Dylan became poorly quite quickly yesterday. He had been fine and when i went down to clean out his litter tray he still seemed himself. About 10 minutes later though he started flopping on his side, breathing very rapidly (heart pounding) & his ears were really hot. He kept getting up to scratch his ears like he was irritated and then flopping down on his side again. I looked in his ears (they were clean and clear) and due to his breathing I knew something was wrong so rushed him down to the Vets.
My Vet said he thought it was heat stroke due to his symptoms which I couldn't understand as although it was definately warmer yesterday his cabin was airy. The Vet admitted him to put him into their air conditioned cage in order to cool him down. I collected him 2 hours later when a very normal (& cheeky) bunny greeted me. The Vet said his tummy was fine so not stasis/bloat (has had before) and he had given him an antibiotic injection just in case an underlying infection had caused it.
I'm keeping an eye on him & airing the cabin as much as possible but am still a bit dumbfounded at the diagnosis as last year when we had a heatwave he was absoloutely fine!
Could it simply be that he hasn't yet acclimatised as we were having frosts at night just the other week?
Also he doesn't seem to have any sign of moult, even though I'd expect him to be moulting by now.
Any suggestions anyone?
Does it sound like typical heat stroke (as never had a bun suffer from it before)?
My Vet said he thought it was heat stroke due to his symptoms which I couldn't understand as although it was definately warmer yesterday his cabin was airy. The Vet admitted him to put him into their air conditioned cage in order to cool him down. I collected him 2 hours later when a very normal (& cheeky) bunny greeted me. The Vet said his tummy was fine so not stasis/bloat (has had before) and he had given him an antibiotic injection just in case an underlying infection had caused it.
I'm keeping an eye on him & airing the cabin as much as possible but am still a bit dumbfounded at the diagnosis as last year when we had a heatwave he was absoloutely fine!
Could it simply be that he hasn't yet acclimatised as we were having frosts at night just the other week?
Also he doesn't seem to have any sign of moult, even though I'd expect him to be moulting by now.
Any suggestions anyone?
Does it sound like typical heat stroke (as never had a bun suffer from it before)?