Baby Blue Bee Bunnies would like to enter Behemoth.
For those who have followed their journey, Bunzilla & Behemoth are a sibling pair of giant continentals who have been with us for one whole year in rescue while we looked for a forever home for them. We also have their other brother, Bigwig who is also looking for a forever home.
It took us almost a year to find them a forever home, as finding homes for giants of this size is not easy. Sadly, they did not make it there.
Behemoth started to develop mobility issues in his foster home with his front legs. Sadly he had to come back to the rescue. After veterinary investigations were done, he was diagnosed with a severe type of arthritis that is eating him away on the inside due to his size. He is now paralysed and has no front leg mobility, his neck, shoulders and elbows are completely worn away and it is working its way down his spine. He is quite literally, wasting away.
Behemoth is the largest giant we've had at the rescue. What has breeding rabbits of this sheer unnatural size done to him? Caused him to suffer. To be on palliative care at 2 and a half years old is heartbreaking and so unnecessary. Can we STOP creating these ridiculously big rabbits whose hearts and joints cannot cope under the pressure of their weight?? Who live a short life and have nothing but health problems??
What's to be of Behemoth and his sister? We have him on an intense care regime for pain management, with 3 different meds 3 times daily and physiotherapy. They now have a specially adapted set up. He is depressed, and we know he has limited time left. Finding a home for them now seems an impossibility, when we couldn't find them a home when they were 'healthy'.
We have had to accept they may be with us until their last day, as sanctuary buns. Not what we hoped for them at the rescue.
This has been incredibly difficult for us to come to terms with at the rescue. Watching him deteriorate, depressed and unable to enjoy his life the same. They were days away from getting adopted, and now they may never be able to leave. They are our priority and we will not give up on them, no matter what they need.
He will continue to get the best of veterinary care and all the love and attention we can give him.
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Sue Gibson, on Flickr
), you have until midnight on 31st December to get your entries in here. Entries can only be accepted from the Rescues/Sanctuaries that Pledge a Pound supports, and must be placed as a reply to this thread.
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We have had to accept they may be with us until their last day, as sanctuary buns. Not what we hoped for them at the rescue.
He will continue to get the best of veterinary care and all the love and attention we can give him.
