I don’t know why I’m posting I know no one can tell me only a vet but I’m driving my self mad looking at illnesses, thinking about what I could of missed, what I should have done differently.

So sad can’t stop crying, I’ve had to move all the pictures of my buns of my phone because I can’t bear looking at them. People without rabbits don’t seems to understand, if it was a dog people would feel different I imagine but because they were “only” rabbits I shouldn’t be as upset well I am and I loved them and they all had individual personalities.

I don’t know what happened to them 3 perfectly healthy, happy bunnies.

On Wednesday Biggie was dead when I went to check him before work. He was perfectly fine less than 7 hours earlier I refilled his water and hay at midnight while he had a play in the garden had the usually chase around the garden to get him in his hutch. He lived separate to the others he was due to be neutered and I was going to try and bond him with another male (not ideal two boys but didn’t want them both to be lonely). It was a shock but I put it down to a possible fright he’d had earlier in the week (cat in garden, it didn’t get near him but had jumped down onto the garden, while he was out) that had maybe caused it there seemed no other reason he had no visible symptoms and was eating, drinking and playing.

On Thursday night I noticed my other rabbit Peach acting a bit strange she was in a bonded pair with her love Mario. I wasn’t sure if I was on edge due to what had happened with Biggie but she just didn’t seem right. She was eating and drinking but seemed off. I stayed up with her most of the night to keep an eye on her and  secured a vets appointment for the morning. Vets diagnosed possible stasis she had injections the same day (Friday) came home with lots of medicines. I when to work did some food shopping for a relative (due to the lockdown). When I got home she was lying limp on her side with no will to move I brought her into the house, kept her warm, syringed her some water but within 10-15 minutes she had a few spasms and died. She’d only been at the vets 6 hours earlier.

And then Saturday morning I was dreading seeing Mario and just how sad he would be they had always had each other. I had spent all night googling about how to care for a rabbit that had lost his partner, and how soon I should get him a new partner etc.. I went to him and he was so sad I picked him up to bring him inside so I could give him extra love and attention and when I picked him up he was limp. He was kind of in the loft position but when I picked him up his legs just hung he made no effort to move he was like a newborn baby and wouldn’t support himself. I wasn’t sure if this was normal and some type of extreme grieving like he had just given up. Then within 20-25 minutes he went the same way as peaches laying on his side a few twitches and deep breaths and then he was gone. I just don’t understand it again he had gone from perfectly fine at 2AM playing in the garden, eating etc. To dying in my arms at 9AM.

I just don’t understand what happened, how did it happen, why. My vets currently won’t perform a necropsy as they are only carrying out emergency procedures due to the government restrictions. Of all the illnesses I’ve googled they don’t seem to fit into the symptoms of any of them. Peaches I could possibly say had Stasis was caught to late but then why would Mario die he didn’t have that. But what it would have to be something contagious that has spread between the 3 of them?

My other concern is that I have 1 final rabbit Tupac (yes Tupac and Biggie) who again lived separate to the other rabbits as he was waiting for Biggie to be neutered so I could try bonding them. As yet he is showing no signs of any changes but constantly on edge as the other all turned so quick. What would I even say to the vets test him for everything even though he’s not currently Ill?

Also would a vet that’s not my vet carry out a necropsy for me, on a bunny that wasn’t registered with them.  Also worried about the viability of it now as my rabbit will have passed more than 24 hours ago. Don’t know if they have to be carried out within a certain time frame?

I’m just rambling, I just needed to get it all out to someone that might understand.