So who wants to hear a cool story?

[Ivory]

A few weeks ago a lady brought in a male rabbit to be neutered. The neuter went fine. He quit humping, quit spraying, all that fun stuff.

About two weeks after the neuter, he began to develop a dewlap. But he was on a good feed, and there was no reason why he should be gaining weight.

About a month after the neuter, he started pulling out hair from this newly-aquired dewlap and nesting.

About a week later, he began producing milk. She made an appointment at this time.

(Heh heh, and I thought Pellette was screwed up.)

Well, he was spayed today. "He" had full female genitalia, moreso than male genitals. I rememeber, when we neutered him, I commented on how his penis wasn't hanging out under anesthesia like they often do (but not always). Well, it was because he didn't have one. Turns out, he had a vulva, and a uterus, ovaries, the whole nine yards, and he was experiencing a false pregnancy.

He just happened to have testicles along with it all. Not anymore!

So technically, "he" was probably supposed to be a "she". However they have kept her name Andy, but now spell it Andie.

That is our cool story for the day.

 

[MsBinky]

OMG :shock:

LMAO. Poor thing! LOL. That was funny. I woulda been soooooooooooooo confused. LOL. It's one thing when it's a mistake in sexing... It's another when you actually have both surgeries done :?Lol!

 

[Ivory]

Apparently the gender fairy was really high when she visited.

(LOL)

 

[Haley]

Wow thats really interesting!

 

[Michaela]

:shock::shock: Poor gender-confused bunny!


Ivory wrote:

Apparently the gender fairy was really high when she visited.

:laugh:

 

[LuvaBun]

Now, that is quite a story . How is he/she (I mean Andie ) doing after BOTH surgeries.

Jan

 

[Leaf]

So how exactly... do you charge the owner for that?

 

[Bo B Bunny]

I cannot have Tony become Heidi again..... no hermaphrodite bunnies! :shock:

 

[Ivory]

Leaf wrote:

So how exactly... do you charge the owner for that?

LOL you charge them for both surgeries. Technically they could have left Andie with all of her female parts- she would have been fine, the female part would have just taken over. The owner decided to get her spayed because she gets all of her animals fixed, this one just required a little more attention than most .

LuvaBun, Andie is doing really well! She had recovered from the castration completely, is seems to be waking up from this surgery well. She will be sent home tomorrow. I think that the owners want to get a gene test to see exactly what she is. We think that the Y chromosome didn't completely form, so she stayed XX-and-a-half instead of becoming XY. When they become male, part of one of the X's will shrivel up and fall off, but instead of actually falling off it just sort of became....in the middle. So she is a female, that didn't quite become a male...but stayed a female.

We figure whichever behavior she reverts back to, will probably be her intended gender. And considering that she had a full female system- ovaries and everything- as opposed to pseudohermaphroditism, we think she was probably meant to be a female and for whatever reason, she began to become a male but it didn't go through. Maybe the Mom had an influx of testosterone or something.

Either way it's pretty cool.

 

[tundrakatiebean]

Ivory wrote:

I think that the owners want to get a gene test to see exactly what she is. We think that the Y chromosome didn't completely form, so she stayed XX-and-a-half instead of becoming XY.

I know in human homophridites their genes are XXY...

This is very intereasting, if they do decide to get a gene test you should let us know the result.

 

[~Bracon~]

wow thats strange lolGlad it all got sorted out though

 

[maherwoman]

Hehe!!! Poor Andie...but I'm happy she's okay now...

Ivory wrote:

Apparently the gender fairy was really high when she visited.

(LOL)

 

[Bo B Bunny]

maherwoman wrote:

Hehe!!! Poor Andie...but I'm happy she's okay now...

Ivory wrote:

Apparently the gender fairy was really high when she visited.

(LOL)

LOL!

I wonder if some of the girls who turn to boys are both more often and we just don't know it?

 

[maherwoman]

I guess ya just never know...:?

 

[PixieStixxxx]

Awww!! That's a kewl story!! But harshhhh... neutered AND spayed.

 

[TK Bunnies]

OMG! :shock:That's strange. Poor bunny. I bet Andie was really confused!

 

[Phinnsmommy]

I wonder what you would tell people when they asked if it was a boy or a girl :huh2