LRS Doe 2

FOR SALE: $60 pedigreed --- ON HOLD for Lenny
Double Maned Black Torte Lionhead Doe
Cimmaron Lola Rockstar X Cimmaron Secret Agent Langley

This doe is very sweet, and eager to please.  She is friendly, and loves attention.  Her face is just adorable, and her little ears are placed just right.  She has nice, wider, rounded hindquarters, and even shoulders (do not seem pinched).  I think she'd be wonderful to show, but she would also be a wonderful brood doe.  Her mother is an excellent mother, and did everything perfectly her first time!  I personally believe this instinct is genetic, and it's wonderful to not loose your first litters.  This little doe is just a sweet little teddy bear!

LRS Doe 1

FOR ADOPTION (Pet Only) --- free to the PERFECT home
Double Maned Black Torte Doe
Cimmaron Lola Rockstar x Cimmaron Secret Agent Langley

This sweetheart is available to a PET home only.  She is blind in her left eye.  She needs to live the life of an adored house rabbit.  She is very trusting, and loves to snuggle.  She isn't fearful or jumpy, rather she is very calm and peaceful.  She has been wonderful in helping my kids do their reading homework, since she is content to sit on their laps, and "listen" as they read aloud.  She will need to be spayed around 6 months.

LRS Buck 2

FOR SALE - $60 w/ pedigree - ON HOLD for Lenny
Double Maned Black Torte Buck
Cimmaron Lola Rockstar x Cimmaron Secret Agent Langley

What's striking about this buck is his vibrant coloring.  He's a black torte, like his siblings, but he has a very bright orange to his coat.  He has always been the smallest in the litter, but he is very curious and outgoing. He is the boss of the nest box. His ears are quite small, and he has a very nice face!  His hindquarters are nice, though his shoulder area seems a tiny bit narrow.  He will likely stay very small like his father - a good addition to a breeding program.  His coloring and handsome face may do quite well on the show table - he certainly loves attention!









For any questions, or to place this Dustbunny on hold, please email us

LRS Buck 1

FOR SALE: $60 w/ full Pedigree
Double Maned Black Torte Buck

Cimmaron Lola Rockstar X Cimmaron Secret Agent Langley

This little guy is a sweetheart.  He's the largest of the kits, but still on the small side for a Lionhead.  He has a nice frame, and nice hindquarters - his shoulders seem very even with his frame (not pinched).  His ears will be well within standard - his sire's ears are tiny!  He was very cooperative with attempting to pose ... just attempting to cooperate at 4 weeks is promising!  Now to see how his mane develops ... then on to the show tables!

For any questions, or to place this Dustbunny on hold, please email us.

Lola Rockstar's Litter, 4 weeks!

Lola's kits are just as cute as can be.  I am in love with them all!

They are all tortes - and it seems we have 2 bucks and 2 does.

One of the does has an undeveloped eye on the left side.  She is blind on that side, but her special needs are nothing when you meet her amazingly sweet personality!  God made her one of the sweetest baby bunnies I've ever seen!  She is just something special.

Okay, so enough of the talk ... here's pictures!









Lil blind bunny on left, snuggling with her sister:


The Does:

Lola Rockstar's Litter, Day 12

Aren't they cuties?! 4 gorgeous Tortes.  One has a major bright orange tint!

Their mama is doing awesome:

We have Lola and her babies inside the house for now.  I know that they have fur coats, and the ability to stay warm, but I'm such a wimp, and figure if I'm cold, the babies need to be inside!  Once they have more fur, I may acclimate them back out to the garage ... maybe.

Kwikspell died

Our sweet little Kwikspell died.  She has been up in the master bathroom, so I could keep a very close eye on her.  We've been treating her with meds, exercise, and physical therapy, and she seemed to be recovering (very slowly) from wry neck.

This morning, she was hopping around me, when she had a seizure.  Such a scary thing to watch.

After her seizure she passed away, while I sat there with her.

She was a gorgeous Cimmaron Lionhead, and will be missed fiercely.  We have a buck from her last litter (Zorro), and plan on getting her doe back to carry on her mother's awesome legacy.

Wry neck is so very sad, and I am researching it as much as possible.  I am peaceful about Kwikspell's passing, knowing that I tried everything, and gave her the best chance I could.


In good news, the kits from Lola Rockstar are all gorgeous and doing so very well!

Lola Rockstar's Litter, Day 4

Kwikspell's Kits

DOB: 10/09/2009

4 days old:

Three are looking gray-brown, and one is looking very orange.
It will be so fun to watch them develop!

A note about Wry Neck

Our wry neck experience with Kwikspell has been very hard, and also very educational.  We are still in the middle of the experience, so I'll share more as we learn and research.  


In our initial post about Wry Neck/Torticollis, we talked about the medications we were using.  What we failed to understand was the major need for PHYSICAL THERAPY.  The medication only stops the progression of whatever is causing the wry neck, it doesn't help the bunny recover from the Torticollis trouble.  You have to work with your rabbit, trying all sorts of remedies and physical therapies until you find what works with your rabbit.  


We also thought that the Wry Neck was a fast treated disease.  Perhaps that assumption came due to the sudden onset we experienced with Kwikspell.  Since it came on VERY quickly, we assumed that treatment would cause it to go away quickly also.  


Wry neck can take a very long time to recover from.  BUT - bunnies CAN RECOVER, even if it doesn't happen right away.


I received these links from my friend Brandy, and they helped me learn more about Kwikspell's condition.
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Neurology/head_tilt.htm
http://www.bio.miami.edu/hare/tilt.html (Treatments)
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=18+1803&aid=2371
They are very helpful.  


I also recieved a forward from my friend Jody.  She had emailed a friend of hers, asking for help for my bunny. this information from her friend, Kim:
She will roll, that is part of the imbalance. I usually hold them till they quite flopping around and them put them on thier feet again. The meds are only going to stop the progression. The other half is therapy, lots of free roaming excersise. The rabbit needs to relearn how to rebalalnce the crystals in her ears that tell her what is up, down, ect.
She will fall over, flop around,and have a head tilt till she gets things righted in her system again.
the meds stop the progression of her getting worse,THey are not going to make her look normal over night.  however it will take months for her to get looking normal again. Excersise is the big thing.
Keep her hydrated, might consided a lid to a jar for water, something she can reach. Give plenty of hay, lots of times they came figure out out how to eat that.

One of the links from Brandy said this:

The bottom line is this: treatment for head tilt caused by an ear infection is not only possible, but often very successful. It might take a lot of patience, and a realization that rabbits do not mourn over what might have been, nor what the future might hold. If your rabbit is willing to survive the moment, is eating and drinking and showing affection, and interest in life (however dizzily), s/he deserves a chance to heal. It is so rewarding to see a head tilt bunny race and frolic like a normal bunny, even if it takes several months of treatment and love.

That statement from the article really helped me.

A link in that article, led me HERE - which gave a suggestion for what to do for physical therapy.


Another thing I read (I will add the link if I can find it) was that letting the bunny have some time to walk around an open area (grass was suggested), they will begin to walk, in circles, and falling often, but the more they are able to TRY to walk, the sooner they will be ABLE to walk.  I need to find my reference, because the article was really well written in layman's terms.  I'll look for it, then post it.


We'll continue to keep you posted on Kwikspell's condition.

Kwikspell today:

Kwikspell is still a sad looking little bunny She can't feed herself pellets, and she's lost a significant amount of weight (2/3 a pound ... from a two and a half pound bunny). But, she's eating when I feed her, and drinking enough water to pee. I've been reading as much as possible today, and received emails from several other breeders, who have asked more of their breeder friends what I can try. I've been massaging her, and doing minor PT, but I'd try to let her walk, and she would fall over, and keep flipping from the vertigo. It was so sad. This evening, I syringe fed her, then coaxed her to walk a little on the carpet in the family room. After a few minutes, she decided to hop around. She would try to hop straight, and end up going in a pitiful circle - but she wasn't falling over! She kept trying. She's been working on it for the past hour. She rests for 2-3 minutes, then hops. She has now hopped the entire perimiter of the family, dining, and kitchen rooms. She has "rolled" twice, but got herself up both times after just a couple of tries. She hops for 2-3 minutes, rests for 2-3 minutes. BUT, she's hopping! Her head does from slightly tilted to extremely turned. After a couple minutes of serious hopping, or after she fell, her neck was really sideways for a bit. But after resting, her neck looks almost normal. She's even groomed herself a couple times. She just hopped across the room (15 feet) in about 4 seconds. She's gaining speed, and control. I am so very happy. This means she has a chance of making it! I am so relieved and happy (*happy tears*) All I needed today was to know she had a chance :yahoo:


I've got some pictures from this evening - some from the beginning of "physical therapy", and some an hour and a half later. Let me know if YOU think that she's starting to look better ...  


The beginning - I actually took pictures because she was looking so much better than earlier today (when her head was almost contorted upside down) - She's my bunny that ADORES the camera. She sees the camera, or a flash, and poses in place, so I figured the camera would only help her feel better about herself, lol!

An hour and a half later, after free roaming to her heart's content:





Then she decided the photoshoot was getting boring:









She goes back and forth from looking way better, to looking miserable again, but she's actually drinking her own water from a dish - and I finally have hope!!!

Kwikspell, the sick little bunny

Poor little Kwikspell,  her head is so far twisted, it makes my neck hurt just to see her.  While she LOOKS awful, she is behaving much healthier.  She was sitting carefully and quietly in the corner, not eating or drinking ... she was rather listless.

We've been syringe feeding her three times a day.  This morning, she ate SIX 6cc syringes of watered down mushed pellets, in addition to THREE 6cc syringes of fresh water.

In the middle of the night, my sweet husband couldn't sleep, so he got up and fed her 4 syringes of water.  How I adore my hubby - what a sweet demonstration of his love for me, to get up at 2 am and give my sick bunny extra water.

While she LOOKS worse, I think behavior is half the battle with a sick bunny (and sick kids!), and little Kwikspell is beginning to act more like herself.  Now I just hope and pray that her little neck can straighten out soon.

Lola Rockstar's Litter

We were due for some happy bunny moments!

Lola Rockstar kindled 4 beautiful little kits around 11:30pm last night (Oct 9th).  She got her nestbox all lined with fur, and has been a very attentive mama since the little ones arrived.



The kits weren't too cooperative - they were major wiggle-bugs!  Healthy, and active :)

Rough Day for the bunnies

This morning was quite cold. We have been expecting our 3 does to kindle this weekend. The bred does were Kwikspell, Lola Rockstar, and Princess Lulu, all due this weekend.

Princess Lulu went early this morning. She had the kits on the wire, and I haven't been feeling well, so I slept through the night without checking on her. We found four kits - one on the wire, and three had gotten out of the wire, and fallen to the ground. We lost all four. They looked perfect, and were all BEWs. I cried for quite a while. I don't handle loss very well.

We decided to move our does inside while they kindle. It's not freezing, but I didn't want to take any more chances with our kits.

In transferring our precious Kwikspell, my husband laughed ... she was behaving very oldly. I pulled her out, and my heart sunk. She had the beginning signs of wry neck (torticollis). We quarantined her, and began treatment: 2 types of wormers, now we have 5 days of biomycin, then 5 days of PennG. On day 7, we will do another round of the wormers.  I noticed the tilted neck at 8 am, and now, at 11am, her neck is almost tilted sideways.  It's heart breaking to see, but much of what I have read suggests that it is highly treatable.  We can hope and pray for our little Kwikspell.

Here's just my notes for MY REFERENCE.  If your rabbit has wry neck, please seek the care of a rabbit savvy veterinarian - ASAP.

Wry Neck:  Ear Infection?  (parasite infection?)

ALL STUFF AVAILABLE AT IFA (we had Biomycin on hand, everything else cost a total of $27)

Give

Ivomec  (horse wormer)

+

Kitten or Puppy Wormer

Day 1 Start Biomycin  (Make sure it is NOT expired)

A lot ---- (a least 1/2 cc or 3/4 cc)

5 days

accompany with Pea size of ProBios

Day 6 Start Penicillin G

A lot ---- (a least 1/2 cc or 3/4 cc)

5 days

pea size of probios

Day 7 - worm again.

Day 10 to  3 months ... hopefully better!

Some Reference Links:

Barbi Brown's Page on Wry Neck
Pet Eduction Article
University of Miami Torticollis Article
House Rabbit Society Article


What your bunny may look like with major Wry Neck:

That is what Kwikspell looks like now at 11 am.

Early today, she looked very slightly tilted:

Her head was slightly tilted - the way I knew was when I held her on her back, or turned her, she wouldn't turn her head the other direction.  My suspicion began when she stood on her hind legs in her cage, and fell backwards violently.  She was too dizzy, and her eye was bulging a little.  In just 3 hours, her condition has worsened dramatically.  I'm pretty worried about her.

Introducing:

This handsome buck is our new BEW! He arrives tomorrow.

Introducing Wren's Leroy:




Photo Courtesy of Wren's Sweetheart Bunnies Rabbitry

Show Results

My 8 year old took "BOB" in the youth show, with our new little buck Zorro:

and my 6 year old took BOS with her Blue Doe.

We also won BOV with Lola Rockstar (black torte)

It was a fun show.