Bella’s spay day....nervous!

[splashgirl45]

bet they could do some damage as he is so big, he is lovely i can see why you got him

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Yes, I need to take one, will have a go tomorrow. He’s the same colour but normal rabbit size, lopped ears and has really pretty white patches underneath?

Ooh he sounds really cute, I'd love to see him

 

[poiuytrewq]

bet they could do some damage as he is so big, he is lovely i can see why you got him

My vet said they can really damage their backs because their legs are so strong. We waited for the GA to check gender!

 

[poiuytrewq]

And this is Fiver. He’s the one someone found on the side of a road!

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

And this is Fiver. He’s the one someone found on the side of a road!

Oh isnt he sweet! Love his white nose. He looks a fairly big bunny too?

 

[poiuytrewq]

Oh isnt he sweet! Love his white nose. He looks a fairly big bunny too?

He is cute. He’s not no. I’m not sure what he is but he wouldn’t be a whole lot bigger than our last one which was a dwarf.

 

[Redders]

I just love them poiuytrewq, please keep us updated with photos. I would especially love to see bonding pictures, it honestly fills me with joy to see these social creatures with their companions ? if I could figure out how to put pictures I would share ones of my girls but it always seems such a faff to get them to work I give up half way through!

 

[poiuytrewq]

I just love them poiuytrewq, please keep us updated with photos. I would especially love to see bonding pictures, it honestly fills me with joy to see these social creatures with their companions ? if I could figure out how to put pictures I would share ones of my girls but it always seems such a faff to get them to work I give up half way through!

Aww, I will do! They have had a lovely afternoon. We went and picked willow boughs for them today and I hung them over the dividing wall. Happy rabbits!

 

[poiuytrewq]

@Redders I’m pretty useless at the whole photo thing but if you click the attach file, then photo library, choose photo. Under the photo says actual size or something. At this point I click there and change to medium. Then post. Feel free to experiment here! I’d love to see

 

[Redders]

Ah well that doesn’t sound to complex! I’ll give it a whirl!

 

[Redders]

 

[Redders]

It’s sideways! But it worked!

 

[poiuytrewq]

It’s sideways! But it worked!

Yeah I can’t get my head round that. No idea why Bellas came out the right way!
They are lovely! They look quite big too?

 

[poiuytrewq]

Are they sisters?

 

[Redders]

They are Rexes, so a fairly big breed, although Margot is a little fat! They are the labradors of the rabbit species. Their ideal weight is probably around 2.8kg ish, but in this one Margot is about 3kg - we had just moved house and I was a bad owner by overcompensating for the stress with snacks

 

[Redders]

Yes, sisters, never been apart but have been temporarily separated But next to each other and rebonded following Margot being ill. They came from my university small animal barn where we learnt handling etc, and actually looking back, the university should not have been breeding the animals knowing how much of a crisis there is in rescues, so I raised this with them once I was better educated and they neutered the remaining rabbits

 

[Redders]

 

[poiuytrewq]

Gorgeous colours.
I hate over breeding. Bella is the first baby I’ve had in many years and now I see her breeder advertising the same cross over and over so they are puppy farmer types sadly. I wish I’d looked into that more before buying.
I read they only need tiny amounts of hard feed but he is always starving!

 

[Redders]

Ah yeah they are so good at acting like they are never fed. Like they are starving, really starving. Mine inhale anything they are given! I feed a lot more forage these days now I know what I’m looking for, but they still go mad for their tiny ration of pellets. It’s handy though because I know if one of them doesn’t come running to see what I might be feeding them, I know something is wrong. Rexes are more prone to fur blockages due to the type of fur they have, plus mine seem to love to eat carpet for some ridiculous reason only known to bunkind

 

[Redders]

The RWAF website has a guide for grams per kg body weight for feeding pellets, it’s much more useful than saying an egg cup full or following packet feeding guides. But I just give mine 8 each as they are always on a diet!

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

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What pretty colours! Are they friendly being house bunnies?

 

[Redders]

Yeah they are. Bunnies mostly hate being picked up and interfered with, and prefer contact on their own terms, but they sleep on my bed - usually by my feet, sometimes on my pillow, tug at my PJs if they want snacks, climb up my legs for snacks, like strokes between their ears, Occasionally lick me to groom me and are fine to be picked up and don’t make a fuss, but I only pick them up when I have to. They like to bounce on my tummy when doing zoomies around the room!

thanks, their colours are unusual. Apparently it’s called Magpie, but I call them marbled.

 

[Crazy_cat_lady]

Yeah they are. Bunnies mostly hate being picked up and interfered with, and prefer contact on their own terms, but they sleep on my bed - usually by my feet, sometimes on my pillow, tug at my PJs if they want snacks, climb up my legs for snacks, like strokes between their ears, Occasionally lick me to groom me and are fine to be picked up and don’t make a fuss, but I only pick them up when I have to. They like to bounce on my tummy when doing zoomies around the room!

thanks, their colours are unusual. Apparently it’s called Magpie, but I call them marbled.

Oh they sound very friendly, do they have a little ramp to get on the bed? They sound like they have a lot of character

 

[Redders]

Ha no ramp, at 4m they were jumping over a 3 foot fence, so they just go ‘ping’ and they silently land on the bed! Sometimes I’ll be half awake and bleary eyed, not yet moved, and they sense I am awake and suddenly, a bunny appears right in front of my face! If it’s Margot she nudges my face with her face ?. If I ignore that because, y’know, it’s 5am, she will tug my hair or the duvet ? very demanding! They have the run of all upstairs which has 2 double rooms and a box room and when they are one one’ they zoom around the whole floor space and ping on and off of the beds repeatedly!
Edit: she once snipped a chunk of my hair off from the top of my head!

 

[chaps89]

I had to come and read this thread because everytime I scroll down the main menu the title kept catching my eye - Bellas SPA day was what I swear it said, not spay day. Anyway, I'm glad I did, I've loved seeing cute bunny photos!

 

[poiuytrewq]

Redders that’s amazing! Do you have any other animals in the house? Before moving here original bun was a house rabbit and I loved that. He never got into bed with me sadly!
They cant really live in here, not our house and one got a bit destructive with her chewing, Bella also loves chewing. We now have a cat and dog I didn’t have as a puppy so wouldn’t totally trust.
@chaps89 i read it as spa day too ?‍

 

[Redders]

I don’t have any other animals in the house, mostly because I can’t afford any more pets!
i have friends who have cats and dogs and they live happily side by side although I don’t think I would trust them alone together as I am paranoid and don’t like to ask for trouble so if I did have other animals and introduced them and all was fine, I would give the rabbits their own room with a door I could shut properly for when I wasn’t in.
my friends cat snuggles up to her rabbit and they are best buddies, which surprised her as he was a prolific rabbit hunter when they lived rurally!
my house is rented, and Margot is a chewer, but I have developed strategies to protect stuff which isn’t mine! I rabbit proof areas, and I am a very good tenant in that anything they may damage I would replace straight away. But it’s only my stuff they damage, and even then it’s only cosmetic, so I just don’t have things I don’t want potentially chewed in the areas they go. I say ‘you’re so naughty bunnies!’ When they chew a hole in my bed sheets, but actually, it’s not naughty, it’s just normal rabbit behaviour so I just accept that and don’t buy massively expensive sheets!

 

[Redders]

Poiutrewq, I can’t remember if you have, but did you look into insurance for your buns? I was doing some researching for some clients of mine and Agria and Sainsbury’s both cover dental treatment if it’s causing a problem (rather than routine) and are cheaper than pet plan with decent cover levels. Worth an investigation if you were looking to insure, but I would always advise calling insurers about rabbits and checking that if the rabbit became unwell and it was found to be a dental issue, is it covered. And then request that in writing before buying the policy. Can’t be too careful with insurance these days!

 

[poiuytrewq]

Poiutrewq, I can’t remember if you have, but did you look into insurance for your buns? I was doing some researching for some clients of mine and Agria and Sainsbury’s both cover dental treatment if it’s causing a problem (rather than routine) and are cheaper than pet plan with decent cover levels. Worth an investigation if you were looking to insure, but I would always advise calling insurers about rabbits and checking that if the rabbit became unwell and it was found to be a dental issue, is it covered. And then request that in writing before buying the policy. Can’t be too careful with insurance these days!

I did look into it and got a few quotes but no never did anything else about it.
I’ll have a look at those companies, I’d kind of just figured I’d wing it a bit with them tbh. Last time I had a big non insured bill I put it on my credit card and had to suck it up ?‍
I guess it would be a more sensible option though.

 

[Redders]

I insured because I don’t have quick access to credit and I was a student, and in my final year, Margot had a bill of around £2500, and that was with my discount for working at the vets! Granted she had CT and a specialist operation and referral to a specialist, but I wanted to be able to provide that if I needed to so I was very glad of insurance at that point! Even now as a vet I couldn’t afford the cost of a CT without insurance, and they are the best imaging modality in small furries for many common conditions. It’s amazing how much of a bill they can rack up overnight and when I was a student, I would have been majorly scuppered!