It is more commonly seen in males than females. The urine from a sexually mature male also has quite a strong odour. If the behaviour is allowed to continue, it may be impossible to completely stop with neutering so it is best to neuter before sexual maturity or just shortly after to curb this behaviour before it becomes a habit.
Spaying and neutering have other benefits for your pet rabbit as well. After-hours Call Animal Emergency at Home About Us Clyde E. Protect Your Pets Click here for helpful information about preventing parasites in your pets.
It's best to keep them separate but in adjacent cages except when you can supervise them very closely. Every bunny needs a friend. It's wonderful watching a bonded pair interact, but rabbits are territorial creatures - introductions must be gradual, and carefully supervised! Keeping two males or females together can be difficult or impossible unless they have grown up together.
They must be neutered as soon as possible, and never separated, even for short periods of time. Seek expert advice before trying to introduce two rabbits of the same sex who are more than months old. Flystrike also known as Myiasis is when flies lay their eggs on a rabbit's skin usually around the bottom. The eggs quickly hatch and the maggots chew their way into the rabbit's skin.
This can happen within hours and can very quickly become fatal… continue reading. Health The importance of poo Important vaccinations Why neuter your rabbit? What is flystrike? Help - what's wrong with my rabbit? Why do I need to have my rabbits neutered? Some rabbit people give their rabbit acidophilus for a couple of days prior to surgery, just to be certain that the digestive system is functioning in fine form. After the surgery, ask your veterinarian for pain medication, especially for a spay.
If you choose, continue giving acidophilus until the appetite has returned to normal. Inspect the incision morning and evening. After a neuter, the scrotum may swell with fluids. Warm compresses will help, but it is nothing to be overly concerned about.
The physical size of the rabbit is not usually a surgical challenge, but rabbits under 1kg become progressively more difficult to intubate, and so this weight is a useful cut off to await before surgery, where possible ie some rabbits will be barely 1kg at adulthood, in which case there is little to be gained by waiting past 20 weeks.
Rabbit pregnancies are short — around 31 days — and there are several kits to each litter. Even 10 years ago, rabbit surgery was regarded as high risk and many vets were reluctant to perform planned surgery on rabbits. Nowadays there are far safer anaesthetics available, anaesthetic techniques have advanced enormously and veterinary training is more available, so rabbit neutering operations are much safer.
Surgery on any animal can have unexpected complications, including a small risk of death, but for most rabbits the benefits of neutering far outweigh the very small risk.
Older rabbits and those in poor health are more difficult to neuter safely. Like any other specialist field, vets vary in their interests and expertise in rabbit medicine. Check our choosing a good vet pages. If you already use a veterinary practice, ask whether they neuter rabbits.
Most small animal vets are happy to neuter both male and female rabbits these days, but some practices do still refer rabbit surgery — especially spays, or higher-risk rabbits — to specialist exotics practices. The cost of having rabbits neutered varies from one veterinary practice to another. Spaying a female is always more expensive than neutering a male because it is takes longer and is a more complex operation.
Ask vets for quotes, but if you can afford to do so, choose your vet based on their rabbit expertise and track record in rabbit anaesthesia and surgery, not on their price-list. Take your rabbit to the vet well before the operation date for a health check and to discuss the procedure.
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