Hi, just need some advice for a friend’s bunny please…
This is part of an email she sent me today. Eil has not been eating well recently:
“They took him in Friday morning as still no better and losing weight. They knocked him out and found no problems at all with his teeth or mouth so went on to x ray his tummy.
They called me about 2pm to say the x ray showed a dark mass in his lower tummy area. She wanted to bring him round, send him home and take him back today to re x ray then investigate if still showed the dark mass.
I said I would rather they did it there and then as he was already under anaesthetic and I didn’t think after 3 weeks of messing about he would improve over the weekend. Also could not afford 2x x-rays and anaesthetics etc…
They opened him up and found all his intestine was swollen and a nasty dark grey colour instead of the healthy pink it should have been. They don’t have a clue as to what has caused it but say everything in there is working, all the vessels etc going in and out are fine so stitched him up and sent him home.
He didn’t eat a thing Saturday so I was giving him critical care all day. Yesterday he ate a bit of parsley and cabbage so I went gathering dandelion leaves and he ate some of them too but still not a lot.
The vet said this morning to just continue as I am with the antibiotics and critical care until he stars eating on his own again.
I think it might go on a while and am quite concerned as we are going into his 4th week of being ill.”
What does anyone think it could be?
Thanks
Nicky
This is part of an email she sent me today. Eil has not been eating well recently:
“They took him in Friday morning as still no better and losing weight. They knocked him out and found no problems at all with his teeth or mouth so went on to x ray his tummy.
They called me about 2pm to say the x ray showed a dark mass in his lower tummy area. She wanted to bring him round, send him home and take him back today to re x ray then investigate if still showed the dark mass.
I said I would rather they did it there and then as he was already under anaesthetic and I didn’t think after 3 weeks of messing about he would improve over the weekend. Also could not afford 2x x-rays and anaesthetics etc…
They opened him up and found all his intestine was swollen and a nasty dark grey colour instead of the healthy pink it should have been. They don’t have a clue as to what has caused it but say everything in there is working, all the vessels etc going in and out are fine so stitched him up and sent him home.
He didn’t eat a thing Saturday so I was giving him critical care all day. Yesterday he ate a bit of parsley and cabbage so I went gathering dandelion leaves and he ate some of them too but still not a lot.
The vet said this morning to just continue as I am with the antibiotics and critical care until he stars eating on his own again.
I think it might go on a while and am quite concerned as we are going into his 4th week of being ill.”
What does anyone think it could be?
Thanks
Nicky
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