Diabetic cats and sick bunnies

Well, we endeavored to help out 2 diabetic cats a couple of weeks ago, which we raised well over $1,000 to do (we have now got it covered) and Linda is deep into it and going strong. See, we don't do cats, we are basically a small animal shelter, so all this through us for a loop and became a lot more complicated than anticipated. There are 2 female cats, Snowball (11) and Hilda (14) who has no teeth. Both are just as sweet as can be and were destined for euthanasia if something wasn't done. We have a home for one, definitely, and are hoping our call in from Mass will lead to a permanent home for the other. We are willing to supply the first 3 months of needles and insulin, than they become their new owners responsibility. Linda has a major house full of rabbits right now, quite a few on meds every day including Blossom and Gracie, both with wrapped legs from bone infections, and poor Blossom is wearing a collar now since she's been trying to chew her own leg off. Things with Joy have been touch and go as to whether her leg will be amputated or not and it looks like it's going to come off this week. She has internal abscesses in her leg that will affect her life if not taken care of and it seems to be going beyond the realm of being fixed with antibiotics (Baytril, Zith and Pen G have all been or are still being used). Pieper Bunny had her spay this week and when they removed her uterus, I'm am so not kidding when I say that the cancer in it was the size of another dwarf rabbit. It had to weigh in about 3-4 lbs. It's on my counter, seriously, I'll see if I can blog a picture for educational purposes on WHY YOU NEED TO HAVE YOUR RABBITS ALTERED!!!

I am still waiting to hear from BPT AC on whether they have trapped anymore of the rabbits running loose outside on their property (and Westlund Auto Body's), I don't want anymore rabbits here (I'm almost out of my first trimester now - again) but am set up to take them in.

We have a male chin that just came in, sweet as can be named Tango, and a female that may be coming in this week as well. We also still have Blackie and Jackie up for adoption. Again, I'll see what I can do to get some pictures uploaded!

Working on a triple bonding with Alison's Flash, Kali and Sam this week! Triple bonds are hard, but it seems to be going well. I will keep them for at least another week to make sure all is well, and will be doing a bonding with 2 of Mandy's (Cottontail Rabbit Rescue) bunnies this coming week too! One is a three legged flemish I have been dying to meet since she got her!

Ok, I'm sure there is more but I can't think of it now! Have a nice weekend! Brandee

Updates - It's been a while!

I have a combination of good news and sad news. I'll start with the sad news so we can get it out of the way. Our little Angora/Dwarf mix, Blue, passed away just before Easter. After battling chronic upper respiratory infections, and being on oxygen and slipping into stasis, her little body finally gave out. She leaves behind her new husbun, Rags, who was previously widowed when his bunny wife, Cinni passed away in February.



On the positive side, Brandee and Mindy were able to catch a beautiful caramel colored, female Rex at the Bridgeport Animal Control facility the other day.



Someone dumped several rabbits at the facility overnight, they've already dug a multi-tunnel burrow underground, and started multiplying. We've caught one so far and we'll keep trying!

We also took in a small black female lionhead from the Humane Society last Thursday. She promptly gave birth to 6 babies on Friday night (March 26)! Two of the babies didn't make it, but Ella Mae and her 4 tiny babies are now safely in foster care!






Thanks for reading! TTFN! Ta Ta For Now!

New Bunnies

Today started off like this... I woke to find one of the baby bunnies we currently have (mom is a visiting black lion head and had 6 babies last Sunday) cold and dying, and it sucks knowing there is nothing to do to help it, mom and mother nature know best... Linda called with the news that Blue passed away in her oxygen tent last night... Ok, sad, sucks... I went to meet a woman today at Bridgeport Animal Control to try and help trap and home domestic rabbits that got dumped there. Above are some pictures of "Friday" who was caught today (Good Friday) by Mindy Coman. Mindy actually shimmied into a pipe to catch this little girl, coming out herself with metal burns on her arms. Friday has a gash over her eye that has started to abscess, which can kill a rabbit by poisoning it's blood stream, and she's also got a scar on her ear, fur missing off her upper eye and ears, and a wound on her back. She has ear mites as well. I took her to the vet, had her weighed and than gave her revolution for fleas and mites, and started her on Pen G shots for the abscess. We will then have her spayed and adopt her out to an indoor free-range home. We also dug out a burrow in the search for older babies, but the only nest we found was one of 6-7 babies that looked like they probably drowned in all the rain we just had, there were no other signs of injury other than very bloated little bodies. 2 rabbits have already been found dead hit by cars on the street.