"I gots to get fixed? What?"

[welsummerchicks]

Our rabbit started taking gigantic long flying leaps through the air - he would land on my boyfriend's feet, my boyfriend had some fuzzy brown socks that to our rabbit looked like - a friendly girl rabbit with loose morals. THen the rabbit would start humping my boyfriend's feet with an impressive amount of gusto.

There was one rather embarrassing dinner party where our rabbit continuously threw himself at each guest in turn, only to be rebuffed repeatedly.

After a little while, it came to be that everything between bread loaf and Chevy Cavalier size, reminded him of a friendly girl rabbit. Even when the socks were off my boyfriend's feet, they were attractive.

In fact, at a point in time, we had to admit to each other that our rabbit was spending - well - most of his waking hours humping various things, and that he didn't really have any sleeping hours any more.

Our rabbit specialist vet recommended neutering our rabbit.

So I took him in, and of course I made sure I spent plenty of time regaling the staff with extremely descriptive stories of the rabbit's escapades. I didn't leave until I was sure the entire practice was collapsing on the floor wetting themselves and crying, they were laughing so hard.

We had some fairly amusing conversations about what sort of instruments you use for that surgery - the vet assured me that they were 'little tiny instruments', and a great time was had by all.

When the surgery was done and Bun was ready, I was kept late at work to deal with an emergency. The vet's office called saying Bun was done and ready to go.

I allowed as how I was stuck at work and the receptionist caught her breath, covered the phone mouthpiece and muttered something unintelligible, it seemed, to a large audience. Then she said very casually, 'Well....so....why don't you send your boyfriend over to get Bun?' She seemed very calm and casual about it, but despite my poor hearing, I had the distinct impression that I was hearing excited giggling from a number of different people in the background.

It was only later that I learned that the entire staff of the clinic stayed late, so that they could see, 'The Man Who Was Loved by Rabbits'.

The moral of the story? Neuter your rabbit - BEFORE you find your socks in an unwearable condition.

 

[Mom 2em All]

My brother in law had intact male rabbits also mount chickens and attempt to mate as well.

Lots of feather-flying and squawking there!

It makes them less territorial and nicer pets to be neutered. And female rabbits are very susceptible to ovarian cancer so I always encourage them to be spayed. I understand your nervousness. I have a Holland lop that needs to be neutered/ I am a veterinary technician and have assisted in many rabbit neuters at my work- and yet, I havent scheduled my appointment yet, either.
When you do take him in, make sure you send him with plenty of hay/food in his carrier. Many people dont know that rabbits do not get fasted before surgery like dogs and cats do- and we have people drop them off at my work for surgery with no food! We always send someone down the road to pick up some food for them when that happens.

Good luck. Just make sure you are confident in your vet, and choose one that has alot of rabbit experience.

 

[jenni22776rn]

Our indoor Bunny is intact...just getting ready to turn 6 years old. His name is Sara..yup we thougt he was a she up until the time about 4 years ago when "she' was on her side and I noticed some skin that was bald in the back..well after getting made fun of from the DH FOREVER on that mistake..I wanted to get him fixed..but truly I heard it was a risky surgery and found only one vet in my area willing to do it. We choce to leave well enough alone and have never had any issues..well once in a while when he gets excited when we put him in his outdoor run..he jumps and sprays! I have never been around a bunny that was fixed..not sure how much it changes them...he is one cute little guy though!!!

 

[welsummerchicks]

My vet told me it isn't a risky surgery at all. I think it's that people just aren't used to the idea of it.

 

[NGT ANGL]

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Your story is hysterical!!! Would have loved to be a fly on the wall of your dinner party!!

 

[NGT ANGL]

6chickens - That is the cutest bunny with the most expressive face!! Gosh.......I want a bunny now too........

 

[FireTigeris]

My male bun before and after was just fine, no change in behavior (got him snipped ASAP as his sister was his cage mate).

 

[bagendhens]

neuter in anything under 5lbs seems to be a comfort level thats VERY dependant on the individual vet.
ive known vets more than comofrotable doing it, and vets that arnt, if your vet is confiednt and comfortable id personally have him neutered now while hes young enough to not have started to develop any bad habits.

some bucks NEVER develop bad habits, some are angels even intact their entire life, but there are other bonuses other than behaviour to spay/neuter even in the lil guys.
primarily the risk of reproductive cancers is removed completly.

being your son is so worried, might it be worth him talking directly to the vet about it...
its one thing when mommy tells you itll be ok...
i know as a kid whenever mum told me it woudl be fine id always think "but your not an expert" and find myself questioning, i KNEW she was just saying that because she wanted to make me feel better...however if the professional whos job it would be to do the thing i was worried about sat down and talked to me i felt much more at ease about the entire thing (excpet when it came to the dentist, to this day i hate the dentist lol)
but mabe having the vet explain everything to him (in kid frinedly terms fo course) along with the benefits to bunnies health (potentially longer lifespan) it would put your son a little more at ease.

if your not comofrtable neutering then that is aboslutly your choice, however if the bad habits start it often takes longer for them to stop, the longer you wait the more likely you would be to have "bucky" issues.

 

[cafarmgirl]

I have the same situation here except my son has two does. I'd like to have them spayed but I am nervous about it too and haven't yet made the appt. What I did do was schedule a consultation and had my son came along so he could hear everything the vet had to say and ask any questions. The vet is a very experienced exotic animal vet with lots of experience spaying/neutering rabbits. After hearing all about it from the vet we were both much more comfortable with the idea so we'll likely be getting them done soon.

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

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He's an American Chinchilla rabbit. I got him from a nice man in Indiana who raises them for show, his name was Herman, can be emailed at [email protected].

I just got lucky, I was not intending to bring home a rabbit that day, but we've made the best of it and I really like the bunny. I follow him around saying, "gimme some of those ears" and he lets me pet his face, down the ears and he stretches all out with his back legs behind him, all sleepy. His fur is amazing

soft.

He told me the breed is intended as meat/fur producers, they are very docile in confinement. But as you can see our bunny boy has hill and dale to zip around in, he's quite happy outdoors.