Trinket blog~ Project Poo, Mamma is a Bunny Abuser!
Well Buns,
We don’t have any luck yet. This is way harder than we ever thought. Gracie does not want me to have her cecals
Last night Mamma had a talk with G on the dining room table and asked her if she’d help me. Then Mamma did get the diaper on her alright and she sat there for several minutes letting Mamma pet her and she was fine. Mamma even let her wear one the bridal tiaras!! Well then it was time to put her in her house and she just hopped right out of it!
Mamma tired a few more times and even put a Tshirt on her and taped the shirt to the diaper, well that’s when Gracie started to panic a bit. I feel so bad for her and I think Mamma did too. Poor Gracie jumped around a bit and tried to get out of diaper and she couldn’t so then she just lay in her corner panting. That when Mamma almost started to cry and said the hell with this, she didn’t want to traumatize her more.
Several minutes after getting all her gear off, Gracie just hung out on her top level in his house scowling at Mamma but she was quickly fine and returned to her normal self. So like a pit bull with a stick, Mamma decided to gingerly try out a cone on her and see what happened. NOT good
She got in on Ok, but when she tried to hop around in her house naturally it would hang up on stuff and she couldn’t move around good. Gracie managed to get up on her top shelf to rest and then quickly decided she wanted down again, Uh OH, that when it happened, she fell face first and landed with the cone side down and her body sticking straight up in the air, she was stuck like that. Poor thing was shocked and didn’t struggle and Mamma grabbed her so fast I’m not sure if Gracie actually knew what happened. Thank Goodness she was OK, Mamma would never have forgiven herself if she had been hurt. Obviously the collar came off and Mamma decided to think this through a bit more.
Mamma was thinkin about getting cecals from someone else’s bunny, but… who knows what household bacteria they got floating around or what pathogens are naturally present in those buns. I think it would be nice to traumatize someones else’s bun, but Gracie has been my house mate for 5 years and chances are what she’s got or I got, so Mamma thinks this is the safest as this treatment is controversial and potentially dangerous if I were to be compromised with something while I’m already so sick. So she believes if we are going to do this, it has to be Gracie seems her health is immaculate and she and I are as good as sisters (although she already hates me, what’s a few cecals amongst family!!)
So after a bit more reading, apparently buns eat and then for next four hours that’s when they pass the regular poo balls, its in the next four hours that they begin to pass the cecals. So Mamma’s idea is this. Give Gracie a nice feed in the morning and then put the cone on her but put her in a smaller carrier with a nice blankie and some hay. she tired it last night and well although it went well for Gracie, she was calm the whole time and didn’t freak out at all, she didn’t give us any cecals Mamma had her in the carrier for 2 hours. It seems that Gracie could only move around a bit the cone didn’t bother her too much other then when she wanted to wash her face. She kept licking the inside of the cone and wiping the outside with her paw. Mamma will try this method again today, this time she’ll let Gracie wait 6 hours after eating then she’ll go in the carrier with the cone for the last two hours of that 4 hour window of cecal production, maybe we’ll have some luck?
Gracie seems just like normal today, she’s had her salad and now she is enjoying some very tasty hay that Aunti Paula sent us, its a real treat and
Gracie seems to have put all of last night behind her, she didn’t even threaten me this morning!!
OK Kiddies, I forgot to update a few details yesterday. We have given up on the appetite stimulants. Mamma mentioned to Deb she thought it worked that first day but not the second. Deb said it was probably the acupuncture that got me eating for the day, and it always just lasts a day when I do get eating from a treatment. Too bad I couldn’t have acupuncture everyday, then I’d eat every day!! Not very practical I guess and I’d have to become a millionaire to afford it!! Maybe an acupuncturist will adopt me!? We still hold hope this cecal transfaunation so to speak will be what will get me going again. apparently there is an actual procedure where cecals from a healthy bun can be injected into the GI tract via a catheter tube up the butt.I was sent a bit of info about this by another bunny here on bunspace, so I guess our idea is not so crazy. OOh this sounds so scary, I hope eating them will do the trick. But I have to say it is a relief to hear about this though, I think we are on the right track here.
Oh a funny story Aunti sent us a ton of tasty hay again and a few pressies!! Yay, Aunti you spoil me so much!! Anyway the best was the this gorgeous and luxurious fleece tied blankie and Mamma decided to fold it in half and put it in my carrier. Oh boy it is so nice and cozy in there now, I love it!! Well at the vet they got this resident cat Scooter, he’s a big young boy and a bit crazy but he likes me and he tried to steal my salad and crackers. Well yesterday mamma had me crawling on the floor in my diaper while we waiting to get in to see Deb, Scooter went right into my carrier and snuggled down in my new blankie!! I barely had it broken in and there he was!! He refused to get out and he napped in there the whole time I was there, at the end of my appointment Deb pulled him out and before Mamma got me back in, he went back in! OMG that cat is so spoilt!! He has a very nice cushy and comfy bed that was gifted to him by another client and I said to him, OK Scooter, you want my carrier then I’ll trade you for you bed, he said no way!! What a saucy feline!!
OK that’s it for now, sorry these are always so long I’ll let yous know how things go with Gracie this afternoon, we’ll keep our toes crossed for sure. I’ll only need a few of her cecals and I guess I’ll need a few treatments as long as I’m on the antibiotics, Poor Gracie, I wouldn’t want to be her right now. I’m sure she’ll be thinking of a way to report Mamma for her abuse. At least she is getting lots of treats out of the deal and pellets which she hasn’t had in well over a year, you’d think she’d be happy about that!
Poor Gracie, even the tiara didn’t cheer her up!! 
We got a ton of treats and I got the new blankie and this new bunny friend to snuggle with. Hehe the little white bunny hops when you wind him up. Mamma got some seeds to plant for us and a cute little bunny pin and of course she got some treats to share with Daddy~ that is if he’s nice!!
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