Runestonez
Retired Moderator
I am still new to this board so I thought I would tell you about how we found our bunns!
I was driving around and stopped at the petstore and found2beautiful Double-Mane Lionhead females. I was going thrubunny rebound at the time and seriously considering buyingone. The clerk told me that they had been in the store foralmost 5-6 months and had been transfered there from another store whenthey didn't sell. One was skittish and liked to bite, and theother was horribly sick. Anyway they were only being sold asa pair. They werewilling to drop thepriceif I would take both. I called my hubby andtold him I had found two bunns that needed a home. He cameback with me, took one look at the sicklittle one and told meto pack them up while he paid.
The next day they were at the vet. The skittish girl we namedSkittles(how obvious was that)
and the sick little girl we namedPeppers. Peppers was only a pound and a half...she was soskinny you could feel all her bones sticking out. The vet putPeppers on Baytril for Pasturella, and Skittles was given a clean billof health. Neither rabbit could jump because their muscleswere atrophied from being in a tiny cage with no exercise...Skittlesfinally just learned to jump and binky a month ago.
Over the next 2 days we almost lost Peppers twice. She wasunder weight and we couldn't keep her warm. So she prettymuch spent the first 2 days with us living in my shirt! We made a warm nest for her but she kept crawling outso... After about a week Peppers really seemed to snap into place...shestarted to eat everything in sight and started to gain weight!:bunnydance:
I never thought much about when you go into a petstore and they havethe aquariums in the center aisles with the bunns and guinea pigs inthem...I always used to stop to pet them. Apparently thesetwo were mauled by little kids while on display and would not toleratebeing handled. Skittles bit me and drew blood first chanceshe had, but after that once she never tried to bite meagain. And my niece who is turning 6 this June has been sogentle with her trying to get her to like kids again and it seems to beworking!Peppers has kicked Pasturella and is left withsneezing and snuffling due to what we are assuming is errodedturbinates in her sinuses from being sick for 4-5 months without anytreatment! (I have some very not pleasant things to say aboutthat particular pet store!!) They still will not let anyonepick them up...since it is their life, it's their choice...I let themdecide. If they want to be picked up and cuddled they justhave to come to me!
These two were absolute hell on wheels from the get go. Theystarted off loving the cats and hanging around with them..then sincetheir spay they haven't gotten along at all. Peppersespecially.She loves to charge and bite the cats when evershe gets a chance. Mostly we figure due to jealousy, becausemom apparently belongs to the bunns...not the cats!:? Once Peppers got better the two girls went thru a periodof kick boxing and trying to sort out the pecking order, it finallysettled on Skittles being dominant and Peppers being submissive.
Now this is where mom and dads thinking goes a little faulty.I wanted another bunn to add to the girls. We wereconsidering a male lop(our bridge bunn was a lop and was so gentle andlaid back, how could we fail?) We figured a male bunn, a lop who waslaid back would calm the girls down a bit...Someone to take charge andbe the boss! Oh boy!! Did we ever screw thatup!:shock:
I called the local Humane Society checking to see if they had anyrescue rabbits. They had only one. A male lop thesame age as our girls! I was freaking...it was totalKarma! Meant to be! I drove right over to meethim. He was such a sad little guy. He wasapparently abandoned in the winter in his cage on the steps outside theHumane Society. He had 5 inches of soiled pine shavings inhis cage so he had no room to move. They had just beenthrowing his pellets on top of the soiled litter. His nailshad never been trimmed and his muscles were atrophied from never beingout of his cage. They did a great job with him...he was sucha friendly little guy! I snuck a raisin into the shelter withme(I know I'm bad!) And he was all over me after that!! Therewas already an application in for him, so I had to wait for 24 hours tofind out if he was ours or not! I got a call the next dayasking when we wanted to pick him up!! He came home thatnight!! :bunnydance:
He has become the evil genius in the house! Youwill walk into a room now and see a rabbit scoot ahead of you into thenext and then see three rabbits come flying back out! Thenyou go looking to find what they have destroyed!:shock:Basically he organised them into a gang...one look out and twocriminals! One day I snuck up to the dining room doorway tosee Skittles 'lipping' at the wall trying to grab a piece of drywallpaper to rip it off...she hopped back and Solembum hopped right up inher place to do the same thing!! Great now they share badhabits! Jeez! They are now known as the 'Hooligans'and are a highly organised gang of fuzzballs! He didn't slowthe girls down in the least. Skittles is still dominant,Solembum is the middle rabbit and Peppers is the Submissiveone. They literally keep me hopping. It's almostlike having kids! We have 5 cats on top of having 3 bunns andthis place is never quiet or dull!
I was driving around and stopped at the petstore and found2beautiful Double-Mane Lionhead females. I was going thrubunny rebound at the time and seriously considering buyingone. The clerk told me that they had been in the store foralmost 5-6 months and had been transfered there from another store whenthey didn't sell. One was skittish and liked to bite, and theother was horribly sick. Anyway they were only being sold asa pair. They werewilling to drop thepriceif I would take both. I called my hubby andtold him I had found two bunns that needed a home. He cameback with me, took one look at the sicklittle one and told meto pack them up while he paid.
The next day they were at the vet. The skittish girl we namedSkittles(how obvious was that)
and the sick little girl we namedPeppers. Peppers was only a pound and a half...she was soskinny you could feel all her bones sticking out. The vet putPeppers on Baytril for Pasturella, and Skittles was given a clean billof health. Neither rabbit could jump because their muscleswere atrophied from being in a tiny cage with no exercise...Skittlesfinally just learned to jump and binky a month ago. Over the next 2 days we almost lost Peppers twice. She wasunder weight and we couldn't keep her warm. So she prettymuch spent the first 2 days with us living in my shirt!
We made a warm nest for her but she kept crawling outso... After about a week Peppers really seemed to snap into place...shestarted to eat everything in sight and started to gain weight!:bunnydance:I never thought much about when you go into a petstore and they havethe aquariums in the center aisles with the bunns and guinea pigs inthem...I always used to stop to pet them. Apparently thesetwo were mauled by little kids while on display and would not toleratebeing handled. Skittles bit me and drew blood first chanceshe had, but after that once she never tried to bite meagain. And my niece who is turning 6 this June has been sogentle with her trying to get her to like kids again and it seems to beworking!Peppers has kicked Pasturella and is left withsneezing and snuffling due to what we are assuming is errodedturbinates in her sinuses from being sick for 4-5 months without anytreatment! (I have some very not pleasant things to say aboutthat particular pet store!!) They still will not let anyonepick them up...since it is their life, it's their choice...I let themdecide. If they want to be picked up and cuddled they justhave to come to me!
These two were absolute hell on wheels from the get go. Theystarted off loving the cats and hanging around with them..then sincetheir spay they haven't gotten along at all. Peppersespecially.She loves to charge and bite the cats when evershe gets a chance. Mostly we figure due to jealousy, becausemom apparently belongs to the bunns...not the cats!:? Once Peppers got better the two girls went thru a periodof kick boxing and trying to sort out the pecking order, it finallysettled on Skittles being dominant and Peppers being submissive.
Now this is where mom and dads thinking goes a little faulty.I wanted another bunn to add to the girls. We wereconsidering a male lop(our bridge bunn was a lop and was so gentle andlaid back, how could we fail?) We figured a male bunn, a lop who waslaid back would calm the girls down a bit...Someone to take charge andbe the boss! Oh boy!! Did we ever screw thatup!:shock:
I called the local Humane Society checking to see if they had anyrescue rabbits. They had only one. A male lop thesame age as our girls! I was freaking...it was totalKarma! Meant to be! I drove right over to meethim. He was such a sad little guy. He wasapparently abandoned in the winter in his cage on the steps outside theHumane Society. He had 5 inches of soiled pine shavings inhis cage so he had no room to move. They had just beenthrowing his pellets on top of the soiled litter. His nailshad never been trimmed and his muscles were atrophied from never beingout of his cage. They did a great job with him...he was sucha friendly little guy! I snuck a raisin into the shelter withme(I know I'm bad!) And he was all over me after that!! Therewas already an application in for him, so I had to wait for 24 hours tofind out if he was ours or not! I got a call the next dayasking when we wanted to pick him up!! He came home thatnight!! :bunnydance:
He has become the evil genius in the house! Youwill walk into a room now and see a rabbit scoot ahead of you into thenext and then see three rabbits come flying back out! Thenyou go looking to find what they have destroyed!:shock:Basically he organised them into a gang...one look out and twocriminals! One day I snuck up to the dining room doorway tosee Skittles 'lipping' at the wall trying to grab a piece of drywallpaper to rip it off...she hopped back and Solembum hopped right up inher place to do the same thing!! Great now they share badhabits! Jeez! They are now known as the 'Hooligans'and are a highly organised gang of fuzzballs! He didn't slowthe girls down in the least. Skittles is still dominant,Solembum is the middle rabbit and Peppers is the Submissiveone. They literally keep me hopping. It's almostlike having kids! We have 5 cats on top of having 3 bunns andthis place is never quiet or dull!
