toria
Warren Scout
Hi,
I've been taking my 5 year old rabbit Willow to the Vet again recently as she has a Ecuniculi related problem - incontinence which flares up now and then.
Having got bad again, she was on a 28 day course of Panacur which hasn't really helped this time(and treatment for urine scald) therefore I took her back on Wednesday to see the Vet who arranged further tests for today, and then found she had a galloping heart...
So Willow has been in the vets today, having tests. I left her there this morning and to recover from any stress from the car journey, the Vet left it to the afternoon to examine her and found that she still had a galloping heart and believes it to be the start of Heart Disease.
I am gutted and very upset.
I worry anyway and now I don't know what to do.
She is not on any medication for this, as I have been told just to keep an eye on her condiition. She is perfectly OK to me, eating, being naughty etc. I'm more conscious of her heart now, but only now I know.
A scan showed the wall of her bladder was a bit thick so she is on Baytril for 5 days and I am waiting for urine test results to come back to see where we go from here.
It's the heart problem that has really shook me up. I am worried sick something awful is going to happen and after searching 'heart disease' on here, I find the posts that popped up all had very sad endings.
My 2 rabbits mean the world to me, I live miles from my family and my close friends and they are my family. It's me and them.
This just isn't right.
I've been taking my 5 year old rabbit Willow to the Vet again recently as she has a Ecuniculi related problem - incontinence which flares up now and then.
Having got bad again, she was on a 28 day course of Panacur which hasn't really helped this time(and treatment for urine scald) therefore I took her back on Wednesday to see the Vet who arranged further tests for today, and then found she had a galloping heart...
So Willow has been in the vets today, having tests. I left her there this morning and to recover from any stress from the car journey, the Vet left it to the afternoon to examine her and found that she still had a galloping heart and believes it to be the start of Heart Disease.
I am gutted and very upset.
I worry anyway and now I don't know what to do.
She is not on any medication for this, as I have been told just to keep an eye on her condiition. She is perfectly OK to me, eating, being naughty etc. I'm more conscious of her heart now, but only now I know.
A scan showed the wall of her bladder was a bit thick so she is on Baytril for 5 days and I am waiting for urine test results to come back to see where we go from here.
It's the heart problem that has really shook me up. I am worried sick something awful is going to happen and after searching 'heart disease' on here, I find the posts that popped up all had very sad endings.
My 2 rabbits mean the world to me, I live miles from my family and my close friends and they are my family. It's me and them.
This just isn't right.