The Mother Mary!

[angelicvampyre]

A friend of mine has a house rabbit called Noddle.  She is an unaltered female rabbit that is about 2 that goes everywhere with her mum.  She LOVES her harness and seeks it out and drags it around until you take her for a walk on it.  She is really the sweetest thing.  I have told her mum to get her desexed on a few occassions but her mum does not want to put her through the pain.  Well i get a call about an hour ago, Noodle had 5 babies………

Just wait huh?  I mean she has not been around any male rabbit that I know of, her owners have no male rabbits living in the house we really are stumped!  But either way they are there and Noddle seems to be ok about the whole thing.  We figure they where born while everyone was at school and work.  Funny thing was she did not nest anywhere just delivered them on the middle of the couch!

They moved the bubs to a washing basket near the couch and Noodle just moved on with them!  So now they have 6 rabbits.  After going over everything the only thing we can think of is that there must be a wild rabbit that got to Noddle through the cat door.  The cat uses the cat door but Noodle never has so either she did one day and got into the back yard and had a little trist of he got in.  But even then we have never seen wild rabbits around my friend house.  It’s really strange.  She is going to call the rabbit vet tomorrow and discuss what to do and yes she is finally going to have Noodle desexed!

Crafty buggers these rabbits are!

[Twinklie]

Your mystery brighten my morning! It’s probably an unsolved mystery! How are the baby and Noodle doing? Would love to hear more update.

[Spidey]

It would be hard to mate a wild rabbit with a domestic one. A cotton tails genes are not the same as a domestic. Unless noodle lives in Europe those are very close to domestic breeds…

[Deleted User]

Maybe Noodle was bred by a feral domestic in the yard.

[Spidey]

 good call… 

That is one thing I never think of is a feral domestic rabbit LOL

 

[jerseygirl]

My mouth is agape. I shouldn’t be surprised though as rabbits will just breed no matter what. It’s weird she didn’t nest. I had a brief thought that someone brought there own accidental litter over and left them with Noodle. lol !

Can you friend think back 1 month to their movements? Did they have a vet visit or was Noodle boarded for any reason?? I guess the cat door is the most realistic possibility.

@Spidey, AV is in Australia. Our wild rabbits are the European breed. So I guess it could have been wild or feral.

[kralspace]

You know some people really believe in cabbits…….I suspect the cat.

[jerseygirl]

lol

[babybunsmum]

lol… cabbits.

what a mystery. rabbits sure do know how to get themselves into – ahem – trouble.

any chance of seeing pics of noodle and her surprise litter?

[kralspace]

[LoveChaCha]

karlspace

oh me dearies!!

 

from chacha:

 

i’m gladz ze hoominz learn der lesson and get ze bunnie fixed!! it does wonders! it only hurt for a bit, but it wortz ze binkies galore for many years to come!

[Lis]

 maybe the babies are the Jesuses of the bunny world?

[bunnymum16]

that’s really surprising.how are the babies doing?

[bunnytowne]

rofl   y’all are so funny.    Jesuses of the bunny world lol

oh there it is the cabbot   the white cabbot.  That must be the culpritl

[angelicvampyre]

Thanks for the laugh guys, I will let her know it may be the cat (who is male but is desexed). The only thing we can think of is that one of her kids said that when they where playing in the park they had Noodle on her extend lead attached to bench, they remember seeing what looked like a white rabbit near the bushes and when they saw him they went and got Noodle but he could have already been there and done the deed and was hopping away. So best bet is that he was a domesticated rabbit that had been “Set Free” Noodle seems to have taken it all in her stride hoping in and out of the laundry basket and all bubs had full tummies when the family got up today. I am going to ask her for a picture to put up by my bet is on the wild rabbit in the park.

[Beka27]

As if the incredibly high cancer risk wasn’t enough… this is just one more reason to spay and neuter even your SINGLE rabbits.

I hope this fiasco will educate her about the importance of altering… except now instead of having to alter one, she has six that need to get done.

[MissKris&Koji]

6 fixin’s to be done… ay! That’s like, what, $1200? Ouch.

[Beka27]

Posted By misskrisnyc on 07/12/2010 06:44 PM

6 fixin’s to be done… ay! That’s like, what, $1200? Ouch.

 

And that’s assuming each spay/neuter is at the low end of $200, and this doesn’t take into account the initial vet visit, any pain meds, etc…

I think a more realistic estimate would be an average of $300 per rabbit… at $1800. 

 

If all the babies are female… forget about it… 

[jerseygirl]

How are Mama and the babies doing?

[angelicvampyre]

Hi guys, I rang my friend all are fine, one was looking a bit weak (the runt of the litter) and she rushed the lot in the laundry basket to the vet… vets verdit he is the runt of the litter! She is going to get mum spayed as soon as the vet gives her the ok and is also thinking of keeping the lot and getting them all spayed…. 1 rabbit to 6 that is going to be intresting. She has changed the mums feed as the vet said she was a little on the light side but other then that they are fine. I have not been around to see them so I don’t have any pictures yet sorry.

[jerseygirl]

OK. I have gold, frankincense, myrrh AND carrots. Where are these babeez?

[angelicvampyre]

If I had time to go around and see them then I would but I am a little worried as I smell like rabbits and normally Noodle does not like me much so going near her bubs might not be a good idea. i have asked for pictures and as soon as I have them you will have them!

[lilmizzsnickerz]

aww i really wanna see pictures =D

[Monkeybun]

*pokes AV’s friend* We want pics! *pokes more*

[angelicvampyre]

I promise they are coming… i swear! As soon as i get around to see them you get to see them!

[LittlePuffyTail]

In the words of Tom Petty….The Waiting is the hardest part. We haven’t seen baby bun pics in sooooo long!!!

[Barbie]

Tell her to join BB… but don’t tell her we’re going to pester her CONSTANTLY for pictures

Hope the babies and momma bun are doing well!

[angelicvampyre]

Sorry I have not been on this thread for a while, I spoke to my friend the other day and all the babies died not sure why, they where well feed and happy and noodle was looking after them and then one morning they got up and one of the bubs was dead, they took the baby up to the vet and the vet said it was probley the runt of the litter and as long as they others where fine then not to worry, the next day another had passed so all went to the vet and discovered that they had something (not sure what) all where put on meds but it did not help, now mum is sick and they are rushing her back and forth to the vet.

[jerseygirl]

Oh that is sad! And must be stressful for your friend. I hope her rabbit comes good. *binky free babies*

[angelicvampyre]

yes she is really stressed and worried the vet was telling her that the mother may have caught whatever from the male rabbit and passed it on to the bubs or maybe got something from another rabbit when she was in the back yard or on one of her walks. My friend is blaming herself saying that if she had just kept her bunny inside then none of this would have happened no babies no illness no death but noodle loves going for walks and granted she should have had her desexed but all she can do now is live and learn and move forward I hope.

[mrmac]

I hope Noodle is ok! Poor babies, that is sad. She cannot blame herself though. Yes she should have been spayed but now she knows.

[MirBear]

thats terrible to hear! just a thought, could noodle possibly of had uterin cancer and maybe the babies got it from u know, being born..?

[angelicvampyre]

I don’t think it is that Noddle mum kept telling me that it was a bug but she could not remember how to pronounce it. I know she gets her vaccinations and if it was Mix then there would not be much hope so must be something else which is sad.

[Andi]

What a story. Poor bunny, hopefully she will be feeling better real soon.
Mom’s can pass a lot of illnesses onto their babies, i have 2 rabbits that are left from a litter of 7 who all died early in life b/c of an illness they caught from their mother when they were still in the womb, it affected their livers and looked like cancer when the necroscopies were done, but still very odd even to the Vets.
This is probably way off, as i don’t know enough about the subject (And honestly I’m hung over lol) but i know it is common in Guinea pigs to have both sexual organs. The information i do not know about is whether both organs work and the animal can impregnate itself … but it’s a thought. Since wild rabbits cannot breed and make babies with our domestics (in America), and it wasn’t mentioned if she had ever seen another domestic rabbit hanging around her place.

[angelicvampyre]

Andi – they believe that it was a domestic rabbit that she met in the park, they have been setting traps for this rabbit in the hope to catch him and send him up to the vets because it is most likely that he gave her something that she passed onto the babies.

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