T-T Yeah, my sweet Baby Bit is 6 months old already…

And as for ventillation..

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xD

Yes, the entire top is mesh, so I can look down in on her.

Anyway.

It comes with a built-in seatbelt safety strap. But I could (and probably will) still belt it in the traditional way I’ve done my carriers before -because regardless of what it LOOKS like, it actually is a pretty sturdy little tote.

Here is the web article about the thing -http://www.sturdiproducts.com/4111/xcart/product.php?productid=10&cat=1&page=1

As per the mesh-chew factor, neither of my bunnies have ever been too big on chewing mesh. But even if they were, I kind of doubt that my poor sweetie will feel much like chewing ANYTHING while she’s in the post-isofluorine ‘hangover’. In fact, as far as I’m concerned, if she DOES want to chew anything at that point, I’d take that as a good sign.

I bought this carrier specifically for this surgery. Not necessarily for regular travel. I didn’t want a hard carrier because 1) I want her surroundings to be as soft and padded as possible while she’s on the bouncy car ride. Hard carriers are notoriously hard to line (and KEEP lined) with proper padding for a sensitive tummy incision, and 2) Hard carriers tend to allow for too much maneuverability. I want to restrict her movement during the ride as much as I can without suffocating her.

Actually I’m beginning to have second thoughts about the carrier I bought if not just because it’s going to be AWFULY hard to get her in and out in her delicate state…hmm..

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I’m just a sad, confused, nervous person! T_T

Oh oh! One more thing!

Reading that House Rabbit article you posted, I noted one thing that I don’t remember seeing before when I had Binkles spayed:

” Give the rabbit acidophilus for a couple of days prior to surgery, just to be certain that the digestive system is functioning in fine form.”

Ehh?? I’ve never even heard of acidophilus. =S

Somebody help?

Okay…what exactly does it do? I’ve heard something about aiding the digestive tract, but…isn’t that what pedialyte does?

Alright. After some internal debate about the carrier, I decided to go ahead and buy another one.

The new one is very similar to Beka’s, but is made a little cheaper probably. Heh. But it works. It was the only top/ front loading carrier I could find. It has something like 26 oblong ventillation holes in addiition to the metal top and front-loaders.

I’m just going to stick a bunch of towels and a small pet bed in there so I can bring her out easilly.

D: Oh my gosh…I’m so scared..

I’m going to try to go get some sleep before the morning now.

Well…I got three hours of sleep in. xD Guess I’m doing good..

Thanks for everyone’s support!

><; Well, made the hour long drive and she's in pre-op now. Sitting here at my dad's house which is luckilly 3 blocks away.

Anyway.

T-T I know she’ll be fine…I just…I’m a bunny mommy! That’s all that needs to be said, I think.

The carrier thing isn’t a bad idea, Beka. Though I think her cage might be a little cramped. I do, however, have a pet bed inside the carrier that I think I will leave in the cage so she can get out of it at her own speed.

I’ll just pop the top off the carrier and lift her in the pet bed into her cage.

Ah! Hi again everyone! Sorry for the late post, but I HAD to get some rest. D:

Little-Bit’s surgery went great! Her blood work was all positive, she had no problems with the anesthesia, and everything went textbook. In fact, when I came to pick her up, I was surprised to find that she was even more lucid and hop-around-y than Binkles was after her spay! The entire car ride home, she was digging in the towels and pet bed in her carrier.

Don’t get me wrong, of course; she does NOT feel well. She’s just alert. =/ She may have been active the whole car ride, but when we got home, she just wanted to retreat into her hutch and rest. Which is where she has been ever since.

I have NOTHING to give but the highest praises to this vet. Not only does she have a sturdy foundation of bunny knowledge, but when she doesn’t know something, she admits it and encourages me to find people who do that she can consult with. The only complaint that I have is that the she wouldn’t give me any pain medications to give to her because she was worried that they’d mess with her GI tract. =/

She was more than willing to comply with my wishes for the E. Cunniculi test. But she had no idea where to find a lab or anything, so I had her contact the main vet for Alabama EARS -whom I’ve spoken with before and has a lot of experience with E.C.- and I guess they found a lab.

She also checked her ears and teeth and such while she was under. Her teeth look great and her ears don’t show any sign of infection. She did say that there was some gunk in the left ear -her problem ear- but that it was not infected. It was just…ear gunk. So she cleaned it out.

She hasn’t eaten anything yet, which means she will have gone without food since early this morning. I realize that this is a common occurrence in spays, but I’m still keeping an eye on it. I think she’s hungry, and she knows she’s hungry -she just doesn’t feel like eating. Frankly, I don’t blame her. I wouldn’t either. When we first got home and she hopped into her cage (I tried to just place the pet bed she was in into her cage so she wouldn’t have to move, but she decided that she wouldn’t have any of it and almost instantly hopped out into her cage by herself as if to say ‘Mommy, don’t baby me! I can do this on my own and you know it.’ ><), she briefly hopped over to her food bowl and sniffed the fresh pellets I had just put in but passed it up in destination for her hutch. The same thing happens when I offer her a piece of hay. She sniffs it and acts interested in it, but declines it. So she's interested but I guess just doesn't feel good enough to actually chew and swallow.

She has been drinking though. After a few hours of being home I took her water bottle off the side and lifted it to her lips. She seemed more than pleased to take a few licks at it, but stopped after that. Having had much the same experience with Binkles (who is now a permanently crock-watered bunny without wet dewlap) I decided to fill a small crock with water and offered it to her. Boy, she gulped that down! I’m not even sure that she was licking the water so much as she was sucking it!

So at least we’re having success on the hydration front, which also means that if push comes to shove, I can most likely give her Pedialyte or baby food and she will ‘eat’ it.

Hehe..

It’s kind of funny. xD

This is kind of my graduation present.

Round total, I got about $400 from all my relatives, and the surgery together with the E.C. test cost $388.

I guess, some graduates go on road trips, some throw parties, and others go on shopping sprees. Me? I’d like to have my bunny spayed, thanks!

xP Hehehe! Hay is a good thing to spend it on too!

-insert overly used pun here-

So I slept next to her on the floor last night. Under the cover of nightfall, I heard her come out of her hutch multiple times and chomp away on either hay or pellets or both. We’ve been drinking some water -not the prodigious amount that she normally consumes- but some, anyway. Had some success on the baby food front too. She loves her gerber pear and pineapple.

I’ve not seen any pee yet. That’s not to say that it hasn’t soaked down through the woodchips to the bottom, though. She HAS been in her litterbox. Just started to see a few small, misshapen poopies this morning. D’: And she missed a cecal..

The only thing that’s really worrying me is that she does this weird hunch thing where while she’s sitting, she brings up her shoulders like a vulture and cuurrrlls her toes under. She doesn’t really act like she’s in pain while she’s doing this, though. No teeth grinding or anything. Maybe it’s just a discomfort thing..?

But she does feel well enough to groom herself fully and stick her legs waaayy out in front of her to clean her toesies.

So you think she’s doing that because she’s in pain then? Do you think that she needs the pain shot? The vet is an hour away and she wouldn’t prescribe me any medication to administer at home. D:

Edit: She said that pain meds can mess with their GI tract..?

I know…I really wish I could have convinced the vet to give me some pain meds, but like I said, she was concerned that they would mess with her GI tract. Anybody else have a take on this?

Anyway, Little-Bit seems to be eating fairly well now. She is also alert and VERY congenial. (My baby forgives me. ) She’s steadilly eating her hay and pellets and she’s beginning to leave me more misshapen presents in her litterbox. Though she isn’t drinking as much water as I’d like her to be…could this be due to the fluids they administered during her op? Like…maybe she’s just already inundated? She’s peed at least 3 times (MAYBE 4) since her surgery -once in her cage at the vet, once in her travel carrier, and once (or twice) in her litterbox at home.

Any tips? Should I give her some pineapple juice and/ or simethicone and/ or Pedialyte?

Lol I don’t know.

Yes she has a crock.

I’ve been giving her some gerber pineapple and pear here and there. She inhales that. Gave her some straight pineapple juice last night for the first time. It was so cute to see her reaction. You could tell that she wanted to like it sooo bad. But in the end she decided it was too strong. Next time I’ll delude it.

You guys think wet veggies are better than wet fruit?

xD Hehehe. I’m sure too.

So..erm…hmm. What kind of watery veggies do you recommend?

Gotcha. Sounds good to me.