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Perforated bowel.... How??

C

Crackerjack

New Kit
Last Wednesday I had to put my bun to sleep. He had suddenly come on sick with a very high temp, pain and lethargy. The vet had a look at him and suggested xrays as she could feel a lump (which was very tender). The xrays revealed that it wasn't cancerous but more likely a perforated bowel. The vet also suggested it may be an abcess but more likely the bowel. How on earth did the bunny get a perforated bowel???!


A couple of days before he got ill..... :cry:
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I am very sorry for your loss :cry:

There are numerous possible causes of a perforated bowel including an obstruction, abscessation, external trauma from accident/predator attack.

Sadly a Bun is very unlikely to survive should the bowel perforate

:cry:
 
He had no predators other than his feline friend Emma who liked to sit on him and wash him..... so I would suspect then it was an impaction? I do have an orchid who's leaf was half eaten around the time he got sick. I never saw him actually eat it and he was supervised while out of his cage and it could have been eaten outside by something else. BUT it was the sort of crunchy house plant leaf that he loved to sneak a few bites from if I was momentarily out of sight! Ciuld that cause an impaction?
 
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