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Some of you may not know the story of my beautiful Nora girl – one of my friends sent me a picture of a bunny from a pet store my boyfriend and I refused to shop at anymore because one day we walked in and saw a rabbit. The rabbits nose was covered in gunk and he obviously had a terrible upper resp. infection but the pet store insisted he was fine… so we walked out and never shopped there again. Until my friend sent us the picture of Nora. We went in to check for ourselves and this adorable little girl was covered in lots of gunk in her thick fur and was in a glass cage with no food or water. She looked okay health-wise so I decided I would come back in a day or two to check on her again. The next night when I got off work my boyfriend picked me up from work and had a carrier in the backseat… with my baby Nora in it. He said he just couldn’t leave her like that – whether we decided to keep her or foster her until she could find a home he wasn’t sure – but he could not leave her there. So we brought her home, admitted her into our favorite rescue here (Rabbit Wranglers) and made the decision to foster her until she was old enough to spayed and could find a home to call her own forever.
Needless to say, when we got her home we realized there was something wrong with her. Her head swayed back and forth very quickly and she was constantly sneezing. We quickly got her to a vet and looked over, she was administered meds but the sneezing and swaying continued. After numerous vet visits we arrived at the conclusion that she was a “scanner”. Most typical of white, ruby-eyed buns and no one really knows what causes this. it doesn’t seem to be a problem for her at all but her scanning is ALWAYS very prominent when she is in a new area she isn’t used to. She also needed her nose flushed and when they flushed her nose a bunch of stuff came out (presumably from the pet store and wherever she was before that). On top of all her problems, a week after she was first brought to our home, she was one of the buns in our care that had to experience and go through a two-week long ordeal of us getting back on our feet after a man blew up his condo a few doors down from ours. The bunnies were stuck inside for TWO long horrible hours before we could get them out. But everyone ended up being okay.
Anyway, she was about 2-3 months when we first rescued her and within the months leading up to her spay at 6 months old we decided we wanted to attempt to bond her to the other bunnies and make her a part of our family. She was successfully bonded about two weeks ago and today she was officially adopted into our family and hearts !! <3
Here’s some pictures of my prescious Nora girl – from the first time we met her to now!
Nora – the night we brought her home from the pet store around 2-3 months old.
First few hours after we had her home and got her cleaned up a bit!
Cuddling with my girl after the condo explosion.
Nora eating her first veggies – her favorite: red leaf lettuce!
Zonked out like usual.
Her in her e-collar after her spay because she wouldn’t leave her stitches alone!!!!
And Nora with her new bonded siblings!
Welcome to our family OFFICIALLY, Nora!!! WE LOVEEE YOU!
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