It's a boy!

We took the rabbit down to the vet today.  We haven't really ever been a user of the services of a veterinarian before, so we simply went to the closest one.  The experience was quite painless, I rang up and asked whether they had dealt with rabbits a lot, whereupon they said yes, and I asked what sort of vaccinations are recommended.

Apparently you cannot get vaccination against myxomatosis in Australia, and it's quite a rare event anyway.  However you certainly can get vaccination against rabbit calicivirus, which our bunny has now udergone.  We also got the vet to give it a once-over and checkup.

Firstly, we must report it's a boy.  Fairly obvious when you know where to look, in fact.  It's probably a year or two old judging by his teeth, and almost certainly full-grown.  He was very brave when injected with the vaccine, and seemed quite unperturbed by what would have hurt a bit.  In fact he's a very active and curious rabbit in general, always investigating and looking out for things.

The cost for the visit to the vet and vaccination was $49.60, which as a prolific consumer of medical services, seems to be quite reasonable.  We had a large budgie cage to transport him down to the vet and back, which we formerly used as a holiday cage for the rats.  The unsuitability of it came to the fore as we were leaving the vets, and the bottom fell out of the cage completely.  Fortunately he was well-behaved and I was able to pick him up before he went gallavanting around the floor in the waiting room of the vets.  When we exited the front door, a family had a nice-looking dog waiting for attention, who proceeded to growl at the rabbit.  Probably just as well there were no greyhounds in at the time!

He is still un-named.  Given that he's a male himalayan rabbit, are there any suggestions from you, dear readers?  We were thinking perhaps something geographical from the region.  We were thinking of "Katie" after the mountain K2, but this was, of course, before we found out she was a he.  Thinking caps on, please!