The Bunhalla Bunnies 2011

[Dragonrain]

I feel so horrible

Uh long story short Kit is allergic to chicken, and I stupidly (not on purpose but it was still stupid of me) gave him a treat that contained chicken.

No more than 10 mins after he finished the treat his poor little face started swelling up like a balloon! His skin was red and felt hot and he was covered in hives! Thankfully I had some allergy medicine here for him that I gave him right away. Then, again thankfully, his regular vet was able to take us for a walk in appointment where they loaded him up with more antihistamines. His face was swollen up so bad, I don't want to think about what could have happened if I didn't have his medicine on hand to give him right away or if his vet wasn't open.

I got home again an hour later with a less swollen, but miserable puppy. He's still covered in hives and very itchy and uncomfortably, but the swelling in his face has gone down dramatically. I haven't left the house all day today other than to take him to the vet or out to go to the bathroom and I don't plan too until he's 100% back to normal, I'm so so afraid that his throat could start to swell up. The vet didn't want to make him vomit up the treat because we where afraid with his swollen throat that he could possibly choke while trying to throw up...so now I have to give him meds every 8 hours for a few days until we're sure everything has passed.

I feel so so so so sooooooooooooo bad! My poor baby is so uncomfortably. I'm going to be so careful about what I feed him now, even more so than I was before!

 

[myheart]

Awe... poor Kit... :hug:

... and poor you... :hug: Don't beat yourself up too much. Mistakes happen... I'm sure Kit doesn't love you any less for trying to feed him something nummmy.

 

[JadeIcing]

Ouch it happens. Poor Kit, poor baby. *hugs*

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks.

Kit is doing better today. His meds help a lot, but I can tell when they start to wear off because his skin gets red and itchy again and the vet said only to give them to him 3 times a day. Luckily the swelling is gone though. He's still not completely better and is still pretty uncomfortably with all the itching but he's much better than yesterday.

 

[JadeIcing]

*hugs*

 

[Myia09]

Awww poor Kit! But accidents like that happen!

 

[myheart]

Would an oatmeal bath help his red itchy skin? Or does it just have to go away on it's own?

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks!

Oatmeal baths do help dogs! I actually gave him one yesterday. He's doing MUCH better today. I'd say he's about 90% back to normal. This morning he woke me up by dropping his favorite squeaky toy on my face, so he's getting back to his normal antics!

The bunnies haven't been waking me up lately! Berry decide to switch to the day shift for her digging, so she's been pretty quite at night. Other than that nothing is new with them, they are all doing well.

Look how long Barnaby's hair is getting!

Don't mind his eye looking kind of weird, he had a clump of hair in it. He looks concerned/worried about something in like 80% of his pictures haha.

Pretty miss Berry always likes to see what I'm up to.

No pictures of Ziggy today because uh, he was chasing Kit around when I took pictures of the other two lol.

I took some pictures of the geckos today too.

Haku...

And Aurora...

And of course Kit had to get in on some of the action!

Kit says "Who is that handsome man!?"

Kit has taken to relaxing all curled up inside our kitchen cabinets, lol. Sometimes I'll be looking for him, with no idea where he is, and then when I call his name he'll just pop his head out of a random cabinet.

Here he is relaxing with his favorite toy, Ted Bear...

Ted gets puppy kisses...

And that's it for today! I'll try to get more of the bunnies over the weekend. I know I haven't posted much of them lately, but they are kind of hard for me to photograph. Every time they do something cute I try to take a picture but as soon as they see me they stop what they are doing to run up to me...so almost all of my pictures of them are them begging for attention and treats lol.

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!

 

[JadeIcing]

I love your crew.

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks...but I love them more! :biggrin:

Kit is better now. Ugh I spent way to much time on Saturday giving him a hair cut. My dog clippers are crap so I was getting sooo frustrated with them, I need to order new ones sometime soon. But Kit looks adorable. I know it's not really normal to clip Papillons fur, but Kit isn't your typical papillon either.

I have to order dog food and a few new toys for Kit and the bunnies. It'll be fun picking stuff out for them.

My last batch of Sweet Meadows Hay is sooooo dusty. Ick, I've never gotten hay this dusty from them before. It sucks because they hay dust gets all over the place and I'm allergic, so I feel like crap when/if I accidentally breath in any of the dust. Hopefully my next batch is back to normal and not so dusty.

 

[myheart]

Isn't Kit the poster-child for cuteness...?!!!

 

[JadeIcing]

I have to agree. He is just perfect.

 

[kirbyultra]

Dragonrain wrote:

My last batch of Sweet Meadows Hay is sooooo dusty.  Ick, I've never gotten hay this dusty from them before.  It sucks because they hay dust gets all over the place and I'm allergic, so I feel like crap when/if I accidentally breath in any of the dust.  Hopefully my next batch is back to normal and not so dusty.

Glad Kit's better. I also love the same pic that myheart quoted He's adorable!

My last batch of hay was not so hot either. It had a lot of alfalfa and a lot of bits and dust. I was pretty disappointed.

 

[Dragonrain]

Kit is perfect I can't even put into words how much I love that little guy. He's amazing.

Ugh my hay is insanly dusty. To give you an idea, this is the top of the bunnies dig box, covered in hay dust because it's right under my hay storage box. This is some of the dust and tiny pieces of hay that fall out while I'm transferring the hay between my hay storage bin and the bunnies litter boxes.

That's all the dust from filling my three litter boxes one time! I have to clean after each time I fill the boxes or else the bunnies get into the pile of hay dust and spread it everywhere. And that's just what falls out of the hay as I'm transporting it. I'm going to order more hay soon and I really really hope it's not this bad, because it's really doing a number on my allergies.

Kit after his hair cut. I admit I'm not amazing at cutting his fur, but I don't really trust groomers. I've heard some horror stories and yeah, I just don't feel comfortable leaving him with strangers for something as trivial as getting his hair cut. I can do a better job when my clippers are actually working well, lol.

 

[Dragonrain]

Spent waay more money than I had planned on the pets last night. I got Kit's food for the next month or two which alone costs like $68. Then I got Kit and the bunnies each a few new toys.

So I had to separate Ziggy from Barnaby and Berry again...he's being kind of a butt and got into arguments, we'll call them, with both of them - even with Berry this time. Now Barnaby and Berry I think are kind of afraid of Ziggy because they don't really want to be near him as much. I've been thinking a lot lately of maybe setting Ziggy up in a different room. I think maybe he'd appreciate his own space and that Berry and Barnaby might be more at ease too. I think Ziggy would do well just getting plenty of attention from us and Kit.

Something to think about. I talked to Chris about it last night and I think we might do a trial run - I need to clean out one of our other spare rooms first though. If it doesn't work out for some reason, I can always easily move him back into the same room as the other two.

 

[Dragonrain]

Happy 4th birthday Ziggy!!
arty::airborne:arty:

Aw so as of today, all 3 of my bunny babies are all 4 years old!

Other than all the new toys I got for the bunnies...today Ziggy is getting....his own room!

Well, sort of at least. I've decided to move him into our art room for awhile, to give him some time away from the other two who he hasn't been getting along with very well again lately. The art room is mostly where we store all our art supplies (I do a lot of painting/sewing/other craft type stuff and Chris mostly paints) - don't worry, no paint fumes or anything like that. Because the room is kind of small (the smallest in our apartment) we've pretty much just been using it for storage, and do our artsy stuff in the kitchen.

This might be temporary, I don't know yet. Ideally I'd like to give him some time apart and then reintroduce him to the other two...but the way Ziggy is I don't know if that will work out. I'm going to just take things as they come. The good thing is that the room he'll be in now is in a more central location in the house, so he'll be more involved with the daily going-ons. I'm hoping that, if I can't get him back in with the other two, that he'll bond more to me, Chris, and Kit so that we can allow him free range of most of the apartment and he won't be bored/lonely. I have some serious rabbit proofing to do!

I'll try to get some new pictures of the birthday boy and come back and post them later on.

Happy April!!

 

[Myia09]

Awww happy brithday!!!!

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks!!

So change of plans, Ziggy is in the kitchen for now lol. The extra cage I had and was planning on using for him was bigger than I remembered it being, so I couldn't find a good spot for it in the room I wanted to put him in.

Now I have to wait until Chris gets home to help me decide if the big cage in the kitchen is a good idea or not. If not, I'll probably keep him there for a few days then move him back into the bunny room, but try to figure out a better set up than what I have now.

At least, for now, litter boxes, cages, and the bunny room are clean!

Oh and I had the radio on for the bunnies (I keep it on for them pretty much all day usually) and they played that birthday song by the Beetles then like right after they played Ziggy's song! What a strange coincidence.

 

[JadeIcing]

Happy Birthday Ziggy!

 

[Dragonrain]

Thanks

Ziggy's back in the bunny room. Yeah....even if he doesn't always get along amazingly with the other two (Ziggy is very moody), I could tell he missed them. So he has his own pen in the bunny room now, and gets supervised time with the other two which so far has been going well. Ugh I did so much work to get him all set up in another room and then all the work ended up being for nothing...oh well.

So I haven't posted many pictures in awhile, and I think I should change that

All these are from yesterday.

Bunnies...

BEST picture of the day...

And a few of Kit. A lot of people think, by the way I describe Kit, that he's very refined for a dog. That's true, but deep down he's still a dog, and he can get dirty with the best of them!

I love that dirty faced puppy smile in the last picture
:inlove:

And that's it for today!