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Chieves posted:Bunny owner E/N here- posting through it to try and sort out emotions. add a third, it'll help soften the blow
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Chieves posted:Bunny owner E/N here- posting through it to try and sort out emotions. 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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Apr 16, 2024 23:00
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She's been much stronger today, sass and all, which has been nice to see. When we prop her up for dinner she keeps getting distracted by things in the room she wants to check out and we have to redirect her attention like a little toddler. She also LOVES taking her meds, which is nothing short of a miracle haha. trilobite terror posted:add a third, it'll help soften the blow Don't show this to my wife lmao. I also do wonder how the healthy one would handle that. She's the dominant one and I could see that going poorly!
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Apr 17, 2024 23:11
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Chieves posted:She's been much stronger today, sass and all, which has been nice to see. When we prop her up for dinner she keeps getting distracted by things in the room she wants to check out and we have to redirect her attention like a little toddler. 1 week later- she is doing worlds better. She's hopping around a considerable amount more and is much more mobile. She refuses to use the lowered part of the litterbox entrance out of spite, probably, and is feeling flexible enough to clean herself.  This is her after dinner and zooted out on bunny drugs: 
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Hey, I know this is explicitly House Bunny area, but help me thread, you're my only hope. I live in a relatively urban area but we have a yard and some green space nearby, so there's squirrels, mice, rats, and there's been an uptick in bunnies since the pandemic. We were out gardening, and a garden pot had some distinct pulsing under the layer of dried leaves at the base. Really obvious "Something Is Here" stuff. I was expecting rats or mice, which I don't want, so I carefully peel back layers of leaves and hair (!) until I can see the culprit, at least 3 baby bunnies, they have hair but you could fit at least 2 in your hand, maybe all 3. Ears the size of your little fingernail. Once we went back inside, parent bunny hopped back into the pot to check on the kids. Gave them about 15 seconds and hopped out again. Anything I should do besides ignore them and let nature happen? Can someone tell me they'll be fine, and also will only eat the weeds? 
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Apr 28, 2024 22:50
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 cottontails have destroyed, or at least heavily restyled, quite a few bonsai and prebonsai and succulents that I was once foolish enough to leave on the ground overnight. If they’re desperate enough they’ll try to eat whatever they can, even if it’s technically inedible for them, and they’ll also chew stuff to test it/for fun; they’ve chewed up small pines to death and they’ve bitten the branches off of my azaleas and left them on the ground like it’s a prank. They’ll make easy mincemeat out of anything easy/appetizing to eat and lay absolute waste to any vegetables or tender seasonal plants you got. If you want to make your yard friendly to wild bunnos while still keeping at least some of your plants safe, get whatever you can up off of the ground and out of reach and maybe consider building wire mesh boxes or fences for what you can’t—with the caveat that rabbits are rabbits (ie little bulldozers) and will squeeze through gaps, force their way under or between panels, and dig/tunnel their way into fenced off areas full of food. If you leave them alone in your yard and it’s fenced off from the outside then they should be safe enough from predators there to at least survive into independence, but cottontails are a keystone part of the food web for anything from skunks and raccoons and foxes to hawks and owls and their avg life expectancy of ~2 years in the wild reflects that. trilobite terror fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Apr 29, 2024 02:41
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Plant some tasty herbs for the bunnies
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Apr 29, 2024 02:47
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StumblyWumbly posted:Hey, I know this is explicitly House Bunny area, but help me thread, you're my only hope. They'll be fine as long as the mom is okay. They'll just stay in the nest and the mom will come in the early morning and evening to feed them, otherwise she'll be off doing other things. In about a week they'll be big enough to go off on their own.
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We got a nest in our raised tomato bed last year and we set up a camera to make sure the mom was feeding the bunnies. If you're worried about them you could try doing that so you don't disturb them or scare the mom off. And you can end up with some good videos like this https://i.imgur.com/uTMp3Dw.mp4
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mystes posted:Plant some tasty herbs for the bunnies They're actually living right under our Sage plant already. Deadite posted:They'll be fine as long as the mom is okay. They'll just stay in the nest and the mom will come in the early morning and evening to feed them, otherwise she'll be off doing other things. In about a week they'll be big enough to go off on their own. Thanks! And I'm definitely getting a trail camera for this
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