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I have own a bunny (lop ear) for almost two years and suddenly it died. I don�t have an answer as to what might of caused his death, especially after him being so happy and healthy all this time. I don�t understand why his change of bahavior in one day. All of a sudden he seemed depressed and did not want to eat. My vet suggested to give him 24 hours, but to my surprise he was laying dead this morning. I love bunnies, but I am afraid of getting another one and loosing him/her the same way.Any suggestions, or opinions may be helpful..Thank you
-- MARIA RIVERA (marygrivera@hotmail.com), January 22, 2002
rabbits can die very easily,, something could have scared it,, heart attacks are common,,ect,, thats one reason they near the bottom of the food chain. Get another one,, the more you learn ,, the more you will enjoy them
-- Stan (sopal@net-port.com), January 22, 2002.
Hopefully you will outlive all the animals you decide to get, so the fact that they will die is not a reason, I believe, not to get another one.
-- BC (desertdweller44@yahoo.com), January 22, 2002.
Sorry about your loss. Please join us in our new forum..http://hv.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a.tcl?topic=Raising% 20meat%20rabbits%20for%20profit
-- tracy (murfette@stargate.net), January 22, 2002.
Genitics probably play a role, I have a line of angoras who the males live to about 9 years, that same line the females die of strokes between 2 and 4 years of age.my guess by your description is your bunny might have died of a heart condiction, or got into something poisonous!My 9 year old buffy just died yesterday,never went off his feed just had balance problem last day.I was glad he had a peacefull home death, It Is hard when they get sick and have to be put to sleep. Loving means losing someday, but though the cost is high we gain so much when we chose to love no matter how long they or we have.
-- kathy h (ckhart55@earthlink.net), January 22, 2002.
sorry about yur rabbit. i used to raise angoras.the most common reason for mine dying was spinal menengitis, vet said it was very common in rabbits.
-- cody (urbusted@alltel.net), January 22, 2002.
Where do you live? Toxic chemicals in the air will kill a bunny easily, they're very sensitive to that. That's why the gov. uses them for air quality studies, or so I've read. If you live around any kind of industrial site, toxic waste dump, land fill, crop dusting operations,......you got it, these things are all over the place, that could be it. Just a thought. Sorry for your loss.
-- openminded (llll@noplace.com), January 23, 2002.
I'm sorry about your bunny! But since you are an animal lover, you should give another bunny a good home too!bunnies die of all sorts of things and 90% of the time there's nothing we can do about it. Currently we have 26 bunnies, primarily English angoras with a few lops. We try to give them a good balanced diet; keep circulation good in their bunny barn; keep it relatively clean; and give them roughage and special hair ball meds to keep that problem from occurring...but sometimes bunnies just die.
We have a big pet bunny, I think she's a Californian, who is about 5 or 6 years old, and another bunny of unknown parentage (he was a rescue) who is about 5....but we've had other bunnies die as young as one year old or three years old. (yes...I have a little bunny grave yard!)
-- Suzy in Bama (slgt@yahoo.com), January 23, 2002.
First of all, I'm so sorry about your bunny. In case, I have exactly the same situation as you. My two gorgeous bunnies died this week, first (chewy) was died on last saturday, second one (jumpy) was died yesterday. They were a very healthy rabbits, as my vet said. But I still wondering why they died suddenly. Therefore, I got Jumpy being autopsy this morning. I'll get the answer in 5 days, so I'm going to give you the news about our case.
-- Putu Liedyawati (plldywt@hotmail.com), March 28, 2002.
I had a beautiful black lop-ear rabbit with gray paws. She died last summer. I noticed she had mites and she was slobbering when she was eating. I took her to the vet as soon as I noticed. The news was so bad, broke my heart. They told me she had a birth deffect and she was unablt to file her own teeth. They put her to sleep because I couldn't afford to pay $500 a month to keep her healthy. Good-bye is hard when you're so attached. But a year later i have two beautiful bunnies that I love. They don't replace her, but I feel her prescence.
-- (now2late@aol.com), April 07, 2002.