Iggysbabysitter
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So I spent the past week dealing with Bertha (baby flemish giant) and her GI problem. I finaly decide to cull her Monday if she can't eat, drink and poop on her own by Monday morning. Great, she's doing it! Yipee, I get to keep the little sweetheart. Then, clean cages, I put Thumper (neglected hand-me-down lionhead mix I got from a teenager last month) into the little yard pen to munch on grass while I hose down his stuff. He had no intrest in grass, sun, shade, Bertha, Pepper... nothing. Hmmm... since he's experienced a real life, he's been a very happy go lucky bunny. Not right now. He smells like a skunk, so I cleaned his scent glands in the rear, not as bad as the video on youtube, just a small amount of beige/white film, smells a bit yeasty. I'm worried about his testies, I think they look odd, firm at one end, shriveled at the other end (Is this normal?) Poops are not good, dry and small, so now I get to deal with rehydrating Thumper. And since he was bought by a teen 2 years ago, and then she dumped him on her parents and siblings a year ago, he's had nothing to chew on, junkfood type rabbit kibble which he rarely got fed... what I have seen of his front teeth is very dirty yellow. I wonder how bad the back ones are.
For the past week he's been caged beside his future mate Pepper, a NZ doe. Is this bad? He can't mate her until Nov... could this cause him any problems? Stress?
For the past week he's been caged beside his future mate Pepper, a NZ doe. Is this bad? He can't mate her until Nov... could this cause him any problems? Stress?