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I’m so happy that vaccines are becoming available across the pond as well! It worried me for a long time: it’s a dreadful disease and so contagious 🙁

Our bunnies get the 3 vaccine combo Nobivac Myxo-RHD plus, which is a once a year vaccine now. Before that they got Nobivac Myxo-RHD once a year and since 2017 Eravac against RHD2 twice a…[Read more]

Just asking yourself that question already says: no, you’re not bad owners.

Having to keep them outside in such hot weather is less than ideal indeed. I’d try to find a place where they can be boarded for the time that you need to move to your new home.

If there aren’t friends or family who can house them indoors, professional boarders may help…[Read more]

Yay! Oh boy, that’s great news!

Update on Tater! He had a single molar spur that was stabbing him in the tongue. It was removed. Almost as soon as he came out of anesthesia he started eating on his own. Today I got the news that he can come home tomorrow! He’s eating, drinking, pooping, and doing binkies! I’m so relieved.

Dear Owen, could you please stop trying to get yourself into trouble? I admire your creativity and curiosity to find new ways, but you’re driving me up the wall… 🙄

Long story short: Owen probably ate 1,5 cm of a tie-wrap yesterday. He seems to be totally fine, my nerves are anything but. Young bunnies….

Owen is very much a free bunny:…[Read more]

Oh wow, I thought the EU already had these rules! I’m signing this. Thank you, Ellie!

Yes, discuss it with your vet and see what you can do. She didn’t shave it herself either, but a pet trimmer did it for her. The vet often knows a good pet trimmer too.

Did you try the banana trick yet? That got some of the most stubborn bunnies to take their meds. Banana or apple sauce.

Take a very ripe banana, cut it into slices and freeze it on a plate so they don’t stick together. After defrosting it becomes a sort of jelly which is easy to mix with meds.

I haven’t been able to figure out how to really shave her safely, only trim. The tail fur had hardened together so firmly that even trimming was not doable. The cream I have doesn’t have zinc oxide so I don’t know anything about that yet. I will do some checking.

“What reason(s) are you thinking that trimming the affected fur is a mistake?”

Because I feel like maybe it has given more exposure to the skin for getting urine scald.

Thanks for the links, I will check them out.

Oh that’s an awful situation, but it’s great to see that you’re so dedicated to giving her all the best 🙂

A friend of mine had this problem too with her senior rabbit. She was a long-haired rabbit who had aggression issues and was very difficult to groom. They discussed it with the vet and ended up shaving her problem areas.

The skin was then…[Read more]

Thank you!

Pictures! ^_^

It’s so sweet of you to take her in, and I  hope she’s healthy! Hope that the bond between them works as well.

Yes, it’s crazy that there’s this Easter tradition of giving rabbits. It’s seems to be mostly in the Anglo-Saxon countries though. I’ve been campaigning for “Make Mine Chocolate” on social media, and most continental…[Read more]

Thanks for drawing attention to this issue, Ellie. Unless the discussion around this progresses into anything that may breach our forum guidelines (e.g., witch-hunts, debating…), it can stay open.

Background information on this can be found here: https://binkybunny.com/forums/topic/loose-stool-incontinence-intermittently-for-the-last-year/

I’m very sorry to hear you and your rabbit are going through this. Sanitary shaves (i.e., clipping fur) is something that some rabbit owners do need to do in order to keep things clean and more…[Read more]

Thanks for introducing her, and thank you for taking in this rabbit — indeed, many rabbits suffer around this time of year once the family learns how much work pet rabbits may be. Please feel free to link any pictures of Judy :).

As a reminder, you will want to keep Judy and Jinx separated not only for health-quarantine reasons, but also since…[Read more]

There’s little research about wire flooring for pet rabbits, it’s mostly about industrial scale rabbitries.

The results of these studies are often mixed. Yes, wire floors are better for hygiene. But yes, they also cause sore hocks.

Our beloved house rabbits get their hutch cleaned often enough, so the “hygiene benefit” of wire flooring is…[Read more]