Forest Rabbits Netherland Dwarfs

08/01/2024

Aspen watching over her garden whist picking some fresh veggies 🥬

20/11/2023

☀️ 🌡️ So you’ve noticed it’s hot? Believe me, your bunnies have to.

WA currently has Extreme Heat weather warnings for the next week with daytime temps hitting 41 and minimum temps overnight sitting around 26, this means there isn’t much relief for your little friends.

Heat Stress is an all too common preventable death we see in bunnies, particularly bunnies who live outside, here are some tips to help you plan ahead and keep your rabbit cool this summer.

☀️ Bring them inside
☀️ Provide frozen ice bricks/bottles and replace frequently
☀️ Keep your rabbits pen/hutch in the shade
☀️ Provide cool tiles to lay on
☀️ Provide a fan - air flow is super important
☀️ Air conditioning
☀️ Access to clean cool water at all times
☀️ Wet greens
☀️ Space - for multiple rabbits to move away from each other
☀️ Misters - use with a fan
☀️ Hang wet towels over pens/doors with a fan blowing
☀️ Wet soil/grass/paving to lay on
🔥 Close blinds/curtains or love your inside rabbits away from direct sunlight, windows heat up fast in this sun!

As always, if your rabbit is experiencing heat stress, you can use the tips below to try bring it back to norm, but in most cases, extreme heat stress will require a vet, call ahead and let them know you are coming.

Lets also not forget our wildlife, vulnerable friends, family and neighbours.

- leave bowls/ trays of water out in the shade of your garden to help our wildlife get through the heatwave.
- check in on your neighbours, family, friends - not everyone has access to air con, and there are a lot of vulnerable people in the community that might not have anyone else to check in on them.

Love warci 💙

28/10/2023

It’s that time of year again, when RHDV2 pops up in WA, whilst it’s active all year round it certainly loves the warmer spring/summer months. This year is showing it starting inland and moving towards the city with cases in York, Northam, Wundowie, Glen Forrest, Aubin Grove, Hilbert, Albany, Maddington and Murdoch.

Whilst there has been a very clear reduction in pet deaths in the oct - march 2022/2023 period, mostly due to our high vaccination rate and of course awareness, it’s important to note those stats can only continue if your rabbits are kept up to date with their vaccinations.

If you haven’t already or if your rabbit is overdue for their annual 12 month Filavac vaccine, now is the time to get this done. Stock of the vaccine is good and most vets keep it readily available.

Just to remind everyone, should you have an unusual death or multiple deaths, you can still contact warci for a test kit and paperwork. Tracking the virus whereabouts is important.

WARCI members test any unusual deaths, this helps the community and of course helps to keep our club safe. This year unfortunatly we have had one member have a death of an unvaccinated young rabbit that was unable to be vaccined at the time due to a minor health complication, all other vaccinated rabbits are to date doing fine.

I reiterate stats from last year in regards to the vaccine success rate.

🐇 Do you know of any vaccinated rabbits that have died from the virus?

Yes. I can confirm, I do check with the CSIRO on a weekly basis, there are two confirmed tests for a Filavac Vaccinated rabbit testing positive to RHDV2. Obviously this can change daily and I am waiting for the most recent report as there has been a higher death toll over east in the past couple weeks.

I must stress that I only take into consideration CONFIRMED TESTED VACCINATED deaths. If a person says they have lost vaccinated rabbits and don’t test, I can’t take those into account as I cannot verify they are vaccinated to begin with. (People do lie) it is a different test that needs to be ordered, to which I don’t tend to ask pet owners to do, but I have been requesting show exhibitors to do to aid the entire bunny community with their results. However, if you are a pet owner and your rabbits are vaccinated and you have multiple deaths and you are willing to do the liver and second test (it’s not the nicest) please let me know.

If you need a test kit, contact WARCI we keep a supply for WA, if you are out of state please contact [email protected] , your local rabbit club or submit a request on feralscan. All avenues maintain your privacy.

23/10/2023

Homegrown fresh dinner for the bunnies 🌱

13/08/2023

Marshmallow and Mushrooms girls
8 weeks old
Aspen & Blue Ash

31/07/2023

Thank you West Australian Rabbit Council for an amazing show under UK judge. And thank you for photos
It was such a fun day of valuable learning

Forest rabbits Mushroom
Best novice in show

Rice
2nd fancy dress

17/07/2023

Marshmallow and Mushrooms two girls are 4 weeks old
Blue Ash & Aspen

02/07/2023

Marshmallow and Mushrooms little ones are 2 weeks

25/06/2023

Marshmallow ( Shady Patches flip flip) and Mushrooms little ones are a week old 💕

17/06/2023

17/06/2023

Great job again Adam, my man Mushroom loved modelling his warm box 😍

02/06/2023

My insulated bank, it has removable inserts so I can let them have the full level or half it if needed
Go give his page a like 🥰

Custom insulated rabbit hutch with wood front
🍀🐰✨ for Forest Rabbits Netherland Dwarfs
Kennels by Forest Whites
If you have an idea other than our kennels please get in touch and we might be able to put your plan to life 🤩

28/05/2023

13/05/2023

Lucky bunny update from 2 girls living their best life

09/04/2023

Happy Easter from the Forest gang 🐣🐰

Mushroom
Rice
Patootie
Blackberry
Marshmallow
And Hazelnut is back with us for a bit 🥰

09/04/2023

Happy Easter from Patootie and her babies 🐣🐰

05/03/2023

VM doe
Black Doe vc
Black Buck vc

03/03/2023

Black beauties

02/03/2023

*perfect home found*
Taking EOI for this lovely chocolate doe
She is the sweetest cuddliest little girl
pet home,

05/02/2023

Mushroom headed into the workshop to test out the sizing of the new bunny banks, trying something different with insulated banks. Can’t wait for the doors and carpet to be on, my lucky nethies 😍

27/09/2022

What a cute trio 😍

22/09/2022

Group picture 😍

22/09/2022

4 weeks old
Smoke pearl marten baby boy
Please pm for more info on our babies

22/09/2022

4 weeks old
Smoke pearl marten boy
Pm for more info on our babies

16/09/2022

3 weeks old
Blue fox
Male

16/09/2022

3 weeks old
Smoke pearl marten
Male

16/09/2022

3 weeks old
Smoke Pearl Marten
male

11/09/2022

Patooties Babies are nearly 3 weeks old

04/09/2022

Such cuties

14/05/2022

Thank you so much Shady Patches Rabbits for our lovely new addition Marshmallow.
We love her so much ❤️

Was shady patches flip-flop.
Pictures make her look browner than she is but she is a Blue Otter
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