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The rabbit-hunt in the park was successful!
Meet Robby the Rabbit, formerly a resident of Recreation Park in Long Beach…now a resident of my laundry room! (Where there may not be as many nice breezes, but there’s also not homeless drug addicts, screaming children, barking dogs, or skunks! Although, who knows? Robby may miss his former roommates the skunks..)
I’m supposed to be going to work, but couldn’t wait to show you all…
This is Robby’s very first lounge in his new home:
This is his very first puffed-up mildly disapproving stare:
And this is his inauspicious new home, but it was the best I could do post-allnighter with 30 minutes to shop in between trying to do my job, trying to catch a wild beastie, and trying to get him to his vet appointment! I’m hoping he and Lizzy will be friends someday, and they can share her much lovelier house, but for now, here’s Robby’s new home:
This is all my own fault, in case anyone cares. I was the one who told my friend at the rescue when I was first looking for a bunny, “my dream bunny would be that greyish-brown, with the white around the eyes, you know like a wild rabbit just hopped in off the fields and into my living room!” And of course, I happily ended up with my fanged-marshmallow Lizzy. But when you put something like that out to the universe, sometimes it comes true…
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Wow, you rock. This is amazing that you caught him and brought him home. He is quite a lucky bunny!
I’ll try to help out Marcus here, it’s called Coccidia
, and most bunnies that are “set free” get it. It is simple to cure with a course of antibiotics. The vet will either do a fecal test (make sure the poops are fresh, less than 12 hours old), or simply treat him without the test. Most bunnies coming in from the outside also have fleas and/or mites, which can pretty easily travel in the house to get to the other buns. Please make sure you wash your hands well each time you handle him or his litter box, and make sure your clothing does not carry hitch hikers.What a great story. Please keep us updated!
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Look who figured out what his litter box is, and how to use it!
Hi, everybody! Thanks so much for worrying about Robbie!
He’s doing well, I think! As you can see, he’s braved the litter box! And I may be the luckiest human in the world, because as of now, it’s the ONLY place he’s done his business! Yay for the tamest wild rabbit ever!
So now I have a “sample” to take to the vet, to make sure he doesn’t have any weird disease to pass on to Lizzy. Even so, I’m not going to let them meet for a while. I have to get him neutered, then give him a month to settle down, and by then work will be insane… I definitely want to try to bond them, but I might not have enough time to devote to it until December, really. Also, I just got into a really good place with Lizzy, who now magically adores me, and follows me from room to room and doesn’t pounce at me at all. I really dread my sweet princess turning back to Demon-Diva-From-Hell. And I want to get to know Robbie and bond with him myself, first, as well. Although, I may try sooner just because I have enough time to let one bunny run rampant for 4 hours a day, but not enough for 2 separate playtimes that long… It’s a quandary.
I’ve been hand-feeding him his lettuce to get him used to the idea that hands are good and not to run from or attack. Seems to be going ok. After he finishes his lettuce, he sits there and lets me pet him for 20 minutes or so (until my legs fall asleep from crouching in the 2 square inches of space left in the laundry room outside of the bunny-pen!). Then when I stand up and stop petting him, he shakes himself off and stretches and hops to the other side of the pen.
Seriously, tamest wild-thing ever! Of course, he’s still not seeking me out or binkying or looking totally comfortable, but he’s definitely not as skittish and antisocial as I would have expected. I wonder how long he’d been in that park… Or what his story was before then… It’s all a mystery. But he’s going to be a sweetie, I think, so I’m glad I have him!
Ruffles, thank you so much for the kind words! I don’t know how nice I am really…just easily guilt-tripped by a well-timed binky! I think he was playing me the whole time!
I just wish people would take the time to do the research BEFORE they get pets, so they understand the work and effort and time involved ahead of time… Especially with “exotics” like rabbits… Not that I think most people who have dogs know anything about really caring for them, either, but there’s more information out there when they get confused. There’s no “Bunny Whisperer” for people who buy their 5-year-olds Easter Bunnies, and then wonder why Mr Cuddles bites little Timmy (probably little Timmy is unsupervised and deserved it, but whatever). Or “It’s Me of the Bunny” on TV (have you all seen that show on Animal Planet, btw?! “It’s Me or the Dog”? Dogs behaving VERY BADLY! Cracks me up!).
I don’t know why complete ignorance on a subject translates to, “that must be easy.”
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lolz, Markus. Wow, that was what I was afraid of with Mimzy, that he’d never learn to use his, but he took to it like a champ. He was a dump, as many of you know, and I just couldn’t understand how anyone could to that…(damn the finances, find your pet a HOME if you can’t care for it…don’t just expect other people to do your job for you!)
Now Mimz uses only one half of the box. When it fills, if I haven’t cleaned or turned it yet, he will wait. Likewise if we are having cuddle time, he shows me he needs to go and the session must end by digging on the bedclothes. Quite the smart little bun, if I do say so myself.
It took Pip a while to catch on. She’d lived in that filthy snake tank at Petco for about 6 months and figured, ‘the floor is where X marks the spot.’ But once she finally made the connection, well it was a day to celebrate. ^_^Bravo Robbie! That’s no wild bunny. And I am so glad too that he’s not living with the skunks anymore. I didn’t want to say so before, but I know skunks sometimes kill other small animals to eat, or just because they’ve crossed their turf. But you probably knew that. I’m just glad Robbie is safe now.
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Mimzy and two ruby eyed white bucks were dropped off in front of my hubby’s place of business. Some dumb person just thought they’d all manage in the wild. So that’s what I mean by a dump.
But he’s turned out to be such a love-button for all that. ^_^ Sadly we weren’t able to personally rescue the other bunnies, but one did find a home with someone out here. The third one I don’t think made it, it was real close to winter and by the time we could get some traps together he was gone.
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Oh, MM, so sad…
I’m glad you’ve got Mimzy…and Pip and Fiver…
Dumping another creature is just another form of denial…”what I don’t see must be fine”. There’s lots of that out there. How else could BF and I have stolen Thumper and Flower with so little fight? Bought for $20 with little thought, let go with little thought…
My BF’s and my 2 year anniversary is tomorrow (Tuesday). He wants to know what to get me. The fact that he has 2 bunnies he never planned on, and supports me in catching park-bunnies is more than enough. Most people suck, because they aren’t educated to FEEL for other creatures. And some people are fantastic, because they do feel for others.
I’m so glad you got Fiver. I’m sure he’ll be a love-bunny soon!
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He already is, Lightchick. Believe me. He’s coming around so quickly that it still amazes me that these poor little creatures, so afraid of what might be out there in the big, wide world, will still find the room in their hearts for a human being when so many may have mistreated them before.
He did binkies on the bed again this morning and nestled so sweetly in my arms at the vet’s today. I love giving the same time and attention to Mim & Pip, but somehow this little guy for his tiny stature shows so much more gratitude, it’s just beautiful!I look forward to your first binky post about Robby!
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Binkles – I think she ‘stole’ them from her quasi-mother-in-law’s place! lol Sorry to burst your Super Bunny Saver Hero fantasy bubble but she still warrants the title don’t you think? Lightchick – congrats on the anniversary. And i think you’ve hit nail on the head re ‘the uneducated’. I think that’s what it is too. People really think they’re setting them free. Maybe they think they’re doing them a favour because they can’t look after them properly and feel cruel leaving a bunny penned up so they ‘release’ them. Gosh, even rehabilitated native fauna needs to be released with care because they become dependant during care and are more vulnerable on release – as I’m sure you’re aware!
Oh he he! After reading of Skunks and Robby looking like Pepe I just remembered that Skunk character “Pepe Le Pew”
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CONGRATULATIONS!!
That’s great news! Seriously made my day 
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