- trilobite terror
- Oct 20, 2007
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BUT MY LIVELIHOOD DEPENDS ON THE FORUMS!
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Bunny owner E/N here- posting through it to try and sort out emotions.
We have two bonded girls (echoing, by the way, that we will never NOT go for a bonded pair ever again. If you can do one rabbit, you can do two and they're so much happier!) and we THINK they're about 9 or so. We adopted them in 2018.
One of them has been on anti-inflammatories for a few months now for her old lady hips, but last week wasn't able to stand up on her own. The vet assured us that it WAS probably a nasty fall exacerbated by her arthritis, and prescribed some gabapentin to augment the meloxicam. Asked to check back in in about 3 weeks. And sure enough, she improved over the course of the week! Could raise up from a loaf on her own, able to hunker down for some self-grooming. We still had to help her up a bit but progress is progress!
Yesterday was a repeat of the first day last week, almost back to square one- no willingness to stand again. I'm concerned she hurt herself again overnight, but she's entirely on a carpet now to remove slippage. So we're keeping on keeping on... she still LOVES eating and grooming her bonded mate, but the wife and I are still worried and disappointed for obvious reasons. We'll see if we see another bounce back, but I'm trying to steel myself for a hard decision in a few weeks' time.
Going back to bonded pairs, I think that's the part we'd feel worst about. Read all sorts of tragic stories about a bondmate just kind of giving up once their partner leaves.
add a third, it'll help soften the blow
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- bunnyofdoom
- Mar 29, 2008
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Jaxxon: Still not the stupidest thing from the expanded universe.
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Bunny owner E/N here- posting through it to try and sort out emotions.
We have two bonded girls (echoing, by the way, that we will never NOT go for a bonded pair ever again. If you can do one rabbit, you can do two and they're so much happier!) and we THINK they're about 9 or so. We adopted them in 2018.
One of them has been on anti-inflammatories for a few months now for her old lady hips, but last week wasn't able to stand up on her own. The vet assured us that it WAS probably a nasty fall exacerbated by her arthritis, and prescribed some gabapentin to augment the meloxicam. Asked to check back in in about 3 weeks. And sure enough, she improved over the course of the week! Could raise up from a loaf on her own, able to hunker down for some self-grooming. We still had to help her up a bit but progress is progress!
Yesterday was a repeat of the first day last week, almost back to square one- no willingness to stand again. I'm concerned she hurt herself again overnight, but she's entirely on a carpet now to remove slippage. So we're keeping on keeping on... she still LOVES eating and grooming her bonded mate, but the wife and I are still worried and disappointed for obvious reasons. We'll see if we see another bounce back, but I'm trying to steel myself for a hard decision in a few weeks' time.
Going back to bonded pairs, I think that's the part we'd feel worst about. Read all sorts of tragic stories about a bondmate just kind of giving up once their partner leaves.
This sounds like Harriet's last few days. give your buns all the love you can.
We have a bonded pair to replace Harriet, and those two are adorable and keep each other very happy.
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