Dittani
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I promise that i'll get some more recent pictures of my babies up soon, I just have to wait to get my roll of film developed. I only have my cameraphone in the meantime, which explains the poor quality of the picture in my avatar.
That picture was taken a few weeks after we got Noonoo and Nala, though at the time they were named Gur and Gus (put the kettle on and settle yourself in for a long story
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My friend bought this adorable little mini-lop, and seems as I was looking for a pet at the time, just looking at this cute bundle of fluff pursuaded me to get one too! I researched bunnies obsessively for a few weeks, found a good vet, bought a cage and it's accoutrements, and pretty much acted like an expectant mother. The day finally arrived when my fiance and I could go get a liccle one, and then we got to the pet store.... It was the most awful pet store i've ever been to. Animals were crammed in everywhere, it was over 90 degrees, it smelled disgusting, and in the bunny 'pen' (it was a plastic fish tank with litter all over the bottom and an empty water dish) were two tiny little black rabbits. Even though it was so hot and they were stretched out, panting, with their eyes closed, they were spooning each other.. :tears2:
They looked so sad and hot and miserable, I just took one look at my fiance and we knew that we had to take both of them. I couldn't have taken one and not the other - they just looked to adorable together, and I couldn't imagine how lonely and horrible the remaining bunny's life would have been in that HORRID pet store.
Of course, when we brought two babies home, we were completely unprepared because everything we had bought was for one bunny. We had to run to petsmart to get another cage the same as the one we'd already bought, then take the ends off both of them and wire them togther. Of course, our two 'boys' quickly out-grew these glorified litterboxes that petsmart claimed were 'cages', and we had to build them a new one, but that comes later.
As I said, we were told that we had two little boys by the pet store manager (whom I thoroughly told-off about the conditions they were kept in, don't worry), which was later verified by a vet, so we named them Gus and Gur. The vet also told us that both of them had respiratory infections (undoubtedly from the pet store), and prescribed antibiotics and told us to come back in two weeks. Two weeks later, the vet is convinced that both of them were actually FEMALE, and told us that he was 90% certain of this.
About 2 weeks afterwards, 'Gur' discovered 'her' strong back legs and jumped onto the coffee table, where 'she' proceeded to find and knock to the floor a package of chocolate chip cookies... I left the study to go check on the bunnies, only to find both of them chowing down on double choc-chip-chunk cookies. My vet was closed, so I had to rush them to the emergency exotic vet, who kept them under observation and gave them plenty of fluids, as well as performed a thorough check up. Their female sex was confirmed, yet again.
Fast forward another week. My fiance and I are sat watching TV, minding our own business, and the bunnies are happily frolicing around the place. All of a sudden, 'Gur' mounted 'Gus', and they started doing the nasty!! Adam and I were just like :shock: 'IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING???!!!' and I lift 'Gur' off of 'Gus'. I look down to see a little pink penis retreating to it's furry enclave, and I FREAK THE HELL OUT!!!. Another trip to the emergency vet later, and THE VET STILL THOUGHT HE WAS A GIRL!!! I told her about the little pink penis, and she just shrugged it off and said 'i'm pretty sure that we learned how to sex animals in veterinary school'.
So we decide to change vets - not only the stupid one we first went to, but the emergency vet who basically called me an idiotic liar. (Like i'd make something like that up, for crap's sake...). We found another vet, who was really kind, very understanding, and really knew what she was talking about. She didn't even charge us for the initial exam because we'd been through so many vet visits thus far. She also swore that she could feel female parts in 'Gur', so we booked them in to be spayed and she informed us that both bunnies had an inner ear infection that would need to be flushed.
Fast forward another few weeks. We take our two 'girls' in for their surgery, and whilst the vet is examining them again, she says 'uh oh'.... I'm like 'Uh oh?! I don't like hearing that!'. The vet says 'Gur's testicles have just descended...she's a boy!'.
So now we have a boy and a girl... :foreheadsmack:
Tune in next time Dittani can be bothered to update to find out what happened when Noonoo and Nala were reunited with a long-lost littermate!!!
It's seriously like a soap opera, isn't it?!
That picture was taken a few weeks after we got Noonoo and Nala, though at the time they were named Gur and Gus (put the kettle on and settle yourself in for a long story
)My friend bought this adorable little mini-lop, and seems as I was looking for a pet at the time, just looking at this cute bundle of fluff pursuaded me to get one too! I researched bunnies obsessively for a few weeks, found a good vet, bought a cage and it's accoutrements, and pretty much acted like an expectant mother. The day finally arrived when my fiance and I could go get a liccle one, and then we got to the pet store.... It was the most awful pet store i've ever been to. Animals were crammed in everywhere, it was over 90 degrees, it smelled disgusting, and in the bunny 'pen' (it was a plastic fish tank with litter all over the bottom and an empty water dish) were two tiny little black rabbits. Even though it was so hot and they were stretched out, panting, with their eyes closed, they were spooning each other.. :tears2:
They looked so sad and hot and miserable, I just took one look at my fiance and we knew that we had to take both of them. I couldn't have taken one and not the other - they just looked to adorable together, and I couldn't imagine how lonely and horrible the remaining bunny's life would have been in that HORRID pet store.
Of course, when we brought two babies home, we were completely unprepared because everything we had bought was for one bunny. We had to run to petsmart to get another cage the same as the one we'd already bought, then take the ends off both of them and wire them togther. Of course, our two 'boys' quickly out-grew these glorified litterboxes that petsmart claimed were 'cages', and we had to build them a new one, but that comes later.
As I said, we were told that we had two little boys by the pet store manager (whom I thoroughly told-off about the conditions they were kept in, don't worry), which was later verified by a vet, so we named them Gus and Gur. The vet also told us that both of them had respiratory infections (undoubtedly from the pet store), and prescribed antibiotics and told us to come back in two weeks. Two weeks later, the vet is convinced that both of them were actually FEMALE, and told us that he was 90% certain of this.
About 2 weeks afterwards, 'Gur' discovered 'her' strong back legs and jumped onto the coffee table, where 'she' proceeded to find and knock to the floor a package of chocolate chip cookies... I left the study to go check on the bunnies, only to find both of them chowing down on double choc-chip-chunk cookies. My vet was closed, so I had to rush them to the emergency exotic vet, who kept them under observation and gave them plenty of fluids, as well as performed a thorough check up. Their female sex was confirmed, yet again.
Fast forward another week. My fiance and I are sat watching TV, minding our own business, and the bunnies are happily frolicing around the place. All of a sudden, 'Gur' mounted 'Gus', and they started doing the nasty!! Adam and I were just like :shock: 'IS THIS REALLY HAPPENING???!!!' and I lift 'Gur' off of 'Gus'. I look down to see a little pink penis retreating to it's furry enclave, and I FREAK THE HELL OUT!!!. Another trip to the emergency vet later, and THE VET STILL THOUGHT HE WAS A GIRL!!! I told her about the little pink penis, and she just shrugged it off and said 'i'm pretty sure that we learned how to sex animals in veterinary school'.
So we decide to change vets - not only the stupid one we first went to, but the emergency vet who basically called me an idiotic liar. (Like i'd make something like that up, for crap's sake...). We found another vet, who was really kind, very understanding, and really knew what she was talking about. She didn't even charge us for the initial exam because we'd been through so many vet visits thus far. She also swore that she could feel female parts in 'Gur', so we booked them in to be spayed and she informed us that both bunnies had an inner ear infection that would need to be flushed.
Fast forward another few weeks. We take our two 'girls' in for their surgery, and whilst the vet is examining them again, she says 'uh oh'.... I'm like 'Uh oh?! I don't like hearing that!'. The vet says 'Gur's testicles have just descended...she's a boy!'.
So now we have a boy and a girl... :foreheadsmack:
Tune in next time Dittani can be bothered to update to find out what happened when Noonoo and Nala were reunited with a long-lost littermate!!!
It's seriously like a soap opera, isn't it?!
