baefull.wolfbunnies
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I feel like a bad bunny momma. I forgot to give the kits their nighttime feeding (was super exhausted and fell asleep on the couch last night) went out this morning to a catastrophe.
A little backstory, these kits were born on the 11th of March and I have been slowly transitioning them to solid food, there were pellets in the nestbox with them last night.
Yesterday they were perfectly fine, this morning I had to put down two due to injuries and one is a possibility (i'm waiting to see how it does). One kit had both its front legs torn up like compound fracture barely hanging on torn up. Sitting like a tribble, grinding its jaw, eyes half closed.
The second essentially had its left side crushed. It's back foot was crunchy, its leg and hip were sliding around just under the skin and part of its ribs were moving around, nothing broken through the skin but it was in obvious distress. Sitting like a tribble, eyes half closed and grinding its jaw.
The third has one leg that is like the first, compound fracture, skin gone, limb hanging there, BUT it is still hopping around and eating/being normal.
The other two appear to be fine, no crunchy bones, no obvious injuries, one has a torn nail, but it has had that for a while.
There has been a squirrel hanging around lately that has been digging through the hay and other debris under the hutches. I think it is a nesting female. Or it could be one of the many feral cats in the neighborhood.
I feel so horrible that I didn't at least go check on them. My husband is allergic to them, hence he has nothing to do with any of the rabbits. This litter has gone from 13 down to now 3 (possibly 2) due to a series of events.
Is there anything I can do for the surviving injured kit? Some sort of surgery that wont cause it more damage then has already been done?
A little backstory, these kits were born on the 11th of March and I have been slowly transitioning them to solid food, there were pellets in the nestbox with them last night.
Yesterday they were perfectly fine, this morning I had to put down two due to injuries and one is a possibility (i'm waiting to see how it does). One kit had both its front legs torn up like compound fracture barely hanging on torn up. Sitting like a tribble, grinding its jaw, eyes half closed.
The second essentially had its left side crushed. It's back foot was crunchy, its leg and hip were sliding around just under the skin and part of its ribs were moving around, nothing broken through the skin but it was in obvious distress. Sitting like a tribble, eyes half closed and grinding its jaw.
The third has one leg that is like the first, compound fracture, skin gone, limb hanging there, BUT it is still hopping around and eating/being normal.
The other two appear to be fine, no crunchy bones, no obvious injuries, one has a torn nail, but it has had that for a while.
There has been a squirrel hanging around lately that has been digging through the hay and other debris under the hutches. I think it is a nesting female. Or it could be one of the many feral cats in the neighborhood.
I feel so horrible that I didn't at least go check on them. My husband is allergic to them, hence he has nothing to do with any of the rabbits. This litter has gone from 13 down to now 3 (possibly 2) due to a series of events.
Is there anything I can do for the surviving injured kit? Some sort of surgery that wont cause it more damage then has already been done?
