Ok I took everyones advice on board and I was not going to get another bunny for a good 6 months, I was going to get one through a rescue shelter. My sister and I both got off work early so started making the rounds of the pet stores to find some new stuff for Bugz. I thought we did well, we got a chew thing, a fabric tunnel a bright orange cardboard tunnel, a wooden chew tunnel and then we found a place selling cheap carpet and got a rug for infront of his cage for $10!
So doing well, also got a harness for free and every store we went into they shoved baby bunnies under our noises (baby bunnies that cost over $100, the cheapest we got offered was $60!)
Here is part of what we got
Anyway we where wrapping up when we saw this petshop that we did not know existed so in we go looking for more Bunny items for Bugz and we see 2 pens full of baby bunnies. One marked male and one marked female. We are looking when my sister notices something and well there is this TINY TINY little bunny in the female cage that looks a little out of place, my sister and I both ask to see her and well it was she was wet from sitting in a puddle of her own urine, she had poo stuck all over here, she has a distended belly and seem to lack all desire to more. That was shocking but add to that the lady picked her up by her ears!
So we demand to speak to the manger, i was speaking to him while my sister was trying to clean up the little girl, she was talking to one of the staff members who said that this little girl was born out the back and was only 5 weeks old and her mother was sold, the manger on the other hand was telling me she was fine and that she was 10 weeks old. Well after some arguments and maybe a bit of threathening on my behalf we leave the pet shop with one baby rabbit at little to no cost! (so I am considering her a rescue).
A trip via bunnings to get some more NIC squares (still managed to run out of cable ties so part of the cage is held together with masking tape till I can get back there tomorrow). We got home, my sister started to research the web about washing a bunny and she got washed, dried and we drip feed her some water with glucose (sp?) in it. She seems a bit better and I will be on the vets door step tomorrow morning when they open. I have no clue what breed she is or if she is infact a female! (here is hoping she is!)
So i guess I had better introduce you to Anya
Bugz is running around like a mad man as i think he can smell her in the next room. i am doing a bit of quarrantine incase she has anything nasty that he could catch. Once she gets the all clear from the vet then i will move them into the same room. Bugz is booked in Friday week to get everything cut off so it will be a good three or four weeks before they will offically met. in the mean time can anyone suggest anything else I should do for her tonight? She was been drinking water and played with a celery top but not much more then that. Bunnies wean at 4 – 5 weeks so god knows when she last had a drink of milk, I would get some forumla but everything is closed now or should i go to the 24 hours K-Mart?
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