Hello forum members!  New member here from Southern California…

I just joined today… last week we became new bunny owners.  My daughter (just shy of 14) found a small bunny in the middle of the road.  I went over and could see she was injured.  She had clearly been attaced by an owl or hawk.  We took her home, put her in a spare bird cage (I have lots of parrots, used to breed, so have many extra cages around).  We gave her some fresh veggies, hay (we also have a 100+ pound tortoise!), and water, tended her wounds and left her alone until I could get her into the vet.

Before the vet visit, I warned my daughter that if the wounds were not treatable, and the kindest thing to do would be to put her down, then thats what I will have them do… so, no surprise, my daughter didn’t want to go with me! LOL  So we see the vet, she gives her a basic physical, and she looks great, just really skinny, at under 2 pounds.  She then moves to the wounds.  She lets me know the wounds are not fresh, as the “tallon” marks on her back have already scabbed up (now gone) but the the “skinned” tail and surrouning area were still pretty raw.  So I’m not sure if it was multiple attacks or just the one.  She gives “Bugsy” 2 shots, antibiotic & anti-inflamitory and pain killer, and sends me home with oral of the same, along with a probiotic.  She told me she should heal nicely, but the tail will end up falling off.  We go for a follow up apt later this afternoon.

So here we are, 2 cats, 1 dog, 40+ birds, tortiose, snake, fish, horses… blah blah blah… hubby tells me we need a rabbit like we need a hole in the head! LOL…  Weekend hits, rabbit hutch is purchased and put together!  Bugsy is doing well with the meds, the scabs on her back are gone after some grooming.  The big wounds on her “buttcheeks” has scabbed over, a nasty black scab… I think from the betadine (sp?… forgot that above, she gets that on the wounds twice a day)  but the tail looks bad… the top where it meets the backend keeps opening up, the wound looks healthy & pink, but it cant feel good   We’ll see what the vet thinks today.

Long story short… I havent had a rabbit since I was my daughters age!  So feeding & care needed refreshing!  She’s been doing some nasty pee’s but after reading up, they can be orange due to the veggies & also being on antibiotics.  So its pretty normal, and one less thing for me to worry about  

Once she’s all healed and put some weight on, we’ll get her fixed so she can have a long happy life   I’m guessing being a wild bunny, she’s probably pretty young.  We bring her in each afternoon for some bonding time, she’s very gentle and hopefully will tame up nicely !  So there ya go… our introduction the forum!  I look forward to meeting you all and learing some things !

Anna

(I attached 2 pics, but i dont see them???)