Today I want to share some tips for castration.
Everything about your pet
Well, today I'm going to talk about everything you need to know
about castration of both males and females,
surgical sterilization of our rabbits.
There are several things that are important and that we have to take into account.
Above all the days before the surgery is going to occur animal has to be perfectly healthy.
Without diarrhea, without sneezing, with normal urination...
No strange symptoms before it's going to be sterilized.
The animal doesn't need to be fasting.
Normally one or two hours of fasting before going to the clinic is more than enough.
Rabbit has to be perfectly, 100% healthy.
Now I want to show you some photos from my hospital in Madrid, the Privet veterinary hospital,
so you can see a little bit what is happening, how anesthesia goes, how do animal recover.
We've just finished castration and I want to show you, how do we monitor our patients.
Here we have a electrocardiogram with a heart rate,
here we have the saturation curve, our patient has 100% saturation.
And here we have pulse that always has to be consistent with the heart rate.
Here we have concentration of isoflurane that the rabbit is inhaling
and thanks for it rabbit is unconscious.
And we can also monitor internal temperature.
For the immediate postoperative period, the animal must be in the hospital.
It must be monitored after the operation.
It is in a room with a very dim light, normally in its carrier that it recognizes,
with its own blanket with known smell
and is waking up very slowly, little by little without any fright.
As I said calmly, in the dark.
When can rabbit go home? You frequently ask about it.
Well, normally rabbit will stay overnight.
Normally the surgery is done at noon, at two, three in the afternoon,
rabbit will normally stay in hospital at least until eleven or twelve at night
so we can verify which animal is feeling good
and which animal has to stay until the next day hospitalized due to its physical condition.
Rabbit will always remain under careful veterinary surveillance.
Those hours are crucial for everything to go well.
What should you pay attention to?
Is rabbit eating normally, defecating normally and moving normally.
If anything is wrong, rabbit doesn't eat, doesn't defecate, doesn't urinate or doesn't move
always call the hospital and inform what is happening.
The day after the surgery, animal should recover all its normal gastrointestinal and vital cycles.
Usually we give some probiotics after surgery to promote that intestinal transit.
As I said, it's one of the complications that may arise,
but they are well know, easy to predict, and easy to treat.