hi guys! i'm a VERY new rabbit owner. i found a little bunny on the tracks while i was jogging yesterday morning, i couldn't bear to leave it as it looked dirty and was just sitting there looking lost and sad. i'm sure it was an abandoned domestic bunny as it definitely doesn't look the the large wild rabbits i've seen before.
i'd post a picture but i'm dirt poor and can't replace my phone with the camera broken. it's about the size of my shoe (ladies uk 37), white with black ears and black face markings and ears that look halfway between erect and floppy. i found out it was a she so i named her Miyo.
i've never had a rabbit before, so i spent the last day doing as much research as i could. i set her up with some water and grass and bought rabbit pellets that afternoon. i also gave her a quick warm bath in the sink when i first got home with her, that was before i did research and found out it was bad, please don't hate me. :S
anyway she's been quiet and inactive since i brought her back, she would eat and drink and go to the toilet on the floor, but other than that she'd just sit by me looking miserable. she won't move around unless i do, then she follows me slowly but keeps a bit of distance. so this morning i took her to a vet, burnt the last of my paycheck but i've kinda fallen in love with her and wanted to make sure she was fine. the vet told me she was a girl, around 6 months old, unfixed and underweight, and could possibly be pregnant. he told me because she's underweight, having a litter could kill her, and if i want to keep her healthy and prevent a litter i should get her speyed right away.
here's the evil-conspiracy part. he quoted me $330 for a rabbit spey, which i absolutely cannot afford because like i said, i'm poor. all the other vets within my driving distance also do it for around the same price. so i looked around on the net and found out that my local SPCA, while not providing vet service to the public, nevertheless fixes all their rabbits and lets them go for $40.
i'm thinking of surrendering my little Miyo to them and asking if they'll let me re-adopt her as soon as she's done, i'm willing to give them a $100 donation on top of the adoption fee if they'd do that. if not, then i might have to sneakily get a friend to adopt her back for me. do you guys have any experience dealing with the SPCA, and do you think i'd be able to pull off either strategy? how strict are they about this sort of thing? i know there's a risk someone might adopt her before i get a chance, that would be awful, but if i have to get her speyed to keep her healthy, i'll take that risk. also if she is pregnant, i don't even know where to begin looking after a litter, i'd have to rehome them and i'd absolutely hate the thought of one of her babies ending up abandoned on the roadside in a few months just like her.
maybe it's selfish of me to want to keep her if i can't even afford her spey, but i REALLY love that sweet little bunnykins. i can afford food and everything else, it's just this huge vet bill that i won't be able to pay off and i have no time to save up for it.
what do you think i should do :dunno:
i'd post a picture but i'm dirt poor and can't replace my phone with the camera broken. it's about the size of my shoe (ladies uk 37), white with black ears and black face markings and ears that look halfway between erect and floppy. i found out it was a she so i named her Miyo.
i've never had a rabbit before, so i spent the last day doing as much research as i could. i set her up with some water and grass and bought rabbit pellets that afternoon. i also gave her a quick warm bath in the sink when i first got home with her, that was before i did research and found out it was bad, please don't hate me. :S
anyway she's been quiet and inactive since i brought her back, she would eat and drink and go to the toilet on the floor, but other than that she'd just sit by me looking miserable. she won't move around unless i do, then she follows me slowly but keeps a bit of distance. so this morning i took her to a vet, burnt the last of my paycheck but i've kinda fallen in love with her and wanted to make sure she was fine. the vet told me she was a girl, around 6 months old, unfixed and underweight, and could possibly be pregnant. he told me because she's underweight, having a litter could kill her, and if i want to keep her healthy and prevent a litter i should get her speyed right away.
here's the evil-conspiracy part. he quoted me $330 for a rabbit spey, which i absolutely cannot afford because like i said, i'm poor. all the other vets within my driving distance also do it for around the same price. so i looked around on the net and found out that my local SPCA, while not providing vet service to the public, nevertheless fixes all their rabbits and lets them go for $40.
i'm thinking of surrendering my little Miyo to them and asking if they'll let me re-adopt her as soon as she's done, i'm willing to give them a $100 donation on top of the adoption fee if they'd do that. if not, then i might have to sneakily get a friend to adopt her back for me. do you guys have any experience dealing with the SPCA, and do you think i'd be able to pull off either strategy? how strict are they about this sort of thing? i know there's a risk someone might adopt her before i get a chance, that would be awful, but if i have to get her speyed to keep her healthy, i'll take that risk. also if she is pregnant, i don't even know where to begin looking after a litter, i'd have to rehome them and i'd absolutely hate the thought of one of her babies ending up abandoned on the roadside in a few months just like her.
maybe it's selfish of me to want to keep her if i can't even afford her spey, but i REALLY love that sweet little bunnykins. i can afford food and everything else, it's just this huge vet bill that i won't be able to pay off and i have no time to save up for it.
what do you think i should do :dunno:
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