Rabbits: overcome your fears and treat your rabbit patients with confidence

Do you dread seeing rabbits in practice? If so, you’re not alone. Despite rabbits being the third most common pet in the UK, we don’t tend to see them as much as dogs and cats, so gaining familiarity with their treatment is more challenging. And as a prey species, they often hide symptoms, so by the time we see them they can be seriously unwell making diagnosis and treatment complicated.

Rabbit Awareness Week falls later on in June, so this month we’ve put together some resources to help you overcome your fears and treat your rabbit patients with confidence! Our ‘how-to’ guides with exotics expert Sonya Miles below cover everything from how to correctly tape in an IV cannula to a step-by-step approach to a difficult rabbit ovariohysterectomy, and our On-Demand portal has a huge range of rabbit related learning series. Or if you want to update your skills in person, why not consider our Surgical Solutions and Emergency Essentials attendance course on Wednesday 8th October?

Rabbit ‘how-to’ guides

How to Give a Subcutaneous Injection in a Rabbit
How to Give Oral Medications to a Rabbit
How to Place an Intravenous Cannula in a Rabbit
How to use an Inhaler with a Rabbit
How to Correctly Apply Rearguard to a Rabbit
How to Use the “Bunny Burrito” Technique to Restrain a Rabbit
How to Trim Rabbits’ Nails
How to Intubate a Rabbit
How to Perform Gentle Physiotherapy in a Rabbit with a Head Tilt

The Post Operative Care of a Partial Ear Canal Ablation and Lateral Bulla Osteotomy in a Rabbit
How to Take a Saphenous Blood Sample in a Rabbit
How to Syringe Feed Rabbits
How to Sex Rabbits
How to Flush Tear Ducts in Rabbits
The Post Operative Care of a Lateral Ear Canal Resection
A Complicated Rabbit Spay