Well, the spay was an ultimate success, but it was a little frightening for a while. For details see pre/post spay thread in the rabbit room:
http://rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=63149&forum_id=1
As a summary, Becky wouldn't eat when I brought her home and we needed to force feed critical care and give some simithicone. She's now back to eating and pooping with gusto. It is such a relief! :eats:
She has been banging the bars and throwing her toys around so I finally let her out into her play-pen. She wants all the way out, but I'm not going to let her run and jump too much just yet. :run:
She is much happier with the additional space. For some reason she prefers to munch hay under her covered stool in the play area. :hiding:
Perhaps she doesn't like people looking at her when she eats? I noticed if I obviously looked at her, even from a distance, she would stop eating. So in order to keep an eye on her I would have to pretend to be reading and look past the edge of the book. I felt like a secret agent spying on the target bun. :coolness:
Now that she is back to eating with gusto I am starting to switch her from the echotrition (upon more bunny nutrition review turns out to be high priced junk food) to oxbow/T. I am happy to report she likes it. I thought I might have a fight on my hands to switch, but she really ate it well this morning. Perhaps she didn't notice it mixed in with the other food, but I will gradually change the proportions until she's only eating the new food.
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Between reading here and on bunspace it seems like there is a vocal group that hate pellets and a group that thinks vegetables are only treats. I find the back and forth rather confusing. I think with the pellet brand change I have a good balance though and importantly it has been approved by her vet. She lost a little weight from the spay, but I think she will be back to her normal healthy weight in no time. She looks so much skinnier without the fur on her belly though. Before she had a well rounded look, now she looks so svelte like the bunny book pictures. I think fur can hide a lot when it comes to physique, the pet and scale tells so much more. I have a postage scale that I can keep tabs on her weight. Our goal is to stay at 4.5. At the moment she is down to 4.4, but that is up from 4.3 a couple days ago. :muscleman:
Andre is quite pleased to have Rebecca back. He still cries to have her let out to play, but not close to how bad the cried when she was at the vet's. For only having Becky for a month she has stolen all of our hearts. :inlove:
I am so dreading work tomorrow. I missed a meeting on Friday and know I made the director of another department mad. :tantrum:I called in to my director to let him know I was staying home to take care of the rabbit, he's fine. This woman just likes to throw her weight around and I know she's going to give me heck. Oh well, I would do it again. When my babies are sick nothing else matters. I just don't want to go to work to deal with her. I am so glad she is not my boss! :raspberry:
