gentle giants
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I know several of you have read and commented on Hope's story in my blog, for those of you who haven't I will give an overview of what she went through in the time she was with me.
I found Hope at a small animal auction in June of 2008. When I found her, she had a massive abcess on her jaw, and the s**** that owned her had bred her again the night before the auction in hopes that someone would pay more for her at the sale. I brought her home and began pennicillin treatment. Somehow, she managed to carry the kits to term, and gave birth to Daisy, Pinochio, and Fred on July 20. She was a wonderful mother, and even though she was ill and in pain for most of the time, she raised them and even seemed to enjoy doing it.
We finally got rid of the abcess and weaned the kids, and everything seemed fine for a short while. Then she got a skin lesion, and when I took her to the vet for that we noticed that she had a snotty nose as well. So back on the antibiotics she went. ONce that was cleared up, I got her in to be spayed, where we discovered that she was in the early stages of uterine cancer. Dr. Drake was able to get it all, but a few days after her spay her abcess came back in the same spot. This time it was worse, and the meds weren't helping. An abcess would pop up, break and drain, and would seem to be healing. Then another one or even two would come up next to or under it, and the cycle would repeat.
Finally, the vet and I decided that the only thing to do was sedate her and try to open up and clean out the whole thing, and to check some cells under the microscope to make sure that it was jsut infection, and not another form of the cancer. Unfortunately, the anastesia was just too much for her this time, and her heart just slowed down and stopped. The vet tried several different things and was unable to get her to wake up at all. So my Hope bunny with the fighting spirit went to sleep, and finally is not hurting anymore. I take my hat off to this girl, she fought incredibly hard for such a long time.I hope she has a good time at the Bridge, because she really, really deserves it. Hope passed over the Bridge about 5:30 pm, March 18, 2009.
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I found Hope at a small animal auction in June of 2008. When I found her, she had a massive abcess on her jaw, and the s**** that owned her had bred her again the night before the auction in hopes that someone would pay more for her at the sale. I brought her home and began pennicillin treatment. Somehow, she managed to carry the kits to term, and gave birth to Daisy, Pinochio, and Fred on July 20. She was a wonderful mother, and even though she was ill and in pain for most of the time, she raised them and even seemed to enjoy doing it.
We finally got rid of the abcess and weaned the kids, and everything seemed fine for a short while. Then she got a skin lesion, and when I took her to the vet for that we noticed that she had a snotty nose as well. So back on the antibiotics she went. ONce that was cleared up, I got her in to be spayed, where we discovered that she was in the early stages of uterine cancer. Dr. Drake was able to get it all, but a few days after her spay her abcess came back in the same spot. This time it was worse, and the meds weren't helping. An abcess would pop up, break and drain, and would seem to be healing. Then another one or even two would come up next to or under it, and the cycle would repeat.
Finally, the vet and I decided that the only thing to do was sedate her and try to open up and clean out the whole thing, and to check some cells under the microscope to make sure that it was jsut infection, and not another form of the cancer. Unfortunately, the anastesia was just too much for her this time, and her heart just slowed down and stopped. The vet tried several different things and was unable to get her to wake up at all. So my Hope bunny with the fighting spirit went to sleep, and finally is not hurting anymore. I take my hat off to this girl, she fought incredibly hard for such a long time.I hope she has a good time at the Bridge, because she really, really deserves it. Hope passed over the Bridge about 5:30 pm, March 18, 2009.
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