Rabbit Troubles

So...on top of my favorite buddy, Franz dying...there have been quite a few other issues arise in these few past weeks.

My female Holland Lop, Ebony who was given to me has always been mean.  Won't let me touch her, pet her, etc.  However, the other day she let me actually grab her and hold her.  So I flipped her over to make sure she was clean (because as long as she's being so nice, I decided to take advantage of that).  Anyway, her fur was very matted.  With the help of my brother, we carefully cut away the matted fur.

From her fur being matted, every time she urinated it stayed close to her, and I honestly believe it burned her.  The flesh was all slimy, pussy, and easily pulled off.  It was horrific.  I put ointment on it and gave her lots of medicinal herbs.  The next few days went by and I checked her again.  The improvement she made was unbelievable! It looked a thousand times better.  So since then, I've continued giving her more of the same herbs.

Then my English lop...(Spice Girl or Ragnara - still undecided), had a miscarriage.  She was urinating blood and I kept finding bits of flesh in her cage.  So I put her into a solid bottom cage and she's in the house where I could keep an eye on her.  After a good week with different medicinal herbs and some organic essential oil drops in her water, plus slices of fresh banana's, hay, pellets with oats, etc...she began improving.  She's currently doing extremely well and putting weight back on.

And yes, I still have more to tell...

Then yesterday when I was feeding and watering, I noticed something was wrong with my Holland Lop male, Watson's eye.  So I picked him up to get a better look.  His second eye lid in the front was inflamed and swelled.  So...got some organic honey and put it in/on his eye.  Hopefully that will help.

And my two Velveteen Lop female sisters have begun fighting.  They can no longer stay together.  Yesterday, Lilly ripped Lilac's ear and punctured it in another spot.  So they are currently in separate cages.

And to top it all off, practically every single person I've dealt with through craigslist in the past 2 weeks about rabbits/cages have all been extremely rude, or waste my time with tons of questions that are all answered in the posting of them and insisting on pictures, which after they are given decide they don't want a bunny at this time.

I think with reducing bunnies for winter and not having any litters, it will be a bit of a nice break.