lemonaxis
Well-Known Member
Some of you may know that my doe Jazz lost her first litter of Kits. She tried to move them and even acted aggressively. Cats were around at the time and none of us knew she was due to have babies.
After the loss, she began, I believe to grieve. She lost her appetite, hid behind the couch and sniffed arond as if looking for her nest.
She never really got the chance to properly nurse and clean her Kits as my cats had begun stalking the nest and this freaked out Jazz.
In my wisdom or huge lack of, rather!! I decided to mate Jazz with a lonely buck at the national park nearby.
She was delighted to meet him and ever since then her mood has been picking up She has a plyfriend over every other day as I take my neighbours bun to my house to socialise her as Mallow just lost her companion too.
mallow and Jazz play well.
It is really hard to tell if Jazz will have more Kits.
If she does not I will spay her.
I paired her up with a buck for a few minutes because I did not want her to grieve, wanted her to have the proper chance to be a mum and in NZ at this time, there are no issues with over population of domestic rabbits. We are eliminating wild populations with the Calcifed virus but if Jazz have Kits the national park will take them so they already have homes. We would keep one as a companion for Jazz.
Have I been selfish? Wrong?
Please let me know what I can do to make sure Jazz has the best life possible!
Thank you...
Lisa
ps she is not shwing any signs of prenancy yet (2 weeks since her date with Bunny) and she is not eating more or even gaining weight so if I have made a bad decision then just maybe there will be no kits after all)
Feeling awful....
After the loss, she began, I believe to grieve. She lost her appetite, hid behind the couch and sniffed arond as if looking for her nest.
She never really got the chance to properly nurse and clean her Kits as my cats had begun stalking the nest and this freaked out Jazz.
In my wisdom or huge lack of, rather!! I decided to mate Jazz with a lonely buck at the national park nearby.
She was delighted to meet him and ever since then her mood has been picking up She has a plyfriend over every other day as I take my neighbours bun to my house to socialise her as Mallow just lost her companion too.
mallow and Jazz play well.
It is really hard to tell if Jazz will have more Kits.
If she does not I will spay her.
I paired her up with a buck for a few minutes because I did not want her to grieve, wanted her to have the proper chance to be a mum and in NZ at this time, there are no issues with over population of domestic rabbits. We are eliminating wild populations with the Calcifed virus but if Jazz have Kits the national park will take them so they already have homes. We would keep one as a companion for Jazz.
Have I been selfish? Wrong?
Please let me know what I can do to make sure Jazz has the best life possible!
Thank you...
Lisa
ps she is not shwing any signs of prenancy yet (2 weeks since her date with Bunny) and she is not eating more or even gaining weight so if I have made a bad decision then just maybe there will be no kits after all)
Feeling awful....