🐰🩺 Dr. Anna explains how often your rabbit should visit the vet and why regular checkups are key to keeping them healthy! From routine exams to spotting potential issues early, we’ve got all the tips to keep your bunny thriving. 🐾
Is your bunny due for a vet visit? Learn how to stay on top of their health! 🐇✨
How often do you take your rabbit to the vet? Let us know in the comments! ❤️
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In this PDSA Petcast a PDSA vet advises on the importance of exercise for pet rabbits. The PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) Report found that over 150,000 pet rabbits live in hutches that are too small.
For more pet health advice visit www.pdsa.org.uk/pethealth
Part One of our veterinary series for all of you at home to watch! Keepers noticed that Danny the rabbit was having difficulty eating his solid food, but he was still able to eat softer food. They informed our veterinary team, who took a look at Danny, found the issue, and performed some minor dental work to fix the issue. You can watch it all here!
Major thanks to our veterinary staff who filmed their own videos during our COVID-19 closure. All non-essential staff are currently working from home, but our animal and veterinary staff are still coming in to the Zoo every day to provide ongoing quality care to our animals. We hope you enjoy these LIVE-style videos at home! Stay safe and stay well.
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Reminder that your pet bunnies need health checkups just like any other animal or human 🫶🏽
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Mary: Does your rabbit need veterinarian care? The answer to that question is yes. We now have good, skilled rabbit savvy vets in various areas of the country and it’s really a good idea to have your rabbit visit those vets or visit one of those vets for what we call a well bunny visit.
What does a well bunny visit do for you? Got any idea?
Amy: I’m hanging on every word.
Mary: A well bunny visit allows your vet to see the bunny when he’s not sick. So the vet can see what’s normal for your bunny. His normal behavior, how he feels, his various body parts, how they feel, how his belly feels when he’s healthy. We encourage owners to do this about once a year. Just go to the vet, let the vet have a hands-on visit with your rabbit and write up a record. So that when you do have a problem, if you have a problem, the vet will know what was normal for your bunny have a good point of comparison.
Amy: And how do you know it’s a good. Because a lot of times they say exotic animals and that means, you know, parrots, rabbits, whatever. But sometimes they don’t really know anything about rabbits. So how do you know?
Mary: Yeah, and interestingly enough, the word specialist is regulated by the American Veterinary Medical Association. Veterinarians are not allowed to call themselves specialist unless they go through certain kinds of training. There is no such thing as a straight rabbit specialist. So when people come and say, ‘Well, I went to a rabbit specialist and now my rabbit is sicker than before,’ I always say, ‘Well, did the vet tell you he or she was a rabbit specialist?’ Well, that’s what the front desk said so you have to be really careful. There’s no such thing as a rabbit specialist. There are vets who have taken special training after vet school, continuing education workshops or courses to learn about rabbits and that’s terrific. That’s what you want. And when you want to find a rabbit vet the best thing you can do, well one of the best things you can do, is to go online and look for the Association of Exotic Mammal Veterinarians. And it’s abbreviated A-E-M-V. At their website they have a list of veterinarians who like seeing various species, whether they’re specialist or not. And by calling around you’re likely to find a vet in your area that has substantial experience with rabbits. You have to ask, though.
If you have a rabbit rescue organization in your area that’s a great way to find a rabbit vet because those people are bringing in rabbits all the time. And they’ll know what vets are best at what. And they’ll steer you accordingly. Some vets are really terrify at rabbit tooth problems, for example, and they’ll send you to those vets. Others are good at rabbit gut problems. Some are good at everything. Those vets are hard to find but they’re around and they should be looked for. So, yeah, find yourself a good rabbit vet and make sure you visit that rabbit vet about once a year. You don’t need to do it more than that.
Amy: Unless they’re elderly and need to go twice a year.
Mary: Well, yeah, once they’re elderly they’re already at a stage in their life, like humans, where you do want to go more often. You want to have a checkup more often. There’s real value, when the vet tries to ask you to have things done for example. A lot of people resent that and they say, ‘Oh, he was trying to get money out of me. Because he tried to tell me I needed a blood test done on my rabbit.’ That’s not something the vet is trying to get money out of you for. If the vet takes a blood test from a healthy rabbit it’s fantastic information because now the vet has a series of normals. And if anything varies from that at a later date the vet can look back and say, ‘Well, on this date the rabbit’s kidney values were this and now they’re this.’ And that’s really useful information to have if you’re treating a sick rabbit. So, you know, do go in for a well bunny visit. Let your
Dawn the rabbit was brought in by her owners after suffering what the owners feared to be a seizure.
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In this PDSA Petcast a PDSA vet advises owners on what to feed their pet rabbits. The PDSA Animal Wellbeing (PAW) Report found that 750,000 pet rabbits are not eating the recommended daily amount of hay or grass, which is essential for a rabbit’s dental and digestive health.
For more pet health advice visit www.pdsa.org.uk/pethealth
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It wasn’t always the case, but these days many vets can care for rabbits and other small creatures—which is lucky for us and our bunny buds!
Step 1: Ask around
Of course the simplest way to find a vet who treats rabbits is to ask around. Possible sources of information are rabbit breeders, rescuers, and owners; pet stores; and other veterinarians.
Step 2: Ask about spaying
Make sure a potential rabbit vet is comfortable with spaying or neutering your bunny.
Step 3: Ask about syringe-feeding
Ask the vet if he or she can syringe-feed a colicky bunny—and show you how to do it if necessary.
Tip
A rabbit vet should be able to help you locate high-quality feed hay—timothy, not alfalfa—and timothy-based rabbit pellets.
Step 4: Ask about bunny buddies
If a bunny needs to board at the vet for certain procedures, it will often recover faster with a companion. If you own more than one rabbit, ask the vet if he or she will board a ‘bunny buddy,’ too.
Step 5: Ask about dental care
Since many rabbits develop dental problems, make sure the vet knows how to provide basic bunny dental care.
Step 6: Spread the word
Found someone good? Then take your rabbit in for annual checkups—and pass the word along to other rabbit owners!
Did You Know?
Providing plenty of timothy or other high-quality, low-calcium hay is the best way to keep your bunny’s teeth from growing too long.
