purplebumble
Warren Veteran
mums bunny went into ileus today after being out and running riot. she got worse so i went over and medicated her about oneish i think. i gave her 1ml zantac syrup.....1ml metaclopramide syrup......1ml infacol an hour apart....and fibreplex and tried force feeding her oxbow citical care which she took about a
teaspoon full.
i massged her belly for ages as it was quite gassy.....held her on my body to warm her tummy..i also combed and brushed her and evenualy she lay down and let me do it..she even gave me a kiss.
so i presumed shed be ok now as she wasnt laying there lifeless....
within a few more hours no change so i rang the vet hospital and told to get there by 4pm. the taxi ride was double costs being boxing day.......and we got there at about 10past four.
the vet was a lady i didnt recognise.....and pretty abrubt....gave us a lecture on how dwarf lops skulls and faces are a curse..yes we know that..th eonly way to diagnose or rule out teeth problems are with an xray..yep agree there too. but she then said buns nomrally eat a field..no green vegies..not enuff fibre...and went on to say that those things..mini lops should nver be bred...nightmare deformity. in fact she said no rabbit under 2.5kg should be allowed to live..and no lops and no big buns either. yes i get it but to tel this to a worried upset 79yr old lady was a bit off:?
then she procceded to ask me why id given her the meds and doses i had and who had told me to etc etc.
she claimed to know so much about rabbits too..and infacol was something shed never heard of...i told her to google it!:lol:
i told her i was a member of a very good forum thank you and had a brill bunvet in the past so there...:lol:
poor bunny had got so stressed shed done a bif and drooled down herself...its ok i said its not meds its stress...my bif does tis all the time so do most buns....but oh no..that was proof of dental disease. And she told my mum shed xray her head anohter time as now shed die....and the drool was solid proof of dental disease but an xray would back it up. wouldnt listen to me about stress.
i had a vet last time tell me my bif had pasturella no doubt without veen testing her as she had wet face etc...nope she does this every trip as shes stressed..nope its pasurella.
and to uspet my poor mum more..the evt was very up to seeing this bunny had been in several times ith this already.....and looked at my mum then at me and shook her head...
twice before it was a result of stress...visitors who were a bloke and his obnoxious grandaughter aged 5 who hates animals and rabbits are jsut animals and she doesnt care if she frightens the rabbit and held onto the cage and had a screaming tantrum:shock::evil:
this time she appeared with the bloke who is my mums eldest sone form ehr 1st mariage and this litle brat was a whining crying foot stamping diva brat and her grandad ened up shouting at ehr and having to leave.
now mums bun comes out to greet people.....even my grandaughters who their mum doesnt conttrol...but bunny sits amongst them.
this brat..she hates and hides from her till shes gone.
this all went down xmas eve..and mum was over here form afternoon to about 10pm and bunny had been ok but not eaten her pellets by morning.
would this be too far away or was it about right as a trigger for poor hunnybunny?
bloomin vets..ive had enough now so has my mum....we have ellen at the branch surgery but seems no one whos rabbit savvy and open minded at the hopsital anymore esp during emergencies.
but at this other vet theres only two bun savvy vets.....out of the frying pan?
gem and touie both go this other vet who is recommended but i dont know.
i need to decide soon tho....i odnt want a repeat of this.
teaspoon full.
i massged her belly for ages as it was quite gassy.....held her on my body to warm her tummy..i also combed and brushed her and evenualy she lay down and let me do it..she even gave me a kiss.
so i presumed shed be ok now as she wasnt laying there lifeless....
within a few more hours no change so i rang the vet hospital and told to get there by 4pm. the taxi ride was double costs being boxing day.......and we got there at about 10past four.
the vet was a lady i didnt recognise.....and pretty abrubt....gave us a lecture on how dwarf lops skulls and faces are a curse..yes we know that..th eonly way to diagnose or rule out teeth problems are with an xray..yep agree there too. but she then said buns nomrally eat a field..no green vegies..not enuff fibre...and went on to say that those things..mini lops should nver be bred...nightmare deformity. in fact she said no rabbit under 2.5kg should be allowed to live..and no lops and no big buns either. yes i get it but to tel this to a worried upset 79yr old lady was a bit off:?
then she procceded to ask me why id given her the meds and doses i had and who had told me to etc etc.
she claimed to know so much about rabbits too..and infacol was something shed never heard of...i told her to google it!:lol:
i told her i was a member of a very good forum thank you and had a brill bunvet in the past so there...:lol:
poor bunny had got so stressed shed done a bif and drooled down herself...its ok i said its not meds its stress...my bif does tis all the time so do most buns....but oh no..that was proof of dental disease. And she told my mum shed xray her head anohter time as now shed die....and the drool was solid proof of dental disease but an xray would back it up. wouldnt listen to me about stress.
i had a vet last time tell me my bif had pasturella no doubt without veen testing her as she had wet face etc...nope she does this every trip as shes stressed..nope its pasurella.
and to uspet my poor mum more..the evt was very up to seeing this bunny had been in several times ith this already.....and looked at my mum then at me and shook her head...
twice before it was a result of stress...visitors who were a bloke and his obnoxious grandaughter aged 5 who hates animals and rabbits are jsut animals and she doesnt care if she frightens the rabbit and held onto the cage and had a screaming tantrum:shock::evil:
this time she appeared with the bloke who is my mums eldest sone form ehr 1st mariage and this litle brat was a whining crying foot stamping diva brat and her grandad ened up shouting at ehr and having to leave.
now mums bun comes out to greet people.....even my grandaughters who their mum doesnt conttrol...but bunny sits amongst them.
this brat..she hates and hides from her till shes gone.
this all went down xmas eve..and mum was over here form afternoon to about 10pm and bunny had been ok but not eaten her pellets by morning.
would this be too far away or was it about right as a trigger for poor hunnybunny?
bloomin vets..ive had enough now so has my mum....we have ellen at the branch surgery but seems no one whos rabbit savvy and open minded at the hopsital anymore esp during emergencies.
but at this other vet theres only two bun savvy vets.....out of the frying pan?
gem and touie both go this other vet who is recommended but i dont know.
i need to decide soon tho....i odnt want a repeat of this.