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  • May. 9th, 2008 at 1:28 AM
Maddie 2008
At last I'm back online - and properly this time having had my Journal intercepted last night by the grandhumans (whom I've still not met).

The Burrow has been very quiet since Friday but the peace has now ended and it's a full burrow again - in fact tonight it was even fuller than usual because the Big Black Monster Thing slipped in un-noticed by the staff. It thumped its way up the stairz and flopped down beside mummy's hare conditioning machine until she saw it and shoo'ed it out back to where The Thing belongs. It was very cross because while mummy was away, Uncle J deviously got out the lawn-stealing machine and it ate all our long fresh juicy grass from the back lawn.

I have a little sad news to share. Does everybunny remember Bunty, the scraggy wild lionhead bunny and her wild bunny friends who starred in the 'Bunderful Tonight' video on the Bunny Tunes 3 DVD? Mummy went back to Knaresborough hoping to see her on Chewsday but the area where she'd sat with them all at just arm's length away last June was now devoid of all buns. They had all succumbed to the nasty myxi outbreak just weeks after being filmed. I'm glad I've had my jabs but feel very sorry for my wild relatives.


I also have a little more sad news but I can't risk bringing on another depressive episode by announcing it now so will save it for later.
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[info]jiffles_lops wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 09:03 am (UTC)
Is there an age limit before we buns can go for our jabs? We are 10 weeks old, are we big enough yet?
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[info]furrymob wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 09:28 am (UTC)
Yes, you are more than ready.

You need your myxomatosis vaccination at 6 weeks which is repeated 6-monthly in high risk areas (most of the UK) or annually in low-risk areas. You also need your VHD vaccination at 10-12 weeks and there should be a gap of two weeks between the two as a precaution against any interaction.

Your breeder should have told your mum this when you were adopted and, ideally, also given you this information in writing too along with your general care and feeding instructions.

We suggest you contact your breeder again just to confirm that you haven't already had your myxi jabs but if your mum wasn't given a Certificate of Vaccination when she collected you, you probably won't have been vaccinated so she needs to arrange your these and, if Gizmo is a boy, then in the next 3-4 weeks, he should be ready for his snip so now is the time to look for a good vet for him.

Inga
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[info]jiffles_lops wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 09:37 am (UTC)
Oh dear, we must get our mum onto it right away! Thank you Inga
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[info]brunobunni wrote:
May. 10th, 2008 06:33 am (UTC)
Mums vet was most impressed when I turned up for my VHD vaccination at 10 weeks with my certificate and bottles from Burrow Court. Funnily enough it was the bottles that impressed Vet Gina the most. But then she couldn't stop making a fuss of me.
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[info]furrymob wrote:
May. 10th, 2008 11:09 am (UTC)
The vet even looked at the bottles?! That's a first! (However, I did once have a Forensic Scientist adopter who insited he also wanted the sharp, too)
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[info]austin_n_hatty wrote:
May. 10th, 2008 11:51 am (UTC)
Mummy took our bottles with us when we went for our VHD vaccinations, they were looked at as well mummy thought this was normal. We don't like that stewpid vet though, she thought I was a girl!
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[info]austin_n_hatty wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 09:39 am (UTC)
Norfolk is high risk so I should imagine your area will be high risk as well.
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[info]jiffles_lops wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 09:42 am (UTC)
Yeah I should think it will be, not only are we in Lincolnshire, we live in a village surrounded by fields, so we wont be risking it.
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[info]furrymob wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 10:33 am (UTC)
We feel it's best to assume the whole of the UK is high risk and have 6-monthly vaccinations to be as safe as possible.
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[info]jiffles_lops wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 10:47 am (UTC)
We are booked in for 5.10 on Tuesday to have our Mixi jabs done.
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[info]austin_n_hatty wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 09:41 am (UTC)
Our poor little wild cousins.
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[info]gower_bunn_gang wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 12:54 pm (UTC)
Oh that horrible Myxi, why can it not just go away and leave us bunnies alone (then we would not need to have the 25ft needle every 6 months!!!)
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[info]merridoe wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 07:44 pm (UTC)
Poor bunnies!
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[info]master_dandy wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 09:22 pm (UTC)
At least they are forever immortalised in the BT3 DVD.
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[info]furrymob wrote:
May. 9th, 2008 09:28 pm (UTC)
Yes, just like our Ollie.
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[info]princesstaz wrote:
May. 10th, 2008 06:36 am (UTC)
Maddie, do you realize that by sharing your Mum's sad news, you may have saved two lives?
I'm so glad Gizmo and Daisy's 2foots acted promptly to Dr. Inga's information!

VERY glad we don't have that killer here in the United States and I hope it stays that way.
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[info]empressloopy wrote:
May. 10th, 2008 12:39 pm (UTC)
Akchewally yoo doo. Its just dat the Ameribun Two Foot Bunny Mint duz not want to licence a vac-seen agenst VHD (wich yoo call RHD) as it is a way of keepin wyld pop-ul-lay-shuns down and da strain of Myxoma yoo had is diff'went and der is no vax-seen faw it.

I gose for myn next da week as I is gowin in Loopies old wun dawing da day soon.

PB
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