Hi! I’m glad that Jessica was spayed – it’s harder for females to recover so it takes them a few more days to get back to normal. Has she been eating anything on her own? I have the best luck with getting girls to eat cilantro and parsley after their spay, especially if I break the stems in half. I would say that today or tomorrow she should be eating on her own and not require the syringe feedings as much, thought it could even take a couple more days for her to get up and move around a lot.

The girls that I have gotten spayed before have not had pain meds – so perhaps those were making her a bit more sluggish than normal as well – so you might see even more improvement today. I noticed that after a spay/neuter lots of bunnies sleep in their box. I think it may be partially because that hay might be comfier on their under-parts when they are healing, and also because sometimes it hurts them to jump in and out of the litterbox, so they figure, might as well stay in!!

I’d recommend trying to get her to eat some hay, even stick the end of it in her mouth if you have too so she’ll start munching on it, the reason being that even though she is eating, a steady diet of treats and veg but no hay could cause some digestive upset, and if you are going out of town you’ll definitely want her to be eating hay while you’re gone. I’d definitely for the next couple days try to only give a teeeny bit of treats, in addition to her cilantro and parsley, she’ll probably also not eating her hay because she’s getting all those treats! You’ll really want to make sure she’s eating hay before you leave, and then work on her diet when you get back, you don’t want to her to get too big!! That could sause some big health problems down the road…but its not to hard to cut out the treats