Hope For Hares

[gentle giants]

Unfortunately, the news is not good. The histopathology came back, and it was a particularly aggressive strain of cancer. Even though we seem to have caught it early, the odds are good that it has already spread to one or more of her organs. Basically all that we can do at this point is to keep a close eye on her weight and general health, in case she shows signs that it has spread. Also, I have to get her daughter spayed asap, because their relation makes it more likely for her to develop this as well.

 

[TreasuredFriend]

GG, is Hope an elderly bun? Over the age of 3? Do you know her background? I apologize for the questions. When time permits I'll jump to your Petfinder listings and read the guys/gals profiles. View their photos. She is fortunate you are caring and took her to see the vet...and I hope she'll binky and enjoy every day she has ahead of her. This is sad news about the cancer.

A get-well and carehugs extension to her daughter in addition to Hope. And YOU. I didn't realize a cancer strain could carry into offspring? Same as humans then?!?
- Can anyone on RO (breeders BlueGiants or Polly, Flashy, Peg) whose savvy about this explain?
silly TF Question: Aggressive strain as in uterine cancer only transferrable to offspring females??

From GG's post on Feb-5, above "When the vet removed her uterus, he said it was very bloody and strange looking, and he had difficulty getting it out."

You have a lot on your shoulders, and Hope is lucky you are doing so much for her well-being. :hearts

 

[naturestee]

I'm so sorry, GG. Hopefully it hasn't spread yet and he got everything out. FYI, I've heard (and seen in other places) that uterine cancer often spreads to the lungs. So any breathing problems should be checked out.

Does she only have the one daughter? I remembered she had a litter.

Spoil the heck out of her, just in case!

:hug:

 

[gentle giants]

The litter she had was only three kits, thank Heaven, and two of them were boys. So tomorow I will be getting the daughter, Daisy, an appointment to get spayed. I would have rather been able to wait a little longer as money is so very tight right now, but it's not worth the risk of waiting.
TF-I have no idea how old she is, or anything about her background. Her previous owners took her to auction to sell when she got sick, and bred her as well in hopes of getting more money for her sale. That's why I rarely go to that auction, because there are alwyas several cases like that there at any given time, and I always make myself promise I will only bring home one, just don't have time/space/money for any more, sadly.

 

[TreasuredFriend]

Those auctions would make me very sad.

 

[gentle giants]

I usually come home crying.

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

oh man i am so sorry

 

[rosetintedlenses]

I just wanted to stop in and say hello, I'm Buster's (somewhat) new slave! I joined a while back, but lost the link and just found it again, hopefully I'll be able to remember to post on here a little more!

Buster is doing wonderful in my home, he has been renamed Naboo in the meantime, and he is a truly amazing little guy. When I first brought him home, he was really quiet and shy, but now he loves to play with his toys and hop around the house, binkying away! He absolutely loves to be petted and he loves eating his parsley, banana (in small quantities), and papaya tablets as well. He's a really sweet little guy, but he definitely will let you know when he's mad at you too, lol.

I hope you don't mind me kinda hijacking your thread, but I do have a lot of new pictures of him, if you're interested in seeing them.

 

[JadeIcing]

Great to see you here.

 

[Bassetluv]

gentle giants wrote:

Unfortunately, the news is not good. The histopathology came back, and it was a particularly aggressive strain of cancer. Even though we seem to have caught it early, the odds are good that it has already spread to one or more of her organs. Basically all that we can do at this point is to keep a close eye on her weight and general health, in case she shows signs that it has spread. Also, I have to get her daughter spayed asap, because their relation makes it more likely for her to develop this as well.

Poor little girl :hearts:...but at the same time, maybe you have given her 'Hope'! Picture her completely healed and well...you never know, the vet may have caught the entire cancer.

Give your girl tons of hugs from me! :hug1

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

rosetintedlenses wrote:

I just wanted to stop in and say hello, I'm Buster's (somewhat) new slave! I joined a while back, but lost the link and just found it again, hopefully I'll be able to remember to post on here a little more!

Buster is doing wonderful in my home, he has been renamed Naboo in the meantime, and he is a truly amazing little guy. When I first brought him home, he was really quiet and shy, but now he loves to play with his toys and hop around the house, binkying away! He absolutely loves to be petted and he loves eating his parsley, banana (in small quantities), and papaya tablets as well. He's a really sweet little guy, but he definitely will let you know when he's mad at you too, lol.

I hope you don't mind me kinda hijacking your thread, but I do have a lot of new pictures of him, if you're interested in seeing them.

we would absolutely love to see pics of Naboo, he was one of my favorite's :biggrin2: you wouldnt have to twist my arm to look at them,lol:lookaround

 

[kherrmann3]

I'm sorry to hear about the negative histopathology. Those are phone calls you never want to get. How is she doing?

 

[rosetintedlenses]

Wow, reading through this makes me really sad now. I'm sorry to hear about Hope, she's a beautiful bunny. I really hope that she makes it through this just fine.

As promised, here's some new pictures of Naboo (formerly Buster). This may get a little picture heavy just because I have so many cute ones of him now.

And the last one, I promise haha.

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

rosetintedlenses wrote:

Dallas has some competition!!!!!!!!!!!! I am in love look at that face

 

[gentle giants]

I am thinking that she is not doing very well. She was grinding her teeth this morning, and was not terribly interested in eating. I was hoping that we would have a couple of weeks anyway, but it's not looking that way now. If she doesn't pass the treat test this afternoon, I will know. :tears2:

 

[Bassetluv]

:hug1

 

[naturestee]

Maybe she's still recovering from the spay? There's a conversation about this with mouse_chalk's Dotty, that some rabbits feel a bit worse a few days after the spay.

I would hope it would take longer to show, since I'm guessing she didn't appear ill before her spay.

:hug:

 

[gentle giants]

Well, she didn't seem truly sick before the spay, but she had never been "right" if you know what I mean. I had her spayed when I did because she wasn't eating right, and I wanted to get her teeth checked to see if that was the problem. Since she needed to be spayed anyway, I thought it would be better to get both done with her only being put under once. And then of course, we discovered the cancer. I don't know...she just looked so miserable this morning.

 

[Luvmyzoocrew]

gentle giants wrote:

Well, she didn't seem truly sick before the spay, but she had never been "right" if you know what I mean. I had her spayed when I did because she wasn't eating right, and I wanted to get her teeth checked to see if that was the problem. Since she needed to be spayed anyway, I thought it would be better to get both done with her only being put under once. And then of course, we discovered the cancer. I don't know...she just looked so miserable this morning.

Oh man i am so sorry, hugs to her and you.

 

[naturestee]

Darn it. I was hoping she had been acting well before the spay. Were any dental problems found?

I wouldn't give up on her just yet, as she really might be just recovering from her spay. It did sound rougher than normal and she may have had more than the usual blood loss due to extra blood vessels connected to the tumor. I'm just going to work on that assumption right now because it's what I'd rather believe and it won't hurt anything.