Djakarta
Well-Known Member
I was suffering from the " No Bunny to Come Home To" syndrome.
My last foster from my first foster family had been adopted, and the empty cage was verydepressing.
I was discussing possible new foster bunnies, when I received an email- a shelter bunny had just given birth to SIX babies- could I foster?
Six babies? I thought I'd had my hands full before with only two babies. This would require some thinking. Also, the mom sounded like she was in pretty bad shape.
She had come in 10 days earlier with her upper front teethbroken off at the gumline and another tooth that was abscessed ( which had been extracted) and a torn lower lip. She had been on antibiotics and had received treatment for fleas.
So the poor thing was thin, anemic and recovering from an extraction. How much special care was she going to need? Would I be in wayover my head?
Turns out that her upper teeth had already started growing in, she was eating without assistance. She had finished her medications. She was mostly in need of TLC.
So after some feverish discussion with my family and a fellow foster mom, I sent the email back- Yes!
This is Cookie.
Although, sometimes I think her name should be spelt "Kooky"
These are her babies. ( 9/30 One day old)
My last foster from my first foster family had been adopted, and the empty cage was verydepressing.
I was discussing possible new foster bunnies, when I received an email- a shelter bunny had just given birth to SIX babies- could I foster?
Six babies? I thought I'd had my hands full before with only two babies. This would require some thinking. Also, the mom sounded like she was in pretty bad shape.
She had come in 10 days earlier with her upper front teethbroken off at the gumline and another tooth that was abscessed ( which had been extracted) and a torn lower lip. She had been on antibiotics and had received treatment for fleas.
So the poor thing was thin, anemic and recovering from an extraction. How much special care was she going to need? Would I be in wayover my head?
Turns out that her upper teeth had already started growing in, she was eating without assistance. She had finished her medications. She was mostly in need of TLC.
So after some feverish discussion with my family and a fellow foster mom, I sent the email back- Yes!
This is Cookie.
Although, sometimes I think her name should be spelt "Kooky"
These are her babies. ( 9/30 One day old)
