Callisto & Orion

🔷🔶 🔹 🔸🔷 Free roaming homebuns on mischief duty × Lady of hearts born 2015 × × Joker of wits born 2016 × A warm and hearty welcome to you here on the bunblr blog of #Callisto and Orion! 🔷🔸 🔹 🔶🔷 | As usual with sideblogs I will follow you (back) with my main @ambixvalence - so please just don't mind when it pops up on your notifications! |

[minotaurapologist]

Shapes!

[adorablegorilla]

They look like they were made in Unreal Engine

[nyxandshion]

I know that the one on the right at least is a rabbit! The thing on the left is some sort of creechur, probably. Perhaps a beaft.

[antiqueanimals]

Don Balke (American, b. 1933). Cottontail, 1987. Gouache and watercolor on board.

MutualArt

[machi1895]

読もう、一緒に

[nyxandshion]

Today, Shion kicked out his yucky feet and slept like this.

I see no difference.

Good thing the bedding arrived today! Though it is smaller than intended because I can't read apparently 😅

Ah, well.

[jinmaeda]

Blankets are her number 1 enemy

[spindle-and-nima]

Fellas this is a crazy day.

I have someone willing to drive from Chicago all the way to me in Michigan to board their rabbit with me for intensive care. Their bunny er charged so much to just stuff the wrong meds into this 1 year old bunny. I just grew more annoyed looking at the itemized bill of med after med that is not standard practice anymore.

So this bunny, milo, went into gi stasis. 4 x rays later they couldn't determine anything (somehow) and did an explorative surgery to find a huge obstruction. It was removed but milo is still not ok.

They removed it but its been a week and no poop. Their care was iffy and they didnt provide the intense fluid therapy a case like this needs. They sent her home with gabapentin and told her to give critical carev and syringe him 12ml of water. He needs nearly 80ml of iv fluid sub cutaneously every 5 hours so why the hell did they say syringe 12 orally and nothing else??

The owner is distraught and wants to save milos life. The ideal plan is this:

Im in contact with an ER that can give him exactly the care he needs but itll be 1.5k to hospitalize him. I can then keep him at home with me where I monitor him hourly for a week so he can go home. I will do his care for free. The er is a different story

I cant afford it. She cant afford it.

The alternative is i take him and i do as much supportive care as possible but he needs much stronger meds than what I have. This is the default. But hes in such rough shape I cant fathom not doing more

My plea is to any of you. This isnt for me or any animal in my care right now but for a stranger willing to drive an entire state over to save him.

I want to save milo. After spindles gi stasis and my rehab work I have no extra funds for a visit to the er. I can only turn to you guys if anyone is willing to donate to give him a chance. Hes only a year old. If anyone can spare anything, please put it to my ko-fi

[weirdlandtv]

Cartoon by John O'Brien for NEW YORKER magazine, 1991.

[coupleofdays]

Rabbit firefighters from the Bamse magazine strip, the comic book, and the animated version, all drawn by Rune Andréasson.

[ashbunnybun]

Where are you sleeping Ash?

[ohmymarylou]

my fluffy babby boy 🥰

[bunnies-and-sunshine]

He was loved.

While we were visiting family in Ohio and dealing with my parents' estate stuff, Amos started to show signs of having GI stasis and I treated him with the usual critical care force-feedings, keeping him warm with a hot water bottle, and baby gas drops (simethicone) all of Thursday.

By early Friday morning he was just nibbling at random hay and pellets, was lethargic, felt cool to the touch, and acting confused (signs of dehydration) but was able to poop and pee a little bit from all of the feedings.  We called around to multiple exotics vets in the area and were turned away due to schedules being fully booked, no exotic vet on staff that day, and refusal to see a rabbit as an emergency case that hadn't been treated at that facility before until we finally spoke with Barberton Veterinary Clinic, who took care of him as soon as we could drive there (about 35 minutes away).

After giving him pain meds, fluids, blood tests and x-rays they discovered that Amos had a liver lobe torsion (one of the five lobes of his liver had twisted on itself and cut off the blood supply to the twisted lobe) which had caused internal bleeding into his abdomen, kidney damage, and changes to his GI tract that required emergency surgery.  We got to see him and tell him how brave he was, how he was being such a good boy, and that we loved him before they whisked him away (along with Mr. Giraffe) to give him the best care they could.

Amos made it through the surgery where they removed the right medial lobe of his liver.  As he was recovering from anesthesia while still intubated, he threw a blood clot that caused him to lose his basic reflexes.  Our sweet boy never regained consciousness.

We were told that the reason for otherwise healthy rabbits suddenly developing a liver lobe torsion is still unclear, but that Holland lops are one of the more common rabbit breeds seen to have it as well as male rabbits in general.

I just wanted to share Amos' story to help others recognize the symptoms to look out for so that they might have a better outcome for catching it early.  I don't think we could have done anything differently as it was the clot that ultimately took him from us and that's a risk with any surgery.

We brought Amos home so Naomi could understand that he was gone and say her own goodbyes.  She's hanging in there and has been using Mr. Giraffe as a security blanket and will sleep with her ear draped over him in a hug.  We're giving her all of the love, noogies, treats and attention she can stand.

Two years was not enough.

I'll try to post again next Monday.

[leapsandsqueaks]

Gilbert was adopted over a year ago, and has been living the good life! ❤️ We love adoption updates and seeing these cuties thrive. 🐾

[adelyn-art]

[bambieyezs]

bunny love

[general-woundwort]

Obsessed with how lionhead bunnies can either look like they have the craziest bangs, or the most horrible mullet

[impatientturtle]

I've seen a lot of people posting animals, this is my troublemaker bunny :)

[dddreamscape]

Sure. Whatever.