Birthday Girl

Today is Mabel's 5th Birthday. There is only one Birthday photo of her, because she was too busy to keep still. She said that, because it was her Birthday, today she was allowed to burrow into the sofa, and chew the beading on the cushions.

5 Today!

Some pictures of Dijon, the Birthday boy, and also some of Mabel photo bombing the Birthday portrait, then trying to steal the show.

Morning adventures

Here are the bunnies enjoying some time on 'our' side of the living room… under close supervision!!

Pavarooooarrrtti

Happy Easter

Mabel and Dijon have been enjoying some sunshine this morning.

Happy New Year

Mabel and Dijon would like to wish everyone a very Happy New Year. 

They have made some New Year's Resolutions:

Mabel will continue her mission to remove every tuft of carpet in the living room

Dijon will make sure he enjoys more hours of sleep

They have both made a great start!

Winter Update

There has been nothing much to report on the bunny front for the past month or so. Apart from a check-up plus vaccinations a few weeks ago, life has continued as normal. Mabel has kept up with her piano practice and usual mischief (mostly working on changing our carpeted living room to hard flooring), whilst Dijon - with the exception of sudden movement towards food - has mostly slept.

Mountaineering Mabel

Mabel leapt onto the top of the cage again this morning, via the piano, in search of hay.

The hay basket had not been topped up, so she decided to defy the rules of gravity and eat directly from the hay bag.

Ear Thief Strikes Again

Missing: two ears - one black, one yellow. Generous reward offered for any information leading to return of ears.

Poorly Mabel

A few months ago, I took Mabel to the vet because she was sneezing really frequently. At least we thought it was sneezes, but since then - having realised how she sneezes  - I think the sort of quacking noise was probably a cough. Anyway, she was prescribed a 2wk dose of antibiotics, and I removed the hay we were using (which I realised was not dust-extracted) and the sneezes/coughs stopped.

However, since then, we have been aware of her rapid breathing. Maybe it's always been like that, and we only noticed because we were paying more attention, after that problem. Recently it has seemed to be really noticeable though - she doesn't struggle in any way to breath, no flared nostrils, no discharge, eating well, active, happy... just simply the rapid breathing, which is quite visible as it rocks her.

When she and Dijon were sleeping, we counted their breathes for a minute - 38 for Dijon, 90 for Mabel!

We saw the vet this afternoon, who thinks that she has chronic mild pneumonia, something she will probably have to live with, and hopes to manage it by keeping her away from dust, and daily dose of antibiotics - Karidox (Doxycycline) 10mg/ml, 0.08ml per day (should be easy to disguise in food!).

Hopefully this should prevent the coughing/sneezing returning, and the breathing should calm a bit.