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Good luck with your baby bunny! My baby is almost 2 months old and she is starting to like veggies, slowly! At first she ignored them, but now she really likes them. She absolutely loves her hay too! I would check for clear eyes, clean ears and no fecal matter on her tail to make sure she is not too sickly. Sounds like she has not had the best care, poor girl! Good luck with her, I am sure she will love you
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Well, I got a picture of my soon-to-be new bunny! She’s beautiful! Her story is this: my friend has known this man an extremely long time, he’s a breeder. He breeds mainly meat rabbits (shudders). During this year, he started breeding some smaller breeds to try and sell for profit (mainly lops and mini-rexes). When most didn’t sell, he froze them in his freezer for himself. Makes me sick, really. This bunny was a part of a litter of 6. He supposedly froze 4, and then there’s her and her brother left. He sent a picture to my friend, who then fowarded it to me, of the male and female (as the breeder lives hours away, as does my friend). I picked the female, and the breeder brought the female to my friend this evening, where I will be traveling and picking her up tomorrow morning. She was basically headed for his freezer, but he is giving her to me instead. I feel so bad for her, and I am super excited to be getting her and saving her from a certain death. She’s beautiful! Pics will definitely be posted tomorrow when I get home.
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WOW What a story!!
Welcome here!! I think all of us can hardly wait for pictures!!! That’s so kind of you to rescue her-and your dogs sound like they are rescues too! I believe the only things that can transfer from rabbit to dog (or vice versa) is certain worms, ticks and fleas-parasitic kinds of things. I’m sure there isn’t any devastating disease that can be spread to either your new bun or your existing dogs-fleas and the like are very treatable-a pain for sure-but nothing terrible.
I always get an initial vet exam on any new pet-just to get a baseline and so my vet gets to know them and knows if anything is off (also she’s picked up on things I didn’t know about them-my dog has a soft tissue injury from past in his leg and has the beginning of arthritis, and one of my rabbits I knew was blind but the vet confirmed deaf as well!).
However I don’t think it sounds like she needs to be stressed out by a trip to the vet the day you get her home. I’d give her a week or two to settle in first-then take her. If anything is really “off” i.e. she has runny nose/eyes, crusty ears, visible parasites, doesn’t eat or drink or poop well then obviously you’d want to go the vet sooner. But I see no harm if she looks healthy giving her a little time to get to know her new momma!!! -
Like KK said, you should check her over for fleas and the like, you don’t want to bring those things in if you can help it, and since she’s been housed outside, it’s possible she could have gotten something.
Good luck with the new bun! I think it’s great that you’re rescuing her
I know this is morbid but… by “putting the rabbits in the freezer” do you know if this guy literally just puts them in there and lets the rabbits freeze to death, or does he kill them first? Either way it’s horrible… but… I was just wondering for my morbid curiosity. -
Home with the bunny, who has been named Maddalynn, “Maddy” for short. Unfortunately, she may be ill. At my friend’s house, she seemed perfectly fine. I checked her over well, clear eyes, clear nose, no discharge, no visible sneezing. I had her in a carrying kennel for the ride home. In it was a blanket, her water bottle, and some alfalfa hay. She sneezed a couple times on the ride home, nothing major. I got her home, put her in her kennel with some nice alfalfa hay, and a new straw mat. She’s been sneezing a LOT since then. It’ll be several sneezes in a row, and then nothing for a few minutes, and then she’ll start again. I removed all the hay, and the straw mat, and wiped the bottom of her cage down. She was still sneezing quite a bit earlier, but nothing so far in the last 10 minutes or so. Someone mentioned that this may have been an allergy to the hay, especially because this was her first introduction to it. She was only given rabbit pellets before by the previous owner, from my understanding. I didn’t see any colored discharge such as yellow or green, but her nose was a little wet after all the sneezing, as was the inside of both of her paws. Anyone have any thoughts on this?
Below are also some pics I took of her earlier, she’s beautiful, and so extremely sweet!
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