madysmummy
Mama Doe
well what a saga.........
i was getting a bit worried that moses would never get his plums and then wed we were in the garden and moses was like a little sex pest with mady so i put him back in the cage to give the poor moo a break. but i checked and there were no plums to be seen or felt :shock: :lol:
anyway then on thursday morning i checked and we had one plum. i had asked the vet when moses went for his VHD only whether rabbits sometimes have the same problems like dogs with only one plum dropping. vet said that doesn't really happen in rabbits but if it was going to happen to anyones bun it would be mine !
anyway i called the vet and said there was only one plum and should we wait until the other one drops to book him in to then get them removed ? they said no and as i was off work last week we booked him in for the op the next day (fri) the op went fine and moses was such a good boy and wasn't licking or anything. all weekend he was great, we had a few snuggles on the sofa and it was healing fine.
anyway this morning when hubby and i were back at work today, hubby called me from downstairs 'lisa you better come down and look at this', moses had been licking and opened part of the wound. i put him back in the cage and eh was licking it and going a bit wild - so i sat up from 6.45 with him till 8.30 when the vets opened. every time he licked at himself i stopped him and then he started licking me
went to the vet at 9am and vet wasn't happy and said he had opened the side of the plum that hadn't dropped. and then he put 3 staples there - poor moses was such a good boy and didn't move while the staples were going in.
now he's got one of those terribe collers on ( which i hate ) but its better to have that for a few days than a infected wound ( as the vet said)
i asked about the plum that hadn't dropped and the vet said he has never had a rabbit who has had this and that 80% or plums that don't drop become cancer !
so now i'm at work and hubby will call me when he comes home so i know how moses is doing. he's eating fine (as normal ) and poong fine. just looking very sorry for himself with that terrible coller on.
i was getting a bit worried that moses would never get his plums and then wed we were in the garden and moses was like a little sex pest with mady so i put him back in the cage to give the poor moo a break. but i checked and there were no plums to be seen or felt :shock: :lol:
anyway then on thursday morning i checked and we had one plum. i had asked the vet when moses went for his VHD only whether rabbits sometimes have the same problems like dogs with only one plum dropping. vet said that doesn't really happen in rabbits but if it was going to happen to anyones bun it would be mine !
anyway i called the vet and said there was only one plum and should we wait until the other one drops to book him in to then get them removed ? they said no and as i was off work last week we booked him in for the op the next day (fri) the op went fine and moses was such a good boy and wasn't licking or anything. all weekend he was great, we had a few snuggles on the sofa and it was healing fine.
anyway this morning when hubby and i were back at work today, hubby called me from downstairs 'lisa you better come down and look at this', moses had been licking and opened part of the wound. i put him back in the cage and eh was licking it and going a bit wild - so i sat up from 6.45 with him till 8.30 when the vets opened. every time he licked at himself i stopped him and then he started licking me
went to the vet at 9am and vet wasn't happy and said he had opened the side of the plum that hadn't dropped. and then he put 3 staples there - poor moses was such a good boy and didn't move while the staples were going in.
now he's got one of those terribe collers on ( which i hate ) but its better to have that for a few days than a infected wound ( as the vet said)
i asked about the plum that hadn't dropped and the vet said he has never had a rabbit who has had this and that 80% or plums that don't drop become cancer !
so now i'm at work and hubby will call me when he comes home so i know how moses is doing. he's eating fine (as normal ) and poong fine. just looking very sorry for himself with that terrible coller on.