JAK Rabbitry
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They're compeltely overrunning my Rabbitry! Just as i'm feeding I cansee up to 3 at one time scurrying the floor. They're not even afraid of me anymore! they run right over my shoes! They eat any dropped foodi nthe trays and even climb into their food bowls and just sit and eat! I have ally my feed locked up in bins and I keep the floor swept but I can't account for everything. I've been setting mousetraps but they jsut disappear! How can a mousetrap disappear!? Especially when I had it in an enclosed box? I don't understand this!
Tonight was the last straw. They're just zooming all over the place. I found 2 old mousetraps and set them with some peanut butter. As i'm watering I can see both traps in plain sight. With mice eating off of both of them but the mice are too small it seems to set the darn things off. I even had two older mice fighting ON TOP OF a freaking trap and it wouldn't go off! But it's so hair sensitive I actually squished my thumb while setting it. (yeah....ouch...)
You may have also read about my special needs bunny, Dale...who has splayed legs. The vet told me it looked like a spinal problem and that he was paralyzed, but whe nthey asked for $200 for an xray I just kind of laughed and left. They said there was nothing they could do anyways. So I kept Dale in his own big 36 X 24 cage and kept it heavily bedded with hay. He ate and pooped and even half-binkied so I assumed he was happy and healthy as he could be and I didn't see the need to do anything more. This spring I planned on building him a wheelchair so he can zoom!
If he was indeed paralyzed, then it would make sense that he couldn't feel his hind legs. And as I was feeding tonight, Dale was his usual self, eating and scooting along in his cage. Then I noticed later what damage the mice had done. They had actually eaten portions of his paralyzed legs. I thought there was a piece of light colored hay lying across his legs but....it wasn't. It was bone. And I got so sick My breakfast came back to haunt me. At that moment I was just so very afraid and disturbed. The damage was so bad.... we just thoguht it would be best to euthanize Dale., and now he can binky free in a world where his legs are fine and whole and strong. I think his spirit is genuinely happier now, no longer confined to his body and living conditions.
I hate mice. They've put me through some serious crap. I still feel so very sick over Dale and what happened. I need a way to kill them all. Poison and sticky paper aren't an option, I don't want poisoned bodies lying aroudn where i'll never find them and being s tuck to a sheet of paper is just too inhumane, I wouldn't knwo what to do if and when I foudn them alive and upset.
Mandi is lending me her trap, which is a box you bait with peanut butter and when something touches the floor, it gets electrocuted. She says its worked for her but she's only ever had one mouse in her rabbit house, and how her rabbitry consists of her brother's dirt bike trailor, its all stainless steel and insolated. She says she has no more need for the tra pat the mometn so she's bringing it over tomorrow.
I also had a rat in my rabbitry the other day. Head to tail he was about 15 inches long. I was feeding one of my french lops and just as I dumped her food in, this rat goes ZOOMing across the back of the cage and instyinctively I cursed very loudly and grabbed her aroudn the middle nad drug her fat arse out of there and shut the door, trapping the rat inside. I couldn't understand how he got in there! He obviously couldnt' get out and the holes were so small compared to his body. I wanted it to die and i knew that would be best but.... I had no idea how to go about it. And Iw as like ''My cat hasa rabies shot!'' so I was like '' MErcy....get the rat!'' and she just stared at me and meowed until I let her go. Then the rat made a break for it and tried to squeeze through the cage bars and got stuck and Erron reached in and grabbed his tail and flung him in a box. Then I called Matt and told him I had some snake food for him. Problem solved! But..
My question being.... any more suggestions on what to do about the mice? I feel so so awful that my rabbits have to live in these condition and share their living space with mice! Mice don't scare me, wild mice nauseate me. I just think about al lthe disease and ....ugh gross. To imagine that around my babies is just...maddening and heartbreaking.
They are going down. For Dale.
Tonight was the last straw. They're just zooming all over the place. I found 2 old mousetraps and set them with some peanut butter. As i'm watering I can see both traps in plain sight. With mice eating off of both of them but the mice are too small it seems to set the darn things off. I even had two older mice fighting ON TOP OF a freaking trap and it wouldn't go off! But it's so hair sensitive I actually squished my thumb while setting it. (yeah....ouch...)
You may have also read about my special needs bunny, Dale...who has splayed legs. The vet told me it looked like a spinal problem and that he was paralyzed, but whe nthey asked for $200 for an xray I just kind of laughed and left. They said there was nothing they could do anyways. So I kept Dale in his own big 36 X 24 cage and kept it heavily bedded with hay. He ate and pooped and even half-binkied so I assumed he was happy and healthy as he could be and I didn't see the need to do anything more. This spring I planned on building him a wheelchair so he can zoom!
If he was indeed paralyzed, then it would make sense that he couldn't feel his hind legs. And as I was feeding tonight, Dale was his usual self, eating and scooting along in his cage. Then I noticed later what damage the mice had done. They had actually eaten portions of his paralyzed legs. I thought there was a piece of light colored hay lying across his legs but....it wasn't. It was bone. And I got so sick My breakfast came back to haunt me. At that moment I was just so very afraid and disturbed. The damage was so bad.... we just thoguht it would be best to euthanize Dale., and now he can binky free in a world where his legs are fine and whole and strong. I think his spirit is genuinely happier now, no longer confined to his body and living conditions.
I hate mice. They've put me through some serious crap. I still feel so very sick over Dale and what happened. I need a way to kill them all. Poison and sticky paper aren't an option, I don't want poisoned bodies lying aroudn where i'll never find them and being s tuck to a sheet of paper is just too inhumane, I wouldn't knwo what to do if and when I foudn them alive and upset.
Mandi is lending me her trap, which is a box you bait with peanut butter and when something touches the floor, it gets electrocuted. She says its worked for her but she's only ever had one mouse in her rabbit house, and how her rabbitry consists of her brother's dirt bike trailor, its all stainless steel and insolated. She says she has no more need for the tra pat the mometn so she's bringing it over tomorrow.
I also had a rat in my rabbitry the other day. Head to tail he was about 15 inches long. I was feeding one of my french lops and just as I dumped her food in, this rat goes ZOOMing across the back of the cage and instyinctively I cursed very loudly and grabbed her aroudn the middle nad drug her fat arse out of there and shut the door, trapping the rat inside. I couldn't understand how he got in there! He obviously couldnt' get out and the holes were so small compared to his body. I wanted it to die and i knew that would be best but.... I had no idea how to go about it. And Iw as like ''My cat hasa rabies shot!'' so I was like '' MErcy....get the rat!'' and she just stared at me and meowed until I let her go. Then the rat made a break for it and tried to squeeze through the cage bars and got stuck and Erron reached in and grabbed his tail and flung him in a box. Then I called Matt and told him I had some snake food for him. Problem solved! But..
My question being.... any more suggestions on what to do about the mice? I feel so so awful that my rabbits have to live in these condition and share their living space with mice! Mice don't scare me, wild mice nauseate me. I just think about al lthe disease and ....ugh gross. To imagine that around my babies is just...maddening and heartbreaking.
They are going down. For Dale.
