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More good news: the oncology surgeon doesn’t think they’ll need to take his entire ear. He’ll be missing a really awkward chunk of it, since they’ll have to remove some cartilage to make sure the skin can be pulled over, but he does actually get to keep the majority of his ear! “But wasn’t the...

Lahi had a tooth root abscess from his upper left molar, causing a retrobulbar abscess. It wasn’t Osteomyelitis, or at least we never did definitive imaging to get a firm diagnosis. But when his eye began protruding, the vet said “something is pushing it out, it’s likely to be either a tumour or...

Rabbits don’t actually have a mating season in the sense of other animals, where they have a short and specific time they can breed. They don’t go into heat, they don’t go into rut, they don’t even MENSTRUATE. They are reflex ovulators, and so are fertile literally all the time, in a way even...

I’m still reserving caution and hope for now—if the tumour has only just started to metastasize, then of course xrays and ultrasounds aren’t going to pick up tumours only a few cells big. It will be quite a while, I think, before we can be absolutely sure that he’s out of the woods...

Haha I love that whoever wrote the patient chart couldn't help but comment on how cute he is <3 my adorable little man! Any thoughts/opinions on this "osteoma"? I've literally never heard of this. When the vet said "mineral deposits" on the phone I asked her to repeat herself twice because I...

Oh my god it’s been over a week now, the litter box is so full but there is NO SMELL and NO MESS. WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE. I’m recommending it to all my bunny customers. One tried it and then decided against continuing since she felt it wasn’t a soft enough bedding for her buns... but...

Go to a local pet food chain and ask if they can order in JoJo’s premium hay, provided you’re in the US or Canada. I work at a Global Pet Foods in Ontario, so I was able to open the catalogue and look at all the things the store can sell but doesn’t stock on the shelves. First I discovered...

Lahi is home and doing good after his sedation, demanding cuddles to make up for all the indignity that he was subjected to today. Admire his cute little ears while you can since there’s an excellent possibility that he’ll be losing one next week. Also *hoarse wheezing* they shaved his...

Lahi had the radiographs and ultrasound today, the vet just called with the results: NO MASSES FOUND!! She started to go on about some kind of mineral buildup they found in his lungs, osteo-something or another, honestly I heard “no masses found” and couldn’t bring myself to pay proper...

In case anyone is curious as to the exact nitty gritty of Lahi’s cytology results. Personally I have just enough of an education to recognize most of the words of the tumor analysis, though not enough to really understand the significance.

So I know that I’m still probably in the denial stage of grief and that’s probably influencing a lot of my thinking but... The lump is the start, no question. It appeared in 2014 and for the past four years has done absolutely nothing. So I’m basically sure that it’s the parent tumor. If there...

The vet said she still had to go consult with surgery on what they think is best, but it’s definitely looking like if we go forward with the surgery that they’ll want to take the entire pinna to be safe. It’s such a blow, we had a “terminal” diagnosis in 2014 where treatment was supposed to...

I’m crying so hard right now, the vet just called me about Lahi’s cytology: melanoma with results that indicate it could be malignant. He’s had this small warty lump on the base of his ear for years now, but it didn’t do anything and so we didn’t worry about it. Mid-year this year, however, it...

But you’re sure the pine pellets don’t have the same phenol issue as pine shavings? I was using pine shavings for years without issues before I found out that it could cause some. When I explain it to other people I tell them “phenols are that woodsy aroma we love from cedar wood”. I opened...

@Blue eyes @Popsicles the aspen wood pellets are working great, I like how obviously compostable they are, breaking down into something that already looks like it could belong spread over a garden. And while I can smell the wood pellets a fair bit, it’s not necessarily a bad smell and it’s...

Wow @JBun definitely that’s so nice and detailed! For now it seems that Delilah isn’t digging the litter out as long as the door is closed, but once I’m no longer under the strain of Lahi’s lump removal I’ll have to look into doing that. I kinda half heartedly tried a screen before by using...

Though, warning, we very nearly stopped after the first shot because Lahi immediately lost his appetite, we only kept going because of the obvious improvement. Those 8 weeks were definitely a challenge of trying to keep enough food in him to ward off GI stasis. Expect to need probiotics, a...

*waves hands frantically* YES HI HELLO I AM ONE WHO HAS HAD BICILLIN SAVE BUNNY http://people.umass.edu/~jwmoore/bicillin/bicillin.htm This is the paper that has the treatment protocol that saved Lahi. His abscess was caused by his upper left backmost molar, discovered when his eye began...

Also the problem with Delilah’s digging is that it’s a stereotypic holdover from her previous owner. She digs because it makes a lot of noise and was used to get attention from people who otherwise ignored her, even if that attention was negative. So she digs in the litterbox, but also on solid...

Oh, so that just looks like an ordinary window screen to me. Is there something about it that makes it a “pet” screen?