tundrakatiebean wrote:
Remember to take LOTS of pictures of her Peg :biggrin2:that is a totally selfish request on my part though
Do you guys have any idea where she ended up or what she was doing?
Saphira just got a brand new cage from Walmart - and she's in the "penthouse" location by my desk. Isenstar is underneath her and she has a "balcony" for her cage - I'll have to take photos later and let you look.
I'm thinking that I'm going to lock Miss Bea and Zeus up sometimes and let these girls get a bit of play time too...
Saphira is munching on some hay and glaring at me. She's pretty upset that we had to "interfere" with her life I think.
I don't know what she did for 9 days....but we found her underneath Radagast's cage....(if Amy is reading this - it was the cage under Puck's that sits on top of the dog kennel the rabbits congregate in). She was in the pull out tray.
Honestly - I had seen her in it the day before - but then she ran to the other side of it (the cage is like 24 X 36 or something) and she looked black - not blue. We have had does before that would climb up there and snooze in that and then get down at suppertime and get back up afterwards....so I didn't think a lot about it. I peeked in at her and said, "I hope you know how to get down" and then I didn't see her there later when I walked by. Truly - she did a good job of hiding.
Was she there the whole 9 days? I don't know - I searched and searched and did I mention SEARCHED the rabbitry - along with many other places. At times I'd swear I heard bunny feet going on the tile - but I'd go to look and not find her.
We know she can climb because at one point before she disappeared - she climbed the gate into the rabbitry and was hanging there when Robin said her name and she got down.
All I know - and all that matters - is she's safe now.....and she's on the road to recovery.
I was going to take her to the vet - but to be honest - two things are hindering me right now.....well....three sort of.
- Money
- Illness - I'm not feeling great
- I'm not sure the vet will even work with her to take the bloodwork since they don't work with rabbits and I really don't have the money to take her to the vet that is 70 miles away since we're looking at half a tank of gas in addition to the vet bill.
Also, I felt her today and she doesn't feel nearly as bad as she did last night when I was freaking out. Yes, I can feel her bones along the top of her body...but it isn't as bad as I've seen others get....and they recovered.
In addition - right now I'm sort of following her lead. She's eating hay - I see her munching on it several times a day. She's drinking water. She took a bit of banana. I'm watching to see if she has poops and stuff before I go much further or take her to the vet again. She freaked out a bit at the vet before - I'm not sure if the stress is worth it right now for the bloodwork....I mean - I'm not sure if she's bad enough to NEED the bloodwork that much if we go easy on her food.
I may take pictures of her later today on my desk - I haven't decided yet (I have to clean off my desk first). I also hope to take pictures of New Hope. He and Hefty are finally well enough to get out of the hospital and back into cages....and y'all are gonna be so shocked to see how GOOD New Hope looks. He was much much worse than Saphira with stasis and stuff (as was Hefty) and in really bad shape - yet we didn't do bloodwork on him....and I guess that's part of why I'm not freaking out now that I've had a chance to examine her better.
Anyway - I'll share more later....for now I'm letting her get used to her new penthouse cage...
Peg
