Bunnies Of The Burrow

Another lovely sunny day and Memphis is generous enough to share her private courtyard with Pom and the quails 🐰🐔🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥❤️

Matilda enjoying her afternoon tea and some playtime in muddy water. Her all time favourite snack is defrosted corn kernels. She also likes the peas and grated carrot and zucchini but isn’t sure about the berries yet. I love her duckie noises and happy tail wags ❤️

Poor Feisty is a very unwell bunny ❤️‍🩹 We spent 3 hours with him at the emergency vet last night trying to find out what’s wrong. Thanks to the amazing knowledge and care of Animal Emergency Hospital Launceston , Mowbray Veterinary Clinic and The Rabbit Doctors (where would we be without the amazing Gerry Skinner and her wealth of knowledge!) we feel we now have an idea of what is happening for Feisty. It seems he has a large amount of inflammation in his body and has now developed a head tilt as a secondary symptom to this. We now have a plan in place with appropriate pain releif and medications. He is not eating or drinking independently so is on round the clock supportive home care. Although still very critical, he is more relaxed today and settled - accepting all the human care graciously and loving all the attention from his bunny nurse Turbo. It has left us with an urgent care bill of $586.90, ontop of the hundreds we already owe at our usual vet practice. So please send Feisty lots of love and if you can contribute any amount to his vet bill (through PayPal - [email protected]) it would be greatly appreciated 🙏❤️

Lucy isn’t quite with it yet after her operation today. She doesn’t think much of having critical care and she refuses to stay on her heat mat. She’s loving pats though bless her❤️ I’ll keep looking after her and she’ll be fine. Some bunnies just take a little longer to recover than others

‘I eat this piece of Silverbeet under duress but I’ll eat you happily!’😒 Buddy is getting well and truly fed up with having her paw treated and her daily injections. She’s such a dramatic girl - she carries on when I’m giving her her meds but as soon as I put her down she gives me kisses. She’s just very expressive with how she’s feeling at any given moment lol Her paw is still swollen but less so and less red so we are giving it a few more days to see how it goes (on vet advice) befire we decide if it needs amputating or not.

Sweet Pedro had his dental surgery today🦷🤒 with the wonderful Dr Nikki at Mowbray Veterinary Clinic It’s been a huge day for him and he’s still recovering. He had his abscess removed and also two teeth taken out, and his mouth packed with medicated wadding. He’s taken some critical care since being home and is now resting on his heated mat to keep his body temperature up, while getting lots of love. He’s going to be sore for a little while so he’s got some temgesic pain releif as well as his usual. We still need to pay for his surgery (as well as more surgery next week for Lucy and Turbo) so if you can donate to our vet account we’d be ever so grateful: Mowbray Veterinary Clinic BSB 017542 ACC 231993441 Reference- Bunnies Of The Burrow Phone 03 6326 4900 Or PayPal: [email protected]

Our elderly disabled silkie chook Pom had some warm water therapy this evening to freshen up and let her leg muscles relax and stretch. It’s important to dry silkie chickens after getting wet but you also have to be careful not to overheat them as chooks in general have quite a high body temperature. Always blow dry on lowest setting and away from body, moving about and not staying in one place for too long. After her towel dry (where she took a sneaky nap) and blow dry she enjoyed her favourite evening snack of grated carrot and zucchini. Then it was some rosehip oil on her legs and to bed with Memphis and Jersey buns.

My own bunny slipper to keep me warm while I sit and make sure Pom eats enough dinner (she’s old and needs reminding and likes to be sung to when she eats🤷‍♀️). Thanks Bumi for keeping my toes toasty 😘

Poor little Buddy stresses a lot with having her injured toe seen to and her antibiotic injection. She needs lots of kisses and snuggles to make it ok💕

Bandage change day for Buddy with her damaged toe. Some of her bandage was stuck to her foot so I soaked it in betadine wash and left her in the bathroom (on the floor) while it soaked in, and gave her a break from the process (she stresses so much). Came back into the bathroom to find her on the chair I’d been treating her on, cleaning her toe as if to say ‘just let me do this myself hoomin! I’ll do a much better job than you!🙄’ After multiple splashes in the eyes and face with betadine (it doesn’t blind you diluted at least so that’s good to know😆), being bitten (just through my clothes and didn’t leave a mark😆) and lots of reassuring words and kisses while wrestling what felt like a crocodile, we managed to get the bandage organised, injection done and pain releif given. Unfortunately her toe isn’t looking any better so I think it’s going to have to be amputated😢 Much better to stop the infection at the toe rather than leave it too long and have to take the whole paw or leg, but still sad for poor little Buddy ❤️

Jersey is such a good boy with coming when he’s called❤️ with all his health issues he doesn’t really eat hay but loves fresh grass so he has this private courtyard off his room that he can access when it’s safe weather/ time of day and it really helps with keeping his digestion healthy

Making up the chaff and dried herb mix I give to the bunnies daily 🌸 thought some might find it useful for their own buns. All bunny safe herbs and flowers have wonderful health benefits for bunnies and are a great addition to their diet ✅ Apologies for all the packet crinkling 😆

The beautiful wildings💗 they aren’t huge fans of the camera so I don’t film them that often but just have to share their cuteness sometimes 😉

Pom met the quails this evening and had a lot to say to them!❤️ The rabbits on either side found Pom to be a very strange quail lol. They all seemed to like each other, although I think Quentin is a bit offended she has a louder voice than he does (don’t worry Quentin nobody calls loudly through the house at 5am like you do!😳)😁. I’m hoping it will be nice for Pom to have some gentle bird company - mentally stimulating and encourage her to remember to eat. I’m working getting a quail safe area organised on the grass outside so they can all spend time in the sunshine together on nice days.

Today we welcomed these 5 little quails to The Burrow (yet to be named)❤️

Some of todays story time with Benjamin, Peter and Rain🐰🐰🐰📕

An update on Doris the duck with the bumble foot who ended up having to have some toes amputated🪿 Our vet advised she needed to spend a large amount of time in the water to take the pressure off her foot so I’ve been working on making her a pond. It’s been a big process as I needed to repurpose items I already had (apart from the pond liner) to make it affordable. Well yesterday I finally finished it and today the girls discovered it with a little encouragement. They seem very happy with their space and I’m hoping it will help maintain the health of Doris’s effected foot❤️

Was time to make up another batch of dried forage today. I buy bulk in the herbs and flowers and also the oaten chaff and combine into a big bucket every few days. At the moment there is rose petals, calendula petals, lavender, nettle, dandelion. These were the ones that were available and affordable for now. I always try to buy organic, but at the very least get food grade that are made for human teas etc. once mixed I sprinkle through the bunnies hay and they love it. It keeps them entertained for ages and all the dried forage has great health benefits as well 😊

Feisty is settling in well too and just loves pats so very much ❤️😍

Turbo is settling in well🌸 previous guardians had though she was a boy (she turned up at their home as a stray and wasn’t claimed so they took her in) but she’s definitely a girl. We think she is blind (or at least has compromised sight) and possibly hard of hearing. She’s such a sweet girl and gives so many kisses 🥰