Friday, November 9, 2007

Freaking over bunny health

Ok, so we got the rabbit spayed Wednesday, so she'd be less nuts, stop mounting our (neutered and confused) male rabbit, not get cancer and so on. Fine. I found a nearby vet with rabbit experience and went through with it and then she would not eat or poop. So not a good thing for bunnies as their delicate digestive systems can shut down and do them in in short order. Took her back in for a fluids/painkiller/gut motility injection yesterday. No help. She's not at all a happy bunny.

Today called the way expensive exotics-specific vet in the area and now she is hospitalized there and they aren't sure how she'll do. Plus it has so far cost about 20 times what we paid for her and may be much more. I bounce between telling myself we have to do everything we can and not upset the child, versus it's a Rabbit. People EAT rabbits. We can't spend more on her than the upcoming property taxes...Why can't anything just go smoothly?

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