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Wheezing but otherwise healthy

Orla Bunny

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One of my rabbits has started wheezing quite loudly, but is showing no other symptoms and continues to look well and healthy.

I am worried that bringing her indoors and separating her from the other rabbit might cause stress, but that keeping the two together might spread any illness.

We have had the rabbits for two years though they are probably about five years old, and so far they have not been ill at all. They live on hay and vegetables and have the run of the back yard.

Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
 
Thank you.

Does anyone know of a vet in Central London who might be open on a Sunday?

(Amazingly since the rabbits were "given" to us we have only once taken them to a vets and then for a general health check.)

Also how should we look after the rabbit until we can get her to a vets.
 
If you post a new thread with the title Rabbit Savvy Vet Please in Central London people will respond.

By the way does this mean they have not had their 6 monthly myxomatosis jabs and annual VHD jabs? If not then they urgently need them - Myxi is rife in all areas at present INCLUDING centre of towns.

Good luck!
 
We took them to the vets when we realised that the real owners were not likely to take them back, in part because we thought that they might need jabs, but the vet did not seem worried.

They live in a pretty fox-proof back yard in Waterloo where really the only other animal contact will be birds and the occasional mouse. Can they still pick up a nasty rabbit virus?

(For those in Southern England who take the train into Waterloo, they might be spotted when the train stops at the signal before entering the station. Opposite Pimlico Plumbers. The non-sick one is a beautiful white with spots giant. The sick one seems to have stopped wheezing and is a lovely pure black. Someone asked to look after them for a week, but then never collected them, so we are learning.)
 
We took them to the vets when we realised that the real owners were not likely to take them back, in part because we thought that they might need jabs, but the vet did not seem worried.

They live in a pretty fox-proof back yard in Waterloo where really the only other animal contact will be birds and the occasional mouse. Can they still pick up a nasty rabbit virus?

(For those in Southern England who take the train into Waterloo, they might be spotted when the train stops at the signal before entering the station. Opposite Pimlico Plumbers. The non-sick one is a beautiful white with spots giant. The sick one seems to have stopped wheezing and is a lovely pure black. Someone asked to look after them for a week, but then never collected them, so we are learning.)

Yes, they are transmitted by insects mainly.
 
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