Rabbit and Weather

I am so far behind in posting the goings on at the Sanctuary. We have lots going on, sort of. But I can't seem to find the time for some reason. I don't think my mind is totally in gear yet and it's been almost four months since our girl was born. I'm still going with the excuse of baby brain.


So I called the vet to make an appointment for Rabbit. She's been off on her right front leg for awhile now. She won't let you pick it up and I refuse to fight her. When she came up lame, I was still not able to do much heavy lifting and wasn't willing to fight her. But she's gotten bad. She can't travel so the vet is coming to us. I don't particularly like that method because it costs more but in this case, it's the only way. We'll have to tranquilizer Rabbit and lay her down. I need to dig out her blanket and probably double blanket her so she doesn't get chilled. Need to go in search of those heavy canvas blankets besides her normal blanket.


I'm hoping that it's something simple that can be fixed. I don't think it's an abscess. It's been too long in the making. I hope that it's nothing that I could have fixed on my own. I'm afraid that her not letting me pick up her foot is part of the problem. I'm not willing to fight her and make matters worse.


But while I have the vet out, I'll have him do a quick once over of Mayhem as well. I know the prognosis on Mayhem is the $1000 surgery rather than the $400 surgery. That's her luck.


Once we get Rabbit fixed up, I want to move Lace over. She's finally calmed down. Her pen is all torn up and I can't figure out if she's stumbling and very cautious because the ground is uneven or if she's coming up lame after running and chasing Mayhem all the time. That back leg is still swollen and I'm not sure if her right knee is giving her problems now or not. No one ever mentioned anything about her big knee but I guess we'll just play it by ear for a little while longer.


I want Rabbit healthy before I introduce Lace to the herd. I'm not sure Lace is ready yet. I think her anger stemmed from food. I don't want to risk Junior getting hurt or being intimidated by a bossy mare. He's already intimidated by Rabbit.


And while talking with the vet, we decided on Tuesday for the appointment. But as she said, we'll have to play it by ear because of the weather. Weather?!?!? I heard a rumor that we were to get snow Monday and/or Tuesday but I had no idea that it could possibly complicate things. I need to start paying attention to the weather now...now that it's officially winter.


I am not ready to constantly monitor the temperatures and upcoming snow storms. I've turned a blind eye to everything so far in hopes that we'll have an open winter. I guess I need to stop with that thinking and start paying attention.


At least today is the shortest day of the year. I'm so far behind that I don't even know where to start these days. By the time I get the kids put down for the night, I'm wiped out and can't even get to the things that desperately need to get done. I guess for now, we'll continue to fly by the seat of our pants and hope that things get done.