It sounds like they did do an IV on her. You can see her bone – even now that it’s healed? I would be baffled too – I think it would be a good idea to just call and speak to the vet about it. I know sometimes that it can take awhile for the fur to grow back in different areas too.

The fur on Noelle’s tummy took forever to grow back in! I’m talking months after the fact and it was still all splotchy. She also had a bald spot on her leg that I found, but I couldn’t decide if it had been shaved or if she had gone a little overboard trying to get herself out of all the gettups I had to put her in to stop her from chewing the stitches (socks, leggings, scarves, tensor bandages…). So it’ll probably just take a while to grow back, but a call to the vet might be warranted just to be sure. What do you mean you can see the bone? That sounds really gross but can’t possibly be as bad as it sounds or I’m sure you’d be freaking out… 🙂

~phew~ Skin is good! Glad to hear the skeletal system is well contained!

Coco still has funny patchy bald spots around where she was shaved for her spay…and it was in August…. I only really see them when she telescopes OR I have to trance her for anal gland checks/nail trims.

Yeah – Noelle’s spay was in May, and her tummy fur is finally mostly grown back. I think she has a couple odd splotches still, but the rest of it is good and long now, so it covers up the nekid spots.

Layla has it still, her tummy & leg. It’s so wierd cause she’s so fluffy & then there’s these bald patches.

Cotton was spayed in May and her fur is back about 85%, Penny was spayed in July before I got her and her spay area is about 60%.  The incision line grew hair back first- so she had a bald rectangle with a line of fur in the middle.  And Penny’s appears the same way- it is the outer edges of prep area that is yet to grow in.  My personal theory is that the bunnies body recognized the incision as trauma and set to healing it and regrowing fur (as they would for a wound in the wild)- but the body did not recognize the shaved area as a trauma and the body does not prioritize growing fur back on the shaved area- so it seems as though it takes months and months for that part to grow back. 

  My vet did a double take when he saw Penny’s belly at her exam when I got her- but I explained Coton did the same thing after spay.  Dogs and cats definitely do not behave like this.  And for the bunnies that we spay and neuter, if we use sutures and not glue- we see them back in 10-14 days so it is typical not to see the hair not grown back in.  We never see bunnies just months after spay/neuter- usually years as there are no annual vaccines for bunnies although we do see some older ones yearly.

So keep an eye on Boston- I would not be surprised if her hair does not grow back quickly except for incision site.  And that will probably be the same for her leg too- if they had to do bloodwork and IV they had to have a sterile site for the catheter and I am sure they were taking no chances with all poor Boston has been thru!  Maybe the winter weather will trigger her body to grow hair back sooner!