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Except you can't quite buy cosmetics or groceries or small appliances from Bunnings :P I do miss American stores.

Outbreaks happen more often then you'd think. I live out in the country on property and monitor myxi reports whenever I can and it's more often reported in or near coastal cities than it is inland. Calici on the other hand is everywhere. I'd love for the myxi vaccine to be allowed, but I think...

Wilfrids pretty much fixed up now :) I'm also in Aus, we don't have stores like Petsmart or Walmart, I don't think we even have anything that corresponds to Walmart, that was always an odd store.... A bristle brush wouldn't work either... he's a cashie, his coat takes serious gear (and makes me...

Just an update for everyone. Wilfrid has been doing well, though he scared the bejeezers out of the pet sitter by escaping his cage one day. He's a very hyper rabbit however and very destructive. Which would be okay except he's also fallen in love with my Mothers rabbit, she very much doesn't...

First 24 hours without bandages has gone well, there are no exposed spots on his feet and everything looks healthy and pink, no red raw rubbed patches. Since he's getting bored silly I upgraded him to my largest hospital cage and he was so overjoyed, racing around and scenting everything. A few...

For those more used to fahrenheit, 43 degrees celsius is about 110 degrees fahrenheit. I'd keep the buns inside, this weather is atrocious at the moment. If you go to Bunnings, in the gardening section (normally near all the rolls of avairy wire) there are packs of huge panels, 70cm x 90cm...

We just finished bunny exercise time (the four and a half hours it takes to exercise nine rabbits, one in the smaller play area, one in the large play area and one out on the harness with me, for an hour and a half each) and there are sleepy bunnies everywhere. Wilfrid didn't get to go for a...

Wilfrid has warn his booties for 48 hours now and the change in phenomenal. All the dry scabby bits are gone and the couple of bald sections have clean healthy pink skin with the beginning stubble of fur. I'm going to take them off tomorrow night and leave them off I think as they are definitely...

Yep :) His cuts are being treated with a bunny safe antiseptic cream and I also have povidine-iodine ointment on standby. So far now he's clean and stress free he's looking good, the swelling on his scrotum is going down as well. He kept his pink booties on with minimal fuss all day, I'll redo...

I've had rabbits have a close shave before... I've never seen one so coated in scabs and cuts though. There are massive cuts all over him and some are quite deep. If they didn't have experience shaving him, they had plenty of options for other people who would do it, or he could have come...

So basically identical to vetbed... except vet bed is designed to keep a sick animal clean and dry as well. This is vetbed: http://s161.photobucket.com/user/chezzy-cherry/media/IMG_8283.jpg.html

Well we had some fun with the poor bubs feet, but I 'think' I've got them wrapped solidly enough now... He's got antiseptic cream on the sores, then some cashie fur against his feet and then a sterile wound pad, and the whole lot covered in vetwrap. I checked his running and he's moving...

I would think the vetbed I'm already using us going to be the softest possible surface... After all it's purpose is to keep animals, clean, dry and warm post surgery. Unless it's not something you guys have? It's like a cross between polar fleece and a really thick fake fur. It's soft as...

Thanks guys :) With the rubber mats they are a good idea but I can't see their advantage over vetbed for a litter trained rabbit? He still has to sit on newspaper kitty litter every time he goes to the toilet. Anyone know what Preparation H is in Australia? I do have vetwrap here and one of...

I am a foster care coordinator with the RSPCA branch in my town. Recently I organised for several rabbits in kill shelters to come into foster care with us. They arrived in varying degrees of health. Most mainly have behaviour issues but I'm really worried about one boy. He is a deaf cashmere...