Jabłoń Lionhead Rabbits

03/02/2024

Ugh!!!!! Yaddle dear escaped her new to her hutch and had a date with her intact buncle. She's over 3 years and a couple months old. Gosh darn it!!!!!!

07/11/2023

RIP Couture Cocoa Shannel. I hope Ruby Roo was there to greet you this morning.

15/01/2023

Leo the Curious died Wednesday from complications due to congestive heart failure. He lived up to his fiesty, determined little self, even at the end. While cradling him in a towel Leo mightily launched himself off my chest where I was warming him, landed on the arm of the couch and then melted down the side of the arm, impressive even at the end. We will miss our charismatic bunny boy and Tullie, now single, has a high standard to measure future mates by.

07/06/2022

Happy 8th birthday Couture Leo the Curious and Couture Ruby Rue. Still going strong, our bros of Thumps-a-lot-dom.

03/06/2022

Maybe I should change Couture Leo the Curious to Loki. The little fluffy butt greatly concerned us when we could not find him after we let him out to roam the house. 24 hours later and looking in all the known hiding spots, I discovered him munching on hay from the bale in the rabbitry. Oh what a little grumpy, old stinker!

25/05/2022

Our poor boy Czarny Jedwab died today. He was off his feed and withdrawn. When I checked on him yesterday I gave him some gas drops, rubbed his tummy, groomed his head and checked his nails. I'll miss him.

30/03/2022

Zoomies!

https://youtu.be/VSQzWSHBRwc

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25/03/2022

I wonder if the short rabbit fur that my buns shed three or more times a year could be used in these mats?

https://youtu.be/k8fsVzyj-PA

Edited to add it is easy to make felt with short rabbit fur, especially when I add my worm eaten short wool to it too.

Most big oil spills are cleaned using chemicals or mats made with petroleum. One nonprofit uses human hair, which can soak up around five times its weight in...

24/03/2022

Couldn't do anything about the static electricity but Tulle has no more mats. Wool traps scratchy grass seed heads and scratching her itches makes colossal mats!

23/03/2022

Tulle and static electricity equals a bad mane day.

22/03/2022

Sassy had an appointment with Dr. Kinnison and she was a very good bunny for an otherwise opinionated rabbit. After being released from her bunny burrito (got xrays today), she only gave Dr. Kinnison one delayed thump. I guess she used up her quota of thumps complaining about my driving on the way in to the vets.

She also didn't p*e on anyone. 😮 Good girly!

When we returned home I let her out of her carrier and repeatedly nudged her bum to urge her to go into her and Kliff's laundry room. Reluctantly she obliged cause her fur covered feet skate on vinyl floors and she looked like Disney's Bambi on ice making her way to her den.

Later when I returned to the laundry room hoping to check if the most recent load of clothes in the machine was finished, I caught sight of her sitting in her litter box, like a well trained potty pro. 🥳 Not wanting to interrupt her, I left her to do her business in peace and smiled big.

17/02/2022

Wishing you a wonderful new home, Bright Eyes and Nella. Sassy and Yaddle will miss you.

11/02/2022

I would post the link but FB won't allow it. So I'll type it. Https://mewe.com

26/01/2022

I held him until he passed this morning. Rest in heavenly peace my parkour bunny boy.

22/01/2022

I'm not welcome to enter, tee he.

17/01/2022

Aw, darn it. PAX Marlon Bundo.

13/01/2022

Please hold our boy Piotr Parkour in your prayers. He is in the animal hospital right now on IV fluids, meds and critical care.

23/12/2021

It's getting closer. It's in NY state right now. Local vets still have their heads stuck up their bums.

https://www.athensmessenger.com/local-group-works-to-inform-public-about-rabbit-virus/article_9ee7660c-61ee-11ec-a5f2-27df371376de.html?utm_campaign=blox&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR2yiT9C7Za5qxyLz3iMo8Jcp1E-oJ6zqVImJ4bJCfUQxDJwSRZkqUHh--s

Veterinarians and local activists are hoping to spread the word about a vaccine available to combat a fatal hemorrhagic virus in rabbits, capable to harming wild, pet and market rabbits.

03/11/2021

The final stash

03/11/2021

Dolan's second cut.

03/11/2021

Dolan's first cut.

03/11/2021

Dolan trying out bun-stashes.

03/09/2021

Piotr, my buff bunny makes a den, or fort if you prefer.

https://youtu.be/k3ZzgEUtIGU

This is our house rabbit Piotr Parkour. Earlier this afternoon he hopped inside the waste basket and knocked it over. Unfortunately I was laughing too much...

28/08/2021

I've been removing loose fur today since all my fur babies decided to majorly molt this week. See, Butterscotch has lost patience with me.

15/06/2021

Ha, she got it!

12/06/2021

This evening Alan, Uly and I cleaned out the litter trays in the rabbitry. While Alan finished washing the dropped poo off the driveway and into the yard, I attempted to retrieve Linux. That buck wasn't having any of that even though he had the run of the place for a couple of days now (only because he's too fast to catch).

Thinking maybe Piotr could help me catch Linux, I open the door between the rabbitry and house to let Piotr in. Hopefully the two siblings will be preoccupied with each other such that I might get a hold of Linux.

It worked!

Piotr came in the rabbitry, attacked the hay bale, clawing strands of hay out of the loose bale, attacked an empty pellet bag making as much noise as me, saw Linux and charged at him. The two bucks circled one another, hopped over each other several times and then Linux chased Piotr out of the rabbitry but stopped short of following his brother upstairs. By that time I've come around to the doorway to check on them, Linux left. Piotr hopped back in the rabbitry and started another attack on the hay bale. These two brothers repeated their antics of charge, retreat, run up the stairs, then back down, come back into the rabbitry, attack the hay bale, charge and retreat all over again while I finished giving oats, hay and water to the other rabbits in their hutches. Then...finally, Linux grew tired and I was able to lay hands on him.

I'm surprised how that stinker had enough energy left in him to rake my hands several times and let out a disgruntled murmur/grunt, knowing well that he's going back to his hutch. (Yes, rabbits do vocalize when they are not afraid of their caretakers.) Piotr had headed back up the stairs when I grabbed Linux but I saw him waiting on the landing as I walked past the door holding a squirming Linux. Once Linux settled down in my arm, I closed the door to the rabbitry, shutting Piotr out. Oh, Piotr was not happy with me, and the picture below shows his p**p revenge.

05/06/2021

Very creative!

31/05/2021

We have a night time ritual with our house rabbit Piotr. Before we go to bed, we check to see Piotr is in our laundry room, aka his room, refill his food and water bowls and then close the baby gate to the room. Tonight I walked in to see if he had already put himself to bed which he will do sometimes but tonight he was not there so I mumbled to myself, 'Huh, where are you?' Within a second of asking, I felt a furry nose bump behind my ankle. Cheeky bu**er boy!

28/05/2021

A case of not identifying rabbit syphilis.

A few of my rabbits develope(d) nose lesions that scab over, then the scab falls off but an oozy lesion remains underneath the scab. This occured to three of my rabbits, periodically, within a nine month period (maybe a shorter time frame, I'd have to check my receipts with Care Credit). They all share my does Cocoa Shannel and Cinnamon Girl, and buck called Starbuck as parents or grandparents. Other rabbits in my herd just have had inflamed muzzles and all my rabbits have healthy, clear ge****ls. Being a curious rabbit herd caretaker, I researched the possible causes. www.Medirabbit.com indicates it might be rabbit syphilis caused by the bacteria treponema paraluis-cuniculi. Although I did not know this at the time, a specific blood test (from here https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j... will determine if the rabbit has antibodies to this bacteria, not a culture grown out and examined under a microscope, but more about this oops later. Medirabbit.com recommends treating with penn-g but the dose, frequency and repeat courses vary widely across the web and after purchasing Dura-pen from TSC and large gauge needles, I hesitated because I didn't what to give the incorrect dose and asked my vet for recommendations.
Of course she wanted to examine the rabbit(s) before committing to a course of treatment. Thus, I hauled my buck Charlemagne, the rabbit exhibiting the sores at that time, to see if it was indeed syphilis. Mentioning to my veterinarian what Medirabbit wrote about scabby, oozy noses being signs of rabbit syphilis (http://www.medirabbit.com/.../Ski.../Bacterial/Syphilis.html), the vet acknowledged this and then moved on to other possibilities, not trusting a UK website, (ya, I'm rolling my eyes at our domestic medical professionals' bias against any foreign medical science and research). Instead my vet recommended a culture be grown out, so I paid for that to be done and it indicated streptococcus. Therefore my vet recommended a course enrofloxacin, which she's confident will also kill the syphilis bacteria, treponema paraluis-cuniculi, if the culture is incidental. Charlemagne finished his course of enrofloxacin and the nose lesions heal. His nose, although, is still a bit puffy like his siblings (hint, hint.)

Then Piotr developed the nose lesions. Since I had a goodly amount of enrofloxacin left over from Charlemagne's treatment, I gave Piotr the same treatment. His lesions healed and like his brother had slightly puffy lips and nose.

A month later one of my kits developed the oozy lesions, sigh. Again, we go to the vet but this time the vet wants to downgrade the antibiotic to a sulfa-trimeth oral suspension, saying she doesn't want to over use enrofloxacin calling it the big guns (of antibiotics). Having to wear a face mask in the vet's office, she missed most of my skeptical expression except for my raised eye brow. However, I gave it a try. The result was Yaddle's nose healed and there was no inflammation.

While Yaddle's on her mend, Piotr's nose broke out in lesions after sneaking down in the rabbitry, poking his nuzzle in other rabbits' cages and getting rightfully bit for his pushy behavior. (Piotr's our house rabbit and my rabbitry is housed in my attached garage during the winter, which is under our house, if you were confused.) The vet gaves Piotr the same treatment as Yaddle's, which did not clear up the lesions, and, and, and Yaddle's lesions came back.🤔

Yesterday, after the vet examined both Yaddle and Piotr, she left the office to consult her resources. She came to the conclusion after going to an agricultural veterinarian message board, that these lesions are most likely due to syphilis even if the ge****ls presented normal and clear, and the message board said veterinarians should treat the lesions as rabbit syphilis unless evidence proves otherwise, much like mange is from skin mites unless proven otherwise, AND using penn-g is recommended for the whole herd.

I gave my vet the long sink eye at that point. 🤔🤨