Post-surgery playtime!

I missed you guys soooo much!!! [kisses&chinning intensifies]

Naomi wasted no time in trying to climb all the things (including their toy chest). Silly of me to think that if I didn't put all of their toys out, she'd take it easy and just hop around a bit! 😅

Making progress!

Amos is making sure that I see him munching on pellets so I know that he does not want to be force-fed ever again.  I think we're both still traumatized by his rapid transformation into a fluffy tornado of teeth and claws.  Thankfully, he had the good grace to take his bite-y wrath out on the towel.  Alas, my arms are testament to the sharpness of his newly vet-clipped nails.

Naomi is munching on her celery and giving me the side-eye.  She still hasn't forgiven me for baiting her into my lap with a papaya treat and switching to giving her pain meds instead.  (She got the papaya bite afterwards, I'm not a complete monster!)  Granted, she did nip me in a place that totally violates the girl code along with on my arm and fingers during her day and a half of force-feedings every 2 hours, so that should be more than enough payback.  Girlfriend holds a grudge!

They're both recovering well and don't need pain meds anymore.  They're eating more each day and have been hitting their greens and pellets pretty hard.  I'm going to give them each some yard time tomorrow so they can get some exercise now that they're off the pain meds.  I'll keep a close eye on them so they don't run amok, but being able to feel pain if they overdo it should help them go easy with the playtime for now.

Long day.

Poor little Amos is thinking that no amount of papaya bites will ever make this day okay.  Little fella is so done with everything that he just cleaned himself up a bit and took a nap.

Naomi is still gorked out of her skull on pain meds and is wondering if this is real life.  She eventually roused herself to eat some celery and romaine, so that was a huge relief!

I have pain meds (gabapentin) for both of them as well as critical care.  I'm hoping they'll both start eating and drinking well enough on their own to not need force-fed so I don't stress them out more than they have been.  The vet office will call me Friday morning to check up on the little munchkins and see if we need to make any changes to their care plan.

Thanks for visiting the blog and we hope you all have a great weekend!  We'll be back with more bunny cuteness on Monday.

Simon and River's recovery and sibling rivalry.

Here's a pic of River that I took on her first outing after her spay.  She scared my husband and me because she acted as if she didn't just have surgery two days prior.  She was running, bouncing around, and standing up like she is here.  We only let her run around for 5 minutes before herding her back into her cage for fear of her overdoing it.  You can see where they shaved her tummy and the spot where they put the surgical glue-poor little girl has two red bruise stripes on either side of the incision from where they clamped her open to do the surgery.  She's doing great and should be able to share a cage with Simon in another 3 weeks after they both fully recover and their hormones stabilize.

Here's a pic of Simon that I took a few days after his neuter.  He seems to have become quite the cuddle-bug since the surgery.  He'll move his litter box around to get me to come over and pretty much does anything he can to get me to scoop up his front paws so he can lick my hand.  He'll even start to lean out of the cage to lick my nose and forehead letting his whiskers tickle my face.  I've lost count of the times he's gotten bunny hork on my glasses!  He's developing a fascination with my glasses that I hope doesn't progress into him attempting to steal them off of my face.  Given how bad my eyesight is, a bystander would probably laugh their butt off watching me play blind-man's-bluff around the living room chasing after the fuzzy black and orange blur that Simon would appear to be.  He's recovering quickly from the surgery and acts even more loving than his old self. 

What I find funny is that River seems to be a bit jealous of the lack of constant Simon attention that she had prior to the neuter (considering that she'd ignore him about 70% of the time, who would've guessed that she actually craved the constant adoration he heaped upon her).  Whenever she sees Simon licking my hand, she takes the initiative to try to gain my attention by mimicking Simon so I end up being tag-teamed by bunnies--one hand holding one of them up and the other through the bars of the other's cage to prevent them from flipping their litter box.  She's even starting to lick at my hand after I scoop her front paws up and give her the hand signal for "no" for trying to flip the litter box.  They're turning it into a game of sibling rivalry for who can get more of the female human's attention (as though I don't always immediately go over to their sibling's cage to give them a noogie after petting the other one).  Never a dull moment with these two!