A 4-year-old, 2.7 kg, neutered male lop-eared Himalayan rabbit presented to a veterinarian for lethargy, inappetence, and wet, stained fur and skin on the hind limbs and abdomen (Fig. 1).
We developed a pain scale specific for rabbits to assess acute pain in a clinical environment. The BRPS allows the assessment of pain in both straight and lop-eared rabbits. The management of pain is ...
We gave the rabbit buprenorphine (0.25 mg per kg body weight every 8 h subcutaneously) to control pain and took lateral and dorsoventral radiographs to assess the involvement of anatomical ...