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April 25, 2003
(Posted
04/28/2003 07:05 PM -0500,
by Karen)

Well, we made it! We're in Kalamazoo.

Right across from hotel.
Drove around the hotel four times, but
we finally looked to our left and saw it! It's a great place, and the
local club has done a beautiful job with it.
Most of my rabbits have done a pretty
good job keeping their coats, and 90% of their meat condition.
Anne-Marie's doe, Onyx, decided that that was too much trouble. Her
fur's so dead that when you stroke it back, it stays pointing towards her
head. It wasn't that bad a few days ago.

Showroom, which is downstairs of hotel.
Great Mini Lop fact that I picked up
today... there are two main types of fur mites (which a lot of us knew), and
one of them simply eats through the hair shaft. The easiest way to
take care of that is lather the rabbit up in baby oil, and let it sit.
You will have a small diarrhea problems the following day (from the rabbit
trying to lick off the oil), but that will have drowned the mites off.
(Thanks to Alice Howman for that piece of info)
I spent most of the day meeting up with
old friends, and Anne-Marie made new. So, we're off now to get some
sleep for tomorrow's judging.

Kelly Hansen (left) and Jeanine Schaffer
(right), the beloved Secretaries!

The Show Superintendents (and Larry Walthorn,
far left)
-Karen
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