rachelburdett20
Young Bun
Hi
I took simon, one of the rabbits i am fostering for the rspca to a diffrent vet for a second opinion yesterday as i dont think the vets the rspca insist on using are that great with rabbits!
when i first took simon to the rspca vets they diagonosed him with a grade 3 heart murmmer, gave no advice on care/ life expectancy ect
took him to my other vets and she had diagnosed him with a grade 6 heart murmer (aparently the worse you can get) as you can acualy feal vibrations when you put your hand on his side, she also thinks he could have a hole in his heart and diaphram with some of his internal organs being pushed up through the hole
the anoying thing is we dont know if the other vet has missdiagnosed the grade of the heart murmmer of if it has got worse as if it has got worse over 6 weeks then he wont have long left atall, hes only 6 months old and technicaly "shouldent have made it past day one"
Athough he sounds very ill, he is a very happy bunny, very active and eating loads, the one thing i need to do is get some weight on him as he is very skinny and not seeming to gain much weight
i have got him some junior and dawarf excel pellets as they are ment to have higher energy levels, he is also having critical care powder on his food
it was sugested that flaked peas were a good food source for helping with energy/ weight gain......is this the best thing to try or can anyone recomend something else?.....am strugling to find small quantitys of flaked peas on the net.....dont rearly need 25kg of them!
He may have only a few weeks/months left but i am trying my best to extend this as much as posible so any advice greatly apriciated
thanks
rachel
I took simon, one of the rabbits i am fostering for the rspca to a diffrent vet for a second opinion yesterday as i dont think the vets the rspca insist on using are that great with rabbits!
when i first took simon to the rspca vets they diagonosed him with a grade 3 heart murmmer, gave no advice on care/ life expectancy ect
took him to my other vets and she had diagnosed him with a grade 6 heart murmer (aparently the worse you can get) as you can acualy feal vibrations when you put your hand on his side, she also thinks he could have a hole in his heart and diaphram with some of his internal organs being pushed up through the hole
the anoying thing is we dont know if the other vet has missdiagnosed the grade of the heart murmmer of if it has got worse as if it has got worse over 6 weeks then he wont have long left atall, hes only 6 months old and technicaly "shouldent have made it past day one"
Athough he sounds very ill, he is a very happy bunny, very active and eating loads, the one thing i need to do is get some weight on him as he is very skinny and not seeming to gain much weight
i have got him some junior and dawarf excel pellets as they are ment to have higher energy levels, he is also having critical care powder on his food
it was sugested that flaked peas were a good food source for helping with energy/ weight gain......is this the best thing to try or can anyone recomend something else?.....am strugling to find small quantitys of flaked peas on the net.....dont rearly need 25kg of them!
He may have only a few weeks/months left but i am trying my best to extend this as much as posible so any advice greatly apriciated
thanks
rachel