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And more rain
Jul. 21st, 2006 09:17 pmThis is turning into perhaps the soggiest July I can remember in a long, long time. A colleague reported today that her rain gauge had 5 inches in it just from yesterday. We only had one at our place though.
Tess is still a prisoner in the indoor arena. Grass is growing like mad, I dare not let her eat more than a few mouthfuls of it at a time.
Sad news, had to put a bunny to sleep today. Her name was Sunflower, and she was five years old. She'd been losing her appetite for a while, which is always a bad sign. The vet is an expensive option for rabbits, and can't often help but we decided to take her there. She had some sort of infection, and had also torn the skin on her back (quite possibly when wriggling in discomfort from something similar to colic in horses, rabbits having a digestive system very similar to the horse) and that was infected too. She had a fever and was pretty dazed. Two options, neither very good. We could have hospitalized her on an antibiotic drip with daily lavage and care for the skin wound, or we could put her down. Well, the third option was take her home and let her suffer, which was no option at all. In my experience, rabbits rarely do well on intensive care either. Rabbit medicine is pretty primitive, really. So we decided to end her pain. She hardly seemed to know what was going on as it was, poor thing.
Her sister and littermate Lily is still going strong. So is our buck bunny, Buster, who is definitely geriatric at eight years old. I didn't think he'd make it through the winter, but he's still alert and perky. He has a lot of personality, and I'm really going to miss him when he goes.
Tess is still a prisoner in the indoor arena. Grass is growing like mad, I dare not let her eat more than a few mouthfuls of it at a time.
Sad news, had to put a bunny to sleep today. Her name was Sunflower, and she was five years old. She'd been losing her appetite for a while, which is always a bad sign. The vet is an expensive option for rabbits, and can't often help but we decided to take her there. She had some sort of infection, and had also torn the skin on her back (quite possibly when wriggling in discomfort from something similar to colic in horses, rabbits having a digestive system very similar to the horse) and that was infected too. She had a fever and was pretty dazed. Two options, neither very good. We could have hospitalized her on an antibiotic drip with daily lavage and care for the skin wound, or we could put her down. Well, the third option was take her home and let her suffer, which was no option at all. In my experience, rabbits rarely do well on intensive care either. Rabbit medicine is pretty primitive, really. So we decided to end her pain. She hardly seemed to know what was going on as it was, poor thing.
Her sister and littermate Lily is still going strong. So is our buck bunny, Buster, who is definitely geriatric at eight years old. I didn't think he'd make it through the winter, but he's still alert and perky. He has a lot of personality, and I'm really going to miss him when he goes.
