jessi330
New Member
So, here's the story - my boyfriend and I have been planning a trip of a lifetime for a couple years now. It's finally going to happen this December. We leave December 3rd for our voyage to South America but before then, we need to find a kind, loving, knowledgeable bunny mom to take care of our 2 buns, Sam and Maggie while we are away for up to around a year. The bottom line is : We want them back!
Sam is a tan, 6 pound bunster neutered male, a bit older than a year. He's had perfect health since I've had him at six months. He used to chew wires in his youth but has slacked off. He binkies every night. He is a bit shy of new people but curious nonetheless. He usually allows me to pet him at night. He never bites. He loves to get underneath things and is persistent.
Maggie is a pearl grey Holland lop, 3 pound, neutered male. We call her 'she' though. She is about 3 years old. She has more spunk. She loves her head-pets and will run to your feet and put her head down, waiting. She will also nudge your hand. If something unknown threatens her she may paw or charge the offending object.She hasn't bit anyone in over a year.
Her health history is not so clean. She has no tail - born that way - not a problem. Her face is a bit lop-sided (ha!) which may or may not be contributing to her molars overgrowing a bit. In the time we've had her, she's only had them trimmed once though. She gets a bit lazy and doesn't eat her cecotrophs so every once in a while she gets a poopy-butt and you've got to give her a butt-bath. She has had history with her right eye bulging from abscess - we have easily fixed this with every other day shots of bicillin (penicllin-g). The first time the abscess was below her eye and she had surgery to drain it; the second time, it was behind the eye and after a week of shots, the pus drained right from her eye. She is still on shots from the last episode but her eye healed in two weeks time.
Maggie loves bread as a treat, they both love cheerios, carrots, crackers, cilantro, and parsley. At their age, they should be eating timothy hay but they refuse and only eat alfalfa. This can be a problem since it is higher in calcium. My vet says it's okay as long as we don't see any problems.
We keep them in an x-pen over a carpet over vinyl to prevent any accidents going through. We would bring those things. The remaining 25lb bag of food, Carefresh paper litter. And we offer $xxx to aid you in your care of our rabbits. That's right, we are offering a sum to care for our buns while we are gone on an adventure.
We ask that you have bunnies or have had them before. We also want your home life to be stable because we will be out of the country and unable to help find new foster homes for them (not to mention how stressful that would be). We also ask that you be willing to e-mail maybe once a month to tell us how they are doing - photos would be appreciated too.
We live in Lincoln, NE and would drive the bunnies to you ideally in mid-November anywhere in the Midwest.
I hope you guys can help! Thanks, Jessi & Nick/ Sam & Maggie
