Bunny needs a home

Re: Bunny needs a home

Rachel Jayne — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:10:54 GMT

Aww, poor lil bun, I can't understand how people can just give them up like that....
He must be so confused!

I agree with the others that it'd be a god idea to get to the root (excuse the pun!) of his tooth problems, if he has osteomylelitis in his jaw, then outlook won't be the best for him, but if you can keep him happy in the meantime then that's what counts really.

The burns hay products are fab, they smell so sweet, I'm yet to meet a small fuzzy that won't nibble some!

Have you looked at rabbitrehome.co.uk? you can post him on there for a potential new home & obvioulsy you could vet out whoever approached you about him.
Also, there's a section on there that lists all the rabbit rescues across the UK - maybe there's one near you that could help?

Re: Bunny needs a home

Nicola Smith — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:17:49 GMT

My bunny will only eat readigrass or oxbow orchard grass make sure you cut back on the pellets as if he;s not hungry he won't eat it! I have known a few rabbits go through a stage of needing regular dentals then it seems to pass. I unfortunately don't hav any room at the moment as OH has made me cut down. Have you got any good rescues locally - we have some really good ones locally that will take on bunnies with problems and will keep them for life if not homeable. Hope you get him sorted.

Re: Bunny needs a home

Hannah25uk — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:27:01 GMT

My bunny won't eat hay or the excel herbage but loves the excel forage seems to have a sweeter smell to it, although i'm sure that makes no difference to him.

Re: Bunny needs a home

Saskia Quinn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:25:56 GMT

I would definitely try to make him eat hay. Hay is the most important part of a rabbits diet, when feeding rabbits, try to imagine what they would eat in the wild.

Of course a little treat now and again does no harm!!

Good luck with finding him a new home!

Re: Bunny needs a home

Honeybadger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:23:53 GMT

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Have you tried the Excel Herbage? My piglets love it, we give it to buns and pigs at work as well, they tend to prefer it to plain hay (fussy critters!). If you order from Centaur you can get dried herbs (dandelion and plantain) made by Burns, they quite like it.

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We order from NVS but i'll check tomorrow and see if we can get it. Thanks

Re: Bunny needs a home

Vicky RVN — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:20:09 GMT

Re: Bunny needs a home

Honeybadger — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:14:10 GMT

Thanks for the advice. I have to admit my knowlege of rabbits isn't that great. I will definately consider skull xrays. I've made sure that he has been pretty much constanlty chewing on pellets, fresh grass, veggies since i'm had him! (Silly rabbit wont eat hay!) I'm really hoping that when we check him in 4 weeks time they have not grown back as much.

Has anyone got any knowledge of this?.... If molars grow spurs are they likely to continue growing due to jaw alignment problems etc....??

Re: Bunny needs a home

albatross — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:04:19 GMT

has he had xrays to see what the roots are doing?
If he hasn't got root elongation then there would be some quality o life, but if the roots are also going into the eye socket or trapping the back of the tongue then it would not be fair to keep treating the parts you can see.

Our vets prefer to use burring as it prevents splintering of the teeth.

6 weeks is borderline for quality I feel, it would mean a week of deterioration, a week recovering learning the new bite and four weeks hopefully pain free.

I guess it's worth a first attempt with the new diet - plenty of grass, things to chew on, hay etc and a balanced food pellet, and see how quickly it reappears and then asssess what the quality is likely to be.

Good luck with rehoming him, I can't help you as we can't afford even our charity vets re-treatment costs that frequently, and I no longer have access to cheap xrays which I would want before taking on a maloccluding animal.