I always find Sammy eating his veggies left overnight in the morning. I take them away and give him fresh ones but he’s never died from eating the ones left out overnight LOL

How long has it been since you brought Sunny home? Sammy didn’t get back to eating his normal food until maybe 5 or 6 hours after I brought him home, maybe even slightly more. You probably want to keep him enclosed in his pen/cage for today and maybe the next 1 or 2 days to avoid him jumping on stuff too soon.

FYI, just in case this happens to you, I had a freak out about him licking his incision a lot, but it turned out it wasn’t that big of an issue and I was over-reacting. Your vet will most likely have used internal stitches and glue to keep the incision closed, so it’ll just look like skin folded in on itself, with a little redness. You can get sunny to stand up by putting a raisin over his head and place a mirror by his back feet so you can see his incision as he stands up. If he’s licking it or it looks slightly red don’t overreact like me though, he most likely will not be able to damage it

Just so I don’t take credit for the mirror idea, I read it on this site LOL

If it was Sammy, since I’m kind of crazy, I’d set an alarm for about halfway from when I’m going to sleep to when I wake up, so I don’t wait 7 or 8 hours to monitor him but monitor him ever 4 or so. But I think you should be okay doing the morning thing too. I’m just over-anxious.

I gave Sammy the pain meds the next morning just in case. He seemed okay but not great. Signs of pain are grinding his teeth, sitting in a hunched position, being lethargic and unwilling to move, not eating. If your rabbit isn’t eating yet by tomorrow morning I’d definitely do the pain meds and call the vet to see if you should give him some critical care or something like that.

Sammy actually liked the meds they gave him, so he licked them up willingly. Hopefully Sunny will be the same!

It’s the jumping up onto platforms and things that causes the most harm. I would let him out to any room that doesn’t have something to jump onto. A bathroom is good, a hallway for a long run. Just keep him away from chairs, couches, beds, or platforms in any habitat. But if he’s feeling that well, he wants out so let him get a run. You can use a baby gate to block off a hallway if you have one.

When they’re in pain, they usually huddle in a meatloaf position and grind their teeth. It doesn’t sound like pain to me.

Glad to hear he’s doing well! You don’t need to wait 10 days to let him jump on things. I called my vet after having confined Sammy for 3 days post surgery and he said “let him out already”. He said 2 days would have been fine.

Did you use a treat? If you dangle it just out of reach he should stand up for a bit trying to get it.

My rabbit hates being picked up for held, but if I just lift his front legs gently and slowly (leaving his back legs on the ground), he lets me do that till I can have him in an almost standing position.

You could give that a shot, just do it slowly so he’s not spooked.

And if you then can’t see into the mirror another good option if you have a camera or camera phone is to take a quick pick of the area.

Sammy’s area was dark red, not necessarily all the way to purple. Not sure if your rabbit’s color as normal or not though so I’ll leave that to someone else to determine. If he’s acting like he isn’t in pain I’m sure it’s fine.

No problem. I’ve always been warned to look for swelling and redness, which does not seem to be the case there, so I think he’s doing well.
If the discoloration changes by becoming larger, or looks inflamed, or if it seems to be more swollen as time goes on rather than less, that’s cause for a vet call. It’s more the progression from the initial day he’s home to what it looks like a few days later and so on. So if they become lighter in color, the fur fills in (looks pretty good that way too), and his behavior, appetite and poos are all normal, I’d say you’ve got a successful prognosis.

Hey sorry, just saw that you added this picture. To be honest, my rabbit’s nether regions did not look like this after his neuter. However, I think more of your rabbits fur was removed, so you can see the skin more, whereas with my rabbit I couldn’t see much of his skin, so that may be why it looks different.

You could call the vet and describe the incision area, or even, if they have an email address, send the vet office the pic you posted then call them to let them know to show it to the vet and call you back.

My vet included a checkup appointment post-surgery in the neutering cost, so I was able to bring Sammy in to be checked about a week after surgery, just to be sure. You could also call your vet to ask about that, just for peace of mind.

I always recommend asking your vet if you have any questions about an incision.  But from looking at the pic- what it looks like to me is that the scrotum (plural?) area is shaved or plucked in order for the area to be scrubbed and prepped for surgery.  If boy pets are neutered and they are more mature (have larger testicles) it can take awhile for the sacs to reduce in size.  Neutering involves removing the internal testicles and not the actual sacs- so sometimes that confuses people when they are looking to see what was done.

So from the pic- I am not sure I see the actual incision but the neuter site that was prepped by removing hair.