Chris is coming home, rabbit maladies, and triple bonding

My phone has been ringing off the hook today, over 20 phone calls coming in. I gave up on answering it. I have the 9 baby bunny woman calling me to come to see the rabbits (I just can't do it) and a call into animal control for advice on that situation. I know one more of the babies is not going to make it, it's hunched up, and all I can do is keep it warm with its mom until nature takes its course. (They need a pet-sitter for their bunnies in Stratford the first week of Feb. if anyone is interested.) Chris has been away since Friday teaching Martial Arts in Texas, and he is on the CT Limo on his way home now. I miss him very much as I lay here stressed out. I'm going to try and get Buster in tomorrow to see Dr. Pieper. I'm pretty sure he has very limited sight. He walks right into the other rabbit cages trying to find his way around. I just held him tonight with tears in my eyes. I'm not so concerned about the eye-sight as I am that ½ of his face looks swollen. I don't feel good (back-ache big time) and Linda is sick as well, so maybe I'm just a little emotional. I'm aggravated with the condition so many of these bunnies have been dropped off in, Buster's eyes and possible jaw abscess, Bubba's eyes, nose and butt, Tapioca sick and pregnant, Cleopatra's ongoing respiratory issues (and she needs to have back teeth filed down now too!), Rosie's prolapsed anus and recovered broken foot, just too many to count. We have 3 follow up visits next week with Stormy getting his eye seen for what we hope will be a miraculous "No surgery needed," Bubba's recheck and Acorn for his ear infection to see if it has cleared up. I'm also more than likely adopting a bunny from Mandy at Cottontail Rabbit rescue named Ivan that has severe head tilt. They are treating as an ear-infection with Baytril, but I don't think that is enough. I think he'll do great with Cinni and Rags in the Graco play-yard with the baby bumpers up so that they can't damage them-selves. I'm actually looking forward to meeting him! I'm going to be doing a "Hopefully!" triple bonding between Jet, Gigi and Casper in the next couple of weeks. Parsley is doing great (our bathroom bunny this month) and Hermione was stretched out on the couch in our guest-room when I got home. It was a very pleasant sight to see for me, as I'm feeling a tad depressed this evening. Has the world gone mad? We have still received no payment from Julie Durante. Two of Tinkerbell's babies from her second litter (the solid black girls) were adopted out today, thank you to our Julie for helping with that adoption! I guess the good news is that my boss just told me today that they don't need me to go away with them for February break this year, so I can get all the rabbit records together in books like I have wanted to do. One binder for here with the rabbits back-grounds that are here, and one for the Hollow in Norwalk with all of their info. It will be some work, but we need it done to file away all the medical histories, etc! If anyone has any spare large binders or 8x10 individual page pockets (clear ones that go into binders) the donations would be greatly appreciated. Ok, I'm going to go finish meds, and read while I wait for my love to get home.

Hop A Long Meeting, Buster, Ali likes the blog

Well, we had our HALH meeting last night, it was fun! More of a dinner party, thanks to Linda and Harvey providing a beautiful sit down dinner for the 10 of us that were there. Michele brought a salad and Harvey made a beautiful chicken parm and pasta dinner with garlic bread that had pesto and melted cheese (I'm drooling now thinking of it, a little habit I picked up from the dogs!) and a delicious cake with homemade whip-cream frosting and blueberries! Yeah, now I'm hungry! Anyhow, it was fun!

Yesterday morning when I got up the 3 tiny runts were deceased as I suspected they would be, and this morning the older bunny (eyes still not opened) that was flinching all over yesterday had also passed away. There are four more surviving, one which is either the runt of this litter or the older one from the other litter, but I'm not sure if this one will survive. I am praying for the baby to make it, but know what will be will be. From my best guess, I am thinking the brown bunny was probably pregnant with two litters and with the contractions from delivery she delivered both litters at the same time, and all the preemies have passed away a long with one that was just born very unhealthy. It is very sad, but it is what was going to happen no matter what I did to help. Baby bunnies are so very, very fragile. Hopefully neither is pregnant again, but if they are, this will be their last pregnancies as we will have them altered after their "grace" period is done and we can then put them up for adoption.

"Buster" was dropped off today from his owner of 4 years that is being deployed. I did something really dumb by saying Chris was away when the kitty was meowing and that she was missing her daddy. I need to be more careful when people come over, I'm too trusting. Anyhow, ½ of Busters face looks a bit swollen, I'm thinking an abscess, so he will be seeing Dr. Pieper this coming week. He had pee all over him when he came in and had really long nails. He is blind in one eye (I think?!) and it is like looking at a pearl. I think his vision isn't the greatest in the other eye either. I was brushing him out after washing him and he started freaking out. He ran around the living room, jumped over Major (our Shepard) and ran into the bathroom, freaking Parsley (bathroom bunny) out, and she ran out. She was next to the dog who was still in the hallway laying down, both of them looking at me like "what the?" Other than all this, it's been a pretty uneventful past couple of days. Julie Durante still has not paid the bill for Bubba coming in, so we are going to black-list her to all the other rescues since we got word that after dropping him off in the condition she did, she is now possibly looking for another rabbit. No words can describe how I feel about this. Ali came by tonight and helped me stuff paper tubes for the bunnies with hay and raisins we got from Bay's "family." It was really nice, and she said she missed me being on line the past couple of days because she likes to read the blog. That made me feel really good, so this one is for you Ali! She also brought over meds for Cleopatra. Cleo has been diagnosed as having pneumonia now. She is more than likely going to be on Penicillin injections every three days for the rest of her life for the chronic symptoms she has had since coming in to the shelter. I hope it will help, she is such a sweet and beautiful lop. We had no hope for the longest time that bunnies such as Cleo, Willow, and Buttercup would ever be adopted out due to injections, but hey, Buttercup went to a home with a kitty that has diabetes and gets insulin shots every day, and a bunny with a shot a couple of times a week was no problem for them, so they adopted Buttercup (GREAT PEOPLE!) and she has given us hope that there are other families out there that are willing to take on bunnies such as these guys as well. I guess there's not too much more to say. Acorn seems to being getting along with his antibiotics, Stormy's eye is looking great, and Juliet's sneezing is calming down again after the Zythromyacin.

Ok, Goodnight!