Getting an Easter Bunny?

1112 Jones Franklin, Raleigh NC

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Congratulations on your pet rabbit! Rabbits can make wonderful pets and live 8-12 years. Just like a cat or dog, rabbits need annual wellness exams and preventative care. With any new pet, your veterinarian can physically examine your new pet and talk to you about its health, housing and behavioral needs to ensure the best care for your new furry friend. New Pet Exam: In addition to a complete physical exam, your veterinarian will recommend and answer any questions about your rabbit's health, housing, diet, exercise, and socialization needs. Benefits of annual wellness exams: - Prevention is the best medicine! - Rabbits are prey species and often hide illness until they can’t. Usually when they show signs of being sick, it’s been going on for a while and they become too sick to hide it. Regular check ups help detect and treat illnesses before they get worse. - Dental disease: rabbit teeth continuously grow throughout their entire life and need unlimited hay to grind down their cheek teeth and chews to prevent overgrowth of their incisors. During a wellness exam, your veterinarian will examine your rabbits mouth including its cheek teeth for overgrown teeth. SPAY and NEUTER Just like a cat or dog, it is important and beneficial to spay or neuter your pet rabbit. The best age to spay or neuter your rabbit is between 4-6 months of age just before sexual maturity. - FEMALES: spaying will prevent uterine adenocarcinoma (a very common malignant cancer that occurs in 80% of unspayed rabbits over 2 years of age). Spaying will prevent pregnancy if housed with males and uterine diseases such as pyometra (infected pus filled uterus) and endometritis. -MALES: Intact males have a tendency to have aggression issues around 8-18 months of age and can start spraying to mark territory. Neutering males can curb aggression and spraying. For affordable preventative care: Call to schedule a new pet or annual wellness exam with Dr. K at Crossroads Veterinary Hospital Kaitlyn Schei-Childs, DVM