biancajb
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Hi everyone, i thought i'd do a quick intro because the first post i wrote was straight to the infirmary.
Mrs Sherlock is a tripod bunny, my brother found her when he was going on a run one night, she was dragging around one of her back legs and very underweight. He ran home and got me, i caught her and took her to the vet and basically told them that she was obviously at some stage someone's pet (she didn't freak out too much, and also she is a sooty angora lop eared rabbit - a bit fancy). They couldn't find any owner, and were concerned that if she did have an owner, the back leg was broken a long time ago and could have been done by the old owner. They basically told me if i didn't take her they'd have to euthenaise her, but they would give me discount vet bills on her bad legif i took her in. After much deliberation the vet decided she needed to get the leg amputated because the break was too old to fix, but warned us about anasthetic in bunnies etc. The vet explained that although it seems uncommon to see three legged bunnies, they have a low centre of gravity and would function well.
She sailed through the amputation, and has had a few problems since, gastric stasis more recently, a blood problem a little while ago, and more recently an arthriticsplayed front paw (hence the questions in the infirmary) but we've had her now for about 5-6 years, which makes her around between 7 & 8 years old - we can't be sure because the vet said she may have been older then the estimated 1-2 years old when we found her (the age estimate has changed now since she's developed the arthritis and her fur has become different recently). She also underwent desexing recently (the vet thought she may have had uterine cancer) and sailed through that operation despite having recently had gastric stasis.
So she is a much loved bunny, by all of my family members (including my dad who is convinced she can count, she always knows to come back for three blueberries from him, not1 or 2 but 3 - we've warned him about treating her too much) and she definately has a defiant little bossy personality for something that weighs just under 2 kilos
Mrs Sherlock is a tripod bunny, my brother found her when he was going on a run one night, she was dragging around one of her back legs and very underweight. He ran home and got me, i caught her and took her to the vet and basically told them that she was obviously at some stage someone's pet (she didn't freak out too much, and also she is a sooty angora lop eared rabbit - a bit fancy). They couldn't find any owner, and were concerned that if she did have an owner, the back leg was broken a long time ago and could have been done by the old owner. They basically told me if i didn't take her they'd have to euthenaise her, but they would give me discount vet bills on her bad legif i took her in. After much deliberation the vet decided she needed to get the leg amputated because the break was too old to fix, but warned us about anasthetic in bunnies etc. The vet explained that although it seems uncommon to see three legged bunnies, they have a low centre of gravity and would function well.
She sailed through the amputation, and has had a few problems since, gastric stasis more recently, a blood problem a little while ago, and more recently an arthriticsplayed front paw (hence the questions in the infirmary) but we've had her now for about 5-6 years, which makes her around between 7 & 8 years old - we can't be sure because the vet said she may have been older then the estimated 1-2 years old when we found her (the age estimate has changed now since she's developed the arthritis and her fur has become different recently). She also underwent desexing recently (the vet thought she may have had uterine cancer) and sailed through that operation despite having recently had gastric stasis.
So she is a much loved bunny, by all of my family members (including my dad who is convinced she can count, she always knows to come back for three blueberries from him, not1 or 2 but 3 - we've warned him about treating her too much) and she definately has a defiant little bossy personality for something that weighs just under 2 kilos
