What’s one thing you wish you knew about rabbits before you owned them?

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What’s one thing you wish you knew about rabbits before you owned them…

What’s one thing you wish you knew about rabbits before you owned them?

Here’s three out of my beautiful nine rabbits. ????

However, I really wish I knew about pet insurance and I also wish I knew about how serious snuffles can get as well as rabbit savvy vets.

Pet insurance is something I wish I knew about because it meant that from the age of 15 I always had to pay outright for the vet bills and I had a rabbits who I got given as an early sweet 16th bday present. However, although she was my most favourite being in the world she had a very rare autoimmune disorder ie 1 in 10,000 so every year she cost me $4,645.90 mostly in vet bills although she ate like a queen every month, had her own medium sized room which eventually became a large room as I got a husbun for her and tons of toys etc every month as she was my little Princess. However, I was very lucky that I got lots of pocket money, had a weekend job and I always put my bday and Xmas money into savings for her so all of my money went on her and eventually her husbun before I became an adult and have had a small business and am now very highly paid in the animal industry. I know financially and care wise I got thrown in the deep end but I wish I had pet insurance but I refused to give up on her.

As for snuffles, I wish I knew all about it as when one of my old rabbits going back almost five years ago had it I thought nothing too much of it and by the time I realised it was serious it was too late. Another thing I wish is that I’d have taken her to a rabbit savvy vet rather than a general practice as I think that played a part in things to. Ever since she passed I spent hundreds of dollars on big thick rabbit books all about illness, disease and cure as well as symptoms ie the bug vet books focused solely on rabbit medicine and I also made sure all of my buns were in an exotic rabbit savvy vet practice which costs more but the price is so worth it.

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