Having a hard time with Myxomatosis at the moment.
Originally bought my first 2 bunnys in March this year, one died suddenly in the night after 3 days of having them. The other one i got straght to the Vets the next day for a checkup and injections and she is still with me and very healthy. Because i was going to be moving home, i thought i would leave getting her any friend(s) until i had moved.
Finally got settled in new place 2 weeks ago, bought another large cage, went to the pet shop and they had just 3 females left, and all seemed very attached to each other. 1 Was a loverly floppy dwarf rabbit which a fell in love with straght away, a cute tiny little black/grey rabbit and another white/ginger one. I came wanting 2, but could not bare to split them up, since the pet shop man said most of that delivery had died due to stress and this was what had survived.
After the experience of my first 2 rabbits, i got them booked in the Vets 2 days later for first injections. My favorate one, the fluffy floppy dwarf one could not have the myxomatosis vacination because it did not seem well enough and the Vet did not want to stress the emune system too much. He gave her some other injection the other 2 got the myxomatosis injection. That did not seem to help the fluffy dwarf rabbit much and her eyes started to become all gunged up with puss, so took her back to the Vets and he tried one more injection, again i am not sure what, gave me some eye drops and some fluid to feed her using a suringe type thing.
So bought her a seperate cage and kept her indoors as she was also weesing, and coughing and sniffling. Spent all this week softly getting the puss out of her eye with a very damp cloth everyday, feeding her this liquid, and basically getting very attached to my favorite bunny. One eye started to become very closed, and i could not get it to open, so phoned vets again to get her in yesterday.
Went in to see the Vets, the Vet looked at her and foced her eye lid to open, and instantly started crying, i have never heard a rabbit scream before, and this one screamed so loudly and for a good 10-20 seconds, she wet her self, it really distressed me to see her in so much pain, infact it still haunts me now. The Vet said its myxomatosis and the best thing is to put her down. After a few minutes i agreed and stayed with her until the end, crying the whole time at losing my favorite bunny.
Now i just feel so guilty, i only had her just under 2 weeks and she spent half of that alone, seperated from her 2 friends, in pain, and having to put up with me forcing eye drops etc on to her, only for her final moments to have extream pain, then death.
Now i got up this morning to find the little black one has the same symptoms as the fluffy white one had this time last week, pussed up, gunged eyes, breathing through its mouth and coughing/sneezing. I am going to have to phone the Vets tommorrow, but the thought of going through this whole putting it the rabbit to sleep again is too much, its heart wrenching.
I am gussing that most of this delivery of rabbits did not die of stress as the pet shop said but of myxomatosis, and at the time it was believed these 3 were clear and not showing symptoms.
My question i suppose is, because the black/grey one had the vacination for Myxomatosis about a week and a half ago, does it stand a better chance of surviving??
Originally bought my first 2 bunnys in March this year, one died suddenly in the night after 3 days of having them. The other one i got straght to the Vets the next day for a checkup and injections and she is still with me and very healthy. Because i was going to be moving home, i thought i would leave getting her any friend(s) until i had moved.
Finally got settled in new place 2 weeks ago, bought another large cage, went to the pet shop and they had just 3 females left, and all seemed very attached to each other. 1 Was a loverly floppy dwarf rabbit which a fell in love with straght away, a cute tiny little black/grey rabbit and another white/ginger one. I came wanting 2, but could not bare to split them up, since the pet shop man said most of that delivery had died due to stress and this was what had survived.
After the experience of my first 2 rabbits, i got them booked in the Vets 2 days later for first injections. My favorate one, the fluffy floppy dwarf one could not have the myxomatosis vacination because it did not seem well enough and the Vet did not want to stress the emune system too much. He gave her some other injection the other 2 got the myxomatosis injection. That did not seem to help the fluffy dwarf rabbit much and her eyes started to become all gunged up with puss, so took her back to the Vets and he tried one more injection, again i am not sure what, gave me some eye drops and some fluid to feed her using a suringe type thing.
So bought her a seperate cage and kept her indoors as she was also weesing, and coughing and sniffling. Spent all this week softly getting the puss out of her eye with a very damp cloth everyday, feeding her this liquid, and basically getting very attached to my favorite bunny. One eye started to become very closed, and i could not get it to open, so phoned vets again to get her in yesterday.
Went in to see the Vets, the Vet looked at her and foced her eye lid to open, and instantly started crying, i have never heard a rabbit scream before, and this one screamed so loudly and for a good 10-20 seconds, she wet her self, it really distressed me to see her in so much pain, infact it still haunts me now. The Vet said its myxomatosis and the best thing is to put her down. After a few minutes i agreed and stayed with her until the end, crying the whole time at losing my favorite bunny.
Now i just feel so guilty, i only had her just under 2 weeks and she spent half of that alone, seperated from her 2 friends, in pain, and having to put up with me forcing eye drops etc on to her, only for her final moments to have extream pain, then death.
Now i got up this morning to find the little black one has the same symptoms as the fluffy white one had this time last week, pussed up, gunged eyes, breathing through its mouth and coughing/sneezing. I am going to have to phone the Vets tommorrow, but the thought of going through this whole putting it the rabbit to sleep again is too much, its heart wrenching.
I am gussing that most of this delivery of rabbits did not die of stress as the pet shop said but of myxomatosis, and at the time it was believed these 3 were clear and not showing symptoms.
My question i suppose is, because the black/grey one had the vacination for Myxomatosis about a week and a half ago, does it stand a better chance of surviving??