The Buntastic Four

02/08/2024

Is anyone able to foster a rabbit please?

We are currently full at the sanctuary, my house is full and the Malta Rabbit Club is unable to help too.

A girl has found the below rabbit and she cannot keep her. Please send me a msg or call 99830701 if you're in a position to help

30/07/2024

I don’t often post about myself, since this page is dedicated mostly to rabbit related stuff, however I decided to make an “About me” post, so that people booking services with me can get a better idea on who I am and what I do

03/07/2024

Summer heat = more dramatic bunny flops = mini heart attacks for mummy 🫠

Cotton, my little sassy girly ❤️

19/06/2024

Kindly note that apart from a couple of odd days here and there, I am full with rabbit sitting until mid-September.

A massive thank you goes to my clients for their trust 🙏

I highly recommend current and future clients to book ahead your sitting services to avoid disappointment. All rabbit sitting is done at my house under careful supervision, therefore I am limited to how many rabbits I can keep at one go.

Thank you

29/05/2024

⚠️Important announcement ⚠️

To my esteemed grooming clients:

I am taking a short break from grooming and will be back starting the week of 17th June.

As most of you know, apart from my own rabbits, I also rescue and often foster rescue rabbits, which leaves me to little/no free time of my own.

Therefore, starting from the 17th June, the following changes will apply:

🔸Grooming clients from the South: I will no longer be doing home visits, but will start grooming at my own personal residence in Ghaxaq.

🔸Grooming clients from the central/north: I will be allocating 2 dates per month where I will be doing home visits (unless you prefer to bring your bunny over to Ghaxaq).

I urge my clients to book in advance to avoid delays in booking. I will also be making a separate post with updated prices accordingly.

Rabbit sitting services will resume as normal.

As always, please feel free to reach out if you have any questions 😊

04/05/2024

It's Hazel's gotcha day today 🥳

Hazel has been with me for the past 2 years

16/04/2024

Reaching out to my fellow followers and clients ⚠️⚠️⚠️

We are super full at the sanctuary (plus our houses) and we have no space for any more rescues.

We have received a message from a person who knows of a breeder who wants to get rid of the last 3 female rabbits he has, and unless someone takes them, he will either dump them in a valley or feed them to his dogs.

Please please please reach out if anyone can foster!! Even if you can foster just 1 rabbit, you will be helping us a lot by making space at the sanctuary!

If you are unable to foster (or even better adopt), please SHARE!

Thank you

29/03/2024

It has been a while since my last post!

I have been VERY busy with fostering, rescuing and my own personal rabbits in general, thus I didn't have any time to sit down, relax and make a post 🥲

I think I can finally make it official and confirm that the Buntastic family has grown to 12 🤣 Sometimes I myself lose count of all the rabbits that I have 😅

The latest additions to the Buntastic bunch were Snuggles and Petra

01/02/2024

Meet Mika

25/01/2024

Today is my little old lady's birthday 🥹🐰

Pika is 9 years old

19/01/2024

It's Eddy's birthday today! 🥳🎂

My baby turns 4 years old today

05/01/2024

⚠️⚠️Calling out to all my clients and followers⚠️⚠️

As most of you know, I am a member of Sunshine Animal Sanctuary Malta and we are currently super, extra full.

We keep getting messages of dumped rabbits on a DAILY basis and very few adoptions are going through.

If you are in a position to adopt or at least foster please send me a PM. We will also be making a post on the Sunshine page soon.

If you are unable to adopt or foster, I kindly ask you to share and help spread the word

12/12/2023

The orphans and Pika ❤️

I have been calling them the orphans from the beginning, but their individual names are:
Flip
Flower
Cotton
Pablita
& Pika my little old lady ❤️

I will be making another post soon explaining who is who and describing their lovely personalities ❤️

02/12/2023

Pika and the orphans are bonded 🥳

It's a small Christmas miracle for me as Pika has officially bonded with the orphans

22/11/2023

Could this be the start of something? 🤔

Anyone who knows me and my buns on a more personal level, know what a sassy little diva queen my girl Pika is. She used to be bonded with Eddy, but unfortunately after separating them for a few hours to take Pika for her vaccine, she flipped out and refused to get back together with Eddy.

I have tried multiple times to bond Pika with other rabbits, and even though I admit that my attempts were very short and limited, as I literally have no time to bond, she has always shown me her true dominant nature and never expressed to bond with anyone else.

These past few months however, she had been escaping from her playpen on a regular basis 🫠 And I would always find her leaning against the orphan's playpen.

Tonight, I fed them all together, and she was unphased. She even licked Cotton a bit 🥹

Maybe my little diva only needed some time after all to bond with new buns. Let's wait and see 🤞

10/11/2023

⚠️A bit of a trigger warning as I will be discussing death, for anyone who does not wish to read on rabbits dying ⚠️

For whoever saw my post a couple of weeks ago, Kodi passed away at my house. After all the sorrow, grief and tears that this has brought, I wanted to share my experience with you, for whoever has to go through something similar.

As morbid and dark as this topic is, it is unfortunately inevitable. All living things, whether human or animals, are destined to pass away at some point. My whole point in sharing my experience with you, is simply to make the experience a bit more tolerable, or at least, amidst the confusion and grief, to have an idea what to do with your beloved pet's remains.

First off I contacted Sacha Formston at https://www.facebook.com/deceasedpetcollectionandpreservation for her to come collect Kodi. She came on the same day to collect him and was very professional in her services.

She takes care of the preservation of the body until the cremation appointment, which is done at The Island Sanctuary Malta.

Once a date is set, I was informed and had the option to visit the body before the cremation was done. I personally preferred not to go, as I wanted to remember him how he was prior to his death.

I was also given a date for when to collect his ashes.

I went to pick up Kodi's ashes today, which honestly brought back grief and sorrow, however I have his remains with me, which brings some comfort.

I am planning to sprinkle some of his ashes in a rose bush plant I have buried Pudgy in last January. I planted seeds back in January and now beautiful roses grow from it, and everytime I look at it I remember of sweet Pudgy. Since Kodi and Pudgy were friends I would like some of his ashes to be where Pudgy's body was buried, so they can be re-united in the afterlife as well 💔

I understand that some people may prefer to cremate and not keep the remains, or prefer burying. This was my personal choice and as dark and morbid as it is, I wanted people to know what their options are, as I know that after the passing of a pet, your mind is not thinking clearly and some people may be lost as to what the next steps are.

Hug your bunnies a little tighter tonight for me ❣️

28/10/2023

Kodi 🥹

My sweet baby. I've had you for the past year and you filled my life with utter happiness.

You made friends with Pudgy, who we unfortunately lost in January. You also made friends with the orphan babies... You were such a friendly bunny.

But you had grown so weak these past few weeks. You had become so thin. I did my best and gave you medicine daily and for a short while you seemed to be getting better.

But these last 2 days I saw you getting thinner again. I knew your days were counted...And now finally it's time for you to rest 💔

Fly high over the rainbow bridge my baby. I miss you so much. Binky free and run wild with Pudgy and all the lost rabbits

23/10/2023

Long overdue post 😅

Meet Bugsy

04/10/2023

**UPDATE - RABBIT HAS BEEN CAUGHT

03/10/2023

These 3 gorgeous girls are all looking for their forever home ❤️

Please look at the photos' captions for their description.

Please send me or Sunshine Animal Sanctuary Malta a PM if interested.

All rabbits will be vaccinated and neutered prior to adoption.

10/09/2023

Mo mo ❤️

Look how big she's grown 🥹 She's the only survivor out of the last litter of 4 that were brought to me.

She's about 5-6 weeks old now, she's still having her milk but eating plenty of hay and solids too.
.....will she be number 9? 🫣

04/09/2023

Flower and Cotton are looking for their forever home 🐰

They are 2 sisters, 4 months old and vaccinated.

They will grow into LARGE bunnies.

I would love for them to be adopted together. They were bottle fed since 2 weeks old and super friendly and used to cats and dogs.

NO BREEDERS will be considered. To be kept as pets in a home environment only. Whoever adopts needs to agree on spaying them once they are old enough.

PM if interested.

25/08/2023

In the past couple of weeks, I have received plenty of messages from people who were worried because their rabbits stopped eating/p**ping.

Rabbits shed multiple times a year, and the biggest shed occurs during the summer months. As most of you should know, rabbits are avid cleaners and love grooming themselves, which, while on the one side is a good thing, on the other hand this means that the rabbit is ingesting plenty of fur.

Rabbits are unable to throw up, like cats do. This means that rabbits will need to p**p the fur out, and while most of the time this is what happens, unfortunately sometimes, they ingest too much fur, which will cause a blockage in their intestines and a build up of gas, causing the rabbit to stop eating and p**ping.

So, what can be done?

⚠️ Prevention
Grooming

Regular grooming will help avoid the rabbit ingesting too much fur. When your rabbit is shedding a lot, daily grooming may be required.

Pineapple juice
Pineapple juice helps rabbits to digest the excess fur. Giving your rabbit pineapple juice when they are shedding a lot on a daily basis will help prevent excess fur digestion

👩‍⚕️ Cure

Unfortunately sometimes even with prevention, some rabbits are extra sensitive and will develop GI stasis, no matter how much you prevent it. These are the steps to take when your rabbit has stopped eating/p**ping

-Give pineapple juice every hour orally via syringe
-Infacol drops (bought from a human pharmacy) every hour
-Tummy massages
-Make the rabbit move and run around to get the stomach moving again
-Metaclopramide pills (to be administered upon vet instructions)

The above are all steps that are taken within just a few hours that the rabbit has stopped eating. If your rabbit hasn't eaten/p**ped in over 12 hours - GO TO A VET ASAP.

If the above steps are done, and within a few hours the rabbit isn't responding well/becoming lethargic/unable to move properly GO TO A VET ASAP.

GI stasis can be fatal unfortunately and should never be treated lightly. Your rabbit may require IV fluids and a gut mobiliser administered intravenously to help the gut retain its normal function.

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions. I am NOT a vet, so I may only give you certain tips to do - at the end of the day you should always seek professional help when in doubt.

17/08/2023

Here we go again 🫣

Another 2 baby rabbits have been brought to me, I would say around 10 days old. They were 4 to begin with, so I named them Eenie, Meenie, Meinie and Mo.. however only Meinie and Mo have survived so far.

Let's keep our fingers and toes crossed for these little ones 🤞

06/08/2023

Oscar and Lola wish everybody a goodnight and a good start to the new week 😴⭐

31/07/2023

Today I discovered I am one of the 3 finalists for the best volunteer award for the Malta Animal Awards 😅

Whilst thanking those who nominated me, I would appreciate if you took a minute of your time and voted for me:

https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=9dnNNLhdvEmsugH2XMpoDY_77CBIg1lKuKPJKwdT8p9URVhGOFNIN0o0UUlBV1BSTUZTMUtJWFY0RC4u&fbclid=IwAR0LbPHlerrmlUDAUf77DnjnyCGpdWOWArC2S4DRpUBzomjkEwN7e8KXFwo

Thank you ❤️

The survey will take approximately 5 minutes to complete.

18/07/2023

Time to make it official 😅

I've been rabbit sitting since January unofficially, but now is the time to make it official! :)

Please send me a PM for more information. Kindly book in advance to ensure availability - I am currently fully booked until mid September.

10/07/2023

2 adorable bunnies are looking for their forever home

05/07/2023

The baby rabbit saga is finally over, as all surviving babies are now older than 8 weeks and are eating on their own

07/06/2023

Happy gotcha day my sweet, sweet Lola