The Duchess
Wise Old Thumper
My little Poppet went into the early stages of stasis late last night. Have been up all night with her and her husbun trying to get her right. At about 5am she turned a corner and is now totally back to normal.
That's now 6 different bunnies over the last two months and each time I have been lucky enough to catch it in time.
I just can't imagine what would have happened if I had fed early and put them to bed. I feed my troop late - normally at about 9-10pm and this gives me a final check that all is well.
I went up to feed Poppet and Edison at about 9.30 last night and she didn't do her normal binky up into the hutch despite having been munching her clean hay box only an hour earlier. I knew immediately that she wasn't right. I tried to tempt her with dandelions, grass, carrot, pellets but nothing. She put herself in the corner of her run and started to do all sorts of contortions, obviously to try and get comfortable.
I brought her and her man in immediately and set up the indoors for an overnight stop. I administered Metaclopromide and started to syringe feed. She swallowed when fed, which was a good sign, and she was still pooing. But no gut sounds.
About an hour later the pooing stopped. So a wee bit more syringe feeding and a gentle tummy rub. I monitored her for the next few hours and gave some more Metaclopromide at about 2am. More tummy rubs and a watchful eye and at about 5am she had the most almighty rumble and did what I would have to call an explosive cow pat. She then began pooing normally and was wanting to eat. She straight away tucked into a bit of cabbage.
I am so pleased that it didn't mean a trip to the vets as I think the stress would have done her no good at all.
Obviously if she had been flat at any time during the night she would have been straight off to the emergency vets but she seemed bright enough, but just uncomfortable and unable to find a suitable lying down position.
I just wonder how someone who hasn't seen it all before would know if their bunny was that poorly. If you put your bunny to bed early evening, would the result have been very different. What if you don't see your bunny from 6 at night till the next morning.
Just relieved she's better.......................
That's now 6 different bunnies over the last two months and each time I have been lucky enough to catch it in time.
I just can't imagine what would have happened if I had fed early and put them to bed. I feed my troop late - normally at about 9-10pm and this gives me a final check that all is well.
I went up to feed Poppet and Edison at about 9.30 last night and she didn't do her normal binky up into the hutch despite having been munching her clean hay box only an hour earlier. I knew immediately that she wasn't right. I tried to tempt her with dandelions, grass, carrot, pellets but nothing. She put herself in the corner of her run and started to do all sorts of contortions, obviously to try and get comfortable.
I brought her and her man in immediately and set up the indoors for an overnight stop. I administered Metaclopromide and started to syringe feed. She swallowed when fed, which was a good sign, and she was still pooing. But no gut sounds.
About an hour later the pooing stopped. So a wee bit more syringe feeding and a gentle tummy rub. I monitored her for the next few hours and gave some more Metaclopromide at about 2am. More tummy rubs and a watchful eye and at about 5am she had the most almighty rumble and did what I would have to call an explosive cow pat. She then began pooing normally and was wanting to eat. She straight away tucked into a bit of cabbage.
I am so pleased that it didn't mean a trip to the vets as I think the stress would have done her no good at all.
Obviously if she had been flat at any time during the night she would have been straight off to the emergency vets but she seemed bright enough, but just uncomfortable and unable to find a suitable lying down position.
I just wonder how someone who hasn't seen it all before would know if their bunny was that poorly. If you put your bunny to bed early evening, would the result have been very different. What if you don't see your bunny from 6 at night till the next morning.
Just relieved she's better.......................