rspcarabbits
Warren Scout
I thought I would share this with you and see if anybody has done likewise at the same time.
We have a flemmish giant rabbit for the sake of this thread I'm going to call Maisey (her real name was given by her first owner....and confidentiallity and not wishing her to be recognised ect)
Maisey came to us in a hell of a state ...raging pasturella, distended tummy, distinctive uterine disorder smell. She had initially an intensive course of anti biotics before she could even be spayed and upon spaying the vet found dead babie's, possibly cancers, ruptures and a huge amount of swelling to her utereus......in all a real mess!. So much so a pts was nearly the order of the day there and then.
However against all the ods she survived and flourished and luckily was vaccinated for myxo . This all happened in april but about 10dys ago she started to show signs of skin or secondary myxo . This has turned into full blown lumpy bunny syndrome but not full blown myxo. This has re-triggered her pasturella with avengance and with absolutely loads of swellings everywhere and most worrying so around her nose mouth , ears and head.
This has resulted in great difficulty in breathing because of the snot and the fact that rabbits are obligatory nose breathers. this manifests itself worst at feed times or whenever she trys to eat.
In order to try to clear her greatly blocked nasal passages we have set up a tent using inside connectable mesh panels about 2ft tall making an area about 4ft square and an old dust sheet over the top and 3 sides leaving the 4th side open. into this we have fed a tube from a wallpaper stipper. By putting 4-5 drops of obas oil in the stipper and giving the open tent a 10-15 minute steam at mealtimes we have found a greatly easing of the problem and she definitely has an easier time in eating. This process we have been repeating every 3-4 hours with so far noticibly good results.
I should add that maisey had become our housebunny and all this has been carried on inside.
Maisey is a real sick bunny and her chances still are really no better than 50:50.However with any bunny suffering from breathing difficulties because of pasturella, myxo or similar I would definitely give it a go.
Anybody else out there tried a similar thing?
p.s in the process my nose certainly has become a bit clearer and the whole house has a certain smell to it:lol:
Alan
We have a flemmish giant rabbit for the sake of this thread I'm going to call Maisey (her real name was given by her first owner....and confidentiallity and not wishing her to be recognised ect)
Maisey came to us in a hell of a state ...raging pasturella, distended tummy, distinctive uterine disorder smell. She had initially an intensive course of anti biotics before she could even be spayed and upon spaying the vet found dead babie's, possibly cancers, ruptures and a huge amount of swelling to her utereus......in all a real mess!. So much so a pts was nearly the order of the day there and then.
However against all the ods she survived and flourished and luckily was vaccinated for myxo . This all happened in april but about 10dys ago she started to show signs of skin or secondary myxo . This has turned into full blown lumpy bunny syndrome but not full blown myxo. This has re-triggered her pasturella with avengance and with absolutely loads of swellings everywhere and most worrying so around her nose mouth , ears and head.
This has resulted in great difficulty in breathing because of the snot and the fact that rabbits are obligatory nose breathers. this manifests itself worst at feed times or whenever she trys to eat.
In order to try to clear her greatly blocked nasal passages we have set up a tent using inside connectable mesh panels about 2ft tall making an area about 4ft square and an old dust sheet over the top and 3 sides leaving the 4th side open. into this we have fed a tube from a wallpaper stipper. By putting 4-5 drops of obas oil in the stipper and giving the open tent a 10-15 minute steam at mealtimes we have found a greatly easing of the problem and she definitely has an easier time in eating. This process we have been repeating every 3-4 hours with so far noticibly good results.
I should add that maisey had become our housebunny and all this has been carried on inside.
Maisey is a real sick bunny and her chances still are really no better than 50:50.However with any bunny suffering from breathing difficulties because of pasturella, myxo or similar I would definitely give it a go.
Anybody else out there tried a similar thing?
p.s in the process my nose certainly has become a bit clearer and the whole house has a certain smell to it:lol:
Alan