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Hello Thanks for rescuing that baby! How old is she?
I would take her straight to the vet to weight her, check for intestinal parasites, assess skin damage and decide the correct diet/medications.
Honestly I would leave the eventual shaving to the vet. Rabbit skin is extremely damageable, so I think a professional should handle such an extensive procedure.After she’s at home, I’d leave her by herself in a room where she can’t smell the other bun and just check on her for food/medication/poop check for a few days. She’s going to be stressed, especially since she had such a traumatic start in life.
Don’t put the two buns together until the baby has been spayed (they need to be both spayed to bond), so that you’ll avoid any chance of them fighting and adding more trauma. In the first months I’d focus on your bond with her, reducing off the ground handling to the minimum possible and making her realize she can trust a human -
I agree, it’s probably best to take her to the vet straight away for a check up, and the vet can advise whether she should be shaved all over. I don’t think shaving all over would be necessary though.
I definitely wouldn’t introduce her to your old bun for a while. Rabbit bonding is an extensive and complicated process, and would definitely be traumatic for a young and sick bunny. Both bunnies should be spayed before being introduced to each other
Check out the bonding forum for more info. To help her bond with you, sit on the floor with her, let her come up to you, and offer her tasty treats (after speaking to the vet about what her diet should be like!)
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Update on the New baby, Pluto.
She’s doing great! Her cuts are healing up pretty nicely. Her fur is going back evenly. I was ably to brush most of the mats out extremely easily. There’s one left that refuses to budge, so I’m considering taking her to get it professionally done. She loves her brush and when I grab the brush she jumps right into my lap and sits patiently. The first day, I left her alone and set her cage next to Sirens (they haven’t met yet) (they both are getting spayed on May 8th). Siren already loves her and wants to meet her. They sniff at eachother through there cages. And lay down where their cages touch (which isnt sirens normal spot to lay down) I won’t put them together quite yet. Pluto was pretty nervous the first day. She hopped into her food bowl and sat there for a long time. She also doesnt want to drink from her water bottle, so i put a bowl full of water in her cage and she seems to be doing good. The second day, she opened up a lot to me and does little dances for me. She is doing great! I went to my local pet store and bough at least a hundred dollar worth of stuff for her. I got her bedding for the bottom of her cage, some hay twists (she’s already chewed through half of one), a hideaway, and a better food bowl and waterfowl considering the ones I used before were ceramic and to tall. She’s eating fine and now drinking the water from the bowl, and purring. I wasn’t expecting her to open up to me this fast. I havent heard siren make all these sounds since she got her outdoor hutch (Shes typically a super quite rabbit). I have one more question. Her nails are really long and sharp , but im top scared to clip them because her fur is so long that I can’t see them and I dont want to stress her out. How should I go about that?Thank all of you for the tips! ?
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I have a bunny with very fluffy feet, so I always need extra hands when I clip his nails. I have my boyfriend hold him while I take his paws, one at a time, and push back all the fur to get to his nails. I think my bun developed a strong aversion to having his nails trimmed because I was trying to do it myself and I definitely pulled his footie fur
good luck! and thank you for giving a bun in need a home!
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