The Rabbit Owner's CD
All you need to know to choose and care for your companion pet rabbit
The most comprehensive rabbit care and healthcare CD available - a 'must' for all companion pet rabbit owners.
Fully cross-referenced throughout with an easy-to-navigate format.
Photographs and Video used throughout.
Sample Screenshots from the CD
Chapters include:
- Summary of Basic Rabbit Care
- Overview of Pet Bunnies
- Introduction to Rabbit Physiology
- Choosing your Pet Rabbit
- Where to Buy From - and Why...
- Signs to look for when adopting your bunny
- Deciding whether to adopt a male or female (or both)
- Breed Sizes - photographs and descriptions of different popular breeds
- Coat Colours - photographs and descriptions of some popular colours
- Handling your bunny - how to pick up a bunny illustrated via video
- Housing your bunny
- Making your own hutch and run
- Feeding your bunny
- Equipment needed to care for your bunny
- Exercise Run
- House and Litter-training
- Grooming
- Fitting a Lead & Harness
- Going for a Walk/Run
- Rabbit Health and Illness - with treatment tips
- Bunny Behaviour
- Advice on Castration/Spaying
- Bonding a Group of Bunnies
HEALTHCARE TIPS AND INFORMATION
How to identify and treat a range of common illnesses - many are illustrated by photographs and/or video:-
- a 'normal' poo and caecoptroph pellet - signs of good health!
- claw-clipping
- identifying eye-infections & administering eye drops
- removing excess fur
- furballs
- gastric stasis
- mucoid enteropathy
- checking hydration/dehydration
- pasteurella
- skin problems (including mites)
- moulting
- sore hocks
- abscess
- fly strike
- E. cuniculi
- vaccinations required
- symptoms of myxomatosis (typical and atypical)
14 "How To'' Videos* show:
- what to look for when adopting a young, baby bunny
- how to give your bunny a daily health-check
- how to identify signs of dehydration
- how to pick up and roll your bunny onto his back
- how to groom your bunny
- how to check teeth for malocclusion
- how to give a nose-rub!
- how to give a shoulder massage!
*These are WMV files and require Windows Media Player included with all editions of Microsoft Windows. They might not play on an Apple-Mac computer.
Illustrative photographs and video clips show how to:-
- pick up and hold a bunny
- sex a bunny
- roll a bunny onto his/her back
- clip claws
- administer eye drops
- fit a lead/harness
- take your bunny for a walk - or run!
- groom your bunny to remove excess fluff
- identify skin complaints and signs of moulting
- check for health problems (teeth, eyes, hydration, mites, sore hocks, abscesses...)