Just wanted to say that I think it's great that you're doing this. I live in Provo and hobby-stalk the Utah Humane Society's website all the time . It will be really cool to see them there looking for homes after seeing them as babies.

Posted By ~KK~ on 03/15/2012 06:31 AM
No way, I'm in Provo too! And yeah I used to stalk it all the time too, especially when my fosters are in . The Angora that's up there now was also a foster of mine for a short while.

Provo too? Way cool. I'll still be here for another couple years while I finish my Food Science degree at BYU. Good luck wherever you're going! Someday I hope to leave too. Feels so far off though .

I've totally seen that Angora like 50 times. She's so cute! I have a weakness for gray rabbits . What kind of care does an Angora require anyways? I know you have to groom them frequently and get them trimmed sometimes, but is there anything else?

I'm at BYU, actually graduating in a month in Clinical Lab Science. After I'm done I'm heading back to the Pacific Northwest

Angora's are pretty high maintenance. They need to be brushed a LOT and when they start to wool you have chunks of fur everywhere. Fifi is a really sweet bunny with a big personality. She's more like a dog and hates are cage, haha. She's house-trained though!

In other news, here's an update for 3.5 weeks!

Curly is turning out to be extremely sweet and outgoing. When the biddies are out he likes to come sit on my lap for a bit and then run around and get some good binkies!

Chubs loves to eat and play, and is probably the most aloof of all of the biddies. He's super sweet but would rather be running around than hand around me

Blackie is the shy and sweet one. He is tender and gentle, and when I took them outside for the first time all he wanted to do was crawl in my lap and cuddle. He also LOVES to climb which is super weird. I can't ever get it on camera but he climbs the corners of cages!

I also decided to introduce them to Theodore and let them play, because both sides were very intrigued with the other. I actually started letting them play a week ago and it has been going GREAT. Theodore runs around, binkies, and lets the bubs follow him around and eat his food! He doesn't mind when they wander around his cage and hang around his food bowl, so I think that's a good sign

I got some ADORABLE vids of Theodore and the biddies this afternoon. The first is of him and Curly, and the other is just him binkying and playing with the biddies <3
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Good luck .

I have a feeling they're probably going to euthanize the babies or find a foster mother for them, but I can't afford to worry about what happens to them. The only reason I assume that much is LAST time this happened, when I had the white rabbits and the mom had a very surprising litter of NINE (and this was my first time owning rabbits), they asked me to bring in the mom and newborns right away. I didn't...because I was afraid she'd abandon them. But I haven't heard anything about mama or those nine babies since, and they usually call me to update on their progress and when they've been adopted. Those babies would be up for adoption now I think.

No no, she was brought in with three litters. The owner brought in her, two 2 month olds, two 1 months olds, and four 3-4 day olds. I picked them up the day they were brought into the shelter, meaning she was already fertilized the fourth time when I got her. She was obviously housed with a male, so the minute she had babies she was pregnant again...and again over and over. She'll be spayed in probably 3-4 weeks, a week after I wean the current litter.

Because:

A) she's about to give birth
B) she still has at least two more weeks of nursing to do

C) once they're weaned you want to give the female's body a week to recover from pregnancy/nursing  before you perform major surgery
D) I can't afford to drive 45 minutes there and back multiple times. I plan on going up to drop off the newborns and one last time to drop off mom, Chubs, and Blackie

at this point it doesn't matter when she gets spayed. The problem was before she got to the shelter, not after. We're just dealing with the rest of the previous owners' mistakes and irresponsibility. She doesn't have access to any unneutered males now and the babies will be going into other foster homes until they're ready to be spayed/neutered, so there's no risk of her kids getting her preggo. Once they're weaned Ebony won't be with any other rabbits while she's intact. 

Just to be clear, Chubs and Blackie will definitely NOT be euthanized. The only rabbits whose fortunes are unknown are the unborn kits in Ebony's belly.

Just wanted to make sure people weren't worried too much.

Chubs and Blackie will be going to other foster homes (let me know if you're interested in that) and will be ready for adoption in approximately 4 months once they've been fixed.

The biddies are 4 weeks old now and have exploded in size over the last couple of days!  

It's so cute, whenever I take the biddies to play in the rabbit room Theodore waits by the door of his cage and starts digging to get out. Once I let him out he zooms around and binkies all over! He even dead bunny flopped in the middle of the floor until Chubs ran into him . He'll get a couple more weeks of play time until their little hormones arrive!

Chubs appears to be very blind, haha, which isn't too uncommon for REWs. He still gets along juuuust fine and just finds himself running into things more often. He probably needs to be the only bun because he can't really read the other rabbit's body language. He also was the first to dead bunny flop for me today!

Here's a video of Chubs doing the "scanning" behavior seen in rabbits with very poor eyesight

Blind bunny disapproves

Blackie is a sweetie and is getting a very nice mane! He's also mama's boy and is always cuddled up next to her

Curly is getting crazier looking everyday! He's currently been dry-sneezing every so often and had yellow goop in the fur around his eyes so I got in contact with the foster coordinator to see what to do about it

And this pic is actually from a few days ago, but they posed themselves and I couldn't resist taking a pic

Can you feel the babies? Rabbit gestation is about 30 days, And you've had her 25 days, which would mean that she got pregnant while you have had her, which seems unlikely. She could just Be dealing with a false pregnancy since she's had so many litters on top of each other.

 Here are some pics of dear little Ebony. I just palpated her again (for one, she's HEAVY) and she's either pregnant or extremely bloated. When I palpated I definitely felt something twitch in her abdomen and it didn't feel like intestine to me!

Any updates ?