Transferring a Rex Rabbit's Clinical History
Tell your current practice the new address immediately, and if distance makes it impractical, register with a rabbit-confident vet near the new home and ask for the complete record to follow. For a Rex, the history that matters most is feet and weight: any sore-hock episodes and how they healed, the bedding and flooring management that kept them at bay, weight trend, dental notes, and previous gut trouble, all with dates. Add the new practice's out-of-hours emergency arrangements to the file, with the clinic address written out, and confirm the transfer was received. Retain the old practice's details in the record marked as former, in case of travel back.
Insurance, Contacts, and the Emergency Sheet
Amend the address on insurance paperwork without a gap in cover, update boarding and sitter-service records, and reprint the emergency contact plan for the new address with helpers whose response time still works from the new location. Replace the carrier's address label and correct any registration or identification records in your name. Distribute the new plan to every helper and ask for the old one to be destroyed, so no one drives to the previous house in a crisis. Note access details for the new home — key holders, key-safe, alarm — beside the contacts, since a plan that gets a helper to the door but not inside only half works.
Flooring and Bedding Facts the New House Dictates
Rex feet turn the new home's floors into a paperwork item: record which rooms have hard or slippery flooring, where you have laid rugs or mats in the rabbit's area, and how deep bedding is kept in the pen or hutch at the new address. A sitter reading the updated sheet should learn the standard to maintain, not invent one. Note hay, pellet, and litter storage locations in the new house, the exercise area and its boundaries, and any hazards found on arrival such as wire flooring left by a previous owner, which a Rex should not be kept on. Add the move date to the health log with a fortnight of appetite, droppings, and hock checks, so settling changes are documented.
A First Fortnight of Foot and Appetite Checks
Give the Rex's new-home record a practical rhythm: a brief hock glance every few days, appetite and droppings noted daily for the first fortnight, and a weight at the end of the second week compared against the last old-home reading. New flooring is the variable that matters most for this breed, and only dated checks show whether the rugs and bedding you laid are doing their job. If redness appears, the log shows exactly when it started relative to the move, which is the first thing the new practice will ask. That fortnight of entries converts moving-house paperwork into active health monitoring.
Bringing Every Copy Into Line
Close the move admin by checking every holder of the rabbit's details — sitter, emergency helper, boarding service, family contacts — has the new address and the revised care sheet, and has discarded the old versions. Walk a new helper over the flooring and bedding setup once, explaining why the Rex standard matters, rather than leaving it as unexplained fussiness. Complete the update within the first month so the file never describes two homes at once. Filing the transferred history, refreshed contacts, and new-home notes together in KinsLe via Pet Passport keeps your Rex's packet accurate wherever it is needed next.