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Megane777

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I brought in my around 6 month old rabbit to be spayed today. She was cleared by the vet 2 weeks ago and is in fantastic health.

After about 7 hours, I received a call from the vet to say that the spay was not easy. Her ovaries were located behind her uterus and they were attached to her abdominal wall. He had never seen anything like that. She now is spending the night at the hospital to be monitored.

Has anyone had experience with a traumatic surgery with young buns? How have they handled it? Have they been fine? I am distraught about this.
 
I had a young buck go in for a neuter and his heart stopped when they first administered the sedative. Luckily they were able to resuscitate him and he was fine after, though still not neutered. Me however, not fine :p It took me another year and using the best(and most expensive) rabbit vet in the area, before I had the nerve to finally go ahead with the neuter. I was a basket case waiting to hear how it went and how he was, but there were absolutely no issues this time. He's now currently 9 and lives with his bunny family of 4.
 
That sounds so traumatic. I am pretty worried. I was supposed to get a call back this evening and it's now almost 10 pm and I haven't heard anything and their phone lines are off.
Luckily, it seemed to me, other than the worry in the vets voice, she was coming off the anesthesia fine and they gave her pain medication right away. So hopefully she will be fine overnight and we can take her home. Hopefully now there will be no other sugeries so no more surprises.
 
Megane777 said:
That sounds so traumatic. I am pretty worried. I was supposed to get a call back this evening and it's now almost 10 pm and I haven't heard anything and their phone lines are off.
Luckily, it seemed to me, other than the worry in the vets voice, she was coming off the anesthesia fine and they gave her pain medication right away. So hopefully she will be fine overnight and we can take her home. Hopefully now there will be no other sugeries so no more surprises.
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How's your baby?
 
@JBun - I relate. Waiting for calls. Researching for the best, most experienced DVM. We have an upcoming spay appt. for a hyper lionhead dwarf (with parasites, who was abandoned). Xray and CBC/BMP checked out fine. I will still be a basket case until the DVM certified vet tech calls.

JBun, I want to ask about revival steps from rabbits when cardiac arrest occurs. Our 2019 rescued FG's heart stopped at the very end of his neuter surgery. Pre-surgery bloodwork done. No xray though, now our clinic will perform pre-surgery radiographs. Necropy was requested on my boy to determine why his heart stopped.

He had less than 1/4th normal lung function to handle the brief procedure. His sibling will turn 4 pretty soon.

I remain a basket case each time one of our sanctuary crew go "off", and a surgery is done by our DVM who has done thousands on all species of small pets.
 

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Hermaphrodite surgery on a rescue. That went smoothly. I understand being distraught. A comfort thought is she is staying to be monitored. I hope she will recover smoothly. I am worried right with you.

We get attached and treat our fur-babies like family.
 
Correction to date: December 2018 rescued FGs. First person who couldn't keep the two brothers (at age 7 months) obtained both from a backyard breeder and her comments were not complimentary as to their condition and environment. The boys' urine and hormonal spray hoses were working well. Mucho spraying when we accepted them and scheduled their neuters.

Their caging unit was guinea-pig sized in her home. Kids, dog, cat, mother moving into her apartment, there was no more space or time or funds for the rabbits to be kept in g/pig unit. Jackson, agouti boy in the background, seen in this pic. Man, I still miss this lovable boy with the ear chunk missing to this very day. Such a sweetie. His brother will be forever loved...
 

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@Megane777 -- Fantastic update. Please give your girl lots of kisses from me. Sending much love.
 
@JBun , do you know how they resuscitated him? I have major concern about our PTSD(?) and hyper girl going in this week.

I gather our savvy DVMs will know resuscitation procedures but I would still like to know from your experience?

Two of our girls screamed when isoflurane cone was set on their nares and anesthesia gas started. One gal was assessed to be PTSD.
 
TreasuredFriend said:
@JBun , do you know how they resuscitated him? I have major concern about our PTSD(?) and hyper girl going in this week.

I gather our savvy DVMs will know resuscitation procedures but I would still like to know from your experience?

Two of our girls screamed when isoflurane cone was set on their nares and anesthesia gas started. One gal was assessed to be PTSD.
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I don't. In the paperwork, the only thing mentioned was the administration of epi.
 
@TreasuredFriend Resuscitation in animals is going to be similar to what occurs with people. Epi, chest compressions, oxygen and ventilation via BVM. I just can't say exactly what was done with my bun except what the paperwork showed, as I didn't ask at the time.

Though when I finally had his neuter done a year later with the specialist vet, I did make sure they did presurgery blood work, and intubated(only have an experienced vet do this) and established an IV for the surgery. I wanted to make sure his airway was secured and IV set, in case he needed to be resuscitated again. Which intubation and IV wasn't done for the first neuter attempt. So maybe having the airway secured made a difference the second time around. I don't know for sure though. All I know is the specialist vet said the surgery went smoothly with no complications.
 
@JBun, your time to lend knowledge is deeply appreciated.
 
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