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Sounding like a 'squeaky chamois' when eating or over exerting? (plus dysbiosis Q)

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Wise Old Thumper
Any ideas?

ETA- also, while I've made a thread, I might as well ask this. The bunny is getting cecal dysbiosis when eating too any pellets, but is completely emaciated so he needs them. Is on protexin profibre pellets. Won't eat bramble leaves or anything :roll: So I'm trying to finely balance it so he gets maximum pellets but no dysbiosis, but something else other than pellets seems to be causing the dysbiosis so I'm not winning. any ideas on that as well?
 
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:? I'm unsure. I think its the throat. Its also not all the time when he eats or whatever. Its on and off.

ETA- to me it almost sounds like the bunny equivalent of the noise we might make if lifting something really heavy, but that may not be the right interpretation. :lol: But he is pretty weak and frail.
 
Nutmeg does a quiet guinea pig impression when stressed (ie. being held) or sleeping in bunny loaf position. Mark says she has a lung weakness from a previous pasteurella episode likely before we got her as she's been like this for as long as I can remember.
 
Jack's-Jane said:
Hmmmmmmmm, not sure given that it does not happen all the time :?

No other symptoms I assume ?
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Plenty, this is just the most recent one that I don't understand.

Has some sort of laryngeal issue (likely genetic defect), and is on Zithromax, Corvental and Prednicare, and looks like the steroid has finally pushed him into liver failure (vet feels he has an enlarged liver, not done any more diagnostics- not appropriate to). He is healthy at 1.45kg, went down to 1.3kg and then just crashed to 1.15kg, which is when he started making the noise. Have raised his weight a small amount and its lesser now.

His breathing is really pretty good for him and he is on the smallest amount of steroids than he has been for 10 months, but despite being very lively, is so, so frail. He's a bag of bones.
 
Jack's-Jane said:
Has he had a recent blood test to check his Liver function ?
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Not, but presume you didn't see the bit I put above about my vet feels his liver is failing, when you posted (timing and all).

We don't feel its appropriate to put him through the stress of that because travelling stresses him out and throws his breathing completely.

What makes you ask about the liver? (again presuming you sked without seeing what I said).
 
Yeh, we a cross posting so I didn't see you mention his Liver.

Does he have a pot belly even though he is very thin ?
 
Not a huge one. I have seen far worse in both Summer and Cloud when their livers were packing up.

That said, with the weight he has put on, it is on his belly, not over his bones.
 
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