It’s Banfield Pet Hospital. I think at this location they just share the building with PetSmart, but aren’t actually associated with. They have all their own staff and receptionist separate from the store. People I know who’ve been their with rabbits have said that the doctor is really very good with them, and she’s the only truly rabbit savy vet in the area that’s affordable. No, we aren’t moving to Hawaii, we’re going for a week, and leaving Foo with a baby sitter, and taking her to the vet before we go is really going to alleviate some of the fear of leaving her for the first time while we’re gone, and she’s due for her yearly checkup anyway. So it all worked out.

First of all, since I finally got to meet her in person, I LOVE Dr. Fry. She was so nice and friendly and took an extra half hour after the appointment to just discuss things with us regarding having Foo spayed and was up front about the real danger of GI stasis after the fact. She currently has two bunnies herself and talked about her experiences with them as well. Foo has a clean bill of health, she’s gained a pound since we took her in as a stray, and is currently 4.5 pounds, which is ideal for her breed. Dr. Fry agreed that she looks like a dwarf-Dutch mix, which is what I had thought all along. Foo was friendly and warmed up after a while, by the end of the visit she was kicked out and relaxed on the exam table. Her teeth are in great shape and we were told she has good alignment so hopefully there won’t be too many problems further down the line. Dr. Fry did shave her belly while I heard her to look for scarring to see if she had been spayed before, and didn’t see any. Foo let me hold her during this, and let me hold her like a baby (which was just too cute for words!). There was one downside to the visit though- after shaving her and looking at her nipples, Dr. Fry did say it looked they had old, crusty milk on them (which she cleaned off), and said it was likely Foo has had a litter of kits. I’m completely disheartened by this, first because it means the people who had her before allowed her to get pregnant and then abandoned her AND because it had never crossed our minds that she could have had babies. So when we found her as a stray we didn’t think to look to see if there were any babies with her, and quite possibly could have taken them away from her. I’m sad for Foo to have gone through having a pregnancy so little (she was estimated to be a little over a year old, so she was real young when we found her) and I’m sad because we would totally have taken her kits in had we found them. So while the visit was excellent and my baby is in perfect health, I’m kinda grieving the loss of her babies (as irrational as that is)