NMR posted:

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Maybe the skin has a smell to it that rabbits don't like?

Deceptor101 posted:

Be aware of head humping, if the humpee is unhappy it can be very dangerous as genitals can be bitten.

I'm in a bit of a pickle, to put it mildly. Somehow, Annie (I know it was her, she's the chewer) got behind the computer desk today. SOMEHOW, although as far as i can tell, it's literally impossible. She ate through my speaker cord, my webcam cord, my mic cord, my HQ gaming mouse cord and a miniusb cable. If I can't get these fixed, the speakers alone were 150$. I literally cannot afford this. I'm sad, but right now they're making me think if they're practical in life. I really don't want to give them up, but I spend hours and hours bunny proofing everything, and then they somehow get through steel bars anyways and cause hundreds of dollars in damage. Ben is still antisocial mostly, although I tell myself he's gotten better, Annie is a sweetheart, but when it comes down to it, I just dont have that cash to burn. Help me think of reasons to keep them, other than that I'd be a bad person. ((((((((

GoodApollo posted:

... she gave us a thump, which she also has never done...

Melicious posted:

justFaye posted:

We just got a new bun today! She is the lovebun for Godewyn, my first bun. She isn't named yet, so we're currently brainstorming. She is a lionhead (or at least part-lionhead?) and Godewyn is half Holland lop and half mini rex. He's a little bigger than her, but not tremendously.

Godewyn is about three years old, and the little girl is of unknown age... but the rabbit rescue guesses about six months old.

We worked with them for about 30 minutes today for bonding and it was going pretty well until the end I think they were getting a bit tired and grumpy and there was a little nipping going on, so we decided they'd had enough for tonight.

Pictures!

Godewyn (before he lost a little weight... the vet says he is now at a good weight whereas before he was about 1/2-1/3 lb overweight):


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New Baby Girl:




She is mostly white/cream with medium grey points and and light grey spots on her lower back.

rushivywithglocks posted:

Pompom had his first outdoor adventure today thanks to a recently acquired roll of wire and some wonderful weather. At first he was a bit scared and tried to climb my back - clearly a superb hiding spot.



Then he had fun and cleaned himself a lot. Because the outdoors is dirty.


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And we shared a snack

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Continental posted:

Continental allows domesticated cats, dogs, pet rabbits and household birds to be carried in the aircraft cabin on most U.S. flights within the U.S. An in-cabin pet may be carried in lieu of a carry-on bag and is subject to a $125.00 service charge each way ($250.00 for round trip travel).

CampingCarl posted:

And an odd story. There is a patch of ripped carpet where my room meets the hallway. One day he comes up and starts digging at it. I yell at him and he pauses but keeps going. I get up to move him and he dances away with that bouncing sideways head waving thing. He ends up doing this a couple more times until Im standing next to the patch. He comes back, creeps slowly up to it, and looking right at me starts digging. I move and he dances away. He comes back, looking at me, and slowly moves his paw to dig again. Before he touches it and before I even move he dances away to his cage. I have a weird rabbit.

lookin 4 sk8r boi posted:

I just went on a 5 day long trip and my boyfriend's stupid rear end sister had to watch my rabbit.

He is usually extremely energetic and happy, but when I came home he seemed really lethargic. His eyes seem swollen and kind of red, not alert like they usually are. Almost like he is worried.

He seems really tired- I may be overreacting and I'll wait a day or two because he doesn't seem like he'll drop dead any second, I'm still worried though. And when I try to play with him he just lays down and closes his eyes. He keeps stretching out and closing them.

I also noticed he ate a LOT of wood off of the door frame by his cage. Can this kill him? He has eaten a little before but we always tell him NO and he stops. He obviously didn't get supervised correctly.

He is eating and pooping normal as I can see. Poops are big like always and no poops are stuck to him. His tummy doesn't seem swollen or anything.

Could he just be chilly (it is cold here) or depressed from not having me around?

Jhael posted:

Of course, here are obligatory cute pictures.

She loves looking at herself in the mirror, it's weird.

luscious posted:

I have some of the CUTEST movies of the rabbits that I can't wait to upload and get on here. There's one of Paterson where he's playing with a pamphlet with my boyfriend, grabs it out of his hand, notices the camera and stops mid-chew to stare at the camera. MID CHEW!
I don't think he likes being filmed. There's another one where he licks my boyfriend's pants, too, which sucks because he hardly even lets me touch him but he loves the manpants.

Blakles posted:

I've noticed for a few days now Cosmo has had this patch of fur on his front, right leg that looked like it was wet. At first I thought he just spilled some water on himself from his bowl or bottle, but it's still there. I held him down today and tried to look at it. The fur is hard and he flinches when I touched it (of course he was flinching a lot no matter what).

Is this a pee-burn? I don't understand how he could get a pee-burn on the way on the upper part of his front leg, but I don't know what else it could be. If that is what it is, how do you treat it?




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Also, he's been scratching his ears a lot lately. I read online that could be ear mites. Poor little guy. Any remedies we should do in addition to the store-bought ear mite drops?

Blakles posted:

Hmmm, well I tried to take some more pictures to get a better look. This what came from trying to view his chin/mouth...I hate that he's sick, but this picture is hilarious to me. He had just drank water out of his bowl so some of the hairs are wet, but other than that I don't see anything unusual.


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Gumby Orgy - I'm not sure it's ear mites, that was just the only thing I came across when searching about the problem online. I tired to get as good a look as possible at his ears tonight and they look pretty normal to me, but I've only had a bunny for a little over 1 month and 1/2. I tried to take a close up photo, maybe you see something I don't. We don't have any other pets and he's a 13 months old.


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EDIT: Also, I've never heard him sneeze and he's not acting the slightest bit different. I know bunnies try to hide their illnesses, but he still eats tons of food, drinks tons of water, and runs around like crazy, pushes boxes around, etc. I would think there would be some slight indication that he wasn't feeling well.

PumpkinPirate posted:

I heard spinach could be potentially harmful if fed too frequently because of the iron content.

Update on my buns:

Emily no longer has poop build up on her butt. She seems to be cleaning it so fingers crossed with that. They really love their veggies but they don't really like the apples. That's good I guess because of the sugar content in apples.

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Blakles posted:

Dang, that is a cute bunny. Is that a lionhead?..If so, how old is he? I have a lionhead bun that's over 1 year old and all he has left of his mane is some fluff on top of his head...which is why we named him Cosmo, after Kramer from Seinfeld.

NancyPants posted:

I tried real hard to read through this thing but it's kinda long. Please forgive me.

I know that if a rabbit gives you permission to groom it, that's a sign it accepts you. What's mine doing?

When I lie on the floor, she hops over to me and gets her face all up in my grill. She'll nudge my face and sniff my mouth, then she'll put her chin right on the floor. Generally by this time I have moved in some way, and then she'll form a bunny loaf and put her chin directly on the floor. Is this permission to groom her? If I rub her face she doesn't appear to care. She's drat hard to read.

Rotten rear end Joe posted:

HJHJGKGHSGK that rabbit is loving awesome. And where does one find bunny clothes?!?

NancyPants posted:

Well that bunny looks like a fancy little lady. I sure hope that's a lady bunny or you're gonna give it a complex.

SlippyHat posted:

Yeah, I don't think the cage is big enough for him. It's not small, to be sure, but we may have to employ some engineering to make it bigger.

This rabbit is a tremendous rear end in a top hat. My girlfriend's had rabbits all her life, and has never come across such a spiteful jerk. That may be part of it, too.

Foaming Chicken posted:

Except when they remember they are rabbits and start tearing out the carpet I just lined his cage with an area mat and now he's pouting.

HRS posted:

International Rabbit Day is an international day which promotes the protection and care of rabbits both domestic and wild. International Rabbit Day is held on the fourth Saturday or Sunday of September; in 2010 it will be held on September 26.