Update on Lucky Blue!

Just a shout out to ALL those who donated to LUCKY BLUE and those who shared his plea and helped with good vibes and prayers. He is healing beautifully! 💕💞💓 

For those who missed his plea, please click below to see where LB was on 05/22: https://www.facebook.com/BunnyWorldFoundation/photos/a.357601647611597/3094888557216212/?type=3&theater 💕💞💓

Below are his foster mom’s updates we received over the course of this week. We hope you enjoy them. He truly IS LUCKY BLUE!

🐇💕💞💓 05/29

We are home with Lucky Blue. He is curious, sweet, and voraciously hungry. He loves pellets and greens, carrot tops and chard not so much the dandelions. He is very mobile and spry despite his impairments, exploring and leaping to higher places than we were comfortable with given his recent surgeries, so we coaxed him down with more food. :) He loves gentle head pets on the right side of his head. His poops are normal size. He is exceedingly small, so we are going to see about giving him all the hay, greens, water, and pellets he wants and see how he responds. :) Our goal is healing, building strength, and loving on him all the time to make sure he understands he matters and feels loved. ❤️ Lucky Blue you are in our house now where life will be an adventure. Welcome to the beginning of your new life!

🐇💕💞💓 05/30

Lucky Blue is doing very well. He is eating, moving around, and very, very social. Once he heals, he needs a very attentive owner who can hang out with him all the time. He cues on our (human) movements and wants to be right there with us. He gets very attached to humans that pay attention to him. He listens to us and is responsive to corrections. He also seems attention starved and restless like he needs a free roam space to explore. He is a jumper whenever he gets a chance to explore and leap, he does. The adopters will need to consider the leaping aspect and his limitations when planning for his living space. He will make someone an amazing companion if they give him the time and attention.

🐇💕💞💓 06/04

Lucky Blue is doing great! He is adjusting to our routine, people, food, environment, and his new physical condition. I have kept him on the Tramadol and Gabapentin for the time being as he seems to be doing so well while he is on it. He is very alert, smart, pays attention to what is going on around him and super sweet. He behaves like a puppy. He loves to be pet on the head and sits right next to you. He also listens to limits which is remarkably interesting to observe him take in when we say he cannot do something. He is eating very well and putting on some weight. I did buy alfalfa pellets and hay which we are mixing with the Timothy hay. He drinks a great deal of water and loves the greens. It is nice to see him have a healthy appetite.

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Lucky Blue is scheduled for another vet apt. for some procedure/check-up. Stay tuned and THANK YOU AGAIN!

~BWF

“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Lucky Blue's Blues....

Please visit bunnyworldfoundation.org/donate to help this little one -- 'Lucky Blue' found himself at East Valley Animal Shelter (LAAS) - Discarded like garbage. Upon seeing his pained but sweet face on the Blue-Alert list, we contacted Animal Control inquiring about his injuries.  

Medical records read:

- Rabbit has purulent discharge inside left ear canal.

- Left ear has puncture wound with caseous discharge that can be squeezed from hole.

- Left ear is crinkled.

- Left eye - can not visualize globe.

- Hard swelling below left mandible.

- R/O pasteurella infection - "lumpy jaw"

We didn't wait -- Sat. May 9, our volunteer rushed to the shelter, grabbed 'Lucky Blue' and took him to BWF temporary foster where this poor soul received loving before being taken to our Vet, where he was prepped for the immediate surgery!

On May 15, Dr. Roberts wrote: "I attached some photos of Lucky Blue after his enucleation, ear surgery, and jaw abscess treatment. He is doing very well, and he is such a good-natured and friendly bunny, my entire staff is in love with him.

Since he turned blue on us and tried to die as we were working on his jaw abscess, and we had to revive him in a hurry, we may need to do more with that abscess at a later date. He also still needs to be neutered.

He has stitches in his ear that will need to be removed in 3-4 weeks, and he is on antibiotics - (oral enrofloxacin and injectable Pen-BP), and metacam, and gets Silver Sulfadiazine Cream on his ear once daily.

So far, his expenses are at approximately $1,600. He could go home tomorrow if you can arrange transport and have a foster available to take special care of this very special bunny."

With our Veterinary debt at $14,000- we are struggling to cover Lucky Blue's invoice. If you'd like to call Northwood Animal Hospital directly and make a donation toward our medical bill, they accept call-in donations of $100 or more at (949) 559-1992. For any amount of aid, please click on: bunnyworldfoundation.org/donate for PayPal service -- any amount counts <3

WE ARE ALSO LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO FOSTER 'LUCKY BLUE' - someone with time, experience, and healing hands.  If you're THAT person, email BWF ASAP at info@bunnyworldfoundation.org.  

Thank you for being there for 'Lucky Blue' and other LUCKY BUNNIES in our care!

~BWF

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HELP US HELP TARO & MACCHIATO!

This week, we took two very special souls under our wing; Macchiato & Taro. Born November of last year to a distressed young mother, both siblings suffered limb loss as infants. Mother rabbits who are stressed out of their minds, (as most young mothers are), have been known to chew on their babies as a desperate coping mechanism / stress reaction. Sadly, and by no fault of their poor mother, such were the injuries suffered by these two little ones.

While Macchiato's missing paw has less severe lasting damage, Taro's devastating loss of one ear, one leg, and one foot, rendered her nearly immobile; able only to scoot and drag her body around. Young, vulnerable, and tiny - both under two pounds -Taro & Macchiato were left to suffer without medical intervention or assistance. We knew we had to help.

Once we had them, both little ones were seen by our Vet, where they were hospitalized for two days; receiving spayed and neutered procedures, diagnostic testing, and x-rays. Our Vet has many treatment ideas for Taro’s condition to ensure her a long, happy life of free and painless mobility, like her brother. But we need your financial support to do so.

Taro & Macchiato are such a special pair who share an intensely deep love bond formed by their shared traumatic experiences of having their limbs bitten off. While Macchiato can run and walk with relative ease, he knows that Taro cannot, and shows patience and care with his baby sister. Macchiato frequently found kissing and grooming his beloved sister, and cuddling her as they sleep. If little Taro is scared by a loud noise, Macchiato will run to comfort her, and she will only then relax. Macchiato is Taro’s support system, and is so caring and loving... he, more than anyone, wants to see his sister thrive, hoping in his bunny heart that someday she can join him as he runs around.

With our Veterinary debt at $12,000, we are financially struggling to proceed in this pairs' path to full medical rehabilitation. We know that times are tough, and many feel minor contributions don't help... but the truth is that every dollar counts.

If you'd like to call Northwood Animal Hospital directly and make a donation toward our medical bill, they accept call-in donations of $100 or more at (949) 559-1992. For any amount of aid, please click on: BUNNYWORLDFOUNDATION.ORG/DONATE for PayPal service -- any amount counts <3

If each member of our Facebook family donated just one dollar, we would have a nest-egg for these and many other bunnies who are desperate, hurting and betrayed. So please... even if it’s small, help us do our life-saving work by making a tax-deductible donation.

Thank you for helping us help the forgotten.

~BWF

Help our newest rescued sweeties!

Our newest rescued sweeties - AMERI & MANNY are seeing our Vet this week, but we especially need help with Ameri's expenses. If you'd like to help her, please visit: BUNNYWORLDFOUNDATION.ORG/DONATE.

We pulled MANNY & AMERI out of two Los Angeles shelters - (Harbor & East Valley) - where both little ones had languished since 2018 -- and not without consequences. MANNY - in better shape... but AMERI was a mess... judging by the infection and lesions on her, she suffered that way for some time... urine scald eating at her skin.

Ameri & Manny require full Vet exams, and Ameri will need sanitary shave, pain meds, antibiotics, fluids, topical meds, probiotics, etc., as well as CBD oil and other holistic aid for her joints and immune system.

AMERI & MANNY will also need loving homes. PLEASE think of unwanted poor souls who have never known decency... and be the one to change that. Email us at info@bunnyworldfoundation.org for steps to begin fostering or adopting.

So shameful that an animal shelter in our system let Ameri suffer like that! Los Angeles Animal Services (LAAS) is a taxpayer-funded agency with a large budget -- AND receives additional donations -- no excuse for letting poor souls like Ameri sit burning in urine.

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