Holly had two mummified fetuses removed today. She is recovering from surgery now. She is one of four bunnies received from a kill shelter last Monday; she had not been eating well or acting like a healthy rabbit. I brought her in for an exam today as bunny lady and I both felt that she was simply not doing well, more so than could be expected from the stress of relocating to a completely new home. She had radiographs (X-rays) taken as the vet felt a hard mass near her kidney, which revealed the two fetuses. An ultrasound indicated that they were not viable (alive) and after running blood work, we opted to ask him to perform the surgery. Upon examination, it turns out that she had indeed been spayed, and these had been the result of an ectopic pregnancy (outside the uterine horns where rabbit fetuses normally develop). As they were located up near her kidneys and would have been hidden by her intestines when the spay was performed, it is understandable that they had gone undetected until the tissues got to the point where they were causing her health to decline.
In the middle of all this, I rushed to a dual adoption interview with other rabbits (the original plan had been to get Holly checked out, and to include her if the vet judged her to be healthy), only to discover that one of the adopters had basically bowed out for the day. We then had to rush back to the vet to get Holly before they closed.
On the plus side, Miranda is going to a very good home, and we hope that she will eventually bond with her new housemate.
On the minus side, we are out a rather large vet bill (donations accepted via
http://www.rabbitalliesct.org/), and we remain in overload status.
exhausted