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Post by Becky on Feb 18, 2011 18:29:28 GMT
Hi carl I know that you're very dedicated to your pets from when we've chatted before. It must have been so sad for you about the rabbit, you'll have to think that at least you know you gave it a lovely comfy life. You never know, if it did get out, it might have found it's way into someones garden who took it in and cared for it?... The bunnies are doing fab!! I'll have to take some more pics. They are quite old now, no longer reliant on Mum for eating and drinking, they are on solid bunny food. Beautiful little things they are. ;D If you want another Bun you're more than welcome to one of these!!!  LOL!!!! I'm trying to find good homes for them. No one wants them!!! you'd think free to good homes would be easy but it's not. I think it's because I won't let people take them away unless they bring a pet carrier or a box for them to travel in. They so easily get away and come free if you're carrying them, it's too dangerous for them just to go away in someones arms. I think people think I'm being picky. Anyway, My pooch is fast asleep next to me here, (I'm a softie he's allowed on the sofa and upstairs, but not in any upstairs rooms unaccompanied) and the fish is fed, the rabbits are seen to... time for a brew!!!  xxxxxxxxx |
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Post by elaine on Apr 9, 2011 22:39:14 GMT
Well it is the Chinese year of the rabbit and Becky you're the second dolly person I know who's had an unexpected litter ;D We used to breed rabbits years ago .It all started when I wanted a baby Snowy to carry on when my Snowy eventually went to the hutch in heaven .We didn't realise that the white rabbit gene is a recessive gene and so you only get white rabbits if doe and buck are white  We got a gorgeous grey male called Thumper who doted on Snowy (it was bunny love story  .Anyway eventually we had 19 rabbits at on stage including babies then a virus hit them and old age and now we have none  .Seeing my Pippa friend's new litter made me realise how much I've missed having one so I'm off to hers on monday to work out if she's got boys or girls and to bring one home with me  Elaine xx |
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Post by liz35 on Apr 20, 2011 16:53:30 GMT
I have giant bunnies - French lops - and my giant girlie bunny ate her way out of her shed in March and got pregnant by my giant boy bunnie. The result are the following 10 gorgeous babies: img541.imageshack.us/i/mrsferris001.jpg/Momma bun Anya weighs in at over 6 kg, and babies are 6 weeks old now! |
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Post by Becky on Apr 20, 2011 20:14:40 GMT
Oh they are beautiful Liz!! I'm a real sucker for Bunnies!!!.... Is the Mum an agouti colour? I love those lovely lop ears. I had a big white lop called Margo!!...she used to nibble her way out of everything. Largest I ever had was a smaller Flemish giant. He was huge! but fairly small for the breed... I'll post a pic but please exuse my appearance (I had been mucking out and was wearing my other halfs old coat!) but this is Megaladon-bun! LOL...  are you keeping all the babies or giving them away? I don't think I'd be able to part with them they are too cute! LOL xxx |
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Post by robynne on Apr 20, 2011 22:05:14 GMT
Oh Liz, what adorable bunnies, just love their ears, it is going to hard for you if you have to part with them. Robynne
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Post by liz35 on Apr 20, 2011 22:06:43 GMT
Oh Becky, Mega-Bun looks gorgeous! My Anya is an opal colour - agouti with blue running through it. Daddy Jimmy Chew is pure black. The 10 babies are: 2 black like Dad, 2 opal like mum, 2 gold like grandad Basil, 1 agouti, 2 blue, and 1 blue otter. They are looking for homes in Essex (or Suffolk if my sister has her way!!!!!). I've had rabbits consistantly for 25 years - I've bred them, I've rescued them, at one point I peaked at 150 unwanted rabbits in my garden! Now, its just 4 bunnies (excluding the babies), 2 guinea pigs, and my doggie Alfie!
Liz
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Post by Becky on Apr 20, 2011 22:48:53 GMT
wow!! 150!!!!!!!!!!! how on earth did you keep on top of them?? were they all just free?? I've done rescue too, which is where mega bun came from (he was called Champers but was rehomed in the end ;D ;D took a while for anyone to take him on) Your little baby ones are beautiful!! I've stopped doing rehome. I'm too soft, I was rescuing them then getting too attached. I re-homed the last lot, which was 17 rabbits, and I have just got my one little Netherland now. I'm getting him neutered soon though and going to get him a girl pal, I love it when they are snuggled up together Hats off to you for looking after so many rabbits. It's a good job there are people like you. I can't believe how many rabbits get dumped or turned out. It's awful xxxx |
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Post by liz35 on Apr 21, 2011 12:11:08 GMT
Oooooooh don't get me started Becky! I've collected rabbits and received rabbits from all over the place and for allsorts of reasons. I've collected rabbits dumped in car parks, I've rescued rabbits at death's door because their teeth were all wrong and the owners 'didn't notice' that their pet was a walking skeleton. I've removed maggots from rabbits with chronic matted coats and dirty bottoms. One family emigrated to USA and left their rabbit to starve in a stable - it was found after 3 days and delivered to me luckily. People started dumping their rabbits on my doorstep until I installed CCTV!
You know how in medical programs a patient is dramatically wheeled in and the nurse or paramedic starts reciting what is wrong (in medical terms), what medication has been given, blood pressure, brief history? Well most people go to the vets, hand over a sick animal and go "What's wrong with my animal?" I got so good at rabbit veterinary diagnostics that I would turn up at the vets and state "Right, animal has a Trichobezoar (fur ball obstruction). He's had 10ml of pro-biotics and pineapple juice orally, 2 ml fluid sub-cutaneously and needs 0.5 ml of gut stimulant and 2ml of laxative" or whatever was wrong. I had needles, syringes, antibiotics, probiotics, pain killers and allsorts at home - a rabbit paramedic I was! I used to do 'call-outs' at all hours for people with low income so they could patch their animal up overnight and avoid extortionate night time vet fees, and carry their rabbit over til standard vet hours!
Anyway, I ramble - you want a short conversation? Don't talk about rabbits!!!!!
Liz x
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Post by Becky on Apr 21, 2011 21:29:52 GMT
do you still do that then? I have had a few nasties..one lady bun had been found with all her dead kits around her by someone's neighbour... looked like she had been that way a while. Another little Lion head had been used as Fighting bait!! she was banged and scraped up and blind in one eye. urghhh.. fly strike!!  oh no, how did you manage to get them off??? My little bun is Mixie Jabbed, VHD jabbed, Fly strike treated, flea'd lice'd, tick prevented..... yadda yadda yadda....!!! He is like a bunny king! It's so sad, people treat bunnies so badly but Rabbits don't seem to be cared about by the public as a whole... the "it's only a rabbit" thing seems to be said far too often. There are so many bunnies without homes too... and yet people keep breeding them!!! I'm like you! don't get me started...... My little pooch is my rabbit's best friend ;D they play together in the sun all day! xxxx |
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