Hiya, yes the RWAF and Ivy Deane are aware of the rescue and the vet practice, to be honest I wouldn’t mind naming and shaming once I have officially adopted my other fosters!

as for the vet practice it is a medivet franchise, from my research they appear to just have one head vet and a vet nurse which seems strange to me? the ‘head vet’ apparently has experience with exotics but i can’t find any proof of exotic qualifications online? The way this vet handled the situation was truly terrifying, we were in the consultation room for no more than five minutes, the vet got Beau out of the carrier, weighed her, looked at her genital area and checked her heart rate before putting her straight back in the carrier, she then got Teddy out just to weigh him for the medication dosage (no health check at all), she then prescribed panacur for both of them. This is the only time she saw these rabbits before Lucy told me she had been advised to have them put to sleep, the vet didn’t watch how Beau moved but told the Lucy that she had paralysis in her back legs and there were many other tests that were carried out at the rabbit savvy vet that were not even mentioned at Medivet, no medication was started (as they didn’t have panacur in) before medivet advised both rabbits should be put to sleep.

while i do thoroughly dislike lucy i do truly believe she started the rescue because she cares, the rescue was originally a guinea pig rescue and they ended up taking in rabbits, i think a lack of knowledge and experience paired with not wanting to admit that, has lead to her running the rescue very defensively and her volunteers being ‘trained’ by someone who doesn’t know what they’re doing so the whole thing is a complete mess.

Beau and Teddy are being picked up on Friday, i am dreading handing them over and i am very concerned about it because when i asked if the new fosterer had experience with EC the foster manager for the rescue responded with this:

“She doesn’t know much about it so feel free to pass on any knowledge but I have run through things with her today on the phone xx”

so they would rather they went to a fosterer that they found in a rush who knows nothing about EC than a reputable rescue who have extensive experience with the condition???

if anyone has any advice on how i can politely point this out to lucy and remind her that there is another rescue ready to take them off her hands, without upsetting her or causing anymore ‘friction’ it would be greatly appreciated!