Trust me, I fully indent to take both buns to the vet ASAP! The only reason I haven’t yet is we’re easily an hour away from the nearest vet (I’m VERY rural) the main road has been cut off due to a wildfire, which adds another two to three hours to the vet depending on traffic. I don’t dare take them as they do NOT handle car rides well on the best of days, and the smoke would scare them worse. I don’t want to kill them of fright.

I never, EVER thought I’d end up with rabbits, let alone two! I’ve always been a cat person – wounded and strays just tend to find me, it’s weird. My neighbors found out I’m good with cats and started asking me to help with their dog wounds since vets are so far off. Since we also have a bit of land they also for some reason kept dropping off rescues for me to deal with. That’s how I ended up with Edna and Eizen. A neighbor brought them in for breeding from an animal rescue, then found out Edna was a male and hated Eizen. Since the neighbor was an older gentleman he couldn’t really deal with them anyway and they were cooped up in a tiny cage for a year. Word got to him that I was good with animals and…. I now own two rabbits.

They’ve been pretty good for the post part. I left for a year for school and all hell has broken loose, it seems! Edna has stinky bunny poo and is FAT. Eizen is a crabby old man who likes to attack my cats for fun. As soon as the wildfire dies down they’re going in for a bunny checkup. I guess the stinky bunny poo/runny poo/bloody pee (Or reddish, it doesn’t look like blood to me) has been going off and on for a year. *Sigh* I have my work cut out for me.

Trust me, I felt horrible about the trance. I kept half waking him to make sure he was going to shake out of it. After 20 minutes of struggling to see what was going on he just kind of did it on his own. I VERY quickly took a look and woke him up.

Thank you, Wick! I will. They’re pesky rabbits – they don’t like toys, don’t really like treats, LOVE greens, are picky eaters, won’t poo in their litterboxes, and love to tear carpet. Like, a lot. They also don’t like being held/pet, and grooming is a horrible thing to do. Both Edna and Eizen have clumpy rears from lack of grooming.

I totally understand my family had other issues to deal with while I was away – two deaths in the family – but it irks me how far the rabbits have been neglected. (I know they didn’t mean to, and did the best they can.) I’m back for at least two years, and it seems I just can’t leave a helpless creature alone, so the rabbits are next on my ‘hit list’ since I haven’t had a wounded cat show up lately. (Seriously, nine rescue cats, four rescue dogs, no less than ten different rescue birds, and a chicken. I only sought out one of the animals. The others just happened. I’m cursed)

I’ll get to work on their claws today since I have the trimmers! Eizen will have to wait a bit, though. I don’t dare touch his paw yet. If I’m in the room he keeps standing in front of me and telling me off, so I know not to touch. At least he doesn’t attack me like he used to.

Oh! And he’s feeling 100 percent better today. He’s eating like a little piggy (Hay mostly) and hopping around. He’s MAD that I don’t dare let him outside yet, though. I don’t know if he can rip his wound open on the dirt or not. He did rear up on his hind legs and attack me with his front paws, which I take to be a good sign – he’s using his wounded paw. I’ll watch his water intake to see what he’s doing. Edna as well, just in case. (Edna is a picky eater)

I’m over on the West Coast, USA. If you can name it, it’s on fire!

I’m going to go out on a limb and say their diet is utter garbage. It’s the Wild Harvest brand from Walmart. Edna will ONLY eat the little goodies in the bag, and never the pellets. He’s the one who has stinky bunny poo. Sometimes it comes out in one giant wet log, other times tiny little hard pebbles. Still other times it comes out in tiny moist balls. About 70 percent of the time it’s fine. But when he stinks, he STINKS. He also has stinky bunny gas. It seems to be getting better now that I’ve got him on a workout program. (And by that I mean he has to hop around the yard for five minutes. I give him a very gentle bunny boot if he doesn’t move after a little while – I make sure it’s non threatening or scary so it doesn’t become a bad thing. And then he gets rewards of the ONE treat he will eat when he’s done. He moves for about 2 minutes before he just… quits. You can tell it’s too much, even at a gentle walk) Eizen on the other hand ONLY eats pellets. He’s in better shape than Edna.

I have no idea why I didn’t think of the peroxide. I use it all the time to clean up after my ancient cat who has chronic bloody pee (Ultrasounds show he has kidney stones. At 19 there’s nothing to be done.) I’ll test that tonight when Edna pees on the floor again to see what the results are!

I know I asked about Eizen and what to expect with his claw, but you guys are super helpful about letting me ramble on about Edna too! I fully admit – I’m not really a rabbit person. It may have to do with the fact that before he got fixed Eizen would block me in the hallway and attack if I got too close, then chase me down if I tried to get away to bite me. The very first time I picked him up he gave me a free mole removal. He also LOVES electric cables. I hate replacing them.
Edna is cute, but he’s just a plain black rabbit. He doesn’t really have much personality. I know that’s cruel to say, but it’s true. He’s just… A rabbit. Eizen has spunk and is always getting into trouble, which while annoying is cute. Edna just sits, eats, poops, and tries to eat plastic/bird seed.
Regardless, an animal is an animal, and I won’t turn one down. I’ve saved a wild mouse baby before just because it was in distress in the middle of a mouse infestation. If I can do that, surely I can love these two rabbits. And even if I can’t, they’re actually my mother’s and sister’s rabbits, and they DO love them. I just take care of them because I’m kind of obsessed with it. I’m actually going into animal rehab because of all the animals I’ve ended up rescuing.
I have no other wounded pets in my care currently, so these two rabbits have my full attention. They’re getting groomed, claws trained, stinky bunny poo fixed, diets corrected, and if I can convince them to do more than stare at walls they’re getting toys. (They’re about 5 years old and have never had more than boxes/cats to play with. The concept of toys isn’t one they know how to deal with) I’m going to do it little by little so that my family doesn’t get overwhelmed with the changes, and make sure it’s the norm for when I leave again.

Eizen is also being adorable today. I tried to give him a new water bowl – he tosses his a LOT. He grunted at it, glared at me and thumped, thumped again, and left the cage. I came back an hour later and he’d SOMEHOW managed to move it clear across the room and bury it in a shirt he found. It’s the no spill type with a wide bottom ring so it can’t be moved easily. I guess that means his little nub of a claw must be feeling better. The swelling has gone down, and it’s not bleeding. The lack of blood does worry me (I’m worried something is stuck inside…. I know it’s probably that the claw didn’t totally come out and acted as a stopper before it came out, but still)

Anyway! Sorry for the ramble! I’m thrilled to be back and working with animals again. My cats are all being fat and lazy, so the rabbits get it. Nobody here has rabbits, or shares my passion for animals (Heck, they think I’m a loon after I saved the mouse) so being able to gush about the cute little bunnies is nice.

And yes, Edna is a girl’s name. Edna is a boy rabbit. I don’t ask.

That’s exactly what it looks like. He has a tiny little nub for a claw. Random numbers here, but let’s say the quick WAS an inch long, and now it’s like 1/4th an inch (again, random numbers) That still only counts as damage to it? That’s a bit hard to wrap my brain around for some reason. I did notice before his claw went flying that it was MUCH thinner than his other claws, and darker. It looked like it was dying.

I’ll keep him clean and comfortable. I have peroxide, iodine, pet safe neosporin, and a few other medical things for pets due to my idiot cat. He’s mad as heck that I don’t dare let him outside. We have tile floor and he can’t lope around like he wants to. The rugs work well, but there’s space between the rugs. He’s a normally grumpy rabbit, now he’s just furious.

I’m lucky it doesn’t seem to be an ER type situation. If he just broke it off I’m comfortable waiting for the fire to die down to get him to a vet. He’s a cute little fluff rabbit, he deserves to be happy.