vanillacake
New Kit
Hi everyone!
I've recently found this forum and have found it really useful (and interesting!) reading through everything here. Everyone seems like very dedicated rabbit owners and would love to join in on all the chat.
I own a 7 year old bunny called Ginger. She is a Dwarf Lop and is light brown in colour. I absolutely love my little girl and have been through quite a lot with her.
I got Ginger when I was in my early teens which wasn't the best move. I now realise how much work rabbits are and how much background knowledge is required to successfully own a bun.
In her young years Ginger was a fruitloop! Absolute speedy gonzalez and I found it very difficult to pick her up and interact with her. Not getting her speyed didn't help things. My vet advised me that there was no need to get her desexed as she wasn't going to be with any male bunnies and he said the surgery was too risky. I believed this for so many years. It wasn't until Ginger came down with snuffles that I decided to go to a rabbit specialist (as my ordinary vet unsuccessfully treated her). Wow what a difference it makes to have a vet that understands rabbits! She's gotten her on track and I now nebulize her once a day. She also suggested I consider desexing her albeit her age and history of snuffles. She said the decision was 50/50 in that there would be risks in doing the surgery (age and snuffles) but there would also be huge benefits (prevent uterine cancer and reduce her territorial and nesting behaviours).
I agonized over it but decided to go ahead with it just last week. She woke up from the anaethetic well but showed no interest in food 4 hours after I brought her home so I took her off to the emergency centre. Turns out she had mild GI stasis, a gallop heart rhythm with arrhythmia and her snuffles had returned. The snuffles and heart problem resolved within a day (and was put down to stress) but I had to feed her critical care and medicate her accordingly to help the gut stasis. It's been a long week but things are getting much better for my little girl thank goodness.
Looking forward to becoming a part of this forum! :wave:
I've recently found this forum and have found it really useful (and interesting!) reading through everything here. Everyone seems like very dedicated rabbit owners and would love to join in on all the chat.
I own a 7 year old bunny called Ginger. She is a Dwarf Lop and is light brown in colour. I absolutely love my little girl and have been through quite a lot with her.
I got Ginger when I was in my early teens which wasn't the best move. I now realise how much work rabbits are and how much background knowledge is required to successfully own a bun.
In her young years Ginger was a fruitloop! Absolute speedy gonzalez and I found it very difficult to pick her up and interact with her. Not getting her speyed didn't help things. My vet advised me that there was no need to get her desexed as she wasn't going to be with any male bunnies and he said the surgery was too risky. I believed this for so many years. It wasn't until Ginger came down with snuffles that I decided to go to a rabbit specialist (as my ordinary vet unsuccessfully treated her). Wow what a difference it makes to have a vet that understands rabbits! She's gotten her on track and I now nebulize her once a day. She also suggested I consider desexing her albeit her age and history of snuffles. She said the decision was 50/50 in that there would be risks in doing the surgery (age and snuffles) but there would also be huge benefits (prevent uterine cancer and reduce her territorial and nesting behaviours).
I agonized over it but decided to go ahead with it just last week. She woke up from the anaethetic well but showed no interest in food 4 hours after I brought her home so I took her off to the emergency centre. Turns out she had mild GI stasis, a gallop heart rhythm with arrhythmia and her snuffles had returned. The snuffles and heart problem resolved within a day (and was put down to stress) but I had to feed her critical care and medicate her accordingly to help the gut stasis. It's been a long week but things are getting much better for my little girl thank goodness.
Looking forward to becoming a part of this forum! :wave:
