I’ve had the worst couple of days.. I have a 7 year old male rabbit who is normally fit and healthy. Thursday morning I went out to feed him and he was absolutely fine, when I got home from work on the evening I went out to give him his dinner and cover him up for the night and noticed his eye was really enlarged and enflamed. He seemed really quiet and couldn’t bare the thought of him being in pain so took him to the out of hours vets. The vet said straight away that it was a cancer of his third eye, he listened to his heart and his degestige system and have us 3 choices.. have him put to sleep there and then, have him in for surgery Friday morning or seeing as he’s an old boy try him on pain relief and let him live out his days until we notice w change and he goes down hill.. I chose the third. Anyway, yesterday evening after a night of eye drops and pain relief I noticed his testicles were very enlarged so decided to take him back to my normal vets this morning. The vet wasn’t concerned with his eye but more concerned with his testicle which the other vet hadn’t checked on Thursday evening. She seems to thick he’s got an aggressive tumor in his testicle and perhaps his third eye has become enflamed because he is not very well - apparently this is common in rabbits? He’s 7 years old and the vet advised I could take him to a specialist to have him castrated but it wouldn’t be a normal procedure as the cord feels very thick.. with that it’s not guaranteed that the problem in his eye deffinitely isn’t a cancer.
He’s on pain relief twice a day and eye lubricting drops twice a day and to be honest he seems really perky. He’s eating, drinking, passing poo and wee normally, he’s washing himself and hopping about as normal at the moment.
I guess I want to know if anyone else has been in a similar situation and what they did? It’s a horrible choice to make. I feel he’s an old boy, although the vet couldn’t believe his age and immworried he would survive the operation - or he may never recover afterwards. I could put him through all of that for no reason. Or I could let him live out the rest of his life happy and painfree until his tumor in his testicles gets too big for him to be able to cope with. I’m confident he isn’t in pain at the moment but I just want to do what’s best for him.
Any help or advice would be warmly welcomed x
He’s on pain relief twice a day and eye lubricting drops twice a day and to be honest he seems really perky. He’s eating, drinking, passing poo and wee normally, he’s washing himself and hopping about as normal at the moment.
I guess I want to know if anyone else has been in a similar situation and what they did? It’s a horrible choice to make. I feel he’s an old boy, although the vet couldn’t believe his age and immworried he would survive the operation - or he may never recover afterwards. I could put him through all of that for no reason. Or I could let him live out the rest of his life happy and painfree until his tumor in his testicles gets too big for him to be able to cope with. I’m confident he isn’t in pain at the moment but I just want to do what’s best for him.
Any help or advice would be warmly welcomed x
