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Forum BEHAVIOR Moxie is getting spade this thursday…help!

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    • jezabel loves moxie
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        Any wise advice so my girl heals fast?

        She is 6 months old, super loving but we can pick her up yet so I’m really worry about helping her heal at home… She’s a cute Dutch Bun.

        (I’ve tried to upload pictures but having difficulty with size)


      • vanessa
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          Just the standard… keep her on a clean soft towel. Use bedding in her litter box if you normally use hay, so the little pieces of hay sticking up don’t irritate the surgery site. Check the site every day for swelling, redness, and oozing. After a week you can put hay back in her litter box if all looks good. Keep her in a SMALL area. You don’t want her hopping around. My female is 7.5 lbs. I kept her in a 24×18″ area.

          You say you can’t pick her up yet – is that because of the surgery or because she is difficult to handle?

          If she is difficult to handle, this will be a good opportunity to get her use to being picked up. Every day, Raise her up by the chest to examine the site. She will probably be backed up against the side of the fence, which will make it easy to lift her chest. Try not to pick her up unnecessarily during the first week. Normally, you could support her belly and her chest while picking her up. After surgery, be extra sure to support her hind quarters if you need to pick her up. After a week should be easier to pick her up. Keep checking the site.Give her a ful 3 weeks to heal before you let her run around normally. I would raise her chest every day for the first week to check the site, and after the first week, I would also pick her up, hold her close, stroke her for a few minutes and put her down. She will be feeling awkward from the surgery and nervous about the new smaller enclosure, which will make her easier to pick up. My wildest bunny is easiest to handle when I get her in a small area. When you put her down, she might try to scramble from your arms. Cover her eyes as you put her down, and keep your hand over them once she is on the ground. Stroke her head a few times, then release your hands. Then give her a treat. It won’t be long before she realizes you aren’t going to eat her. My female was difficult to handle before being spayed, easy to handle afterwards.

          If it is because of the surgery – just raise her chest during the first week to check the site.


        • jezabel loves moxie
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            Thank you!

            We got her at 2 mos she is now 6 months and was super easy to pick her up at the pet store (because she was in a very small area, you are so right!)

            We slowly got her to be a free range girl.  she stayed in her cage until we were able to identify poop and pee area.  Then opened the cage door before going to work and arriving from work.  she was only allowed to hop around one room and eventually, we leave in a bunny world.  Our apartment is her cage. Though we really never focus on picking her up.  We’ve heard how much they don’t like it and we really haven’t had a real need to do so until one time she started to smell like a mixture of onion/ skunk and coffee and we read somewhere that it could be her scent glands.  So we tried to pick her up to clean her up and it went very bad; my boyfriend had lots of scratches and moxie looked frantic so it turned out I couldn’t even found them but she looked very clean so we let it go.

            I am concerned about hurting her after the operation and I will definitely do as you suggested.

            In our apartment, she has various options to lay and feel safe.  So to follow your advice I’m thinking about bringing her cage back up from the garage and have her stay there after we bring her from the vet? She goes in tomorrow.  


          • tobyluv
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              The day she comes home, she likely will have been given enough pain medication to get her through that first day, but for the following days, you will need to gently pick her up and hold her long enough to give her the pain meds. You can also check her incision then. If you sit on the floor next to her cage and lift her out, she won’t be too far off the ground, so maybe she won’t get too upset. Wrap her in a towel, with one of you holding her and the other administering meds. Put the syringe into her mouth on the side, in the gap between her front and back teeth. She may still be a little groggy from the surgery and anesthesia and maybe subdued from it too, so hopefully the medication times will go well.


            • vanessa
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                A towel is good idea. My females were groggy for a few days, and after a week felt much better. Bunnies definitely don’t enjoy being picked up like cats do, but they learn to tolerate it.


              • jezabel loves moxie
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                  thank you this info was very helpful.

                  she’s home and today was her last day of meds.  She is doing so well, I think tomorrow she’ll back to almost herself.


                • jezabel loves moxie
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                    I used the towel to keep her warm.  Since back from her surgery, we only had to pick her up once and I suck at it.  I need to be more confident. It’s been 4 days since she came home and she is starting to behave more like herself, happy hoppy moxie!

                    Thanks 


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