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Female bunny with firm rounded belly?

Cashew1992

Young Bun
The past 2 weeks I've noticed Jessica's belly has been getting very firm and rounded, There's no possible chance that she is pregnant as my male bunny was neutered 7 weeks ago and I've not had them in direct contact for a few months.

She is still eating and pooping perfectly fine I clean her litter box daily and there is always fresh pellets, her behaviour's not changed either and she is very active i'm just concerned I noticed it mostly what she stood up. I quickly snapped a picture to show.

But Any idea on what could be causing this?

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Thanks all :)
 
No she's not spayed, She is almost 4 years old. I am hoping to get her to the vets soon but I couldn't contact them today as its sunday.

My mum's starting to think it might be a tumour because I had an unspayed lone bunny when I was in my early teens and she had a noncancerous abdomen tumour when she was 3 years old
 
My 3-year-old unspayed doe has a bit of a round tummy but hers has always been like that; and it's soft, not firm. I don't know if it's because she's a little chubby or if it's just her body shape, she's quite heavily built and looks quite big although I can feel her ribs etc. without much of an effort.

Don't have any advice unfortunately but I hope she's ok :wave: She's a beautiful bunny :)
 
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No she's not spayed, She is almost 4 years old. I am hoping to get her to the vets soon but I couldn't contact them today as its sunday.

My mum's starting to think it might be a tumour because I had an unspayed lone bunny when I was in my early teens and she had a noncancerous abdomen tumour when she was 3 years old

I think that is what Jane might have been thinking (sorry if I'm wrong).
A large percentage of females develop uterine cancer by the age of five if they are not spayed. I really hope it's not but I think you need to get her to the vet as soon as you possibly can. Hopefully if it is a tumour it won't have spread too much and it can all be removed. I think in this case babies would be preferable (rabbits can mate through bars). :(

Wishing you lots of luck and let us know how you get on.
 
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