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Forum HOUSE RABBIT Q & A pain meds after neutering..

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    • bestmom
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        this is just a curiosity question..but which of you were given pain meds after your male rabbit was neutered.  Recently i’ve been reading different posts about male rabbits coming home with pain meds after a neuter?  Pepper came home with no medication, we were told beforehand that typically he does not send pain meds home for the males, but will for the females.  I guess i just never thought anything of it, until i was reading posts on various rabbit forums about how other bucks were put on pain meds for like 2 days.  But then Pepper seemed to bounce back fairly quickly from the surgery. He went right back to eating, drinking and pooping in his litterbox.  By the next morning he seemed to be his old self (though we made him rest until day 3 or 4 following surgery).  Again this is just a curiosity question. I am not upset that we were not given pain meds.


      • bunnnnnnie!
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          Both my bunnies were sent home with pain meds – and I have one male and one female. My female actually bounced back quicker than my male, but maybe that’s because she was spayed very young, and Zeus wasn’t neutered until he was around 3?


        • Cottontail
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            I think it depends on the vet and the rabbit. Some vets give them a slow release pain shot and that’s it. Others send home medicine, and some say no pain meds at all (which makes me cringe). My Pete was rather small (2 lbs at neuter) and a rabbit instead of a bunny, so he get 5 days of pain meds… and acted like he needed the first 3-4 days of it. I’ve heard most getting only a couple days or getting those shots. Really depends on the bunny and the surgeon I think.


          • bestmom
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              hmm i’m not sure if he was given a slow release pain shot or not. My 14 year old wants to know what kind of rabbit, Peter Cottontail is.


            • Cottontail
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                Pete is an Eastern Cottontail. He is full grown now (a year old on April 1st) and weighs just barely 2.5lbs. He’s on the smaller end but cottontail boys usually only weigh 2.5-3.5lbs… females tend to be bigger at anywhere from 3-4.5lbs.. though most are around 3.5.


              • JackRabbit
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                  My boy came home with 3 days of pain meds and the girls 10 days worth (if needed).


                • manic_muncher
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                    My first boy was neutered at a normal vet and was given a slow release shot and also 2 days of pain meds (which I only gave him one day of). My other neuter and spay was done at a spay clinic and NEITHER of them was given meds to take home. I was actually pretty upset about the spay because I knew by it being more invasive that she would be hurting more, and she was. Thankfully she did bounce back fairly quickly.


                  • bestmom
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                      Posted By Cottontail on 3/30/2015 7:56 PM

                      Pete is an Eastern Cottontail. He is full grown now (a year old on April 1st) and weighs just barely 2.5lbs. He’s on the smaller end but cottontail boys usually only weigh 2.5-3.5lbs… females tend to be bigger at anywhere from 3-4.5lbs.. though most are around 3.5.

                       like a wild cottontail rabbit?? How did  you come to own him?


                    • Cottontail
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                        I don’t generally advocate raising wild animals of any sort; but Peter was rescued after a landscaping accident at less than 2 weeks old. We bottle-fed him to keep him going. Local rehabbers agreed that he just wouldn’t make it if released back in the wild and our lady-cat had all-but adopted him already. He’s been with us pretty much his entire life and seems to think he’s a cat. I have a thread in the lounge on his Non-Adventures for people that like to keep up with him.


                      • bestmom
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                          wow that’s amazing! From what i read it’s really hard to raise a cottontail baby. How is he compared to Ms.Tilly. temperment wise does he seem more jumpy or weary of strangers? I’ll have to look at the thread


                        • kirstyol
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                            Bramble had a long acting pain killer injection and painkillers at home for I think it was supposed to be three days but he had a poor recovery and ended up on them for a week.


                          • BunnyxLicks
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                              my male rabbit Eden came home with a bunch of meds. First they gave him the pain meds. Which was giving him diarhea. Then they gave me something to wash the wound because he kept chewing them open again. & then they gave me some cream like paste which was a probiotic to help with the diarhea. Poor thing went through hell and another $300 because he kept opening them.


                            • bestmom
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                                Yikes! Thankfully pepper hasn’t even paid attention to his incision site. I’m just glad he bounced back so quickly. I was pretty nervous, he was our first pet to have surgery. All our previous pets were already spayed or neutered when we adopted them.


                              • MyBunGusGus
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                                  The Animal Humane Society requires that all animals are fixed before being adopted out. I met Gus Gus before he had the surgery and was able to take him home afterward. He was given pain meds, a liquid that I had to give him for three days. The first day he threw it up, but he kept it down the next two. I can’t really comment on any behavioral change because I only met him for about an hour before I got him. But, he des do things differently than he used to, I’m not quite sure if that was moving, getting neutered, or a combo of both.

                                  Binky Free, GiGi and GusGus. You are always in my heart.


                                • Bek C
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                                    Frank, my 5 month old mix (seems to be Polish and something else…he’s around 3.5lbs), was neutered at Gulf Coast Humane Society here in Fort Myers, Florida two days ago. The clinic only does neutering (for rabbits, they do neuters and spays for dogs and cats). The vet seemed surprised that I’d ask for pain meds for Frank and he said he’d have to look up information on what to even give him. He then decided that Frank wouldn’t need any, so we were sent home without.
                                    I got the feeling that most of their rabbit parents don’t ask any questions when dropping their babies off. He absolutely would not let Otis stay with Frank, even in a different carrier, with all of her food. Oh, and the appointment was for both of them and that’s when we found out Otis is a girl bun! (she’s a large, blue Silver Fox, 20 weeks).

                                    Frank did really well and by the time I picked him up in the afternoon, he was in good spirits and came right to the front of the carrier to touch noses with my son and me. What a relief! He was somewhat slower than usual for the rest of the day, but yesterday he was nearly back to his pre-pubescent self. My other bun seems shocked that life is no longer a hump-fest. Frank didn’t seem to be in any pain. He’s a little mellower and sleepier than usual, but he’s eating well and back to grooming his mate (though reuniting them was a little hairy and I slept in their pen with them last night, they are doing fantastic this morning)…

                                    If he had shown any signs of pain, I would have called the vet and once again asked for pain meds for him or I would have taken him to Banfield or the ER vet. (I’m a pain patient, and I know all too well how pain can slow down healing. When Otis goes for her Spay in a couple of months, there is no way I am leaving the vet without pain meds for her! No way! I had abdominal surgery and a c-section. I wouldn’t want an animal to experience that!).


                                  • Toni
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                                      My male came home with 3 days worth of pain meds. I can honestly say his behavior did not change at all the day he got home…he was just as jumpy/bouncy/active as he always is and eating fine. The second day, I think the swelling/inflammation begins to feel full force – and he was a bit quieter this day. The third day, he seemed himself again.

                                      I’m glad they gave me pain meds… they can be very stoic animals sometimes – although he didn’t seem like he was in pain… I really don’t believe I’d have seen a lot of difference in him if he was – so it is nice to give them the courtesy to help ease the discomfort that I just can’t simply imagine wouldn’t exist after a surgery like that.

                                      Our vet also sent me home with critical care and told me that I needed to feed some to him the next morning after the surgery. I asked if I still needed to even if he was eating and going fine, and they told me yes. I wasn’t comfortable with that – I thought to myself … isn’t it more of a hazard to him to restraint him/force feed him the critical care (which would likely cause some sort of a physical struggle with him as he hates to be restrained) if he’s eating and going normally that the benefits of giving it to him if he really isn’t inneed of it? That recommendation I didn’t heed, and so just mixed the critical care and offered it in a bowl which he ate a tiny bit of on his own.

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