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These are heavy thoughts, Ellie. I think I can relate. My dog Effi had a bad back problem that manifested acutely when she wasn’t even 9. After that, I knew I had her on borrowed time. Medication together with some (simpler) life style changes gave her more than 2 high quality years with me, before she deterioriated quite suddenly and I knew had…[Read more]

“our hearts love with the understanding that they may be broken one day. And it’s worth it.”

What a beautiful statement! And so true!

I would really just give a large space a try. There is no one way to bond rabbits, and even though small spaces can and do work, to me it seems like it isn’t working very well for your buns as they escalate to fighting so quickly. Bonders at rescues are also much more experienced in knowing when to intervene, so for a new bonder, larger spaces can…[Read more]

Sometimes hanging a towel or sheet over the fence where he is chewing can help a lot!

Ellie my buns are the same way! If it’s left in their rack for more than 12 hours, they ignore it, but then I transfer it to their box and fluff it up, and all the sudden it’s delicious again!

That’s very interesting!

At the rescue we had this spreadsheet with calcium content of veggies. I should have someone snap a photo of it and send it to me.

Yes, spacing his meals and offering different hay helped for us too.

Sometimes he doesn’t eat much hay during the day, then we postpone his dinner half an hour to an hour, so he starts to eat a lot of hay. I’m sure everybunny would be seriously offended if they knew about this strategy…

We experimented with types of hay too and found out he…[Read more]

In my experience with both my rabbits, baytril made their urine orange over time!

It sounds very good! With things like a UTI, its often difficult to see when the abx take effect – it can be effeciacious in killing the bacteria just as it should, but there can still be some lingering irritation, which just needs time to heal. (Much like when we can cough for a long time after a chest cold, even though the causative virus or…[Read more]

Hi, I don’t notify folks if I use their pix usually. Thanks for continuing to respond. I haven’t been using the forums to select pix since the website was rebuilt over the last year or so, but it may be a good time to start again. If so, we can have a pix post in the Lounge. I think I’ll ask that you state in your post if binkybunny can use it.…[Read more]

I have those feelings as well, and it was more pronounced with my first bunny who lost the use of his back legs for about a year before he passed. We had new rituals of care that made him comfortable but it’s hard, and I often check on breathing (ie wake up Spike when he’s resting in his tent). These feelings are natural.

I guess one thing I’ve…[Read more]

Hi again, it’s been a week and despite saying I had a feeling small space bonding for Betty and Herman was perhaps a problem, I tried it again.

Here’s the reason and the outcome:

Last week I had a phone call with a volunteer from a rabbit shelter. They advised me to stick with the small space, they have a high success rate with it. However, they…[Read more]

Wonderful discovery, thank you for the warning! Many rabbits cope well with calcium-rich greens, but others don’t – and it’s of course especially important to be extra vigilant with buns who are getting on a bit in years ☺

Myb bun Bam was forbidden calcium- rich greens by his rabbit vet, due to high blood calcium. We barely ever get carrot tops…[Read more]