17 September 2008

It Just Doesn't Stop.... Rabbit? No, Thank You.

Bob and Rox were in Bob's car on the way to the park for a walk. Bob looks over to see Rox's head down near the floor. No sound, no gagging, no retching....... just a big pile of regurgitated rabbit guts.

Yes, the visual is as bad as the real thing. I tossed 4 times....

Not knowing what "it" was, and worried about some relationship to the otter incident or meds resulting therefrom, Bob bagged the barf and I headed off to the vet's office to let THEM look at it. My thinking was why not share the adventure?!

Dr. Plein, the only male vet in the practice took a look and declared "rabbit guts".

I wasn't surprised because half way to the vet my cell rang and it was Bob telling me he'd found a rabbit 4 feet from the patio door. It was missing some hair and it's insides. Ah, a clue.....

So here's the upside: Rox may have thrown up all there is to throw up. The downside is she may still throw up some more.....

Rabbits carry tapeworms so we have to take her back in 1 month to get a shot for tapeworm after any possible tapes go thru one life cycle.

Dr. Plein was concerned that Rox was being exposed to all this wild critter stuff. I assured him she is always on a leash (otter attacked her) and always in a fenced, locked-gate back yard in a subdivision (rabbit).

So we think Rox must have been pretty proud, she had dragged the dead half-eaten rabbit up to the patio to either show it off, or bring it in the house. The only thing that saved us was Bob calling her to go for a walk. She drops everything for walks.

She's only got one eye! How does she do this stuff?

And she's not kissing me for a long time !!!!

Icky poo and gag-city-to-the-max!

Sorry, we decided not to photograph either the gag bag or the empty-in-the-middle-bunny. I'm sure you understand..........

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yes, I wouldn't want to be kissed either if there were a chance of tape worm. Don't know if it can be passed through saliva but why take a chance.

Unknown said...

It sounds like she took out her otter rage out on the poor bunny! You guys need to get a beware of dog sign for the fence.