Day 19

With some help from the vet, we have tentatively identified the babies as does.  This could be wrong as they are still very young but Drew named them anyway.

Grace

Breeze

The boys took Breeze to the vet on Tuesday because the vet thought it was probably an infection on her leg.  We have been giving her antibiotics twice a day plus a warm compress five minutes twice a day.  The lump was not showing improvement so I called the vet again on Saturday and took her in to have a sample of the fluid in the lump cultured and to get a laser treatment.  The lump does seem smaller today.  She has full use of the leg and accepts her treatment without a fuss so we hope that she is better soon.  

The babies are eating food with Mom now.

And they pose for pictures.

Drew and I are headed for a weekend in Iowa visiting family so we had two friends come today to learn how to take care of the bunnies while we are gone.  Everyone was on their best behavior.  Lizzie and Cherry were very polite and went out for exercise without a fuss and then jumped back into their cages when exercise time was over.  Lizzie showed her feisty side a little by pushing at them with her front paws and hissing at them.  She never wants to go in the carrier but she behaves once she's in there.  She did herd the babies behind her to protect them when a stranger wanted to get his hands on her.  She did the same thing when she saw Otis outside her cage yesterday.  He had sneaked in behind me when I went in the enclosure and was looking at the babies.  I shooed him out but not before Lizzie had gotten them into the corner behind her.  Very good mama!