kaie's journal

My bedroom door no longer opens all the way. But I have assembled an exercise pen where Clarissa and Sally can take turns getting a little bit of exercise. (In a pinch, it could even be used to house a fourth (!) rescue.

Holly had two mummified fetuses removed today. She is recovering from surgery now. She is one of four bunnies received from a kill shelter last Monday; she had not been eating well or acting like a healthy rabbit. I brought her in for an exam today as bunny lady and I both felt that she was simply not doing well, more so than could be expected from the stress of relocating to a completely new home. She had radiographs (X-rays) taken as the vet felt a hard mass near her kidney, which revealed the two fetuses. An ultrasound indicated that they were not viable (alive) and after running blood work, we opted to ask him to perform the surgery. Upon examination, it turns out that she had indeed been spayed, and these had been the result of an ectopic pregnancy (outside the uterine horns where rabbit fetuses normally develop). As they were located up near her kidneys and would have been hidden by her intestines when the spay was performed, it is understandable that they had gone undetected until the tissues got to the point where they were causing her health to decline.

In the middle of all this, I rushed to a dual adoption interview with other rabbits (the original plan had been to get Holly checked out, and to include her if the vet judged her to be healthy), only to discover that one of the adopters had basically bowed out for the day. We then had to rush back to the vet to get Holly before they closed.

On the plus side, Miranda is going to a very good home, and we hope that she will eventually bond with her new housemate.

On the minus side, we are out a rather large vet bill (donations accepted via http://www.rabbitalliesct.org/), and we remain in overload status.

Nabaztag - Nabaztag (lots of Flash, apologies, but - cute!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfS-vHIU2VE&eurl=http://icanhascheezburger.com/&feature=player_embedded

.... so the only way to transmigrate a demon (humanoid) into a monster or vice versa is to transmigrate into a prinny first, correct? Because only prinnies have access to both types of units when transmigrating?

Also, Princess does NOT know the meaning of sharing. Or even not eating someone else's apple slice. She seriously does not believe that apple belongs anywhere except in her mouth.

BSAVA: "Vitamin K is synthesized by caecal bacteria, and, providing a rabbit is able to ingest its caecotrophs, deficiency is unlikely." [10]
Harcourt-Brown: "Vitamin K is produced by caecal microorganisms and is a constituent of caecotrophs. ... Deficiencies are unlikely to occur in pet rabbits." [36]

BSAVA adds that lucerne/alfalfa is a source of vitamin K.

Posted to save quotes for future use in letters to companies who produce rabbit food pellets, asking them to stop the use of synthetic vitamin K3, also known as menadione dimethylprimidinol sulfate, as research suggests that it may not be safe and veterianary medical textbooks suggest that rabbits obtain sufficient vitamin K from cecotrophy.

So Princess is busy washing her face, wash wash wash, wetting her paws and using them to clean her fur, busy busy busy, and Umaro oh so casually yawns, stretches, and stuffs his head right underneath her tongue. Now, for some reason, despite being something of a rabbit-cidal maniac (still), Princess likes to groom things (the floor; my sheets; any and all stuffed animals), so she automatically gives his head a few licks too. She stops after a second and resumes her own grooming. He waits a few minutes, then does it again, and she obliges - again.

I do know that he also grooms her - he's responsible for two temporary bald patches on the top of her head, where she can't reach.

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http://community.livejournal.com/rabbitowners/910529.html

The mentioned vitamin supplement (detailed here as being damaging to the liver) is in both Oxbow and Sweet Meadow timothy pellets. Oxbow at least has been cited as one of the best rabbit foods out there.

Guess the answer is to feed lots of hay, more veggies, and write to the feed companies asking them to remove it. I will also be running this by my vet the next time I see him.

For the past couple of weeks, I've seen wish lists floating in and out of my flist. Well, this is what I want for the winter holidays:

Please donate to a charity. Any one you like. Any amount you like. Dump change into a Salvation army box. I don't care.

Mine (the rabbit rescue I work for) takes PayPal donations. (Yeah, it's under my email. That's because I'm the only volunteer with enough time to do anything computer-wise.)

acetic acid + ammonium hydroxide → ammonium acetate + water
CH₃COOH (aq) + NH₄OH (aq) → NH₄CH₃COO (aq) + H₂O (l)

solid calcium carbonate + acetic acid → calcium acetate + carbon dioxide + water
CaCO₃ (s) + 2 CH₃COOH (aq) → Ca(CH₃COO)₂ (aq) + CO₂ (g) + H₂O (l)

"Rabbits make good pets. They are mild-tempered, seldom bite, and can be housetrained."

Mild-tempered? They've never met Princess.

Betadine totally, completely, and utterly rules. My bunny's incision is not infected, yay! (He was neutered last Wednesday.)

Tonight, a rabbit is dying.

He was dumped in a relative's backyard when his owners no longer wanted him. We went today to set out a trap in the hopes of catching him, baited with a variety of bunny delicacies.

A hawk tried to carry him off right in front of us. After a struggle, he escaped, but we were unable to catch him and could not find where he ran to hide.

This cute little lionhead is now dying, wedged under a porch or a bush somewhere, licking his wounds. If some other predator, attracted by the scent of blood, does not take him, the wounds from the hawk's talons will abscess, and the infection will kill him anyway.

Quoted from an email I just got:

One rabbit rescue, Midwest in Michigan, is close to winning a Shelter Makeover from Zootoo.com, but they need your help this weekend! (Deadline is March 31). Just sign up with the link below and they'll get 200 points. (They're the only rabbit rescue in the running). Every vote counts.

Sign up using this link:
http://www.zootoo.com/register/referrer/midwestrabbitrr

Then scroll down the page to No. 3, post the shelter's zipcode, 48170, and pick Midwest Rabbit Rescue from the list. Once you sign up, if you have the time, you can earn the shelter even
more points by reviewing products, commenting on news, etc. Please also get your friends, relatives and fellow rabbit lovers to do the same.

The bunnies thank you!

The rescue was being deliberately flagged to kill their ranking in order to prevent any rabbit shelter from getting money for renovations. There is no end to human depravity.

I have been busy.

Next up: Installing Gimp and finishing the Rabbit Allies website.

In Valhalla Knights ...( Read more... )

Never try to do anything involving an Intruder Rabbit directly in front of Your Insanely Possessive and Jealous and Most Darling Precious Bunny. She will feel the need to point out the Massive Error of your ways. With her teeth.

Working on a new blog: Still Life With Rabbits. It's lacking photos (boo) and direct Petfinder links (double boo) and I haven't put up Dusty or Spazzi (triple boo). But what the heck. It's a work in progress.

Things not to say during a rabbit bonding session:

"No, really, it's fine, I have Betadine."

"It does hurt badly, but that's okay."

"Ice? You think that'd help? Oh yeah. Swelling. Ice would help."

"On the plus side, I have a great 'Guess what my rabbit did last night!' story for when I go to work tomorrow."

"Well, it could be worse, if I hadn't separated them, we'd be driving to the vet right now."

"Oh! Here's the dustpan I brought so I could separate them without getting bitten! ... Er. Yeah."