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Two Girls Speyed At The Same Time

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CHH

Warren Scout
Our two little girlies are going in to be speyed tomorrow morning. The vet will keep them in overnight so we should get them back sometime on Wednesday.

Once they're back we intend keeping them together in the lower level of a 4 foot, 2 level hutch. It'll be indoors in our conservatory. It isn't heated in there so gets quiet chilly.

We also have a 7 year old neutered male and they all live happily together. How long should we keep the girls in their own hutch for, and separate from him? He'll still be in the same room with them, just not in the hutch.

I don't want to let them loose on the conservatory floor too early as it's linoleum and they get very little grip on it resulting in legs everywhere when they try to go anywhere fast!! Just the thing to damage stitches!

Should we bring the hutch into a heated part of the house at night to stop them getting too cold?

Anything else we should be watching out for? We've read the info in the Rabbit Care Reference Section.

Thanks.
 
All i can advise is keeping the girls warm and quiet for a few days.
It seems to take girls more time to come around than lads, as its a bigger op.
Just make sure they are warm, quiet, bed them down on towels or blankets, no sawdust and make sure hay is in a rack, offer water in a bowl aswell as bottle (sturdy bowl) and plenty of food and fav treat and veggies.

I would give the girls a few days to come round maybe until they go back for the post op check before putting them back with the male, although he can be kept close by, (sight)

Hope that helps.
Hope they come around okay! :wave:
 
Just got a call to say that they're both done and both awake again. We might even get them back today!

Whether they'll speak to us is another matter...............
 
They're staying in overnight as they're still not eating properly yet. They're still being syringe fed.
 
Speying

Hi there everyone, we're new to the site so please bare with us if we've interupted the topic.

We have 2 little Lop females, one 9 month and the other about 10 weeks which we just receintly got as a friend for the older one (Lucy). We're keeping them in seperate rooms in the house at the moment as Lucy isn't all too happy to see the young newcomer (Penny) so we have been told that we need to get Lucy speyed asap and that will maybe calm her a little (for a start) We have what we think is quite a good vet that we use here in Sheffield but we are VERY cautious about going forward with the proceedure as we have been told that there is a considerable risk involved with the aneasetic side of things. I guess what we are getting at is, can anyone help in directing or advising us on a rabbit saavy or specialist surgery we could use nearby to us (Sheffield)

Please any help or advise on these points would be great,

Thanks.
 
CHH said:
They're staying in overnight as they're still not eating properly yet. They're still being syringe fed.
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Let us know how they get on. I had my two ladies done at the same time, one of them was right as rain afterwards, the other wouldn't eat for AGES!!!!
 
Cazzap said:
Let us know how they get on. I had my two ladies done at the same time, one of them was right as rain afterwards, the other wouldn't eat for AGES!!!!
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They're back and both eating but one is much brighter than the other. Wee Sophie looks like she's just woken up and is in need of a face wash. She's a bit spaced out man!!

We've been given Fibreplex for them to take 3 times a day. That'll be fun :shock:
 
CHH said:
We've been given Fibreplex for them to take 3 times a day. That'll be fun :shock:
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Well that was surprisingly easy. I just smeared it onto some greens and gave them their own bit each. The tricky part was stopping them pinching each others!

Not eating aint a problem!
 
They're both still eating well but it's noticeable that one of them will hop for a few steps, break into a bit of a walk for a few more steps and then stop. I'm assuming she's feeling a bit of discomfort when moving.

Is this to be expected after 3 days?
 
How does her scar look? If it looks at all inflamed I'd go back to vets and ask for pain relief and a check over.

Anyone else found this?
 
Can't persuade her to let me see her scar. I don't want to grab her and turn her upsidedown unnecessarily. Our vet is open on a Saturday morning do I'll give them a buzz if she's the same tomorrow.

She's generally ok but definitely seems to be in a little discomfort sometimes. They're both happily tucking into some hay just now so eating isn't a problem!
 
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