House Rabbit Society Rabbit Conference 2008

This past weekend, Joey, Tiffany and I went attended the House Rabbit Society’s 13th annual Rabbit Conference held in New Rochelle, NY.  It was a conference for vets and pet owners to learn more about our rabbit friends.  There was a medical lecture followed by a panel of rabbit vets speaking about the different health issues that could befall a rabbit.  After the lunch break and some shopping in the make-shift market, there were demonstrations on difficult bunny bonding, how to take a rabbit’s temperature, how to sex a bunny, how to syringe feed a bunny and bunny acupuncture.

Jewelry stand at the Conference where Tiffany bought a beautiful rabbit bracelet

This geriatric rabbit had severe arthritis in his hind quarters and needed the use of a custom wheelchair to aid him in walking around (more on him later)

Tiffany won the last raffle prize of the day.  It was an ugly rabbit bucket with an assortment of miniature purell hand cleaners

HRS volunteer teaching me an alternate way of syringe feeding bunnies.

Acupuncture session.  This bunny was the one depicted above in the wheelchair.  They claim that bi-weekly acupuncture treatments in conjunction with Chinese herbal medicines help to relieve the pain of arthritis in the bunny.