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Hi I’m so sorry for your loss

My bunny passed yesterday morning and was also very very skinny. He was 8 years old and I took him to the vet 3 months ago and he weighed 2.5 pounds. About 1 month ago, I took him to the vet again and he weighed only 1.9 pounds, which meant he lost 30% of his body weight. His vet ran labs, did xrays, palpated all his…[Read more]

I was hoping Dana would reply to this, bc I know she has extensive experience with this, both with her own buns and the shelter buns she has worked with.

I am in Europe and we got the RVHD2 vaccine here in the fall of 2016. I vaccinate my buns yearly (our current vaccine is given once per year) even though my buns are house buns. As Dana says,…[Read more]

I would definitely get them vaccinated. Buns can be safely vaccinated as young as 7 weeks (according to the FAQ sheet for the Medgene vaccine, the one currently available in the USA),  and I had my senior bun vaccinated at age 11, 12, and 13 with absolutely no ill effects. I also helped our rescue with a vaccine clinic and over hundreds of…[Read more]

It is good that you had to push away hair to see them. Preferably the hair should cover the bald spots as “best it can”. That is why fat creams and ointments aren’t very good as long as the skin is intact, creams tend to make the surrounding hair tacky and less proctective (my very rabbit savvy vet has told me this, I beleive it to be true).

If…[Read more]

Thank you Bam!! The elbow test is genius…I must try it.. 😯

Thank you LB! I had their nails cut tonight, and took a look at Roo’s hocks, you’ll need to push away hair to see them which I take as a good thing..slightly flakey, but dry and hard pink spot…Will be keeping an eye on them!

I’m taking him this Friday. That was the soonest I could get him in.

my vet is 45 minutes away but it’s well worth it.

my friend who is a rabbit owner and she said it could be a cyst but that the vet will know for sure

I’ll keep you updated

I agree with the ceramic tiles idea, We have also tried ceramic vases and bowls with success haha.

A few contributing factors though: how big is their cage? Free roam bunnies are less likely to be destructive since digging behavior can stem from boredom. You can temporarily end the digging behavior with ceramic tiles, however digging is in a…[Read more]

Everything you have mentioned is good. But I agree with Bam that a variety of surfaces is probably the best way to go. And yes, nothing too abrasive! Calluses are not necessarily a bad thing. Many rabbits will develop them as they age.

How did things go at the vet? Hopefully it was nothing to worry about.

Rex rabbits are v prone to sore hocks, and as they age, they pretty much invariably will develop bald spots/calluses on their hocks. As long as the skin stays intact this needent be a huge issue.

So, it is good to trim the nails often, it is good to have a layer of hay or straw on top of the absorbant matter in the litterbox, and it is good to…[Read more]

I’m very sorry you lost your bun, and in such an upsetting way. It sounds like maybe his heart gave out. There probably wouldn’t have been anything a vet couldve done. He didn’t die alone, you were there for him.

He seem’s to have been ill a long time. I’m sorry you couldn’t get a proper diagnosis for him. This is not rarely the case with…[Read more]