Oompa-Loompa
Warren Veteran
Some of you might know that I have huge problems with cutting Bella's nails. She literally CAN'T be held, she squirms and freaks out to the point where she hurts herself.
As it is now I cut her nails while she sits on the floor. This sometimes works ok and other times not at all; some times she just keeps running off and gets really stressed out when I keep going after her with that scary nail clipper :roll:
I've been thinking of taking her to the vets to have them trimmed, but I'm worried that she'd be too much of a challenge for them and that they'd have to sedate her in order to do it properly (they're NOT rabbit savvy)....which made me wonder. How does sedation work with bunnies, do they get completely knocked out or are they still conscious? I'm assuming that it is less risky than a full GA? How do bunnies generally react to being sedated? How do they recover afterwards, how long are they affected by it? (lots of questions all at once, but I seriously don't know which is bad. I need to start reading up on these things )
As it is now I cut her nails while she sits on the floor. This sometimes works ok and other times not at all; some times she just keeps running off and gets really stressed out when I keep going after her with that scary nail clipper :roll:
I've been thinking of taking her to the vets to have them trimmed, but I'm worried that she'd be too much of a challenge for them and that they'd have to sedate her in order to do it properly (they're NOT rabbit savvy)....which made me wonder. How does sedation work with bunnies, do they get completely knocked out or are they still conscious? I'm assuming that it is less risky than a full GA? How do bunnies generally react to being sedated? How do they recover afterwards, how long are they affected by it? (lots of questions all at once, but I seriously don't know which is bad. I need to start reading up on these things )