Thanks for your advice! Thankfully he seems to be perking up now. He can now walk properly and has eaten a little hay and taken a drink from his water bowl twice. He has also passed urine and (most encouragingly) normal-looking bunny poos. I take it this means his digestive system is moving as normal so will just leave him to it I guess. I am sitting near him all the time anyway so I can keep an eye on him without disturbing him too much.

I think putting the t-shirt over him helped as since I did that he hasn’t been shaking. We have the central heating on too and his cage is in a nice warm corner of the house so I don’t think there’s any risk of him getting cold.

Another question though – he seems to be kind of itchy as he keeps scratching himself? I know in humans at least people sometimes are itchy after coming round from anaesthetic so I guess it could be that (according to the discharge sheet we got from the vets he also had a painkilling injection and I’ve heard that painkiller shots can cause itching too so that’s another possibility). He’s mostly scratching his ears/head/upper body and not “down there” so I guess it’s not a huge problem. In fact he doesn’t seem to be bothered by the wound at all.. Anyone else had any experience of their bunny seeming itchy after surgery?

Looks like he’s getting over it fine now – he’s eating some of his pellets and hay and is drinking regularly. The itching seems to have calmed down too. He’s a lot more mobile now – he seems to want to come out of the cage in fact but the caresheet says we should keep him in there until his checkup on Friday – gonna be hard to keep him locked up, I can’t say no to that little face.

hmm.. he’s now eating quite happily, but only really wants greens, only a little hay and pretty much no pellets. he was pooping fairly normally (only a little smaller than usual) last night and I think this morning, but since I cleaned out his litter tray he doesn’t seem to have pooped again. i’m pretty sure he hasn’t had much to drink today either and hasn’t peed since i cleaned out his tray either. he usually poops one hell of a lot so this is kind of worrying. i thought maybe i spotted him eating cecotropes earlier but maybe he was just cleaning himself. he doesn’t seem uncomfortable but it’s so hard to figure out what’s normal behaviour when he’s in his cage as he’d usually be running around the house at this time of day! I’ve not noticed him straining to go or looking pained, he’s mostly sitting quietly, lying down or hopping around the cage.

I wondered if maybe I should let him out of the cage (limited to one small room) and see if a bit of exercise gets things “going” again, but I’m not sure if I risk him opening up his wound if I let him go jumping about. what do I do?

Thanks everyone for your advice. He’s back to his old self now pretty much, we’ve started to let him out as he kept digging in the corner of his cage (he always does it when he feels cooped up). He has most of his energy back and will now eat some pellets (but seems to prefer greens now, I guess because they are cool, it’s quite warm out at the moment). He still doesn’t seem to drink as much as before but is peeing so he must be drinking at least a little. Thanks for the suggestion about rinsing his greens a bit extra, I will try that!

His vet checkup is tomorrow so I guess we’ll know how his wound is looking then (he won’t let me look at it) but he seems to be healing pretty well, it doesn’t seem to bother him at all, yay 🙂