd level to throw stuff off) - their litter tray is in the hallway and they pee there, but they will not poop there. They will however poop everywhere around it, it seems like they think the WHOLE hallway is the litter tray.
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I am so, so sorry to hear about poor lovely Paterson He was a gorgeous and you gave him a lovely life.
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I sympathise with your plight with Lola ... I had Bun by herself and she was a real people-bunny, but when left alone she could be destructive or else withdrawn. I was getting so worried that she was lonely and forgetting how to be a rabbit, that I adopted Mr Bun. Two buns are just as easy to keep as one, and while they have their little arguments over bun-stuff, they snuggle up together and sleep together and groom each other. In fact I think they use less space than bun did by herself, since they're too busy being bun-buddies instead of her roaming about searching for people or other rabbits. I honestly think you should try a second bun and see how it goes. EDIT: yeah, Bun has no time for snuggles with her human anymore. Mr Bun came from a Bad Home so he has no time for humans full stop, though at least he's stopped biting me. Silverfish fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Jul 23, 2013 |
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Jul 23, 2013 21:51
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I'm going on holidays next Friday for a week, and I'm leaving Mr and Mrs Bun into boarding for the week. I'm sure Mrs Bun will be okay, she's stayed there before after being neutered, but Mr Bun doesn't like people touching him at all, and tends to panic. I hope they'll be okay :/ Has anyone put their buns into boarding before? How were they when you got them back?
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What a lovely chillbunny. I wish Mr Bun wouldn't sleep like this, it's really alarming. 
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Your brown bun is like my brown bun! http://i.imgur.com/KFoyal.jpg?1 Brown buns are the best buns.
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Yes, she had a lovely fawny belly, now its darker, her nose goes darker or brighter depending on the seasons. (Or age, possibly). She seems to have a winter coat and a summer coat though. Its adorable. EDIT: My bun is a Cinnamon bun though, not a smokey pearl. The browns are similarish though! Silverfish fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Feb 11, 2014 |
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Prawned posted:
She's kinda friendly, she came to us in bad condition, having been a street bun for some time. She was really friendly then we got her neutered, but she came round again after that. THEN we got her Mr Bun, and ever since then humans don't exist. She'll let you pet her and stuff but when she's done, she's done drat you Mr Bun!
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I'm so sorry to hear about your buns who have passed away. It's nice to know they had such good lives, and were happy and looked after. I have a question for everyone with free-range house buns - I'm buying my own house soon (I'm renting at the moment) and I'm not entirely sure what to do with my two buns. They're currently indoors, in the main bathroom upstairs (not used) I carpeted it and bunproofed it, I covered the bath so they have their bun teepees up there, and their bun tunnels etc on the floor. They get out in the garden when the weather is good, but in winter they stay indoors. The house I'm looking at has a lovely secure wooden garden shed, insulated and much bigger than the room they're in at the moment, and a nice secure garden for general bunnying about. I was wondering is it ok to keep them in the shed? I'm in Ireland so it's not cold cold, I'd carpet it and make sure its entirely bunproof. Would this be okay, or would I be better looking for a house where I can have them inside?
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FactsAreUseless posted:I assume your rabbits would prefer to be in the house with you, because they're bonded to you. But in terms of safety it should be fine, unless something can get in there or there's old chemicals in there or something. No, its completely secure, nothings getting in or out They're not really bonded to me, they're both rescues - Ms. Bun was found wandering around a housing estate and was in terrible condition, and Mr Bun was kept in a tiny cage with no human contact, so they're not too into humans getting into their space. Ms Bun will allow a small amount of pets and headrubs, but Mr Bun will tolerate NO petting or touching, he will do a quick noseboop of greeting and thats all! It took about 6 months before they bonded with each other, and once they were, Ms Bun was a lot less tolerant of me Basically I am food bringer and vet care provider. I plan on bunproofing the house as much as possible either way so they will probably only be in the shed overnight / while I'm at work, the rest of the time they can hang out with their provider of opposable thumbs The hoppy couple: 
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Roy is exactly like my Mrs Bun! She's lovely and calm but can be pretty feisty if she thinks something isnt exactly how she wants it, or up to her standards, lots of foot stamping and headbutts. She only started grunting and growling when I got Mr Bun, as he's a bit slow to learn, so she gets a bit cranky with him :/ When I first got her, she'd been a stray showing signs of long-term neglect, and it took her a long time to trust me and allow head rubs and pets. I just let her get comfortable, and waited til she came to me rather than getting in her space. I found having treats ( a banana chip, a raisin, or a tiny piece of carrot) in my pocket or hand really helped with her approaching me.   You're best to get her spayed as soon as possible, and get her a bun buddy as well, though bonding can take a very long time - it took 3 months before she had the patience for Mr Bun, who is a terrible bun whirlwind of disaster. 
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I lost Bun She'd always had bad teeth (I took her in 4 years ago after she was found wandering a housing estate after being dumped) but a few months ago, she was having trouble eating so I brought her to the vet, who said she had a burr on her tooth that had put a hole through her tongue. They did surgery, and she was slow to recover, but she came home from the hospital after 3 days. A few months later I noticed she was eating slower, and turning her head to one side to eat. I'd moved 100km from my usual specialist vet at this point, so I brought her to a local vet, who looked at her, said she had a cold, and gave her antibiotics. She seemed ok for a day or so after, but I was giving her liquid feed as well just to be sure she was getting enough. I was feeding her last Thursday night, and she went floppy in my arms - I thought she was choking so I checked her mouth, but it seemed clear. I put her down and she just kept putting her head against the wall, or on the floor. She wasn't improved the following morning, so I brought her straight to my old vet, who said the burr had reoccurred, but because she'd lost some weight, she was pretty weak, she suspected E. cuniculi in the brain. They kept her in, started treating the E. Cunicili, and feeding her to build her up for surgery Monday. The surgery was a success, she was recovering well, and eating lots. Then Tuesday the vet called to say she'd gone downhill that morning, and to come as soon as I'd finished work. They called again at 2.30 to say she just lay down, and went to sleep. I collected her that evening, she just looked like she was asleep. I live alone, and she was my only company, she was so friendly and affectionate, and the best little chillbunny :/ I still have her husbun, and he's distraught too, he's not a people-bunny so I can't even comfort him. 
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It's like it's wearing little fluffy pants! I want to hang out with this rabbit.
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Oh no, Cilantro I had to get my lovely boy Blaze put to sleep this morning, about 2 weeks ago he stopped eating so I brought him to the vet, who said it was gut stasis and a bit of a blockage, and sent him home with Zantac and critical care. We were back again within a few days, and this time they were worried as the blockage was still there and had increased. They kept him for 2 weeks, doing fluids and lavage, and they diagnosed him with megacolon. (He was a charlie lop)_ They were happy enough after the 2 weeks that he was pooping and eating, so he came home Saturday with medications and painkillers. We had a great 2 days, binkies and playing and eating, then Monday, refused all foods, nothing passing through. I brought him straight to the vet when they opened this morning (Bank Holiday yesterday) and they took one look and said there wouldn't be anything more they could do. He was put to sleep, and the vet confirmed that his colon had stopped working and there was considerable build up, so it was the best thing to do, that megacolon bunnies don't usually have a long life (he was 5) and that he did well to make it so far. I'm just so sad. I live alone and I've just moved here in the last year so I've no friends at all here, , and while he wasn't a cuddlebunny, he was my best pal, and the house is so empty without him. I'm so shocked, he was always a big healthy bunny, weighed 3 kilos, and never had any problems in 5 years apart from the ear infection he had when I adopted him. 
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FactsAreUseless posted:Megacolon's pretty common in rabbits that have the English Spot gene, which it looks like he might have from his pattern. Sadly, digestive issues in rabbits are hard to survive. Five years is a really good life for a bun suffering from that, so you did a great job. Thank you I never even knew he had anything wrong, he was always so big and healthy and had a hell of an appetite. The vet was quite surprised at his age too - she said the issues are normally apparent before they reach 2, and I did well to have him for so long and in such good health. Still so hard to believe he's gone - he's buried in the garden next to his bonded parter Bun who died a few months ago, she was a good bunny too. 
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I am so relieved by these poop and hay carpet pictures. I thought up to now that I was the only person with chaos bunnies.
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After losing Mrs Bun and Mr Bun, I have a solo bunny called Lola. She's a havana rabbit, about 3 years old. She's nuts and loves destruction and mayhem, like most rabbits. In December, she stopped eating and pooping, so I brought her to a local vet who said he had experience with rabbits. They kept her for a week, saying it was her teeth causing issues, and had an ulcer as a result. She came back and was happy and crazy as normal for a while, but New Years Day went downhill again. She went back to the vet again who kept her for a few days, and said I needed to include fruit and veg in her diet. I explained she already gets lots of veg, and he said 'Well I don;t know then. She can go home now, she's fine' The next day, she still hadn't passed anything, so I brought her the 100km to the exotics vet, who did blood tests, xrays, and an ultrasound, all showing nothing. They suspected it might be e.cunniculi, so she came home a few days later with zantac and panacur. She improved a bit, but then a week later, stopped eating and pooping again. Back to the vet again, they couldn't see anything, so ran all the tests again, but this time they noticed she had an enlarged heart. So she was sent home again on baytril ( just in case) cardisure, zantac, pain relief, diuretics and critical care ( still not eating). She's been on the heart medications now for 2 weeks, and she's back eating, pooping, obliterating cardboard boxes, and binkying. It was two months of vet visits, sleepless nights, tears, and a vet bill of over a thousand euro, but I'm so relieved to have her back to what passes for normal for Lola. But! Does anyone have any experience of a bunny with an enlarged heart? Occasionally she'll be running about, and she'll stop and grind her teeth once quickly, then she'll run off doing bun stuff again. Does this mean she's in constant pain, or just a once off? I don't know if I'm doing the best for her, she's still binkying and honking and looking for headrubs and snuggles. Silverfish fucked around with this message at 00:01 on Feb 16, 2018 |
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Oh okay yes pics of Lola Havana Helping me vote on the Eurovision  Falsely accused of something or other  NOSERUBSNOSERUBS 
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Lola Whose Heart Is Too Big looking a lot improved She also appeared as an apparition in my friend's coffee 
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goblin week posted:Applesauce got in a bought of stasis overnight. I took him to the vet and he got an IV, painkillers, and degassers administered. After we came home he ate some fresh spinach and drank water but now he's back to being lethargic (except when it comes to running away from me when I'm trying to give him a pill). Poor Applesauce I have a frequent gut-stasis rabbit ( I posted about her a while back, her heart is too big ) and spinach is one of her super gas foods, we have to avoid it permanently.
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My bun is free range at the weekends and evenings, she only ever goes in her litter tray. She'll be lying down asleep a room away then jump up like she's just remembered something, and sprint for the litter tray in her enclosure. She's a good bun, apart from clocking up a vet bill of 3,000 euro and ongoing medication requirements of 60 euro a month, and single-footedly destroying my entire house. The pee and poop are the least of the worries. Silverfish fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Dec 28, 2019 |
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Deadite posted:My rabbit has stopped walking entirely and won’t even stand up anymore. I have no idea what to do. What does the vet say?
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