Please tell others; this is important, please !!!
Rabbits are awesome pets; we never knew we could have killed our most beloved pet.
Rabbits are timid critters and we used to put our rabbit onto his to cut his nails claws, he seemed to sort of go stiff and into a sleep trance state; now we find MANY articles saying the last thing most rabbits experience in nature is to be thrown onto their backs before death. (Tonic immobility) = fear motivated defense mechanism...
Think of a plane full of people, most experts now agree that most of the people die from heart attacks etc. long before the plane hits the earth, terrain...
Please read the following authoritative article about how deadly putting a rabbit onto its back can be...
http://www.rabbitsonline.net/showthread.php?t=74428
The dangers of "trancing" Please read.
OK so I was attending the monthly class given by Chris Norland who is a very respected women in our local house bunny community. She is a registered nurse (humans) and an excellent bunny specialist her in Washington. OK so during her class she told a story about the dangers of trancing your rabbit. She explained that laying a bun flat on its back to "trance" it is actually the top level of "fear stage" for your bunny. Predators will throw a bun on its back and that bunny will just give up or "trance". Her example was a very recent story about a three year old buck who was "tranced" by a groomer who was not rabbit savvy. The perfectly healthy bunny who had been given regular vet care and good treatment went into cardiac arrest and died in the groomers arms. This happened from the sheer fear level of being put on his flat back or "tranced"...Please do not try to trance your bun or let anyone else try. Spread the word and thanks for reading.
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Good advice.
they are prey animals so it is a mechanism that helps them deal with possibly dying.
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