BevBunny
Mama Doe
Hello everyone, hope you are all well and having a more happy time with your bunnies than I currently am.
My little Lavender bunny died very suddenly last Thursday - she was a bit grumpy on Weds evening but still ate and poo'd so I didn't worry too much, by Thurs morning she was hunched in the corner, spotting wee when she did move which wasn't much, v cold and v lethargic. We went straight to the vets so we were there when the opened. We'd taken wee and poo samples. She had blood in her wee, and her heart was v slow. My vet gave her steroids, antibiotics, pain relieve and kept her to give her fluids and put her on a heat pad. She died about 20 mins after we left the surgery. Obviously we are devestated, she has lived with us in our lounge for 6 years and we loved her dearly.
But we needed to concentrate on her husbun, who she lived with for a year. We think Lavender had acute kidney failure, but we're treating Darwin for E.c to be on the safe side.
He's been absolutely fine for the last 5 days (ie eating, pooing, playing, binkying), until this morning, when he totally went off his food, I thought he might be being grumpy so I cleaned his tray (to monitor for poo), left some food and nipped to work as I had meetings. I came back 2 hours later and he was still not right, and his breathing seemed laboured, although he had poo'd but not eaten.
So off we go to the vets again. We think he has a respiratory infection, and potentially going into stasis too so he's had injections of baytril, metachlopramide and pain relieve, and then I'll carry on with oral antibiotics and pain relief, and injecting metachlopramide. He looks awful, doesn't want to move, and really seems to have lost the will to live.
Obviously we can't be 100% sure but we are assuming its grief (although I we are still treating him for E.c). Has anyone else had a rabbit grief so much that they've made themselves this ill? My fear is that he doesn't want to get better so he won't, but he's too ill to even consider the search for a friend, as that will just stress him more.
Any ideas? We are making sure we spend as much time as possible with him, what else can i do to help him.
:-(
My little Lavender bunny died very suddenly last Thursday - she was a bit grumpy on Weds evening but still ate and poo'd so I didn't worry too much, by Thurs morning she was hunched in the corner, spotting wee when she did move which wasn't much, v cold and v lethargic. We went straight to the vets so we were there when the opened. We'd taken wee and poo samples. She had blood in her wee, and her heart was v slow. My vet gave her steroids, antibiotics, pain relieve and kept her to give her fluids and put her on a heat pad. She died about 20 mins after we left the surgery. Obviously we are devestated, she has lived with us in our lounge for 6 years and we loved her dearly.
But we needed to concentrate on her husbun, who she lived with for a year. We think Lavender had acute kidney failure, but we're treating Darwin for E.c to be on the safe side.
He's been absolutely fine for the last 5 days (ie eating, pooing, playing, binkying), until this morning, when he totally went off his food, I thought he might be being grumpy so I cleaned his tray (to monitor for poo), left some food and nipped to work as I had meetings. I came back 2 hours later and he was still not right, and his breathing seemed laboured, although he had poo'd but not eaten.
So off we go to the vets again. We think he has a respiratory infection, and potentially going into stasis too so he's had injections of baytril, metachlopramide and pain relieve, and then I'll carry on with oral antibiotics and pain relief, and injecting metachlopramide. He looks awful, doesn't want to move, and really seems to have lost the will to live.
Obviously we can't be 100% sure but we are assuming its grief (although I we are still treating him for E.c). Has anyone else had a rabbit grief so much that they've made themselves this ill? My fear is that he doesn't want to get better so he won't, but he's too ill to even consider the search for a friend, as that will just stress him more.
Any ideas? We are making sure we spend as much time as possible with him, what else can i do to help him.
:-(
