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BINKYBUNNY FORUMS

This topic has 8sd replies, 4 voices, and was last updated 11 years, 9 months ago by LongEaredLions.

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- 06/30/2014 at 10:47 PM
  Salem Fluffle
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  Hello all!
  
  I am new here so let me introduce myself real quick. I’m a rabbit mom to two adorable Mini Rex siblings named Freckles (F) and Rascal (M) who just turned two years old last week. I got my first rabbit thirteen years ago but these guys are my first bonded pair and they mean the world to me. I come to Binky Bunny all the time for answers I don’t know about rabbits already. You all seem like a great big family and a bunch of awesome people. =)
  
  Anywho, I am a graduate student who lives in Michigan but attends school in Colorado in the summer. It’s a 26 hour trip across the country and involves going through elevation changes. My babes do well in the car – especially when they have each other so I’m not too concerned about that. However, I have yet to read anything from people who have traveled through the mountains. I see that people have taken their buns on airplanes so I can’t imagine elevation does anything crazy to rabbits but I want to double check before taking them out there next summer with me. I know my ears popped a few times when I was at the top of the mountains and the air is a bit thinner there but I’m thinking they will be okay?
  
  Staying home is not an option as the few family members I have that are able to take care of them will all be traveling with me. And I do not trust anybody I know at home to come to my house and watch them as they are not very comfortable with new people. I hope you guys are able to shed some light on this part of travel for me as it’ll be a new experience for me. Thanks all!
  
  P.S. I will post some pictures as soon as I figure out how to do so in this forum. =)
- 07/01/2014 at 12:48 AM
  LongEaredLions
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  They should be ok. My vet is six thousand feet below my house, and my bunnies do fine.
  I can’t wait to see photos! Here is a link explaining how:
  https://binkybunny.com/FORUM/tabid/54/aft/129927/Default.aspx
- 07/01/2014 at 10:45 AM
  Salem Fluffle
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  Thanks! I figured they would be okay but of course hearing from somebody else that it’s been successful for them is always a great reassurance. =)
  
  And here’s the pictures!
  
  Freckles is the brown one and was named for her spotty chest. And Rascal is the little white guy who is a complete ham and never passes up a photo opportunity. LOL
- 07/01/2014 at 7:22 PM
  JackRabbit
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  LEL — 6000 feet below your house! That’s alot of stairs! (I know, bad joke! I warned you that I get punchy when I’m tired!)
- 07/01/2014 at 7:54 PM
  LongEaredLions
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  It IS a lot of stairs! Make sure to bring your water bottle, it tires you out! LOL!
- 07/01/2014 at 8:22 PM
  Salem Fluffle
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  Hmm… pictures didn’t go through. Let’s try this again. =)
  
  I’m only posting two tonight and of course they are both sleeping in them but isn’t that when they are the cutest anyway?
  
  ^^^^^^ They typically sleep like that in their bed together or they hug one another and groom each others faces while falling asleep. It melts my heart every time.
- 07/01/2014 at 8:44 PM
  Monkeybun
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  The elevation changes should be fine. I’ve driven with bunnies across the mountains into California, and they did fine
- 07/01/2014 at 10:05 PM
  JackRabbit
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  Sleeping bunnies are so sweet! I love their bed!
  
  LEL – With all those stairs, my thighs would look like they did in my 20’s! AND I’d have Buns of Steel (pun intended!) without having to buy the exercise video!!
- 07/01/2014 at 10:50 PM
  LongEaredLions
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  Awww cuties!
  
  JR-*falls off chair laughing* tee hee
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