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Thought you guys might get a kick out of this. Did a rabbit harness for a work colleague who's bunny is I guess way smaller than the XS commercially available harnesses. It's sheepskin and I took the hardware from the too-big XS one she had bought, I'm sure some of you probably recognize the straps.  
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VelociBacon posted:Thought you guys might get a kick out of this. Did a rabbit harness for a work colleague who's bunny is I guess way smaller than the XS commercially available harnesses. It's sheepskin and I took the hardware from the too-big XS one she had bought, I'm sure some of you probably recognize the straps. Oh geez...fetishwear for pets. Petishwear. My partner and I bought some XS and XXS harnesses for ours (with included superhero capes no less, because duh- and also because Petsmart post-Halloween liquidates all costumes at stupid discounts so it wasn’t a real risk to take a chance on them) and they all invariably flipped out in them and then loathed us for trying. Even Spock, the one who’s super chill by an order of magnitude compared to the other two just turned into a thumping gremlin for the rest of the day. Generally you want to avoid anything that goes tightly around the neck with rabbits.
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Aug 15, 2018 03:59
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Quick question for you Electric Bugaloo, what kind of brush would you recommend for a lionhead? Broussette is starting to look like a hairy gremlin and the pet shops around here don’t have anything specific for bunnies so I’m considering ordering online. Since you’re the floof specialist I figured I might ask beforehand.
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Aug 18, 2018 20:43
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For Harriet, i use a pin brush for cats. Just sayin'
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Aug 18, 2018 20:47
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Yeah I might end up buying that. Former colleague of mine used one of these, it worked well on her rabbit from what I remember : https://www.amazon.com/Pet-Neat-Cle...ker+brush&psc=1 There’s also shedding gloves, I have no experience with those but from the videos they seem pretty efficient: https://www.amazon.com/Upgrade-Version-Pet-Grooming-Glove/dp/B01N9KSITZ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8 Probably less chance that my rabbit bails on me with the gloves I guess?
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Aug 18, 2018 21:20
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Took Carrots in to the bunny spa today to be boarded while we take a trip to Seattle. Funny how he is Mr. Tough Guy around the house but once he gets in his cage out of the house he's a total wuss. I felt really bad when we were leaving him, I had to pet him a bunch and coo him to get him to stop shaking.  Even then he didn't stop.
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Aug 18, 2018 21:59
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https://twitter.com/weed0_0b/status/1030383159655849985
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Sassy Sasquatch posted:Quick question for you Electric Bugaloo, what kind of brush would you recommend for a lionhead? Broussette is starting to look like a hairy gremlin and the pet shops around here don’t have anything specific for bunnies so I’m considering ordering online. Since you’re the floof specialist I figured I might ask beforehand. A lot of cat stuff works well for rabbits, and many of the major cat/dog manufacturers have “small animal” versions of their cat/dog brushes that are the same thing but just a bit smaller. We’ve got a few different brushes/tools- -A small-animal size Furminator. This should not be the main brush as it tends to pull. Be gentle with it and do not just yank on the bun’s fur with it. It also has sharp teeth so don’t just scrape your gentle babby’s tender skin with it. But it’s really good for loosening and getting at the undercoat before it mats or ends up on your floor. -A Furminator rubber brush. -A small standard bristle soft cat brush -A gentle wire slicker brush -A small grooming trimmer. Get a good one and it’ll be worth its weight in gold. Often the best way to handle a heavily-shedding bun is to trim them before they can shed all over the place/get mats/cover their long hair in dookie/etc. On top of looking hilarious and adorable they’ll also be way more comfortable in the summer/a heated room. Most rabbits have enough hair to be comfortable outside 3 seasons of the year and it’s easy to underestimate how hot they can get indoors. Also, the best advice is really to try to groom longhaired breeds weekly or every two weeks. I know it’s annoying but frequent grooming makes each job much easier and shorter, which is way less arduous and dirty for you and much less stressful for the rabbit. A frequently-groomed bun is also way more comfortable with grooming and generally tends to become better socialized/bonded with its caretaker. Before we buckled down on it, my partner would groom each bun once a month- and she’d be there for two hours with each rabbit, making an unruly mess of hair, while the rabbit gradually lost its poo poo and became increasingly combative and uncooperative (two of our buns are also super fastidious about only peeing in their litterbox, bless them, so once they have to go they wig out). Their hair and dander would also get everywhere and waft all over the apartment  . Their cage was also a lot grosser and much more time-consuming to clean every week. When you groom your rabbits frequently everybody benefits.
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Aug 19, 2018 20:13
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Welp, we just finished leaving Spock at the e-vet for an overnight. He was lethargic and hadn’t been eating or pooping all day and was refusing treats. He’s otherwise alert (and terrified) but his temperature was a few degrees lower than normal. It looks like GI stasis but hopefully we caught it in time. He’ll get x-rays once the on-call small animal vet gives the go-ahead and then we’ll go from there. We’ve decided to euthanize in the event that he has something requiring major surgery and have refused CPR if he codes. It ultimately comes down to probability of recovery, trauma and stress that he won’t understand, and financials. This hospital visit will come out to $1000-1500 as it is and we can’t really justify another $2-3k on top of that for surgery on a rabbit that will have a high risk of mortality and complication and will cause him a tremendous deal of stress. Small animal CPR has a low single-digit success rate and runs a high risk of causing its own injuries (kind of like human CPR) so- nope. He’s ~10 and has had an awesome life. We got to give him some pats in the ward and he looked positively terrified and miserable in his hotbox, what with the weird fan noise and so many people and strange sad doggos everywhere, which is honestly kind of a positive sign given what a critically ill rabbit tends to look like when they’re CTD. 
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Aug 20, 2018 03:41
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Thanks a lot for the in depth advice ! Regarding the trimmer I already have a good one for my own hair/beard but I would not trust myself to trim my poor rabbit with it. I’ve gone for a trio of small furminator + small soft bristle brush for heavy duty and a rubber deshedding glove for everyday “maintenance”. I should have bought all that stuff a long time ago tbh but I’m a moron. I hope Spock is ok, it’s a good thing you caught that stasis on time.
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Aug 20, 2018 09:40
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Welp, we just finished leaving Spock at the e-vet for an overnight. He was lethargic and hadn’t been eating or pooping all day and was refusing treats. He’s otherwise alert (and terrified) but his temperature was a few degrees lower than normal. It looks like GI stasis but hopefully we caught it in time. He’ll get x-rays once the on-call small animal vet gives the go-ahead and then we’ll go from there.
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Aug 20, 2018 13:12
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Thanks for the kind words, dudes. We got a call at around 1AM that the x-rays found a GI blockage in his stomach. Hopefully he passes it on his own with hydration and meds or they can dislodge it with an oro-gastric tube. Otherwise we’ll have to put his chubby rear end to sleep. Mostly I’m sad that he’s in pain and scared. He’s 10 and has had a great, comfortable, and coddled life, but he’s a rabbit so the bond only really goes so far and it’s not like we’re losing a dog or, God forbid, a human. I’m happy and proud that we were able to give him a creme de la creme living environment for as long as we had him. He’s by far the chillest and most human-friendly of all the rabbits we’ve got/had (his original bondmate Kirk died of neurological disease back in 2015- same day that Robin Williams died- before we got the two fuzzbutts and consigned ourselves to a hell of hair and dander).
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Aug 20, 2018 16:03
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Relevant to thread interests. I rescued a rabbit. The shelter I got him from is probably great for dogs and cats but they clearly had no idea wtf to do with a bunny. Wire bottom hutch, kept him next to dogs, etc. I don't have any really good pictures yet, but he's the sweetest little guy. He'll come up to you and ask for pettins, and then curl up against you - regularly and often. I thought from the pictures he was a fully grown sable, but the vet informed me he was a 3 to 6 month old Flemmie or Flemmie mix. My aunt's theory is that he was an Easter bunny. He's gotten... big. He's probably three or four times Tobias's size now. I've been basically giving him all he wants to eat, since I want him to get all the growth he can, because I Like Big Buns And I Cannot Lie, but I'll be backing him down to sane amounts of food soon. Also, a picture of Tobias, 'cos I miss him even if he was a cranky poo poo: 
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Aug 20, 2018 22:33
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Brousse is in the early stages of stasis, won’t eat, won’t poop. Barely drinks. I mixed an apple and force fed it to her with an eyedropper while waiting for the vet. No signs of improvement so far. She’s young, I’m sure she’ll pull through but this is stressful.
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Aug 22, 2018 00:39
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Sassy Sasquatch posted:Brousse is in the early stages of stasis, won’t eat, won’t poop. Barely drinks. I mixed an apple and force fed it to her with an eyedropper while waiting for the vet. No signs of improvement so far. You can also ask your vet to give you critical care and painkillers for the future.
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Aug 22, 2018 00:47
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FactsAreUseless posted:Have you given her gas drops? I don’t have any of that at home unfortunately and it’s 2am so buying it is not an immediate option. I will ask the vet when they get here. At least she’s drinking a bit more so that’s positive. 
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Aug 22, 2018 01:23
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Sassy Sasquatch posted:I don’t have any of that at home unfortunately and it’s 2am so buying it is not an immediate option. I will ask the vet when they get here. At least she’s drinking a bit more so that’s positive.
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Aug 22, 2018 02:20
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Spock update: They disrupted the blockage yesterday morning with a gastric tube (it was a big hair mass at the base of his stomach) and he was relatively active and temperature stable by yesterday afternoon. We saw him last night and gave him some pats, he had a fluid IV which he apparently tried to destroy (there’s a rigid sleeve around the line but the vet tech mentioned having to put no-chew on it) and looked most displeased and hunched but otherwise alert. Today we were told that he made some small poops and has started eating a bit. He’s still getting motility/antistasis meds and painkillers but they’ve stopped fluids for now. They’ve kept the IV line in, which I’m sure he hates. Hopefully they’ll be able to move him from the intensive care ward tomorrow and fingers crossed he’ll be home within the next two days. I’ll post some pictures of a bedeviled inpatient bun with an IV in his arm taken during yesterday’s visit sometime tomorrow, currently phoneposting.
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Aug 22, 2018 04:17
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Good news as well here.  Broussette got her shots and she was happily pooping all over the place this morning so all is well. I did buy a brick of pineapple juice, some critical care and gas drops to avoid staying up until 5 am and spending 200 bucks  next time this happens.
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Aug 22, 2018 15:23
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Spock update: They disrupted the blockage yesterday morning with a gastric tube (it was a big hair mass at the base of his stomach) and he was relatively active and temperature stable by yesterday afternoon. We saw him last night and gave him some pats, he had a fluid IV which he apparently tried to destroy (there’s a rigid sleeve around the line but the vet tech mentioned having to put no-chew on it) and looked most displeased and hunched but otherwise alert.
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Aug 22, 2018 19:30
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“How did this thread get so many posts while I was too lazy to look up my password?” gently caress. That was wild. For what it’s worth, my dachshund/rabbit situation has been working out. Bun is in a large x pen that has been weighted, stabilized, covered and anchored so the dogs can’t dig under it or get in. We’ll be moving within the next year so we’re going to get a two bedroom so he and his future lady can have a whole bedroom. Not all rabbits get stressed by dogs, but most of them do. Bun gives zero fucks about them and they only get interested when I feed him. He’s in a corner of the living room they rarely ever go to. Everybody gets their own time with us humans. Like right now the dogs have been put to bed in our bedroom and Bun is hopping and binkying all over the place. But I did my research on the particular rabbit before I got him. Because yeah, a dog can literally stress a lot of rabbits to death without even really trying. I got one that was used to dogs being around. Now for real content: how do you Bun burrito to clip the back toenails? The last time I tried things went poorly. He was fine with the front paws but not the back. I had the vet clip them when I took him to get neutered instead. I also had a bad gas scare with him a few weeks ago but I successfully massaged it out with a few little bun farts.
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Aug 23, 2018 07:24
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If you have someone who can help you I've had good luck clipping nails by having someone pet the bun and gradually work their hand under their front legs and lift them up so they are standing upright while someone else deals with the actual clipping. Our rabbit is surprisingly chill in this position and allows back nail clipping if we don't take toooo long.
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Aug 23, 2018 16:44
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Thanks. My husband will reluctantly help. Another question: does anybody else’s bun thump out of happiness or excitement? Buntolo thumps a lot when playing and when I’m making his food.
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Aug 23, 2018 21:18
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Lillian thumps when we are doing something to annoy her, which can sometimes come off as excitement because she's usually annoyed that I'm not making her food fast enough for her liking (ie: instantly and constantly)
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Aug 23, 2018 21:23
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Spock made over 100 poops last night and he’ll be coming home this evening!
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Aug 23, 2018 21:29
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I was initially very concerned about that number, and then I started picturing a pile of 100 bunny poops and then I was like "Yeah, that's a solid day's work, actually." Rabbits are weird, man.
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Aug 23, 2018 21:44
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bitchymcjones posted:Thanks. My husband will reluctantly help.
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Aug 23, 2018 22:48
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Electric Bugaloo posted:Spock made over 100 poops last night and he’ll be coming home this evening! ins'allah
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Aug 24, 2018 16:10
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Fat boy haaaaates being syringe-fed critical care. We gotta do it and give him meds for a week. He’ll sit on your lap and you can do pretty much whatever but the minute he sees the syringe he’ll hop right off. When burrito-ed he doesn’t fight like Jareth did but he’ll do this awkward turtle head dance to avoid it. gently caress your feelings, rabbit, you’re gonna eat your soup and take your meds.
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Aug 24, 2018 16:47
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someone got at the pellet bag he had dental surgery two days ago, apparently has recovered well :3
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clear eyes full farts posted:someone got at the pellet bag Ohohohohoho silly clever bun! Are his teeth still ok? Hopefully he didn’t screw something up by doing that.
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Sep 2, 2018 17:20
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I hope so! He seems his usual self (was eating wierdly before), due a checkup tomorrow anyway so will see what the vet says...
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Sep 2, 2018 20:19
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clear eyes full farts posted:I hope so! He seems his usual self (was eating wierdly before), due a checkup tomorrow anyway so will see what the vet says... Glad he’s getting checked, there’s always a risk with animals being themselves and hurting injury sites/sutures. Show the vet that little goof rear end’ crime scene tape.
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Sep 2, 2018 23:17
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vet seems happy enough! i've diagnosed the rabbit with being an idiot floof
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It is real hard to have a real floof during shedding times. No less than 8 lint roller sheets were used to clean off my shirt last night. On the plus side, with my roomate moving out, but my fiancé moving in, I now have a spare bedroom, which I have converted into Harriet's bedroom. She now has space to run around, and a chair to hide under.
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bunnyofdoom posted:It is real hard to have a real floof during shedding times. No less than 8 lint roller sheets were used to clean off my shirt last night.
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Sep 5, 2018 18:00
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To be fair, she doesn't need to be in private to do that. She'll do it while sitting in my lap.
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bunnyofdoom posted:It is real hard to have a real floof during shedding times. No less than 8 lint roller sheets were used to clean off my shirt last night. That’s why you gotta groom them super frequently and/or give them haircuts. My partner and I used to slack on that too (once a week or every two weeks) but she should really be getting a brush twice a week. Take it from me, Spock (who isn’t even one of the floofy ones, but he grooms the other two religiously) probably wouldn’t have had a $1500 bowel obstruction and almost died if we’d kept up on our grooming. General note- for any longhair owners this is also super important if they get mats. Mats around the hindquarters (ie. tum and rear end) can catch on their hind feet when hopping, causing the rabbit to fall into/off of things, seriously injure their back legs, or even tear their skin open- especially on their delicate tummies.
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Electric Bugaloo posted:That’s why you gotta groom them super frequently and/or give them haircuts. My partner and I used to slack on that too (once a week or every two weeks) but she should really be getting a brush twice a week. I do groom Harriet every day during shedding season. It usually is that amount. She is just that floofy.
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bunnyofdoom posted:I do groom Harriet every day during shedding season. It usually is that amount. She is just that floofy. 
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