Zouave
Well-Known Member
Some of you may well recall this long thread from a month ago about Poppy's health issue and operation: http://rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=45148&forum_id=16&page=1
Poppy is gone. :cry1:
He had an operation (at no small cost) a month ago for a melanoma tumor on his right testicle. He was also neutered at the time.
He seemed and was fine and normal for weeks. I noticed some minor symptoms - he seemed a little off his food. He left a test carrot and banana piece - very unusual, and I was seeing too much left hay, and he peed outside the litter pan. Not normal. There was a minor bulge where his right testicle was. That area did not seem as clean as it should have been. All this occurred in less than two days; it happened very quickly.
Just before calling the vet I went out to check on Poppy - when an animal is questionable such as that we may dread to do so. But I did not yet expect to see him laying on his side dead and somewhat stiff.
He is in the freezer now.
I posted when I got him as a young skinny bunny.
I promised him I would do what I could - and I did. I have that small consolation. I also no longer have to worry, unfortunately.
LINK: PHOTOS and story of when I first got him
I thought he was a she at first as that is what I was told.
Many photos below.
Another Link
A THIRD LINK
A Fourth Link
A Fifth Link
Poppy's Health Issues Thread
All of this is in a tribute on my own board; anyone can post there, no need to register for this. I don't know when I will be back on this site. I have no more rabbits. Adoption ideas for NYC are welcome. LINK HERE
It was like yesterday when I rescued you as a young bunny and carried you up in my arms from the basement. That was February 24, of 2004. You were skinny and underfed, as the photos in the links above show. They had you jammed in a twenty gallon aquarium tank with lid - now home for fancy mice! There were lots of poops and hay in there! I remember the first moment I saw you.
Your first owner named you "Poopy". sand they told me your were female. For months I called you a 'she", and by the time I learned the truth I could not break the habit. Never could, not even this week. I did change your name to Poppy. You had the softest belly imaginable as I held you on your back so many times.
I did what I could.
Thanks for making my life better.
Poppy, died May 7th, 2009. About 5 1/2 years old.
And thus we have another sad entry to my memorial gallery of departed pets.
:banghead
Poppy is gone. :cry1:
He had an operation (at no small cost) a month ago for a melanoma tumor on his right testicle. He was also neutered at the time.
He seemed and was fine and normal for weeks. I noticed some minor symptoms - he seemed a little off his food. He left a test carrot and banana piece - very unusual, and I was seeing too much left hay, and he peed outside the litter pan. Not normal. There was a minor bulge where his right testicle was. That area did not seem as clean as it should have been. All this occurred in less than two days; it happened very quickly.
Just before calling the vet I went out to check on Poppy - when an animal is questionable such as that we may dread to do so. But I did not yet expect to see him laying on his side dead and somewhat stiff.
He is in the freezer now.I posted when I got him as a young skinny bunny.
I promised him I would do what I could - and I did. I have that small consolation. I also no longer have to worry, unfortunately.
LINK: PHOTOS and story of when I first got him
I thought he was a she at first as that is what I was told.
Many photos below.
Another Link
A THIRD LINK
A Fourth Link
A Fifth Link
Poppy's Health Issues Thread
All of this is in a tribute on my own board; anyone can post there, no need to register for this. I don't know when I will be back on this site. I have no more rabbits. Adoption ideas for NYC are welcome. LINK HERE
It was like yesterday when I rescued you as a young bunny and carried you up in my arms from the basement. That was February 24, of 2004. You were skinny and underfed, as the photos in the links above show. They had you jammed in a twenty gallon aquarium tank with lid - now home for fancy mice! There were lots of poops and hay in there! I remember the first moment I saw you.
Your first owner named you "Poopy". sand they told me your were female. For months I called you a 'she", and by the time I learned the truth I could not break the habit. Never could, not even this week.
I did change your name to Poppy. You had the softest belly imaginable as I held you on your back so many times.
I did what I could.Thanks for making my life better.
Poppy, died May 7th, 2009. About 5 1/2 years old.
And thus we have another sad entry to my memorial gallery of departed pets.
:banghead
