I have a 6 year old male bunny called Crackers who has a cancerous lump on his lip, and the vet has said it is inoperable (too close to mouth and nose, and a deep tumour), and also that it may have spread to his lymph glands already. Crackers is being referred to a more specialist unit, and I will get two or three other vet opinions before I accept that it is inoperable, but I thought I would also consult the specialist called 'lots of other experienced rabbit-carers': hence this post.
Is there anybody there who has had a vet try 'impossible' operations? was it successful? Can you give things like radiotherapy to rabbits? Anybody got any experience of this? Right now Crackers is happy and doesn't know that anything is wrong. He is only 6 and so has potentially many years ahead of him, but I would rather he died at 6 having had a happy life to the very end than that I made him ill with aggressive treatments that didn't work. I would be very grateful for any advice.
Is there anybody there who has had a vet try 'impossible' operations? was it successful? Can you give things like radiotherapy to rabbits? Anybody got any experience of this? Right now Crackers is happy and doesn't know that anything is wrong. He is only 6 and so has potentially many years ahead of him, but I would rather he died at 6 having had a happy life to the very end than that I made him ill with aggressive treatments that didn't work. I would be very grateful for any advice.