Shayhara
Well-Known Member
I sold these three rabbits to a local petstore that my niece works at. This is not the first time I have sold to them, though they don't know a ton about rabbits, they care about the animals in their care and seemed to take advice well. I show and raise rabbits, but they are still my pets and I love each and everyone of them and their offspring. All our rabbits are sold with a verbal contract that if for any reason they can no longer be cared for they are to be returned to us.
I found out from my niece that they still had three of these rabbits, at 3 and a half months old, two bucks and a doe, still together, and they where "missing" hair. They took them to the local vet (large animal vet/livestock vet) who gave some antibiotics and that was it. I contacted the owner of the pestore as soon as I Found out and got the rabbits back
I believe the hair loss is from stress. I didn't realize they had redone the setup at the store, and now the rabbits where being handled without supervision by anyone who wanted to handle them. While I was there waiting for the owner to get done with a customer there where about six kids between 8 and 12 surrounding the rabbits, picking them up turning them around trying to make them walk on their back legs. The rabbits just went with it, they didn't fight at all.
Now they are home, in their own cages with unlimited grass hay, 18% pellets and fresh water. They are very friendly bunnies, and love to run up and meet you. During their daily playtime (two hours each loose in the bunny barn) they are a ton of fun to watch as they jump and twist and leap around. They seem healthy enough and the vet said they had no internal or external parasites.
So here are the pictures, what do you think? Stress?? Anything I can do do make them heal faster? They are also a good pound under the weight of their litter mates who I kept.
The black doe- Ester
The gold tipped steel buck- ALF aka: Alfie - He is missing the most, he is also the sweetest, and a escape artist. I have had to change the latch on his door four times now, because he keeps opening it somehow! Never had a problem with it with any of our other bunnies before either.
The Siamese sable buck- ALS aka: Alaska - His coat is the best, but he is the smallest, thinnest of them all. He is also so much lighter on color then his brother Apache who I kept ( and my camera died before I got a new picture of him)
Alaska and Apache together when they where only 4 weeks old
I found out from my niece that they still had three of these rabbits, at 3 and a half months old, two bucks and a doe, still together, and they where "missing" hair. They took them to the local vet (large animal vet/livestock vet) who gave some antibiotics and that was it. I contacted the owner of the pestore as soon as I Found out and got the rabbits back
I believe the hair loss is from stress. I didn't realize they had redone the setup at the store, and now the rabbits where being handled without supervision by anyone who wanted to handle them. While I was there waiting for the owner to get done with a customer there where about six kids between 8 and 12 surrounding the rabbits, picking them up turning them around trying to make them walk on their back legs. The rabbits just went with it, they didn't fight at all.
Now they are home, in their own cages with unlimited grass hay, 18% pellets and fresh water. They are very friendly bunnies, and love to run up and meet you. During their daily playtime (two hours each loose in the bunny barn) they are a ton of fun to watch as they jump and twist and leap around. They seem healthy enough and the vet said they had no internal or external parasites.
So here are the pictures, what do you think? Stress?? Anything I can do do make them heal faster? They are also a good pound under the weight of their litter mates who I kept.
The black doe- Ester
The gold tipped steel buck- ALF aka: Alfie - He is missing the most, he is also the sweetest, and a escape artist. I have had to change the latch on his door four times now, because he keeps opening it somehow! Never had a problem with it with any of our other bunnies before either.
The Siamese sable buck- ALS aka: Alaska - His coat is the best, but he is the smallest, thinnest of them all. He is also so much lighter on color then his brother Apache who I kept ( and my camera died before I got a new picture of him)
Alaska and Apache together when they where only 4 weeks old
