Buttons is getting a lot of love lately, and he is lapping it up. He has now decided that he loves pats. When he sees you coming, he crouches down and sucks his head into his shoulders, going all squishy and flat. This is what we call the pat face.
Pat face is his form of communicating with us that he wants pats. He loves being patted now and it’s hard to believe that he didn’t like being patted when he was younger.
This photo was taken after a face-scrubble, which he loves. His whole head fits in your hand and you rub your fingers around his head. The more you massage his whole head, the more flat he becomes.
It’s Buttons’ Vaccination Time of Year
I organised Button’s Filavac jab. It has been over 6 months since he got the Cylap in October 2022, and that’s about the recommended time before he can get the new Filavac.
I called lots of different vets and get the price of the vaccination. Of course, they were all different prices:
Watch Out!
I phoned the Inverloch Animal Doc back a couple of days later to double check the price. Luckily, I got another lady who said the $96 appointment is for a dog vaccination, not a bunny. They had to order the Filavac in, but they had Cylap.
Double check whether the vet actually has the correct vaccine and is charging you for a bunny, not a dog or cat.
Even some exotic pet vets have to order in the Filavac because they want to get rid of their Cylap stock.
I ended up booking Buttons in for his Filavac vaccine for Monday 22nd, May, at the Gippsland Veterinary Group at the Inverloch branch, because I wanted the closest appointment, and the closest vet.
Let’s Go! In the Car….
Buttons concertinaed himself into the tiniest ball in the back of his carry box. So much so, that I had to unscrew all of the silly little bolt-things to get him out.
The “seen-everything-and-done-everything” vet helped me unscrew the bolt-things and looked at this teensy white bunny scrunched in the back of his box. I picked him up and put him on the scales. He weighed 3.4kg. She then did a general health check on him: thermometer up his butt, looked in his ears, checked his teeth.
He lunged forward and gave her a toothy warning shot, to which she said “Golly, they are fast.”
I thought, “Only if they don’t like you – you’re a vet after all.”
She then grabbed a clump of skin behind his neck and gave him the Filavac injection. It was 0.5ml of a dark peachy coloured fluid. He didn’t even feel it.
$167 later, he was done.
Once we got home he bounced out of his carry box and went straight to his litter box. He was thrilled to be home.