Hi everyone, I need some advice. My mom and I have been racking our brains for the past three months and we’ve about exhausted our resources
This coming June my grandma is having a 90th birthday party, and obviously my whole family is going. She lives three hours away, and about a year and a half ago I did bring her down there to stay overnight for a furneral. She was stressed out, but we made it there and back without a crazy middle of the roadtrip emergency vet visit. Now, for this party I, at least, will not be staying overnight, so I will be gone from 8 a.m. until 6 p.m. I need advice on what to do with Dutchess!! You might just say leave her home, what else? My problem is we’re going out of town, and I’m a major worrier, so I really didn’t want to leave her all alone.
Option 1: Taking her with us. I really didn’t want to do this unless I had to, because then I’d almost have to stay overnight to give her a break from the car trip, and it seems silly to me to give her six hours of car stress over two days and bring her to an unfamiliar enviornment with possibly lots of family poking and proding her.
Option 2: Taking her 2 hours from home and trying to leave her with friends of the family for the day, picking her up and bringing her back home same day.
Option 3: Try to get someone to visit her twice during the day, I was thinking like 11:30-12 and then 3-3:30. This seems the most logical thing to do. Problem: WE HAVE NO ONE!!! The one person we asked basically made a face at us, so we decided she wouldn’t be a good option to pursue. We don’t really know our neighbors well, and I didn’t want to just call up a random pet sitter we’ve never met before. We did want the person to come a third time, a few days before we leave to meet Dutchess and pick up a key for our house, and of course we are willing to pay. I’m going to be picky about the person we choose, since they have to care enough to talk to Dutchess and give her some company and make sure she’s doing okay and that the house isn’t on fire or collapsing around her . . (see what I mean about me being a worrier?).
I thought about our vet office but they are only open 8-12 since the party is on a Saturday. The closest animal boarding place that takes rabbits is like 40 miles away, mom and I visited once and they would have stuck her in a concrete room with no other animals or people to speak of with only two tiny windows way up ten feet in the air.
So . . . suggestions for this completely over worried bunny mum?