We had Bramble at the vet this morning for his three monthly teeth check because they had noticed and filed down some molar spurs when he was neutered back in September. Since this was our second three monthly check I was really hoping that we would get the all clear to move to six monthly checks but sadly the spurs are back.
The vet wants to leave things as they are just now, she says that in about 8 weeks they will bring him in and do them unless he starts struggling to eat before then. This concerns me slightly because she said that one of the spurs was close to his tongue, surely this will be painful? On the other hand my vets are small animal specialists and I have always been very happy with the way they have treated Bramble so I do trust that she knows her stuff, although I have never seen this particular woman before.
When he had them done the first time we were told that it could be something that would never come back or it could be a recurring thing throughout his life. We were advised to change his nuggets which we did and just do our best to get him eating more hay which is the problem because he is funny with hay. Some days its like he cant get enough of the stuff and other days he is just not interested, most days I would say he eats around half of what he should eat hay wise. I have tried everything to encourage hay, putting it in toys and even buying the stuff that comes with bits of apple and carrot mixed in but nothing made a difference to the amount he eats.
I am really worried about him having another anaesthetic because he had such a bad recovery from his neuter and I cant be here all the time like I was when he was neutered since I was on annual leave then but I am not now but if his teeth are needing done then I don’t want to put it off any longer to wait till I’m on leave. I don’t get to choose my annual leave dates so there is no way of getting time off to suit.
On a side note Bramble has become terrified of getting his nails cut. We used to manage fine ourselves, the other half holds and I cut but recently he has been freaking out. Knowing that we were due at the vet I had left them till today and asked the vet to do them while we were there and Bramble freaked out like I have never seen. He was trying to jump off the table and everything and Bramble might just be the only bunny in the world who is scared of heights so this is not something he would normally do. I don’t think I have ever hurt him doing his nails or anything, does anyone have any suggestions? I don’t really want to have to take him to the vet every time because I am unable to do them.