SPAY your rabbits

If this post manages to persuade at least one owner to spay their female, who otherwise wouldn't have, at least Emmy Lou/Sweetpea's life would not have been in vain.

She came into me in a sterotypical small 4ft hutch with her guinea pig friend. I was told she was 3 years. I seperated her from piggy and sent her in for her spay, and they said due to the state of her teeth, she was more likely to be around 7 years. She had the start of a tumour on her ovary, that they could not be sure if it had spread.



I decided to find her a long term foster home thinking no one would willingly take her on knowing she may be on borrowed time.

That's when Liz kindly took her on, and showed her what real love was.
And how it feels to be cared for, unconditionally.

Unfortunately, the tumours had spread, she was in a lot of pain, and today she was PTS, post mortem showing she had tumours on her lungs, one in her stomach and her abdomen was full of fluid.

Please, spay your rabbits.
She would be here if her previous owners had only done so.

What a beautiful girl

We've had three does who were found to have ovarian tumours when they were spayed, two went on to live long and extremely happy lives, one poor girly succumbed to cancer after a couple of months.

We've also had a buck with testicular cancer which was successfully removed and he's a well loved and happy boy.

I had both of my girl rabbits done automatically once I realised what a risk there was.

That is such a sad story. It's a shame more people don't realise that it isn't just about making sure they don't breed.