Spaying age

[Rain]

I recently took Rain to a vet and found out that she is a girl, and that she definitely must be spayed. I was thinking of doing it this week as I’m off, but then I thought maybe next year, and then I realized what about false pregnancies! What age do they start having false pregnancies or is it just random after they mature? What is the best age to spay a rabbit? Rain is just six months old! I feel bad putting a tiny baby through surgery! But if I wait she could get cancer. Probably not at one year of age, but still. Any thoughts?  Also, I need any ideas you guys have on how to administer pain meds without holding the rabbit because I know she will not let me do that. I guess I’ll probably find some way, like drizzling it on her lettuce or something, but I’m open to any suggestions. 

[Mikey]

Spays are usually best done six months to a year old, Ive heard. Its easier on the bun and unlikely for cancer to have formed by that time. Of course, you can do it later, but by 3, shes at a much higher risk to develop cancer.

For pain meds, all three of my boys loved the taste of their pain killers, thankfully :p You can mix with with juice(but ask the vet first, just in case), water, drizzled onto greens and treats, mixed into pellet mash, ect

[Sirius&Luna]

I agree, the earlier you spay the better. My vet actually said 5 months was the perfect time, as the uterus is developed, but still has less of a blood supply etc so is easier to take out. That said, I didn’t have Luna done until she was 7 months old and she was absolutely fine. At 6 months, Rain isn’t a baby anymore. So I would agree, 5 months – 1 year is the optimum time.

As for medicine, it tastes nice, and if I left Luna on the floor and offered her the syringe, she would lap it straight up. If not, drizzled on greens or banana might work, or keeping her still on the floor with a towel over her.

[Rain]

Okay thank you guys so much! Also how exactly do you make the pellet mash?

[Sirius&Luna]

Just soak pellets in a bit of warm water

[Rain]

Thank you! I’ve decided I won’t do Rain’s spay this week after all because I realized that it takes two weeks for them to fully heal and get back to normal, and I’ll be going to school, so I wouldn’t be able to take care of her. I think I’ll do it in the summer time when I have all the time I could possibly need to take care of her. So, just in a couple months I guess. Thank you all for the help and great info!

[Deleted User]

Rain: obviously I don’t think spaying her is funny, but I have to tell you how much I’ve been snickering at work reading this. Poor little girl finally has a gender. Now let’s just hope they don’t discover she’s a he during the operation xD

[Rain]

Oml!!! If that happened though!!! I think at the time they told me her gender she was way too young and it was hard for them to tell. Yet they just went ahead and told me a gender anyways. My friend’s rabbit was said to be a male, and is a male. I bet she’s thinking in her head: Finally these slaves have got it right.
Now my mom’s not even interested in saying the gender right. She’s just sticking with boy.

[Deleted User]

Sounds like the HR at my job when I had to take Bombur into the vet, she called him a dog, then an animal, then an it. Slowly downgraded until he wasn’t important at all. psh.

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