skilled work · Davis, CA — home/foster rabbit scoring rounds
Rabbit body condition scoring round (palpation, same-rater trend) — Davis, CA.
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What the work involvesDavis, CA is home to the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine's Companion Exotic Animal Medicine and Surgery Service, which explicitly treats rabbits alongside other exotic companion species -- offering wellness care, specialized dental exams and occlusal adjustments (rabbit teeth grow continuously, and dental disease is a common driver of reduced food intake and a concerning weight/BCS trend), and dedicated exotic-animal emergency coverage on weekdays and weekends. This is a genuinely distinct real institution from Richmond's House Rabbit Society -- an academic veterinary teaching hospital's specialty clinical service, not a rescue/education nonprofit -- offering a second, complementary kind of real local rabbit-care infrastructure a keeper's BCS finding or a GI-stasis emergency can be routed to.
How this work is done
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Bring
- A calm, non-slip, towel-lined handling surface (table or lap) -- an improperly supported rabbit that struggles can fracture its own spine
- A gram or kitchen scale for weighing the rabbit at each round, as an objective anchor point alongside the palpation score
- A recording sheet or app with animal ID, rater identity, scale version used (5-point or expanded 9-point), and prior-round score/weight fields
Steps
- 1. Support the rabbit's full body weight, including the hindquarters, at all times -- never lift or hold a rabbit by the ears or scruff alone, and never let it struggle unsupported, since this is a well-documented spinal-fracture risk in this species.
- 2. Palpate along the spine from shoulders to hips, feeling how easily the vertebrae can be felt through the fur and the muscle/fat cover beneath.
- 3. Palpate the hip bones (pelvis) and the ribs similarly, assessing fat and muscle cover at each site.
- 4. Assign a score using ONE consistent scale version (the original 5-point RSOM or the expanded 9-point scale) and record which version was used, since the two scales are not directly interchangeable.
- 5. Weigh the rabbit and record the weight alongside the palpation score as an objective anchor point the palpation score alone can't provide.
- 6. Record the identity of the rater performing the scoring -- the reliability data show scores from different raters, even experienced ones, should not be compared directly to each other.
- 7. Compare the new score and weight ONLY against the SAME rater's own prior round for this rabbit, never against a different rater's number, to establish a trend.
- 8. Flag immediately, ahead of the routine round, any rabbit that has stopped eating or producing fecal pellets for 12+ hours, is bloated, hunched, or lethargic -- these are gastrointestinal (GI) stasis emergency signs.
- 9. Flag a persistently thin or obese score, or an unexplained rapid change in the same rater's trend, for a rabbit-experienced or exotic-companion-mammal veterinarian.
- 10. Log the full round (rabbit ID, rater, scale version, score, weight, date) so future same-rater comparisons remain possible.
What counts as done
- Each rabbit scored 1-5 (or the expanded 1-9 scale, version noted) by palpation over the spine, hips, and ribs, never by visual/fur assessment alone
- Weight recorded alongside the palpation score as an objective anchor point
- Comparison recorded ONLY against the same rater's own prior round -- never a different rater's number -- per the reliability data
- Any rabbit that has stopped eating or producing fecal pellets for 12+ hours flagged as an IMMEDIATE gastrointestinal stasis emergency, ahead of and separate from the routine scoring round
- Persistent thin/obese scores or an unexplained trend change flagged for a rabbit-experienced or exotic-companion-mammal veterinarian
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