Cage setup post spay

[caudex]

Sorry to bombard the forum, just have a lot happening right now.

 

Sophie’s spay is Friday. I know I’ll get postop instructions from the vet, but I want to check here about how to handle her cage setup before she gets home. I’ve read that I should be restricting hopping, and not pick her up for the first couple of days. Right now, she has a pet store cage which opens to her “yard,” an xpen which is attached. She has to hop in and out, and sometimes clumsybun gets caught on the door if she’s in a hurry. (ie, foot flicking at me while she flounces when free time ends sooner than she wanted.) Should I:

 

a.) Leave it as is, and trust her to make that tiny hop sparingly cos she’ll be sore and sleepy from the meds anyway.

b.) Remove the shelf inside and restrict her to her cage for a few days, which is small but is her home base and comfort zone.

c.) Restrict her to x-pen with a hidey box, which would be flat and have more space, but I have never seen her just flopped out there. She plays, but I don’t believe it is her “safe place.”

 

I’m so worried about my baby. She just seems so tiny to have surgery! The vet, while not particularly compassionate, (he informed me that feral rabbits were calmer than Sophie is and maybe I need to bond with her better… we’re bonded just fine, you’re a complete stranger trying to look in her mouth!) said all of the correct things about rabbit-specific care, so it should be okay.

[Beka27]

For the first day or two, I’d probably just have her in her plastic cage. She may not use a litterbox at first and might have excess cecals, so the cage will be easier to clean up and it will limit her movement. After 2 days, if she’s moving around okay, open the cage so she can come out to the xpen, but I keep her in the xpen for exercise for a full week.

[BinkyBunny]

Ditto to Beka’s advice. You had said that she can get caught up in the door — do you mean that the door becomes a ramp, and because it is a cage that her foot can get caught? If that is the case, I would put something over the door when it is used as ramp just to avoid injury anyway.

We never know how our bunnies are going to act with vets. I have had rabbits just be scared stiff, others somewhat calm, while others like Jack, would have no problem kicking and biting. He even had a warning on his chart so that vet techs would not be caught by surprise and accidentally drop him or something. So don’t feel bad, each bunny is different

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