MinDearie
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Hello all,
I have two male rabbits, Trick and Treat. My original intention was to have the two of them neutered together, but Trick has been fighting an upper respiratory infection (talked about in another thread), and Treat has been getting pretty hormonal (spraying and humping his cage-mate), so the vet and I decided to go ahead with Treat's neuter.
My husband brought him to the vet this morning, and I brought him home this afternoon. I set up him up in a pen with a low litter pan, pellets, water, hay, and toys in a cool quiet room downstairs so he can take it easy.
He seemed to be getting around pretty well, so I left him be. I returned to give him his pain meds, and noticed he hadn't eaten much of his pellets, so I sat with him and tried to get him to eat a bit. For some reason he ate a few of the compressed paper pellets I use in his litter box (just the ones he kicked outside the liter pan), so I sprinkled pellets on the floor in the same spot, and he nibbled on that for awhile. He pecks a bit at his hay, and he took a few nibbles of spinach, so that was promising. Hopefully by morning he will have made some headway on the pellets.
What REALLY concerns me though, is he started nosing around "down there" while I sat with him. I tried to get his attention to make him stop, fearing he was messing with his incision (glued closed), but he pretty much ignored me until I gently lifted his head. I only did this because as he was nosing around, he wobbled a little unsteadily, and I was afraid he was hurting himself. I lifted his head up twice, and each time, he kinda hopped up and looked at me like "OUCH!" So I stopped futzing with him, and admittedly teared up a bit. :'( I'm HOPING he's just eating cecals. He stopped messing with himself and seemed to settle down, so I looked at his incision area one more time before I left to write to you all, and didn't notice any bleeding, so I think we're ok. I'm just nervous. I'll keep an eye on the incision area though!
Just feel kinda bad now, as he does seem uncomfortable. I'm not looking forward to watching my other little guy go through this later on. :cry1:
And for anyone wondering, I'll be giving Treat 0.5ML of Metacam (honey flavor!) twice daily for 5 days. Tonight's dose was the first.
How did everyone else get through seeing their buns all sad? :/
I have two male rabbits, Trick and Treat. My original intention was to have the two of them neutered together, but Trick has been fighting an upper respiratory infection (talked about in another thread), and Treat has been getting pretty hormonal (spraying and humping his cage-mate), so the vet and I decided to go ahead with Treat's neuter.
My husband brought him to the vet this morning, and I brought him home this afternoon. I set up him up in a pen with a low litter pan, pellets, water, hay, and toys in a cool quiet room downstairs so he can take it easy.
He seemed to be getting around pretty well, so I left him be. I returned to give him his pain meds, and noticed he hadn't eaten much of his pellets, so I sat with him and tried to get him to eat a bit. For some reason he ate a few of the compressed paper pellets I use in his litter box (just the ones he kicked outside the liter pan), so I sprinkled pellets on the floor in the same spot, and he nibbled on that for awhile. He pecks a bit at his hay, and he took a few nibbles of spinach, so that was promising. Hopefully by morning he will have made some headway on the pellets.
What REALLY concerns me though, is he started nosing around "down there" while I sat with him. I tried to get his attention to make him stop, fearing he was messing with his incision (glued closed), but he pretty much ignored me until I gently lifted his head. I only did this because as he was nosing around, he wobbled a little unsteadily, and I was afraid he was hurting himself. I lifted his head up twice, and each time, he kinda hopped up and looked at me like "OUCH!" So I stopped futzing with him, and admittedly teared up a bit. :'( I'm HOPING he's just eating cecals. He stopped messing with himself and seemed to settle down, so I looked at his incision area one more time before I left to write to you all, and didn't notice any bleeding, so I think we're ok. I'm just nervous. I'll keep an eye on the incision area though!
Just feel kinda bad now, as he does seem uncomfortable. I'm not looking forward to watching my other little guy go through this later on. :cry1:
And for anyone wondering, I'll be giving Treat 0.5ML of Metacam (honey flavor!) twice daily for 5 days. Tonight's dose was the first.
How did everyone else get through seeing their buns all sad? :/