Well tonight has just been a hell night.
What started it was, I had to listen to what FIL had to say, second hand through my husband. That succeeded in p*ssing me off. Hes just a crazy wack-a-doodle who should be committed.
Then, the real icing on the cake. Bunny Foo Foo has something wrong with her. Her butt is really stained and matted. I can't usually brush her, she just will not allow it. I try to pluck the fur from her butt and dampen my hands to get the fur out, but it doesn't work. So, I've noticed for the last 2 weeks I guess, that her butt is really stained and crunchy. I finally got around to giving her a butt bath tonight and as I had her flipped over and clipping her nails, I realized how bad it was.
She doesn't have urine scald or anything, but the fur is SO matted and horrible. I'm crying right now, thinking about it. So I tried to trim some of the fur away, but I was so scared of hurting her. I got a little bit, then stopped. I just can't believe that I didn't notice it and I can't believe that I didn't give her a bath before this, when I first saw how dirty she looked.
So, as I'm holding her on her back in the crook of my arm I see something out of the corner of my eye, its a HUGE freaking spider! It came out of no where, so I'm cussing to myself about this stupid gigantic spider. Of course there were no shoes near me, so I had to tip toe around this **** spider to find a book. I killed it!
Foo sat on the couch with me for a while after I clipped her nails and some of her fur. I feel so bad, because I know I really stressed her out tonight. After the third time I flipped her over (which she does not usually tolerate) she just gave up. She quit fighting me holding her like that and it broke my heart.
I put her back in the kitchen and she seemed okay. I was cleaning out her cage and this HUGE grasshopper comes from some corner and scares the hell out of Foo. Poor thing, she skidded across the kitchen so fast. I didn't think she would be scared like that of a grasshopper, but she was terrified of it. Thats just a perk of living in the country, critters. Everywhere.
I cleaned out her cage and had to put something over the litter so she wouldn't be putting her butt in it.
I couldn't find that lighting grate stuff that people use, I looked last week. So the only thing I have is a cookie cooling rack. hahah. I put it on top of the litter box with pipe cleaners! I couldn't find the zip ties, they have mysteriously disappeared.
Anyways, I have to make an appointment at the vet for Foo, first thing in the morning, so I can see whats going on with her butt. I really hope its nothing bad, because I don't know what I would do. I'm really nervous about it. I've never taken her to this vet before. She's only been one time and the vet wasn't super rabbit savvy and it made me uncomfortable. He was really nice, but that was just for allergies. This is something big. But the vet that I'll be taking her to, he is really experienced with rabbits.
So everyone just send good thoughts Foo's way and lets just hope she doesn't have good cleaning habits.
Wow, that was really long. ahhh, I don't think I'll sleep tonight because I'm so worried about her.
I'll keep y'all posted about the vet. If I can't get in tomorrow, I'll try for Friday.