Cinnamon the Cinnabun's Bunderful Life

[Cabrissi]

I suppose I should begin with a bit of an intro. I'd wanted a bunny for about 5 years but we wanted to wait. Originally I'd planned to get an English Angora as I'm also learning to spin and am quite used to maintaining double coated dogs, so a bit more brushing doesn't phase me.

At the start of December we were at a poultry sale as I keep rare breed poultry and wanted to buy some eggs. They happened to have a 'sundries' section where other things can be sold, usually incubators and equipment. This sale happened to have a lot of large white rabbits and buyers were there who I know are meat buyers. I try to avoid looking because I know there's nothing I can do about it and it's not pleasant but I noticed two little 8 week old tiny dwarf type buns on the table. They weren't attracting much interest. I missed out on one trying to push through the crowd. The second I saw a meat buyer eyeing and quickly snatched for the princely sum of $3. I can't imagine he'd have eatten such a tiny thing but it didn't bode well either way. When I got to see her closer I found she was an 8 week old dwarf with the most beautiful sooty fawn fur who cuddled into my arms. I settled her into her new cage when we got home and set her up with everything she needed, made the vet appointment with a bunny specialist vet shortly after and fell head over heels in love. I decided to call her Cinnamon, oh so original for a sort of browny-red rabbit I know but also because it's one of my favorite spices.

I know dwarfs have a bit of a reputation as being somewhat feisty but she is just a little love. I got her a month after my soul-dog, Verity, had to be sent to the rainbow bridge. I had lost my oldest dog Cade (brain cancer) the year before and he was best man at my wedding, with me through highschool, college, moving around the US and then to Aus and my first baby. We'd also lost our funny little Cami some months prior so when I lost Verity as well I was utterly devistated and inconsolable. Everyone thought I should get another puppy but I couldn't even look at dogs, touch them, go to training classes or show/trials without bursting into tears. Cinnamon ended up being so healing for me, so she is very a special little bun indeed.

I also have two kids - Laurent Etienne who is 4 years old and Lily who is 10 months, my Australian Shepherds (Sierra and Hope), a Maremma (Shadow), a kitty (Jasper), ducks, chickens, geese, guinea fowl, doves and coloured Corriedale sheep. All of them can be found on my website http://cabrissi.webs.com/ and blogger blog http://thecabrissidoglog.blogspot.com
I am an avid clicker trainer and behaviourist, fascinated with how animals and people learn and interact with the world and people around them. I have a few videos of her as well... the first is showing the use of clicker to teach Targeting with a target wand and the second is her playing with a ball. The quality of the videos is not the best as it's just shot off my mobilephone camera and at night. LOL But cute all the same in my slightly-prejudiced opinion!
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I'm also waiting to adopt a second bunny once Cinnamon is spayed from a local shelter. I so can't wait!

 

[hartleybun]

what a great start to a blog - lots of cute bunny pics she has a gorgeous coat! the other members of your crew sound cute too. well done for rescuing her also - sounds like she's really made herself at home.

btw - love that crochet blanket cinnamon is posing on. i crochet myself, amongst other things, and always seem to notice the background as well as the bun

edited for typos.....again...

 

[FallingStar]

Great blog so far.
Cinnamon is sucha cutie, I love her coloring.
That's awesome how you rescued her, I bet she's glad to be with ya.
All of your other critters sound cute as well.

 

[Wabbitdad12]

She is adorable. Great intro to your blog too.

How did you end up in Austrailia?

 

[Cabrissi]

I can't crochet very well, the blanket is one my DH's grandmother and mother both made. I knit however, as well as needle felt a bit and am trying to learn to spin as well.

I met my DH online (how cliche!) and over four years we fell in love. By the time our phone bills were $600 each every month we figured it was probably smarter for me to move over and get married. :love:

 

[Wabbitdad12]

Thats a good way to end up in Australia.

 

[Cabrissi]

Well Cinna had had her second vax today, weighed in at 1.36kg (just under 3lb) and is gaining a shiney summer coat. Her spay is scheduled for next Tuesday.

I am SO excited, not because of the spay itself but after she is healed I'll be able to adopt a friend for her! I've had to go to the shelter a few times over the past few weeks to deal with my foster kitties and it's always so hard walking away from the backroom where the buns are as I know the've VERY high euth rates and it's likely everyone I've just visited will never make it into the adoption room, as they're often euthed without even being evaled. :cry1:

I've very lucky our vet here is a rabbit specialist whose clinic only treats buns and guineapigs. She is just lovely and I'm VERY picky about vets (2 yrs of interviewing to find my dogs current vet LOL) so I'm comfortable Cinna will be in the best hands possible for her spay as well! I also got to have a nice chat with her about possibly going back to school when the kids are a bit older to study as a vet tech. I'd originally attended college at MSU as a vet student but dropped out some years back after I was hit by a car and spent a good while gaining hearing and balance back.

 

[kherrmann3]

Lovely intro. to the blog! Rescue bunnies are the best bunnies! I hope that little Cinnamon's spay goes well and she is back to being her adorable little self in no time! :clover:

 

[Cabrissi]

Very excited and nervous... Cinnamon goes in tomorrow morning for her spay! Her vet is bunderful, a bunny specialist, so I know she's in the best of hands but I'm antsy all the same. I wish I could be there at the spay. Not that I could do anything if something went wrong with my measley 1 yr of vet school but don't think I'll fully relax until I get the call afterwards saying she's awake and recovering nicely! LOL

 

[cheryl]

Will be thinking of pretty little Cinnamon tomorrow

And i'll be sending her lots of healing and comforting vibes

 

[Elf Mommy]

Wonderful blog! Welcome to bunny slavehood. I will be thinking about your little Cinnamon tomorrow! I hope everything goes very smoothly.

 

[kherrmann3]

ray: Sending good vibes and quick recovery wishes Cinnamon's way for tomorrow!!!

 

[Cabrissi]

Well, she is at the vets now. Clever girl that she is she knew something was up and did NOT want to come to me this morning. She came up just outside of reach and refused to get near enough for me to pick up. Even offers of nose kisses and carrots were roundly snubbed - "Silly woman, don't think I didn't see you get my carrier down last night! I know what THAT means!"

I put her in the carrier I got this face!

Un. Am. Used!!!!!:disgust:

If all is going to plan, she should be in surgery right now and I'll be able to pick her up around 4pm Melbourne time.

Not exactly bun related but I thought I'd share this as they're cute all the same... three of our nine new muscovy duck babies.

:hearts:

 

[Elf Mommy]

awwwwww! I love the duckies!!!

 

[kherrmann3]

Lookit those cute little peepers!

 

[Cabrissi]

Well she is home! :bunnydance:

She's had her pain medication but is obviously feeling rather hard done by. :imsick: I had to remove the second and third story of her cage, which she's not terribly amused by... nor is she too impressed with my insistance of blocking off her access to most of the house to prevent her trying to hop on furniture. She's in her little nestle-bed and has snubbed all food excepting chocolate mint and we're still waiting for her to use her litterbox so we know her little gut is back "online" so to speak. Poor Cinna.


The little quackers are a joy... Muscovy are big personaility packed into a relatively little body. Their mum, Maggie, is such a good mum as well. She's all white, their daddy is Tide who is lavender. We expected the bubs would be white, black or bronze but it looks like some of them will be lavender as well. Maggie was rescued by a friend of mine as a youngster and was originally going to be put down. She's a funny girl though, very cheeky and we love her. :duck:

 

[Pipp]

Keep her warm, their body temps drop from the anesthetic.

Also expect her to be worse when the pain meds wear off. Did they send you home with some? I hope so.

Poor little bunny, but its for your own good sweetie, honest.


sas et:

 

[Cabrissi]

Yep, beyond being generally obsessive over my animals care I've worked at a vets before and was a vet student before my accident, so I'm familiar with surgical supportive/after care. She has metacam as well for the next few days. The Melbourne Rabbit Clinic, where I took her, is one of the best bunny vets around! :thumbup

 

[Wabbitdad12]

Poor bun, I hope she has a speedy recovery.

 

[Cabrissi]

She seems to have gotten your wish Wabbitdad! She has been her perky, inquisitive, want-to-be-into-everything diva self today!

She's also back to her normal (piggy!) appetite - scarfing her hay, her fresh greens-n-herbs, treats and pellets and shamelessly hitting me up for kisses and pets. Litterbox shows everything is working as it should on the other end as well which is pleasing. All in all you'd never know she'd just had surgery! She has her surgical re-check tomorrow but I'm confident it will come up fine. We'll give her the next week to recover before we visit the RSPCA with her to adopt a friend!

My little foster kittens will also be leaving shortly... I foster babies who are too small/young to go into the shelter as they'd be euthanized upon arrival (anything under 600g, which is roughly 5-6weeks old) get them big enough and then let them go back. My latest babies come from two litters - a litter of 3 week old ferals and a 4 week old but severely malnourished, flea infested, anemic, little deaf kitten who'd been tossed out a car in an industrialish area. This is my son with one of them... you can see they've gotten over the feral bit just fine! ;p

We got good news from the dog agility club I'd been a part of, that I'll be able to get back into a class in only a few months. It's one of the top clubs and very much in demand, it took 2 yrs on the waiting list to get in the first time so a couple months is very good news!