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You also may just get "lucky" when it turns out one of your buns really LOVES exploring, but the other one never sticks her nose out of her main space (even though it's carpeted!).
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Hey friends, rabbit owner of 3 years now and I don't think I've posted here yet. Have a pair of bonded girls adopted from a local DFW rescue who love each other very much. We believe they're about 7 and 5, and decent sized- just under 8 pounds. Down from 10 or so from when we adopted them and gave them a much bigger space to live in! I reach out because the older one is scheduled to have her teeth shaved down at the vet in a few weeks. She'll have to be put under for a bit, which gives me pause, but she'd be back home by the end of the day. I'm mostly worried about what to do with the one staying at home in terms of separation anxiety. This will be the longest they've been apart in at least 4 years. Any ideas or tips that will keep this day from being too traumatic?
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Are you rabbit poop gardeners just sifting stuff out of the pelletized litter or what? We've tried composting it but the cob pellets just take forever to go away.
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Bunny owner E/N here- posting through it to try and sort out emotions. We have two bonded girls (echoing, by the way, that we will never NOT go for a bonded pair ever again. If you can do one rabbit, you can do two and they're so much happier!) and we THINK they're about 9 or so. We adopted them in 2018. One of them has been on anti-inflammatories for a few months now for her old lady hips, but last week wasn't able to stand up on her own. The vet assured us that it WAS probably a nasty fall exacerbated by her arthritis, and prescribed some gabapentin to augment the meloxicam. Asked to check back in in about 3 weeks. And sure enough, she improved over the course of the week! Could raise up from a loaf on her own, able to hunker down for some self-grooming. We still had to help her up a bit but progress is progress! Yesterday was a repeat of the first day last week, almost back to square one- no willingness to stand again. I'm concerned she hurt herself again overnight, but she's entirely on a carpet now to remove slippage. So we're keeping on keeping on... she still LOVES eating and grooming her bonded mate, but the wife and I are still worried and disappointed for obvious reasons. We'll see if we see another bounce back, but I'm trying to steel myself for a hard decision in a few weeks' time. Going back to bonded pairs, I think that's the part we'd feel worst about. Read all sorts of tragic stories about a bondmate just kind of giving up once their partner leaves.
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She's been much stronger today, sass and all, which has been nice to see. When we prop her up for dinner she keeps getting distracted by things in the room she wants to check out and we have to redirect her attention like a little toddler. She also LOVES taking her meds, which is nothing short of a miracle haha. trilobite terror posted:add a third, it'll help soften the blow Don't show this to my wife lmao. I also do wonder how the healthy one would handle that. She's the dominant one and I could see that going poorly!
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