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Right now she's sitting on the floor outside her cage sulking. She seems to need an hour or so of alone time to recover from being manhandled. She's shifting around a little bit like she might be uncomfortable but has been sitting up and grooming still. She hasn't done much else but lay...

Cleo bit me once the day before she was spayed. I'm assuming it was a hormonal thing as it was a reaction to me having stroked her hindquarters when she wasn't looking. After she was spayed we never had another repeat.

She has a 3'x3'x3' cage that has a plastic bottom. We lift the cage part off and leave her in the bottom. With the cage placed beside the bottom it's blocked in on all three sides leaving the front space for us to reach into. It seemed feasible... As I suspected, we just need practice. We just...

No, the ground floor of the house is wide open. I snugged the towel up around her shoulders, put my hands around her chest with her front legs between my fingers. It seemed pretty likely that she wouldn't lunge forward but she managed to do it anyway. she's like an eel when she really wants to...

Well, we had a partial success. I tried just holding her on the floor of her cage as well as wrapping her in a towel. Neither worked particularly well. Even with her butt in the crook of my arm, she managed to kick out no matter how tightly I wrapped her. We had decent success when her butt was...

We may have to look at that. She's moving around more and spending a little more time away from her house but she still spends the bulk of her time just laying and munching on hay. I'm used to hearing her hop around her cage at night. The silence is bothering me. We're just about to try her...

Cleo used to sit in my lap right up until we had her spayed. After that she went completely hands off. We're only allowed to pet her now, no other touching is allowed. She's very sensitive about hands anywhere near her tummy, tail, and feet. I used to be able to lure her into my lap if I was...

Yep. They put her on the table wrapped her in a towel and put the syringe in her mouth. Easy as you please. For us she kicks up a storm. I've watched many videos and tried to duplicate it but she outsmarts me at every turn. The rabbits in the videos appear to be very used to being handled. In...

The bulk of the problem is that we have no experience handling her. I know that's wrong, but she's always disliked it so much that we haven't pushed the issue. We try to get her comfortable with it from time to time by lifting her front legs off of the ground and petting her head. She's always...

Cleo despises the carrier and will only get into it when she's extremely sick and not thinking well. If I need to take her to the vet for a nail trim or anything else when she's at the top of her mental and physical game, it's a challenge. I've been as much as half an hour late for vet...

By all means, ask any question you desire. As helpful as everyone here always is I'll take any and all feedback. We were able to get some pain meds into her this morning by mixing it in mashed up banana. When we tried the same trick with applesauce, hoping to go the syringe route she wouldn't...

The vet sent us home with six different meds to give her. She can have them all at the same time so if we could get a hold of her, I suspect it wouldn't matter that we're giving her six separate syringes. As soon as she smells the meds she won't have anything to do with a syringe. The only...

Since she returned to the house she's been keeping herself confined to her cage. That's made is simpler. Once she gets out of there it's game over. For medication I've been lifting the cage off of the base and stroking her until she lays down and settles in. I'm then able to wrap the towel...

My ever-so-adorable lop is home with us again after having been in the hospital for 4 days. Cleo has never been fond of being handled and we've rarely had cause to do so. Now that we're having to give her several meds twice a day we have no choice but to handle her. She's not having any of it...

Cleo is finally home!:yahoo: Right after she came home she immediately ran to her cage and stretched out beside the hay, munching away. I gave her an hour or so to settle in and then went to visit her at the door of her cage. She was thrilled to have me petting her and went crazy licking my...

This particular animal hospital has been disappointing in the past. They have a new vet for exotics who is really good at customer relations. She's very communicative and they've been calling me at least twice a day with updates. She called today to let me know that Cleo has been meerkatting a...

We stopped in to visit Cleo last night after work. It was pretty hard to see her in that tiny little cage with an IV in her paw. She is on the mend but isn't quite there yet. She's eating her hay like it's something that she'll never see again. The staff at the hospital...

I took Cleo to the vet today. She suffers from intestinal problems every year at this time. As I've mentioned, this year she doesn't seem to be getting any better like she usually does. The vet described it as a "perfect storm". They're still doing diagnosis but so far the following all hit...

I've got her back in the living room now but she doesn't want to lay on the carpet, she'll pick a tile or linoleum spot and lay there instead. In the cage she had cleared all of the bedding away and was laying directly on the floor. She always seems to prefer that. At least there's a lot of...

I did manage to get some Ovol into her. Man is she angry now! I took the roof off of her cage to get the Ovol into her and she took off running after i did it. She hunted around for a good place to hide and wound up sulking in the kitchen. I would have preferred her in the living room rather...