MyBoyHarper
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This will be Chance's blog, updated withpictures and stories of his recovery from neglect. Since yesterday,Chance has become all along the US through the rescue website, masse-mailings to members of the rescue, and on the rescue's MySpaceaccount where many have already sent him well wishes and get well soonbanners.
Here's the story of Chance:
The local pound called the rescue the othermorning and saidthey hada rabbit for us to pick up. We've gotten rabbits fromthem before, so no big deal. I told my friend I was in the area, Iwould grab this one. The pound said it was found by a lady who had seenhim wandering the woods behind her house. She captured him and boughthim to the pound, and then the pound called us.
So, I get there around noon knowing nothing more than it was a lopearred. I pull around the back and they told me he was in cage 9. Iwalk down to cage 9, and find achinchilla colored male minilop. I said, awww, you're cute, and put him in the carrier. When I gotto the truck, I took him out to get a better look at him. And I washorrified.
He is covered in mats and urine scald. It was absolutely horrendous. Helooked sick, so I rushed him to my vet who doesn't charge much when webring in rescues. He did several tests and a fecal. The poor thing iscompletely dehydrated, malnourished, very anemic with a rock bottomiron count. He had poopy butt, but the tests came back negative forcoccidia. After doing tests, the vet said that his stomach andintestines are pure water, no solid feces. He said it's most likely dueto a bad diet, because he also tested negative for parasites.
He had a good bit of blood in his feces, and after more testing, thevet found his intestines were inflammed and purely raw. And he also hadno rabbit food in his stomach. He was most likely being fed somethingother than rabbit food and this highly irritated his intestines. He'sbeen grinding his teeth, and got worse at the vets. The vet didn't wanthim on pain medicines because it may make things worse.
So, he's on regular pellets now and nutrical. He's due back in the veton Wednesday. He's somewhat lethargic and really doesn't feel well atall. The vet, as well as me, were outraged that someone could do thisto a rabbit. They set him 'free' and we're glad. And I'm glad theperson who found him took him to the pound so that we could now havehim to take care of.
We lovingly named him Chance (because I am giving him a big 2nd chanceat a good life). Here's Chance, before me taking out the mats andgiving him a bath. The brown is NOT his actual color, that is urinestains. Pathetic huh?
I will update later with some more pictures now that Chance's back andbutt have been shaved, he's been bathed, and had his nails clipped.
Here's the story of Chance:
The local pound called the rescue the othermorning and saidthey hada rabbit for us to pick up. We've gotten rabbits fromthem before, so no big deal. I told my friend I was in the area, Iwould grab this one. The pound said it was found by a lady who had seenhim wandering the woods behind her house. She captured him and boughthim to the pound, and then the pound called us.
So, I get there around noon knowing nothing more than it was a lopearred. I pull around the back and they told me he was in cage 9. Iwalk down to cage 9, and find achinchilla colored male minilop. I said, awww, you're cute, and put him in the carrier. When I gotto the truck, I took him out to get a better look at him. And I washorrified.
He is covered in mats and urine scald. It was absolutely horrendous. Helooked sick, so I rushed him to my vet who doesn't charge much when webring in rescues. He did several tests and a fecal. The poor thing iscompletely dehydrated, malnourished, very anemic with a rock bottomiron count. He had poopy butt, but the tests came back negative forcoccidia. After doing tests, the vet said that his stomach andintestines are pure water, no solid feces. He said it's most likely dueto a bad diet, because he also tested negative for parasites.
He had a good bit of blood in his feces, and after more testing, thevet found his intestines were inflammed and purely raw. And he also hadno rabbit food in his stomach. He was most likely being fed somethingother than rabbit food and this highly irritated his intestines. He'sbeen grinding his teeth, and got worse at the vets. The vet didn't wanthim on pain medicines because it may make things worse.
So, he's on regular pellets now and nutrical. He's due back in the veton Wednesday. He's somewhat lethargic and really doesn't feel well atall. The vet, as well as me, were outraged that someone could do thisto a rabbit. They set him 'free' and we're glad. And I'm glad theperson who found him took him to the pound so that we could now havehim to take care of.
We lovingly named him Chance (because I am giving him a big 2nd chanceat a good life). Here's Chance, before me taking out the mats andgiving him a bath. The brown is NOT his actual color, that is urinestains. Pathetic huh?
I will update later with some more pictures now that Chance's back andbutt have been shaved, he's been bathed, and had his nails clipped.
Not a lot of people would do that, you must really like animals.
