Thanks for the input, guys!

DH fed them this morning and gave them just lettuce for the first 15 minutes and he seemed to be eating it ok, so hopefully he’s not as uncomfortable as he seemed last night.

Good to know that the emergency vet wouldn’t deal with teeth! My regular vet has an exotic only emergency number, so I know it would be an exotic vet on call, but you’re probably right that they wouldn’t be set up to do a procedure like that with no staff around. I sort of doubt the other place will be set up to see exotics today because their exotic vet is the head of the practice and he probably doesn’t want to work Sundays 😉 but I could call and see.

Usually he’s a good traveler and hasn’t had issues when we were gone, so I kind of doubt it’s that – our friend said that he was acting really quiet and wouldn’t come out of the cage and that he was only eating pellets for the most part, so it sounds like he was a little off then too. Usually it’s Hannah who gets nervous in new places while Otto acts like he’s always lived there. We bought brand new lettuce on Friday, so that didn’t come from our friend’s house either.

I think he’ll make it just fine until Monday since he’s eating (unfortunately I can’t take him until after work, unless it really seems like an emergency). I just hope he’s not miserable 🙁

Unfortunately I can’t really do the drop off because the vet is a half hour from home, then an hour or so from work (and more during rush hour) 🙁 And I can’t show up late to work because I’ve been out for two weeks. I could probably leave around 4:00 though to get him there in time for a 5:30 appointment.

Update on Otto: he seemed much less grumpy last night and came out of his maze to run around, check out the Christmas tree, and lay in the middle of the floor like he usually does. In general he was just a much happier bun. Hopefully his grumpiness was more related to the change in schedule from our vacation.

He’s still eating well, though favoring the pellets. When he does eat greens he takes small bites and chews very thoroughly, instead of inhaling them in one long bite like he normally does. He also has issues taking pieces of papaya and his chewing seems labored. I still think he might have teeth issues, but they’re not as severe as it seemed on Saturday.

Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of options for the vet, so it looks like we might have to take him on Wednesday 🙁 There was a potential appointment time tomorrow at 5, but I would have to leave work almost at 3:00 to make it, so we’ll see how he looks tonight and tomorrow morning and whether he needs to go. I feel bad leaving so early when I just got back, but I might not have as much to catch up on tomorrow as I think. Either way, he and Hannah both need their yearly checkups, so we’ll go even if he seems ok.

You’re so lucky your parents live close by! Unfortunately all of our friends live near work (or half an hour north) while we live half an hour east of work in another state. We picked our town because I used to work in the state, but don’t anymore, and it’s just a pain now. The kicker is that the vet is at least half an hour *south* of our house (follow that? ) which puts it an hour+ away from work (at least home is in between so we can pick up the buns). There is a bunny vet 5min from our house, but I don’t really trust them for anything other than nail trims – the place I go is fantastic and has 4-5 exotic vets (they’re also bird specialists) but they’re just so far.

So yeah, nobody who could pick up the bunnies   It’s hard for us to take them other than a weekend just because it takes so long and there’s always a chance traffic will be bad. Can’t wait until we move near work and find another vet who isn’t so ridiculously far away!

Otto doesn’t have teeth issues afterall! Yay! I guess he was faking it all along 😛 Both bunnies got the ok from the vet and are looking healthy. Hannah didn’t seem to mind being up on the table and being petted – she hates being picked up, but as long as someone is petting her she’s ok. Otto was awful though and kept trying to swan dive off the table and onto the window ledge. lol I thought he’d be good since he’s fairly easy to pick up, but he didn’t feel like standing still at all.

Yeah, sounds like Otto – not very bright! At least he was diving towards the window ledge on one side instead of the floor on the other side.