This morning I found out one of my Teddy bear rabbits, having nose bleeding, and the body temperature is very high. I quickly put her on ice pack, and luckily she pull through and now active again. Another one also had slight high temperature too, so I put both on ice pack for a while to bring down the body temperature, and give small piece of cucumber for them to eat. Now I put them in air-cond room, and they are active and alert again, apparently they prefer to be in air-cond room, their woolly fur are too tick to with stand the non air-cond temperature.

Other rabbits are doing ok under shade in such a hot weather condition with fan blowing. These Woody Toy and Teddy Bear rabbits can't stand our hot weather even though under shade area with fan. They do much better in air-cond room.

Already died 6 rabbits so far.. But still have not given up yet.

Expensive experience , but hopefully I am getting wiser now. So far, I have successfully rescued 4 rabbits from critical moment to safety. Initially plan for holiday this week, but have cancel my plan since most of my rabbits are still young and not in stable condition. What a big sacrifice I made for my rabbits.

This post has been edited by Juztiny: Mar 15 2010, 10:34 PM

Well...most of the rabbit breeds I like are majority long fluffy fur type, which I don't even know who are the reputable breeders in this market, if you know one do let me know. Ok?

This post has been edited by Juztiny: Mar 16 2010, 11:19 AM

Fully agreed with your statement above, yes I do find some people in this forum are very judgemental too!

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Added on March 17, 2010, 10:58 amHeat-stroke can happen to any age of rabbits, not only underage rabbit. In my opinion even if I buy the rabbits from reputable breeders, nobody can guarantee that the rabbits will not get heat-stroke under my care. In my case, my rabbits are house outside in the garden under the tree shade. Apparently with our recent weather condition like this, not good for them at all. I admit I am still learning...rabbit is more fragile than cavies.



This post has been edited by Juztiny: Mar 17 2010, 10:58 AM

My little Dewwy, a mini lop and a fuzzy lop, Einstein.


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That day the 3 rabbits that were on heat stroke and had nose bleed, now is doing fine inside an air-cond room. Phew...! All my rabbits are now healthy eating and gaining weight.

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It has been quite a while didn't share my rabbits well being...... Mixed dwaft anggora, Zeena turn out to be so beautiful. Those Teddy Bears fur are now so thick till cannot see their eyes. Woody Toy (Pearly) still very small size, already 4 months+ old, as small as 1L tin paint. Mini Lop are the most funny, really like pigglet, love to eat a lot.

Still have others which didn't take their picture.

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Buying at the age of 1.5 months, the risk is very high, not easy to take care, easily die with a minor change of diet and temperature.

My favourite mini lop Dewwy is now having running nose and cough. Already brought her to see the vet and now under medication. Hopefully she could recover soon.

Initially I did not know Dewwy is having cough, I just feel funny why is she making sound like a pig. Then I noticed another strange sound coming from the other bunny, when I checked, it was my son's favourite lion head Simba making that sound, and I noticed he is not feeling well and having fever, whole body very hot, and running nose too. That time already near mid-night, I tried to feed him water and he didn't want to drink, and deep inside I know in such scenario, most likely he cannot pull through till next day. True enough, the next morning found him dead.

Gosh..rabbit is so hard to take care, easily sick and die. I thought rabbits above 5 months old should be quite stable and much easy to take care, but my experience proved me otherwise.

I am telling myself that if all my rabbits die, I really surrender and don't want to keep any more.

Thank God Dewwy is recovering. I have been monitoring her and wipe her wet nose constantly since yesterday. Luckily she still have appetite to eat. This morning her nose seem quite dry already. That's a good sign.