Yes. The "consumer" of vet services needs to check out the details & not just take the word of the vet or his/her staff. This will force you to learn more about rabbits & their needs. Sometimes the vet is more interested in making money than caring for the rabbit.
I didn't know any of this when i got my first bun & i found later my vet hardly knew a thing about rabbits. (Altho to be fair, this was back in the '80s, when even the vet schools were not teaching their students about rabbits, so it would have been very tough to find a rabbit specialist in those days, such a person would have had to educate themselves on the subject.)
When I was calling vets around here and asking if they were well experienced with rabbits, every one of them said yes. Yet when I went to one guy after talking to the receptionist on the phone (she told me that he was a 'rabbit specialist'), I walked in and their other receptionist greeted me by saying that they very rarely saw rabbits. Then when I spoke to the vet about my bunny's diarrhea, he recommended yogurt drops for him to stop the diarrhea, and he refused to do a stool culture, saying it wasn't necessary. So not every vet who says they are experienced with rabbits necessarily are. Asking for a history of their rabbit spay/neuters, as well as what kind of anesthetic they use, whether they recommend allowing the rabbit to eat in the hours before surgery, etc., will help to let you know if they are 'rabbit-savvy'.
