Posted By Huckleberry on 12/30/2011 05:58 PM
LOL well, congrats on your new bun! He is very handsome and I love his name haha.

Yeah very entertaining name.   I think I’ll be calling him “West” for short.
 

He’s watching Zeus right now (Zeus is loose, West is in cage and with a baby gate in front of cage to keep them from even touching noses until West settles and relaxes), and is alert but not terrified.

Posted By LBJ10 on 12/30/2011 06:04 PM
How cute! Are you going to call him Mayor West? =D

I might! 
 

Posted By Mandyyy on 12/30/2011 06:15 PM
^^ I would. Haha!

He is adorable. I’m glad you rescued him.
Not sure where you are located, but I know the Human Society in Texas wants to give Vick a dog, and are like in love with Mike Vick, and regularly put Pits to sleep for no reason, so I’m not a fan… Sounds like your HS isn’t that great either if they just pretty much throw you a rabbit, obviously it is in good hands but they don’t know that… :/

Yeah.. I mean, I can’t hate on them too much, because the Animal Control shelter is HORRIBLE and euthanizes a ton of animals with no attempt at adopting them, and the HS does make an effort.  I just wish they wouldn’t lump rabbits in with hamsters, mice, gerbils, etc.  They live just as long as some dogs do, they should require the same screening.

Posted By Monkeybun on 12/30/2011 06:26 PM
Dang. OHS here sounds light years ahead of those humane societies!

Congrats on the new addition He does look dutch, maybe with some nethie in him with the round face and shorter ears.

Yeah his ears are TINY!  I actually thought of Monkey when I saw him. .
 

Like I said, I really can’t talk down on the HS too much, they’re trying at least, but I sure wish they’d be a better advocate for their buns.. I was prepared for them to call my vet, my landlord, ask me some questions, but nothing.  Maybe because he’s been there that long, they just wanted to get him outta there?  I don’t know.  They had another very cute bun who had been there even longer, but I guess he needed an only bun household.

Zeus has no idea he’s here, or just doesn’t care.  He’s more wondering why the baby gate is there rather than the bunny behind it. 

Posted By bunnyfriend on 12/30/2011 06:44 PM

Hahhaha he is so handsome! And cute! It is so nice of you to give him a forever home. I’ve been volunteering at the humane society and I feel so bad for the ones that just need to be in a nice home and with someone who will go slow with them. I’m sure he’ll get comfortable soon  Are you going to keep the name he came with?

Yeah he was just one of those animals with a face that screamed “I don’t do well in shelters”.  The lady who helped me also didn’t know how to handle rabbits and basically dragged him out of the cage.. .

And yeah I’ll be keeping his name, but calling him “West”. 

Thanks everyone!

Zeus and West touched noses this morning.. Zeus finally realized what was behind the baby gate barricade and was sooooo curious.  So he smashed his face in as much as he could til his nose could reach, West came over and stuck his nose out, they sniffed for like 30 seconds, then West tried to nip Zeus on the nose.  .  It wasn’t a super aggressive nip, he didn’t lunge at Zeus or thump or anything.  Zeus looked stunned for a minute, then tried to sniff him again while West hopped away to go back to his hay.  Poor Zeus, new bun in his house and West thinks his hay is more interesting!

I’m very surprised.. Zeus isn’t being territorial at all.  No spraying, no thumping, no aggression.  More of just “Hey!  You’re a bunny too!  This is so cool!  Come here I want to say hello!” .

West is also not doing too bad on litter training.  (He was in a guinea pig cage with the entire tray covered in bedding.)  He’s doing some poops and pee on the coconut mat next to the litterbox, but nowhere else.  I’m just cleaning them up and putting the poops in his litterbox.  He’ll figure it out I’m sure.

Posted By RabbitPam on 12/31/2011 07:10 AM
Awwww. He is one very lucky bunny. That’s a real Gotcha! but I think you are special for taking him.
Did they at least give you his medical history? I don’t care for that shoving him out of there way of giving him to you, despite their seizing the opportunity. You don’t want any health surprises, so it would be good to get any records if they didn’t provide them at the time. Just call and ask them to be mailed. Meanwhile, a visit to your vet for a basic exam is in order.

Zeus sounds good with it so far. You have these next few weeks to get Adam West (LOL) acclimated, working on his litter habits, exploring your new territory.
I would suggest a surrogate toy swap for each of them to get used to their smells.

No medical history.. all I know is he was in the shelter for 8 months, was relinquished because his previous owner was moving, and he’s been healthy the entire stay at the shelter.  No guess on his age.  He’s got a vet appointment a week from today, that was the first thing I did this morning was call and make an appt for him.  I want a guess on his age, general wellness check, etc.  If he ends up having any health issues, or ends up being a senior bun, I’m ok with it. .

Would there be any clues to show a bun advanced in age?

Zeus is being great so far, and luckily we’ll be able to take it really slow since he’s not getting fixed til mid-Jan.  I probably won’t really attempt bonding until Feb.  Until then I’m doing like you said, swapping items from either cage to keep their smells around each other all the time.  Zeus can’t have a plush toy in his cage unsupervised, he’ll eat it..   So I’m using their mats and willow toys to switch.

Posted By jerseygirl on 12/31/2011 07:47 AM

Congrats!   He reminds me a little of Sarita’s Bobby but with dutch markings.

So cute about Zeus haha. He’s a big lovable bear.

He totally is a big love!  I took the baby gate barricade down, Zeus was attempting to climb it/jump over it so it was being more of a nuisance then a help.  Now Zeus goes over occasionally and tries to convince West to come over and say hello to him.  West usually ignores him until Zeus leaves, or they’ll sniff noses and then West will go back to eating.   No more nips so far, yay!
 

Zeus is definitely being the friendly one.  He goes over and perks his little flop ears and just looks at West like “Hey!  Look, I’m here!  Come say hello to me, come here!” .

Mocha: West is neutered, yup.  He’s even got that little spot tattoo in his ear that some vets do to indicate a fixed bun.

Posted By MimzMum on 12/31/2011 07:38 PM
I just noticed the second page to this thread…duh! Nevermind all the repetitive stuff I said…lol …
One spot? Um…isn’t it 2 spots for a boy and 1 for a girl? (Goes to check Fiver & Pip’s tatts)

Yup…Fiver has two…Pip just has one. O_o

Hmm.. I may have to check his ear again.   I thought I saw just one dot but I could be wrong.
 

We’re having some minor issues with litter training.  It’s more my issue than his.. I’m so used to big Zeus that I put a Zeus-sized litterbox in there, and West I guess found it too deep (had to jump kinda high to get in), so he wasn’t using it at all.  Now I’m trying a shallower corner box, we’ll see how it goes.  It’s hard finding one shallow enough that he’s comfortable getting in, but deep enough where he can’t pee over the edge of it.

Small bunnies are so different!  I don’t have to secure everything down so much and reinforce everything a million times to support Zeus’s 10lb body.   

Posted By MimzMum on 01/01/2012 04:19 PM
Well if you find such a perfect litterbox because I need about five of them for Mimzy. With his bad back end he isn’t even bothering to get in the box lately. We’re back to carefresh on the hab floor.

Lol…is imagining the ‘reinforcements’ necessary to keep Zeus from upending his commode…lol.

So far West is liking this box:
 

http://www.superpetusa.com/product-list/large-hicorner-litter-pan.htm

The entrance is only maybe 3 inches high?  It was about $12.