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Rabbit anal glands

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Morrigan1981

Mama Doe
For the first time ever tonight, Jen grunted at me when I had my hands in her hutch :cry: She's so ready for her spay tomorrow - her bunny hormones are turning her into quite a little madam :shock:

Anyway, after she grunted at me I thought I'd better check her over throughly in case she was grumpy through pain from an injury, rather than just hormones! I did this and she was fine, although I noticed what looked like a little flap of skin adjacent to her lady bits :oops: I've just absolutely panicked and was about to ring the emergency vet when I thought I'd better just check the 'wound' again so that I had a proper description of where it was, etc. In doing this I spotted the same thing on the other side too :shock:

I held off the phone call and have just been looking at some diagrams of, *cough*, bunny anatomy.. am I the only person that didn't realise that buns have anal glands down there??! :oops: :oops:
 
Haha i love bunny anatomy books! I used to get the circle/slit diagrams as a child and then when I started to get "adult" rabbit books I was shocked. I was aware of them but have never had a good look, does are far too fidgety!
 
:lol: Funny you should say that... that was one of the reasons I was checking her so carefully given the previous gender confusion :oops: They are definitely her anal glands though - I asked the vet to have a peek this morning and he confirmed that for me :lol:
 
You are not the only one - after Zeus' neuter got infected I was cleaning that area daily and that was when I first discovered the glands - so I cleaned them out too - OMG the smell :shock: . I also rang my vet and he very nicely explained to me what they were :oops: - I didn't have this forum then!

The most embarassing thing was when I rang them the first time Zeus' wee turned red :oops: . I was reminded of it the other day when my father was in a panic whilst babysitting my current bunny as hers was a lovely dark orange.

Caz
 
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