Our rabbit broke her leg.

[Schmidty]

Our daughter was playing with one of our bunnies in the living room, when our rottweiler Annie accidentally stepped on her foot while being sweet and licking her. The leg was just limp and floppy and gross. Lily (my daughter) was crying uncontrollably. I didn't know what to do, so I called my wife. She left work and came home and just now took Lucy to the vet. I really hope A) Lucy with be fixable for my kid's sake (and mine too), and B) It doesn't cost a lot.

Anyway, that was a sucky thing to happen. At least our other bunnie, Izzy was ok.

[Autumn]

That doesn't sound fun for Lily's to watch, especially. Hopefully she'll see the rabbit get better.

[Schmidty]

Until we got Lucy and Izzy last month, I had no idea how sweet and smart rabbits could be. This sucks.

[Schmidty]

One of our housemates' kids had a rabbit once, and all I remember of it was it stunk like crazy.

They don't stink at all. I actually have never smeeled anything. They are only 1 1/2 months old and use a litter box already. In fact, our cats litter boxes smell worse after a couple of days.

I actually really like them and am way more sad and worried than I ever thought I would have been about rabbits.

[RendeR]

Rabbits can be litter trained. just beware they will chew any wire they find.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

I'm sorry Schmidty. I know how much your animals mean to you. You must be upset. I will refrain from reprimanding you on the improper use of the apostrophe in the title of the thread. See, I'm compassionate.

:D

[Schmidty]

I'm sorry Schmidty. I know how much your animals mean to you. You must be upset. I will refrain from reprimanding you on the improper use of the apostrophe in the title of the thread.

:D

Yeah, I'll fix it. I'm an English major (even though I'm a semester away from finishing and it's been 10 years since was in school for it). I'm a wreck right now.

[Swaggs]

Hoping for the best, bud.

Keep us posted.

[Schmidty]

We certainly know how he feels about his dog. :devil:

Seriously dude. You're pissing me off. This wasn't a joke thread.

[Autumn]

Sorry, buddy. I'm just going to retire for the night, I'm batting .000

[RendeR]

Seriously dude. You're pissing me off. This wasn't a joke thread.


Lighten up Francis.

[EagleFan]

Hope all is well with your pet.

[Schmidty]

Lighten up Francis.

Fuck you asshole.

I wouldn't be so upset if I hadn't seen my 7 year-old daughter scream and sob harder than I have ever seen her do, while at the same time blaming it on herself because she was down there with the rabbit.

I never really had a problem wit you, but I guess there really is a reason you are one of the most ignored people on this board.

[RainMaker]

Hope the rabbit is OK. If it means anything, a broken leg isn't a huge deal for rabbits normally. Just a splint and probably some antibiotics to avoid infections.

[-apoc-]

Dude that sucks I hope it all turns out well. Briefly browsing the net it seems like a fairly common thing to happen so hopefully it wont be too much trouble to get the bunny back into good health.

[Schmidty]

Hope the rabbit is OK. If it means anything, a broken leg isn't a huge deal for rabbits normally. Just a splint and probably some antibiotics to avoid infections.

Yeah, I just got a call from my wife. The emergency vet said it's probably fixable, and is sending her home with pain meds and some other med too. We'll be taking Lucy in to our normal vet tomorrow morning.

Sorry for snapping at people. I just don't do well when I see animals hurt or when my daughter is devastated (momentarily). :)

[Schmidty]

Dude that sucks I hope it all turns out well. Briefly browsing the net it seems like a fairly common thing to happen so hopefully it wont be too much trouble to get the bunny back into good health.

Yeah, this is our first rabbits, so seeing that leg flopping all over the place, and the horrific scream the bunny made just made me sick.

Thanks.

[DaddyTorgo]

wabbits are cuuuuute.

my best friend had a rabbit for a long time. his name was chip. he was awesome. then one day after i moved away he called. and before he even said anything i said "it's chip isn't it? he's dead?" and he said "yeah...how'd you know." i'm not sure how i knew...i could just...feel it

[Lathum]

Sorry your little girl had to witness that.

[Lathum]

can I make a hossenfeffer joke now?

[lighthousekeeper]

seems like you have a lot of pets. how many do you have?

[Schmidty]

seems like you have a lot of pets. how many do you have?

3 indoor cats, 2 of which are rescues. The other is Sauron, the first pet I ever had.

2 outdoor feral cats which we trapped and had neutered, but were too wild to have inside; however, we still feed them and I try to spend time each day carefully petting them while they eat outside.

2 dogs, both of which are rescues. Annie, our rottie, was a puppy mill type of dog before my wife rescued her when she was about 1 1/2 years old. She's almost 13 now. Howie, our german shepherd/collie mix, was resued when he was 2. He was beaten and abused by his first owner, but was taken away. He spent a year or so at the Humane Society before he was finally adopted. He was in such bad shape that the people at the HS named him "Owie", but when he was adopted, my wife changed his name to Howie. He's awesome and almost 11 now.

2 bunnies. 1 1/2 months old. French Lop/Checkered Giant mix, they will be huge. The breeder just had too many, and didn't know what to do, so we took two (against my protests to be honest). Way smarter and personable than I thought rabbits would be.

2 Guinea Pigs. We finally gave them away to friends recently.

4 Fish. Bruce, Dory, Azul, and Guppy. Um, they're fish. My daughter likes them.


Too many freaking pets, but what can I do? We all love them and consider them part of the family. :)

[M GO BLUE!!!]

The rot gets along with the wabbit? When I read daughter, bunnies & rottweiler I had a much worse image flash through my head. I'm glad this is likely fixable.

[Schmidty]

The rot gets along with the wabbit? When I read daughter, bunnies & rottweiler I had a much worse image flash through my head. I'm glad this is likely fixable.

Do you think i'd feed a rottie by mouth if she wasn't really sweet and awesome? :)

[M GO BLUE!!!]

Do you think i'd feed a rottie by mouth if she wasn't really sweet and awesome? :)

I think you'd try! :D

But that's because you're all sweet & wonderful & sad over a bunny with a boo-boo.

(Hell, I'm ain't much better. I'm a wuss that feels bad when I have to let my dog kill a mouse.)

[Solecismic]

Sorry to hear it. Very tough when kids that age have to see pets in pain.

A good friend of mine is bringing her 14-year-old cat to the vet tomorrow morning. Seems like very advanced hyperthyroid disease, and I don't see how the poor cat is coming home.

She has kids around the same age, no idea what to tell them right now.

[JediKooter]

I'm sorry to here that and your daughter had to see it. I'm sure everyone will be ok.

[claphamsa]

hopefully the bunny gets better!

[BYU 14]

Sorry your Daughter witnessed that. Hoping for a speedy recovery, knowing what an Animal lover you are it must have been rough on you.

You have quite the zoo, do you live in a more rural area? Just curious because you have a couple of feral cats.

[fantom1979]

Our daughter was playing with one of our bunnies in the living room, when our rottweiler Annie accidentally stepped on her foot while being sweet and licking her. The leg was just limp and floppy and gross. Lily (my daughter) was crying uncontrollably. I didn't know what to do, so I called my wife. She left work and came home and just now took Lucy to the vet. I really hope A) Lucy with be fixable for my kid's sake (and mine too), and B) It doesn't cost a lot.

Anyway, that was a sucky thing to happen. At least our other bunnie, Izzy was ok.

:(

Hope it all works out for your family... I love pets, and I thought I broke my cats leg a couple of years ago. I was devastated.

[Ramzavail]

Its like Jumanji there!

[Mustang]

Glad everything is working out. I would have found it harder to deal with my daughters reaction to something like that rather than the injury to the animal.

Personally I don't think you had to apologize for anything.

[ColtCrazy]

Sounds like someone after my own heart. We only have cats, 3, and they are all rescues. It tore me up the other day. Someone said a kitten was by the road near the school I work at. After school, I went up to get it. It had crawled down in this really dense thicket and I couldn't get to it. Spent about 20 minutes trying to coax it out, eventually trying to crawl down an embankment to try to cross this stream to get to it better. It obviously had been abused and would just go deeper as I got closer.

Never could get it. Next day, it was dead on the side of the road. I don't handle those things well. Glad to hear the bunny's leg is fixable.

[Lathum]

A good friend of mine is bringing her 14-year-old cat to the vet tomorrow morning. Seems like very advanced hyperthyroid disease, and I don't see how the poor cat is coming home.



Our cat has the same thing, she is 11. We medicate her for it but there is also a procedure where they can shrink the thyroid through radiation. A lot of vets actually don't even know it exists, you may want to let your friend know about it before she decides on the alternative.

This is the place near me that does it.

Thyroid Treatment Center serving cats with feline hyperthyroid treatment in Seattle, Bellingham and Vancouver. (http://www.felinehyperthyroid.com/index.htm)

[Honolulu_Blue]

I'm glad to hear the bunny is fixable as well.

I have one question and I don't want to turn this into some sort of crazy political debate, it's just something that I've personally really been struggling with the last year or so.

I don't have anything near the menagiere of animals Schmidty does, but I do have a dog that I love very much. And I've always loved animals from since I was a kid on.

About a year and a half ago, for various reasons, my wife went vegan. That started to get me thinking on the whole subject and then sort of relating to how I feel about my dog. I just couldn't reconcile the way I felt about my dog, other people's pets, squirrels in my front lawn, or what have you, and essentially condoning the butchering (and torturing) of animals that I ate.

After a bit of soul searching, I decided to entirely cut out pork. I've just read too much about the intelligence of pigs (being as smart as or smarter than dogs) and couldn't do it. I also decided no more cow either. Over the last 10 months, I've strictly been chicken and fish, to the extent I eat any meat, which is pretty rare since about 80% of what I eat my wife prepares.

This hasn't been something that's been easy for me, since I love bacon, hamburgers, steak, etc, it's just something I couldn't quite reconcile once I really started to think about things.

Sorry to thread-jack, but it got me thinking and wondering if anyone else struggles with this.

[Lathum]

I haven't eaten meat in 20 years. The thought of it just grosses me out, the fact that that was once a living creature with blood, fur and veins makes me queasy.

It isn't so much a moral thing for me, just a mental thing. And I have a dog and a cat, but don't relate to them as the chicken my wife is eating.

[Schmidty]

Thanks for all of the nice comments.

We took her in this morning, and picked her up late this afternoon.

Her leg was indeed broken. It was unfortunately a clean break of the growth plate in her leg, and since she's still very young, she will have a oddly shaped leg and foot. The vet said she will be able to move ok eventually though. She's on some pain and anti-inflammatory meds. She has a cast on up to her hip. The cast is actually really cute - It's purple with a big orange carrot on it. :)

Anyway, I'm just happy that although it cost almost $600, she's going to be ok!!!

[Swaggs]

I'm glad to hear the bunny is fixable as well.

I have one question and I don't want to turn this into some sort of crazy political debate, it's just something that I've personally really been struggling with the last year or so.

I don't have anything near the menagiere of animals Schmidty does, but I do have a dog that I love very much. And I've always loved animals from since I was a kid on.

About a year and a half ago, for various reasons, my wife went vegan. That started to get me thinking on the whole subject and then sort of relating to how I feel about my dog. I just couldn't reconcile the way I felt about my dog, other people's pets, squirrels in my front lawn, or what have you, and essentially condoning the butchering (and torturing) of animals that I ate.

After a bit of soul searching, I decided to entirely cut out pork. I've just read too much about the intelligence of pigs (being as smart as or smarter than dogs) and couldn't do it. I also decided no more cow either. Over the last 10 months, I've strictly been chicken and fish, to the extent I eat any meat, which is pretty rare since about 80% of what I eat my wife prepares.

This hasn't been something that's been easy for me, since I love bacon, hamburgers, steak, etc, it's just something I couldn't quite reconcile once I really started to think about things.

Sorry to thread-jack, but it got me thinking and wondering if anyone else struggles with this.

I only eat fish and poultry for similar reasons.

[Swaggs]

Dola...

and, I'm glad your rabbit looks like he is going to be okay, Schmidty.

[RomaGoth]

Anyway, I'm just happy that although it cost almost $600, she's going to be ok!!!

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:


Glad the bunny is ok. $600? Wow.

[Dodgerchick]

Glad the bunny's okay Schmidty. How's Lily now that Lucy's back?

[M GO BLUE!!!]

can I make a hossenfeffer joke now?

Too soon.

...She has a cast on up to her hip. The cast is actually really cute - It's purple with a big orange carrot on it.

Anyway, I'm just happy that although it cost almost $600, she's going to be ok!!!

Now it's ok! :D

[JetsIn06]

I'm glad to hear the bunny is fixable as well.

I have one question and I don't want to turn this into some sort of crazy political debate, it's just something that I've personally really been struggling with the last year or so.

I don't have anything near the menagiere of animals Schmidty does, but I do have a dog that I love very much. And I've always loved animals from since I was a kid on.

About a year and a half ago, for various reasons, my wife went vegan. That started to get me thinking on the whole subject and then sort of relating to how I feel about my dog. I just couldn't reconcile the way I felt about my dog, other people's pets, squirrels in my front lawn, or what have you, and essentially condoning the butchering (and torturing) of animals that I ate.

After a bit of soul searching, I decided to entirely cut out pork. I've just read too much about the intelligence of pigs (being as smart as or smarter than dogs) and couldn't do it. I also decided no more cow either. Over the last 10 months, I've strictly been chicken and fish, to the extent I eat any meat, which is pretty rare since about 80% of what I eat my wife prepares.

This hasn't been something that's been easy for me, since I love bacon, hamburgers, steak, etc, it's just something I couldn't quite reconcile once I really started to think about things.

Sorry to thread-jack, but it got me thinking and wondering if anyone else struggles with this.

HB,

This is something that I struggle with also myself. I haven't eaten pork in years simply because of what you said. We plan on getting a pig for a pet once we own a home. I eat beef maybe once a month but I feel guilty every time I do.

[JetsIn06]

Also, very glad to hear your rabbit is better Shmidty.

I have a ton of animals as well and love them all like family.

[JHandley]

Since the subject was already broached here, I thought I'd add to the threadjack because it's something I've always wondered about.

What's the rationale behind eating chicken and fish? It seems to me that if the reason you're cutting out meat is because you don't want to cause pain to a living thing, fish and chicken should count. They may not be smart, but they do feel pain.

[Honolulu_Blue]

What's the rationale behind eating chicken and fish? It seems to me that if the reason you're cutting out meat is because you don't want to cause pain to a living thing, fish and chicken should count. They may not be smart, but they do feel pain.

There's no good rationale for it. I understand it's really as arbitary distinction as between say a dog and a pig. I am not entirely comfortable with it and have been working on cutting both out.

[Schmidty]

Here's Lucy!!! Unfortunately, you can't see the carrot on the cast in the last picture. She's doing well.

http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/2738/lucy2.jpg (http://img50.imageshack.us/i/lucy2.jpg/) http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/lucy2.jpg/1/w480.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img50/lucy2.jpg/1/)

http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/2222/lucy3y.jpg (http://img363.imageshack.us/i/lucy3y.jpg/) http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/lucy3y.jpg/1/w640.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img363/lucy3y.jpg/1/)

http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/7062/lucy5.jpg (http://img111.imageshack.us/i/lucy5.jpg/) http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/lucy5.jpg/1/w480.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img111/lucy5.jpg/1/)

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

LOL. Something about a white rabbit wearing a purple cast strikes me as funny.

Glad she's on the road to recovery.

[illinifan999]

Just because plants don't make noises when you kill them doesn't mean it's ok to kill them. For this reason I have voluntarily given up vegetables to recognize their struggle for equal eating rights.


Plus when the plants start killing people like in The Happening, I'll be able to play the whole "I didn't eat you guys" card.


On topic tho:
I'm glad she's doing good! I still remember the days when we had to put our 3 cats to sleep. They were 14 (cancer), 19 (woke up on Easter, and he just didn't have anything left), and 21 (just too many things were going wrong for him).

[Honolulu_Blue]

Just because plants don't make noises when you kill them doesn't mean it's ok to kill them. For this reason I have voluntarily given up vegetables to recognize their struggle for equal eating rights.


Plus when the plants start killing people like in The Happening, I'll be able to play the whole "I didn't eat you guys" card.

CLEVER AND SMRT!

[RainMaker]

Looks good, I'm glad she's doing alright. Hopefully she's getting some extra treats for her troubles. :)