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Hi there! I haven't done much research so please take this with a grain of salt, but on their site it says you can bring them as a carry on if they're small enough. That way, they're under your supervision the entire time. It might be a tight squeeze though.

HELP does anyone have ANY INFORMATION on Delta Cargo????? I need to ship my rabbits with it but I’m scared they’ll die or something will go wrong but I told my mom I would use it to get my rabbits out to AZ because she doesn’t want to deal with them and now I’m seeing bad shit about I NEED HELP

That's fantastic!

they’re all so FLUFFY and SWEET and deserve a FAMILY

Hi guys, my rabbit Mr. Bunbury has been very sick since Thursday evening and is currently being hospitalized. His vet just confirmed that he’ll need to continue to be hospitalized because his potassium levels are high (and he’s still in visible pain, curled up and insists on being in a corner), so the bill will be close to that $4500 high end estimate.

If you have any money to spare, my venmo is @ ddespair, and if you don’t have anything to spare, a signal boost would be a major help. Thank you!

I need some help. Please.

Okay, so this is my baby, Alex

On the morning of August 25, I lost him. This is a hard post to write.

I drove home late Saturday august 24th because he wasn’t doing well (my mom took care of him while I’m at school but I FaceTimed him every single day)

Alex wasn’t eating or pooping, this has happened before but we can usually get him out of it by using pear juice, baby gas drops, tummy massages, critical care and other things. I knew this time was different. We got him to the emergency vet (over an hour away) at around 8:30 PM. He was different this time.

They took an x-Ray and did some bloodwork and found he had a big gas bubble in his tummy. And the bloodwork showed his potassium and proteins were off. His temperature was Also a little low, running 99ish and rabbits should run over 100

They wanted to hospitalize him for 24 hours but I didn’t want to leave my baby. We stayed for a while and they gave him pain meds, he became very sleepy after this, this is the last picture I have of him alive, he was sleeping in my arms

They started an IV drip to hydrate him and hopefully get things moving, there was also pain medication in the drip.

We left him there but got a hotel 5 minutes away. ($120) I slept absolutely none, and called to check on him ever 1-2 hours.

I called at 4am and they tell me his temperature had dropped (96ish) and were planning on starting syringe feeding at 6am if there were no improvements

He didn’t make it to 6

I woke my mother and we went there straight away. We get there about 4:10 and he was in a small room they have for rabbits and it was really warm trying to raise his temp. At this point we’re doing almost everything, there’s one other thing they can do.

A procedure where they sedate him and go in his stomach with a tube and release the gas (which he still had not passed)

I agree to this because it was a last resort, my baby wasn’t eating or using the bathroom. I sat on the floor and held him for a couple minutes before they took him to do the procedure. I remember holding him and putting my head on his and thinking “I hope this isn’t the last time I get to hold him, I have to remember this moment.” And it was the last time I held him alive.

They did the procedure and the vet comes out and says they got a good amount of gas out and he pooped one pellet, I was hopeful. I went back to see him and he was laying on the table, groggy from the sedation. I rubbed him and told him I loved him. I told them about how sweet of a bun he was, how he loved to get under the recliner and thought it was a game, how he just got a scooby doo chair that made him feel like a king.

They took him back to let him rest and I thought he could use it so I went to the waiting room. I’ve questioned and went over 1000 times or more in my head if I did the right thing. Because about 10-20 minutes later the vet comes and tells me Alex has arrested.

My baby. Writing this is beyond hard. I scream, I cry, she leaves and said something about CPR. I run to the back and open a door, I see him on the table and her trying to revive him. The vet tech comes out and tells me she’s doing what she can, I scream, I beg them to save him. He wanted to come home. I screamed I didn’t care about the money, just to help him.

They brought me my limp baby boy in a blanket, brown stuff all over his mouth and I cried and begged him to wake up. He didn’t. My baby was gone and gone too soon.

To you he may be just a rabbit but he was my baby, he helped me through things in ways I never thought he could. I found a love for rabbits, much more then them just being cute, they have personality and he was the best boy, he just wanted to be loved and he was, but I wanted to love him more and more and more and more.

Early in the night we realized the bill was going to be much more than the money we had in our pocket or our bank accounts. So we applied for care credit and were allowed $1,500. The total ended up being a little over 1,600 and we used $200 something from my grandmas credit card that we will have to pay back to her. The whole time I said “it’s okay, Alex has insurance, they’ll cover most of it right?”

WRONG. I got NATIONWIDE exotic pet insurance for emergencies like this and I submitted a claim. They are willing to give us a whopping $279??? So we called to find out the reason, and here’s the gag. They’ll only cover up to a certain amount of $ for a certain issue, so for GI Stasis (which is in simple terms what Alex had but there was other stuff going on) they only cover $140. They have a limit they will pay for each health issue so essentially Alex would have to have been even worse for them to cover more (I don’t remember what the other $139 went to) the exam itself cost $130. So honestly boycott nationwide because not only did they do this but we called the day it happened and told them to cancel the policy because he was deceased and when we called to question the amount, the policy was STILL ACTIVE!

So I’ve got this thing to pay off and if it’s not paid off in 6 months it gains 14% interest, not on what you have left to pay, but on the entire loan amount. Which is almost $200 more. I’m a student and will be doing work study but I can only work 80 hours per semester and will make less than $700 if I did all that. My dad doesn’t work because he has multiple sclerosis (and so do I, yippi! 😕) my mom is picking up every shift she can but we have extra medical bills because I just started a new medication after having a relapse on my old one.

I’ve been in a super depressed state since losing him, not being able to eat, drink, shower, or just generally take care of myself. This bill is a big stressor because I know it’s stressful to my mother as well and I worry about losing her too. I hope this post gets seen by people that would be willing to help me or at least pass this post on so that others could. I would never ask for this if I wasn’t desperate.

I’d do anything to hold my baby again, to tell him how much I love him, get nose kisses and give him treats, I’d pay even more. I’m going to post a couple more pictures of him and then my links to PayPal/cash app/ and Venmo at the bottom if anyone wants to donate to help me. If this gets a lot of attention somehow and I get enough to pay the bill off I will not let people continue to give me money, I will post updates of the care credit balance once i make payments. Here’s my baby:

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My best friend passed away last night.

Cecil was five years old. I’ve had him since he was a baby. He was a beautiful blue Netherland Dwarf. Just the day before he was totally fine. I got home from my boyfriend’s house in the evening and immediately noticed something was wrong… he was laying down weird, he wasn’t walking well, he wouldn’t eat. All in the span of a few hours. I immediately found a 24/7 vet that would see rabbits and sped the hour and a half to get him there. I thought it was GI stasis and that they would give him what he needed and send me home with medicine and everything would be okay…

The vet came to the room I was waiting in and told me it wasn’t stasis. It was a neurological issue. There was nothing that could have been done to prevent it and nothing that could be done to save him. He was on an incubator and his condition kept getting worse. He was suffering. The best thing to do was to put him down.

I’m heartbroken. I couldn’t sleep last night. I feel like I’ll never be happy again.

He was part of a bonded pair. I sent my other rabbit, Willow, home with my parents (I’m an hour away at college) so my mom can get her to her vet on Monday to make sure she’s okay too. I know I need to start looking into re-bonding her but my heart is just broken. I can never replace Cecil.

Sorry for being so sad. I just needed to vent to people who may understand. Cecil was my first rabbit; this is my first loss. I’ve lost betta fish and a hamster and a guinea pig before, and I loved them all to pieces too, but Cecil was my best friend. I don’t know what to do.