Updates from Linda...

Once again a busy week. Sunny the Bronx Zoo Bunny and Butterscotch the single bunny belonging to the lady who is dying of cancer both found loving homes this week. I was finally able to remove the Elizabethan collar from Tuckers today and he is no longer tearing at his stitches. He managed to remove 4 sets of stitches in 4 weeks and I had given up hopes of ever getting the collar off him! He has worn the collar for three weeks now and has been very unhappy the entire time. Michelle Malones bunny, Jingles, had a horrible accident where he managed somehow to quite literally neuter himself on a sharp edge of a baby gate that he chewed his way thorough. I picked him up in Fairfield on Friday with his testicles and part of his intestine quite literally hanging out of his body and we all thought there was no hope. I am so happy to say that 3 days later he is back here with me, all sewn up and seemingly quite happy! Dr Cronin did a wonderful job putting him back together and now we just have to hope that the antibiotics are strong enough to prevent peritonitis. So far so good and Jingles appears happy and well on his way to being healthy again! A lady in Bridgeport rescued a bunny in a park and called us desperate for help. She had been feeding him oranges so we took him in fast! She dropped the poor bunny off at Brandee's only for us to discover that he has head tilt. So Brandee now has three head tilt bunnies in her care, it's off to Dr. Pieper Monday. Cinnamon2 must need a tooth trim as he is once again in stasis. I started him on treatment and will get him to the vets on Monday to get those teeth looked at. Carmie is breathing heavier and I suspect that his time with us may be ending soon. He has a large either abscess or tumor pressing against his trachea. I am watching him closely and I'm afraid he may be going to the bridge very soon. I sure hope I'm wrong on that. Between Brandee and I it feels like we have a hospital. We have several bunnies returning to the Hollow for visits while their owners are on vacation. Brandee is taking in Marley and Phoebe and I have Momma Cookie returning with her companion bunny. I suspect Bryne is the only one who will remember Momma Cookie, she was adopted out in 2005, but if memory serves me correctly Cookie had the hollow's very first set of babies born to us. I can't wait to see her now two years later. Tinkerbelles owners contacted us to say how happy they are with Tinkerbell now known as Belle.

Last, the petters are in at PETCO Norwalk. I have hopes of getting a bunny into PETCO on Monday or Tuesday. Exciting!!!!

Long Time No Blog - LOTS of UPDATES

I'm sitting in my bosses house, they are away in Bermuda and I have the kids for the weekend, which is over today. We have done all sorts of stuff like pick up hamsters and a new head-tilt bunny (named Bugsy by the very kind people who found him wandering a park in Bridgeport while walking their dog) to having (17) 13 year olds swimming in the pool. Lots of laundry (towels) this weekend and a very busy month has passed by. Sasha and Pekachu both came back due to their owner having had kidney stints put in and serious health issues arise, both have been adopted back out. A bunny tossed at the Bronx Zoo, Sunny, was brought to us by the Chinchilla Depot's Shelly, and has been adopted out. Tucker went for his neuter last month and started chewing his, his umm, yeah, ok, his testicles. He's been wearing an E-Collar for the past month now, little bugger, and stasis monster is now going into stasis again - both are at Linda's. Carmie is not doing so well, Linda's bunny bonded with Angel, and is on orals 2x daily and Bicillin 3x weekly. At my house I have the new head-tilt bunny (makes 3 now), Butterscotch who is doing much better in my opinion, Penny and Cleo - still not sounding great - how long now? Over A YEAR? Now, Ringo the ringworm bunny is showing signs of great illness after being neutered last week. He is sneezing and barking like Cleo does, he's on Zithromax and Bicillin currently. Annabelle is on her final 2 days of Zith and everyone else seems to be holding their own now. We have a new black bunny at my place named Silk, and we took in 3 lops (1 bonded pair) from a woman terminally ill with cancer. The bonded pair are very sweet and awaiting a new home, her single boy, another Butterscotch, was just adopted out. Laurie, owner of Brian and Colin, has decided to adopt Sparkle and I will try to start the bonding process in the next few days. I'm thinking that Wednesday might have to be the day this week as I have Lori Farlekis' buns staying with us as their floors get redone in their home and their walls are painted. A new friend of mine, Michelle L. had me sex her bunnies 2 months ago, as she wanted a friend for her girl, she went to the Milford mall pet store who swore that the bunny she was getting was a girl. It was a boy, he got her female pregnant, she stopped eating so I took her with me for a night and got her to Dr. Poster on Sunday morning as she was kind enough to meet with us and Daisy died on Memorial Day weekend after Dr. Poster tried the Oxytoxin to induce labor and did a sonogram for us to see if the babies were still alive. Pekachu is now happily living in their home with their neutered male. Our shelter's beloved Buttercup that went to her knew home last year with Margie and Cory, and then was bonded with Linus, passed away June 9th. Linus came down and was bonded with Sasha on the 10th, hopefully all is still going well. Ali and Lumar's Doggie Luna passed away suddenly. She will be missed.

We took in a total of 32 hamsters, 3 rats (home with Dr. Poster) and 2 gerbils and 2 Degus this month. Unfortunatley one of the Degu's passed away the very next morning with no outer wounds or physical reasons we could tell. My Chinchilla of 6 years Diego died on June 12th. We are still awaiting his full Necropsy results. We want a new friend for Dusty, but need to make sure that she is not contagious with anything. I know more has happened, good Lord, it's been a month! I'll try to get on things more, I miss writing.

OH! We had our 2nd annual Hop-A-Long Hollow Garden Party on the 10th. We raised over $750, had 3 rabbit adoptions and 5 gerbil adoptions. We also had aprox. 75 people show up, and it was a great time! Linda and Harvey are wonderful hosts.

Keep up the cell phone and ink-cartridge collections, we are in need!

That's it for now - thank you to all our volunteers who have been cleaning and dropping supplies. Without you, there is NO WAY we could keep going.

Brandee