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Bessie, a retired dam and Grand Champion, is now a houserabbit living with me in my apartment. I am her "mommy." Though she has earned the nickname The Dowager Empress, she adores me like a little girl. Lately she has become all too spouse-like in the aftermath of my divorce. She started...

I have a 4-month-old Flemish Giant sandy buck who the other week had first a cloudy eye and then a rapidly distending eye. I knew this was beyond my farm store remedies and raced him over to emergency at my very good rabbit vets. By the time we arrived, the eye is hugely distended and entirely...

I have a Flemish Giant who has sustained a back injury. He is no longer able to keep his hind feet under him. I am working with the vet with him, but I would like to get him into a special cart so he can locomote better with his front legs. The commercially available carts are very expensive...

Does anyone have experience with a buck having one undescended testicle and then it later descending? I have a nearly 8-month sandy Flemish Giant buck who I had entered in a show Sunday. Much to my surprise, he was DQ'ed because he had one undescended testicle. One breeder I talked to said it...

Hi Y'all -- I am a small-scale Flemish Giant rabbit breeder. All this year friends who also breed FG seem to have lost a lot of kits to The Bloat. We finally had our first inevitable case of it in June, losing one. For some reason, FG kits seem more susceptible to it than other breeds, but...

A breeder friend of mine has a nice litter of American Fuzzy Lops and we will be getting one in September from her. I have never had a longhaired rabbit before and have been trying to learn a little more about proper grooming of a Fuzzy Lop. Any good pointers, anyone?

Hi All -- Doing any showing this summer? Usually our last show is early June at the Midnight Madness show that our local club, Blue Ridge Rabbit and Cavy Club, puts on. But this year we are headed out July 4th weekend for Dickson, Tennessee and a triple show extravaganza. Fortunately, the...

On Sunday afternoon, one of my Flemish Giant sandy does had a litter of eleven. It was her second litter, and the peanut didn't make it, bringing it down to ten. Bessie is a great mom; she did a fantastic job with her first litter and she seemed to know that she was pregnant and seemed to...

I have a nearly 8-year-old Dutch rabbit. About three or four months ago, I noticed that she had something similar to fallen arches in her feet -- more of her paw reached flat out on the ground before she hopped on over it. But it did not seem to cause her pain. Last weekend, however, she...

A lady on my morning train asked me what to do about a wild kit that her cat brought in. I do not know how old the kit is. It apparently sits comfortably in her hand. Right now it is in a hamster cage and has been eating lettuce and carrots. While the cat did not injure it, it apparently pulled...

Beware post-show hormone surges in your rabbits. Our trip to the York show last weekend turned my rabbit barn into a soap opera. Dear little Dawn, a three-month, 1-week old doe who is going to her new owner in another few weeks, still stays with her mom Bessie in her hutch. After the show, she...

Our Flemish Giant kits are now eleven days old. On day 9 when I held them, I wondered how their skinny little uncoordinated limbs could possibly support their hopping in a few days. On Day 10, yesterday, all five of them had opened their eyes right on schedule. I was so thrilled that at last...

Our dear Crepe Suzette, a sandyFlemish Giant doe,died one year ago today after giving birth to eight lovely kits. We rushed the kits up to Suzette's breeder in Pennsylvania, who had a California doe who could foster them. Ma Doe did a great job with the kits. They all made it. We kept four and...

My husband and I are just starting our little rabbitry. It has been since my childhood --nearly thirty years ago -- since I have had a litter to look after. I have been reading as much as I can in preparation for this, including a number of books on bunny veterinary science. Several resources...

I have always wondered why vinegar is listed as a cleaner for rabbit messes -- I didn't find it very effective at getting urine stains out. Is it actually a pretty good disinfectant even if it is not a great stain remover? What about vanodine and some of the new iodophors (did I get the name...

I had not heard of "International Rabbit Day" until it appeared in the 2008 Rabbit Rescue calendar that my sister so thoughtfully bought me last Christmas. So I researched it a little bit on the 'Net. International Rabbit Day began in the UK, as a commemorative day to enhance educational...

Two of my rabbits are 6-year-old Black Dutch babies. In comparison to other rabbits (my sisters' house rabbits; my other rabbits), these two consume relatively little water (and little hay). I have tried giving them the little salt licks, but they are uninterested in those. I am now learning...

I almost feel as if I should put a "Trigger" notice or warning on this. I am thinking that I may somehow step on some toes in my ignorance on this subject matter. Our vet seems to think that rabbits can never have too much hay. He would actually like me to seriously limit my house rabbits'...

I am not sure if I am placing this in the best forum for advice and discussion, but here goes anyway. . . Suzette, our 6-month Flemish Giant doe, is very messy with her water dish. Actually, her water dish is one of those two-dish feeders that are "non-tippable", manufactured for cats and dogs...

Life is good with so many pets. I have no complaints. The cats and rabbits all get along, with the occasional exception of The Whale. The Whale is a cross-eyed cat who unfortunately was declawed in her youth. When other animals approach her, she becomes easily confused and threatened, seeing...