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Our female mini rex, Brie, started with a little lump on the edge of her ear, and now she has lumps on her back rump area and on the other ear. We took her to the vet because we weren't sure if it had to do with molting or something else. Our rabbit savvy vet took some samples, but didn't see...

Don't blame yourself. You did the best you could under the circumstances, and you did what you thought was best for him. I have been there....and I blamed myself too, for the loss of one of our rabbits. But the vet later told me that there wasn't anything else I could have done differently...

We buy Oxbow timothy hay and orchard grass. The quality isn't always 100% the best, but they will stand by their product and replace it if you call them to complain. We have bought other brands, but Oxbow has been the most consistent with quality for us. We have tried other brands and our...

Be aware that if there are other issues like a potential blockage or problems with the ileus(?), you can have some serious problems with using metoclopromide. It wasn’t working for our rabbit, and after we discontinued it, she got better with some of the other things we were trying...

I am assuming it was the metoclopromide because after we stopped using that and started offering some random different greens, especially cilantro, things kicked in and she started eating and pooping again. She is still on the split dose of Albon but is tolerating it well. Yesterday she started...

She is about a year and a half old. She was spayed when we adopted her. The vet did not do blood work, but all of this started last week when it was really hot at our house. We thought we had all of the bunnies cool enough, but we found out she wasn't getting cool enough. The vet thinks this...

It took us two years to bond with our sweet old boy Chester, a mini lop. He was given away because he was some kid's 4-H project, the kid had dropped him, and they did not give him medical care, and then he couldn't be shown because he had a bad leg from the drop (our vet thinks his toe might...

That is a long drive. Our bunnies get stressed if they have to travel more than an hour. Will you be traveling while it is hot? Our vet is an hour away. When our female bun got fixed, we brought her home that afternoon and she did fine for the ride home, but it was in the fall when it was...

Our bunny Chester is like this! He loves to "help" clean up his cage! LOL

I have cared for sick bunnies before, but this is different. We have a rabbit savvy vet who has years of experience in both her practice as well as in rescues. She seems even stumped at this one. Ginger was diagnosed first with GI stasis. Then after they were able to get a poo sample, they...

I have posted a thread over in Health and Wellness, but I wanted to ask this question because I can't get in touch with my rabbit savvy vet and her tech that is on duty tonight didn't have enough knowledge to give me answers. Our rabbit is being treated for GI stasis and coccidia. She isn't...

We use Oxbow for one of our rabbits because she was overweight and that is what our vet recommended to help her lose weight (and it worked). If you want to buy Oxbow, the cheapest way is to either order online (we have ordered from Fosters and Smith when it's on sale, or Amazon because we have...

I do have a rabbit savvy vet, who has had many years of experience both as a vet and in rabbit rescue. We haven't had a rabbit with coccidia in many years, and I don't remember what it was like. When I wrote my post, I was working off of very little sleep. My mind is clearer now. There were...

We have three rabbits total, but they all have their own separate living spaces in our home. Our little gal, Ginger, has not been acting like herself after this most recent heat wave. We have tried to keep our living room space very cool, but even on the worst day, with our central air running...

There is a group in Wichita, KS, called Bunny TNT - have you tried them yet? They might be able to help. I'm so sorry you are going through this. We had a rabbit that had serious health conditions, and we were not going to be able to afford to care for her, so we talked to several rabbit...