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Ben
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Ok so just a little thread and i wanna know your opinions. I dont know if you can remember or not but i posted a couple of weeks ago bout a cat being in my rabbits hutch...well i was playing with it this morning and noticed it was walking funny. Had a closer inspection and its back left leg was totally swelled up and non responsive so i had a bit of a feel and noticed something pretruding from under the skin, bone possibly glass.
Took him to the vets and the vet shaved his leg and says he would need an x ray and possibly an amputation. so i forked out the hundred sheets for an x ray and anasthetic even though its my nephews rabbit. So i left him with the vet for his x ray and he rang me...now this is the weird bit...
he says Lucky who is a girl by the way i didnt know has fractured her leg, you have 3 options:
1. Mend the fracture and see if time heals it
2. Amputate it although rabbits depend on their hind legs immensely
3. Euthanasia
Now i said option 1.....
He then rang me about 5 minutes ago and said that the joint was rotten and could not be saved i was now down to the last 2 choices and noone was around so i couldnt get anyones opinion. I decided to get it amputated and see if she can manage on one leg then if not get her put to sleep, thing is im thinking now maybe i made the wrong choice, might have been a bit selfish (even though its costin £200!) but i wanted to give her a chance at least ..what you think?
Took him to the vets and the vet shaved his leg and says he would need an x ray and possibly an amputation. so i forked out the hundred sheets for an x ray and anasthetic even though its my nephews rabbit. So i left him with the vet for his x ray and he rang me...now this is the weird bit...
he says Lucky who is a girl by the way i didnt know has fractured her leg, you have 3 options:
1. Mend the fracture and see if time heals it
2. Amputate it although rabbits depend on their hind legs immensely
3. Euthanasia
Now i said option 1.....
He then rang me about 5 minutes ago and said that the joint was rotten and could not be saved i was now down to the last 2 choices and noone was around so i couldnt get anyones opinion. I decided to get it amputated and see if she can manage on one leg then if not get her put to sleep, thing is im thinking now maybe i made the wrong choice, might have been a bit selfish (even though its costin £200!) but i wanted to give her a chance at least ..what you think?