Ryo_the_rat
Warren Scout
Hi all!
I just wondered if anyone here had dealt with a bunny with a scratch on his eye and if so what treatment successfully helped?
Last saturday evening i noticed Timmy's eye was watering, sunday morning i was able to get a good look at it in the daylight and saw that he had a scratch on his eye ball:? He was seen by a vet the next morning who gave us fucithalmic eye drops to be given twice a day and metacam dosed at a 5kg cat(Timmy weighs around 3kg, maybe less) Well he has been having this treatment basically 6 days now and although there is definately an improvement in the appearance of the scratch(see photos below) I'm just not sure if it should be looking much better by this point. It was also runny this morning still. We have to bring him back to see the same vet monday morning to see how it is healing but im wondering whether to bring him to a different vet instead. The rabbit savvy vet who i wanted to bring him to was on holiday last week, but im very tempted to bring Timmy to see her this time around incase she does things differently/better.
So yes im basically wondering if anyone has dealt with something similar and if this is healing at the correct pace and we would be ok to continue letting the same vet deal with it, or if we should seek a second opinion from the bunny savvy vet?
This photo was taken last sunday:
and this was taken this morning:
As you can see there is a slight improvement. Oh and we have no idea how he got the scratch-they are all indoor bunnies, have their own large room, none of their nails were long or sharp enough to have done something like this from looking at them, but obviously its a possibility. They only have newspaper and hay as bedding and the hay has been soft recently though again i suppose its possible there was a sharp piece, but other then guessing we cant say for sure how it happened! Poor little guy, hes being good as gold about it all though bless himHes an extremely sweet little bunny-hes been in our lives about 5 years now(he will be 6 in may) and was always a very nervous bunny, but obviously age is agreeing with him as he has become much more chilled out as of late and enjoys a good cuddle and brushing now, both of which used to make his eyes and nose runny with stress! He stretched out on the vets table last week like a different bunny though ooh enough babbling from me, Im making the most of it as we only get to bunny talk to each other here:lol:
I just wondered if anyone here had dealt with a bunny with a scratch on his eye and if so what treatment successfully helped?
Last saturday evening i noticed Timmy's eye was watering, sunday morning i was able to get a good look at it in the daylight and saw that he had a scratch on his eye ball:? He was seen by a vet the next morning who gave us fucithalmic eye drops to be given twice a day and metacam dosed at a 5kg cat(Timmy weighs around 3kg, maybe less) Well he has been having this treatment basically 6 days now and although there is definately an improvement in the appearance of the scratch(see photos below) I'm just not sure if it should be looking much better by this point. It was also runny this morning still. We have to bring him back to see the same vet monday morning to see how it is healing but im wondering whether to bring him to a different vet instead. The rabbit savvy vet who i wanted to bring him to was on holiday last week, but im very tempted to bring Timmy to see her this time around incase she does things differently/better.
So yes im basically wondering if anyone has dealt with something similar and if this is healing at the correct pace and we would be ok to continue letting the same vet deal with it, or if we should seek a second opinion from the bunny savvy vet?
This photo was taken last sunday:
and this was taken this morning:
As you can see there is a slight improvement. Oh and we have no idea how he got the scratch-they are all indoor bunnies, have their own large room, none of their nails were long or sharp enough to have done something like this from looking at them, but obviously its a possibility. They only have newspaper and hay as bedding and the hay has been soft recently though again i suppose its possible there was a sharp piece, but other then guessing we cant say for sure how it happened! Poor little guy, hes being good as gold about it all though bless himHes an extremely sweet little bunny-hes been in our lives about 5 years now(he will be 6 in may) and was always a very nervous bunny, but obviously age is agreeing with him as he has become much more chilled out as of late and enjoys a good cuddle and brushing now, both of which used to make his eyes and nose runny with stress! He stretched out on the vets table last week like a different bunny though ooh enough babbling from me, Im making the most of it as we only get to bunny talk to each other here:lol: