It’s only been a little over a month since Ragnar died, but yet again I have a neglected lionhead in my care. Two days ago, my mom’s friend got a rabbit. She didn’t really want the rabbit but the previous owners were looking to get rid of her and her kids begged her to help the rabbit. The friend has very little experience with animals, let alone rabbits, so she asked us to come by yesterday and help her. Pretty quickly, my sister and I realized the rabbit was in worse shape than anyone had expected. The previous owners had kept her in the garage and were only feeding her a junk kaytee mix (there are sunflower seeds in there! ) and no hay. And this rabbit is definitely overweight, but it’s no wonder. Next discovery was the mites. Looking in her ears, my sister quickly spotted the large red, flaky patches of skin in her ears. Her claws were also so long they were curling sideways. At this point we told the friend she definitely needed to be seen by the vet. The friend made an appointment with a local vet and asked us to come with her to the appointment.The vet wanted to sedate her immediately because she was wiggling a little but we argued against that and he conceded to getting a vet tech to help him hold her. He barely examined her anyway and said he couldn’t look at her teeth because we wouldn’t let him sedate her. He got really annoyed with us after we told him no about sedating her and it was just such a weird and bad experience. I won’t go into it, but he was the worst vet I’ve ever been to. He gave her a shot for the mites and clipped her nails, but when the friend learned about all of these health issues, she was overwhelmed and asked us to take the rabbit. I don’t blame my mom’s friend for any of this, she wanted to help and she wasn’t the one who so neglected this bunny. 

But here’s what we do know as of right now: The rabbit is an unspayed female, about 2 years old, has mites and an ear infection, and is overweight. She looks like a lionhead mix to me. First priority is getting her healthy. She’s in quarantine, but I’m also worried about Mordecai getting ear mites. Tomorrow she’ll see our regular exotics vet because I want to make sure nothing else is wrong with her. People are just awful sometimes, I feel so sorry for this little girl.