ravgonfly

Let me tell you the tale of my day yesterday. So I have the cutest rabbit in the world, Guildenstern or Gil for short, he's about 6 years old now and for some reason he has decided that this is the year that all random ailments that rabbits can get, he is going to have. Not so fun for me...trust me...giving medicine to a rabbit is not the easiest task in the world. Lately though he has been scratching off all the hair from his stomach and legs and now looks REALLY pathetic, so I took him to the vet to find out if he was having issues or if he was just being a brat and doing it cause I had been keeping him locked up in his cage instead of letting him run around his room. For some strange reason, I have this aversion to putting animals in pet carriers unless I absolutely have to. (I think its cause I took my last rabbit to the vet in one and she had to be put down, so its just a weird brain association thing.) Being the wonderful creature that he is, Gil decided that he needed to pee on me, and let me tell you...rabbit pee is pretty damn rank, before we even made it in the door to the vet. This was the day of course that there was an emergency surgery that the vet that I was going to see had to do, so it was about a 45 minutes wait. She then came in, did the exam, thought he probably had mites, did a skin scraping thing, and went to check. For some reason they decided that when they did actually find a mite they needed to show it to me. I guess its really just so I can sympathize with the poor guy cause those things are NASTY looking. So I get home take a shower and then have to remove the rug in his room, scrub the floor, put a new rug down, and then its time to give him a bath. Yeah, you know how people always complain when they have to give their cats a bath...well rabbits are kind of the same story except their claws are thicker and they will sometimes calm down for short periods just to get you off your guard before they freak out again. In order to get rid of the mites, I then had to give him a lye-sulphur dip. That is some nasty shit. It turned his skin and my fingernails yellow and smelled like complete ass. Needless to say he was pissed off and decided to start shaking the stuff everywhere...not a fun evening.

Random thought...you can only see the very tip of your nose if you look in a mirror. I don't know why I was thinking about that yesterday, but it wouldn't leave me head so now I give it to others to think about.