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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...

DeeDee the doe with the missing uterus definitely wasn't spayed. She's my one and only show pedigree rabbit. I put my name down for her when she was a three week old kit, collected her when she was ten weeks. She also doesn't show any hormonal behaviour. She has what we call her 'nest' where she...

Yep we'll be waiting a bit, I wouldn't even let her near another bun till two weeks post op anyway. Jemima's clearly feeling better, she decided to celebrate by remodeling her stitches. She hasn't actually reopened the wound, but it does now have frayed thread ends hanging out. I've yet to have...

Jemima was pregnant, only about 1-2 weeks along though, so she went through surgery easily. She started eating this morning, picking at some veggies and at some point she used her litter tray, so it looks like all is good. Even better, it looks like she may have a home. We had our monthly...

Hi all, I dropped Jemima off an hour ago at the vets, and no babies (yay), so they've been authorised to abort the litter if she is heavily pregnant. I'll let you all know how she goes. I have a buck scheduled to be desexed next week, so I think once he's recovered I'll bond him and Jemima together.

Diarrheas already cleared up, it stopped after about 24 hours in care. Cocci tests are clear, that was done before she came into the branch. She's started on hay now and small amounts of veggies. She's settled in well, not big on being handled but she doesn't mind being patted on the face. No...