Poor, poor Tyra

I don't think Tyra will survive the night.

I took Mori out to a yarn shop to find some roving, and left the dogs inside. When I came back, Tyra's cage was on the floor without her in it. The dogs were all crowded behind the futon, which is where I looked first (after throwing them out). At first she wasn't moving and her neck was covered in blood. I thought she was dead, but she was breathing.

I checked over the rest of her body and although she seemed a little limp, she wasn't bleeding anywhere else, so I went ahead and moved her (with an improvised box-lid stretcher) so I could look better.

It *looks* like there's just one big chunk missing out of her neck. Nothing serious (at a glance) because it's not gushing and I can't see anything but the skin wound. I stuck her in the sink and rinsed it off, and it looked okay. I thought she was just a little tramatized. I put her in with Legacy to calm her down, and was hoping that he would clean the wound.

He is helping her. He's cleaning up the wound. But she's not doing good. She's very lethargic, hasn't eaten or drank anything. Her ears are always back, and she sways. Her tail looks 'broken' which makes me think that one of the dogs hit her from behind. I also now think she has some sort of internal damage and internal bleeding.

We'll see how long she lasts, but I would be very surprised if she lasts through the night. She's cuddled up to Legacy and he's cleaning her up, so maybe that will help - keep her warm, fed, and try to keep out infection... but if she's got internal hemorraging, well, there's nothing we can do... I wish I knew. If she's going to die, I could at least make it swift so she wouldn't be in hours of pain.

Tyra and Legacy

I picked up two new rabbits today, French Angoras (although I learned that Legacy is an English/French Angora cross). The girl I talked to about them was very nice, and said she didn't have time for them because of a 'new' baby. I assumed 'new' meant a month at the most, so I was thinking that she probably took really good care of these rabbits before she had the baby.

BOY was I WRONG. First off, the 'new' baby is five months. Second off, these rabbits are... horrible. Oh, the beauty of their coats is one thing. They both seem to produce very thick, fine wool. But they're half-starved, they haven't been brushed in god-knows-when, they were being fed alfalfa pellets (BIG no-no with Angoras, can cause intestines to block up when mixed with their wool from grooming). They were in the same cage (8mo doe and a 2yr buck) because the previous owners think she's too young to breed (Angoras hit maturity from 4-6mo of age... in fact, they HAVE to be bred before 1yr because their pelvis bones fuse at 1yr.).
So this poor doe might already be bred. I put them in seperate cages just in case, but I felt around earlier and felt what could be kits in her belly.

Meanwhile, her mats are skin-deep. I've been combing for two hours now, and have gotten four freezer bags of wool. There are still millions of mats, and I haven't even started on her rear-end.
The male is so malnurished that he's got bald spots. You can feel their spine, each individual bone. Their ribs are sticking out of their bellies.

I feel so bad for them. And they both have show-blood in them.