Yesterday I had he joyous task of taking the old family pet bunny to the vets to be put to sleep as he was 'conked out' (sone sort of infestation in his brain causing him to roll over and over)
However I was stunned about how long the whole process took! First the vet took the old bunny off for about 20 minutes to put a thing (cannula?)on his 'arm', then he brought him back and n front of me used this tube to administer 'the' drug. Buty when he tried to inject into this 'tube' in the bunnies arm the syringe wouldn't move, he pushed, grunted and squeezed until finally the **** syringe exploded covering me, the vet and the nurse in whatever was in the syringe. So out comes syringe number 2, after firstly injecting something else into the tube he then managed to empty the syringe into the old bunny. We waited, and waited ..... and waited, but still old bun kept breathing away and his nose was twitching. 'It's OK he's asleep now' the vet said nervously reaching for his stethoscope. After intently listening through the stethoscope for about 10 minutes the vet nervously said he may have to administer more drugs. Well he didn't need the **** stethoscope I could see old bunny breathing, his eye occasionally blinking and his nose twitching, he was definitely still alive. Finally after what seemed an eternity he then, with much squeezing and pushing and grunting emptied another syringe full into old bun. Again he listened intently through the syringe, but it was plain for all to see that old bun was very much still alive, breathing twitching, blinking and now making noises with his mouth. Poor old bun was still not on gods goldens shore. After another eternity the vet nervously said he would take him off and administer some sort of anesthetic gas to see him off, but I was told I couldn't accompany him. So the last I saw of our dear old family bunny was being carried off to a bloody gas chamber! **** me, if I'd known the poor old bun would have to go through that ordeal lasting over 30 minutes I would have done what I have done many times with wild rabbits and broken his neck. Is it normal for the process to take this long?. I seem to remember when my old dog was put down many years ago it was one jab and in seconds it was lights out! **** vet
