Talael
Young Bun
Oh my god, Bisky seems to be very unwell and I'm not sure what we're going to do or what the outlook is for him!!
Bisky and I moved into a new home about 3 - 4 weeks ago with my boyfriend. The first week Bisky was ok. But since then he's gone downhill.
He's stopped eating, he was losing loads of fur and he wasn't drinking anything.
Last Friday the vet said that his gut has seized up and we had to try and force fluids into him and take him back Saturday as she didn't have the treatment available for him that day. She injected him with painkillers and something to get his gut moving. She also said he hadn't lost any weight.
Saturday: She said his gut felt less "doughy" but he still wasn't eating, pooing or drinking. She injected lots of fluid into his skin and told us to come back Monday and just to keep trying to get him to eat grass.
He ate a little over the weekend but stopped pooing completely.
Monday: Different vet. He sniffed Bisky when we got there and said that his fur smelt rancid and that's usually a good indication of illness. He felt all around his gut and Bisky kept jumping when he touched his bladder. The vet said that we needed to x-ray him to find out what was going on or we'd lose him
Tuesday: Picked him up in the evening. They'd x-rayed him, blown air through his bladder - nothing. Put some liquid dye stuff through - nothing. Found blood in his urine and decided it was cystitus. His gut is still seized at this time. They gave him anti-biotics, painkillers, B12 vitamins, gut stuff and more fluid into his skin. I've got anti-biotics here at home with him.
Today: He's still not eating or drinking and is pooing very little (although more then he was, perhaps 10 poos a day). I can feel all his bones through his skin so he may not have lost weight but he's definitely lost plenty of fat.
He's going back for a check up tomorrow and I don't know if there is anything else they can do as they told me on Tuesday that the fluid into the skin is the treatment for his gut and that an operation is unlikely to be unsuccessful and they would be reluctant to try it (he's a very small bunny).
Through all this he's still had buckets of energy and apart from being quite irritable it doesn't seem to have had much effect on him.
Does anyone have any suggestion as to where we might go from here and whether they know if this is something that he will recover from? Right now I'm preparing myself for the very worst
Edit: Forgot to say, the vet called his gut problem something beginning with an L but I'm so sorry I can't remember what he said. Also the anti-biotic is Baytril.
Bisky and I moved into a new home about 3 - 4 weeks ago with my boyfriend. The first week Bisky was ok. But since then he's gone downhill.
He's stopped eating, he was losing loads of fur and he wasn't drinking anything.
Last Friday the vet said that his gut has seized up and we had to try and force fluids into him and take him back Saturday as she didn't have the treatment available for him that day. She injected him with painkillers and something to get his gut moving. She also said he hadn't lost any weight.
Saturday: She said his gut felt less "doughy" but he still wasn't eating, pooing or drinking. She injected lots of fluid into his skin and told us to come back Monday and just to keep trying to get him to eat grass.
He ate a little over the weekend but stopped pooing completely.
Monday: Different vet. He sniffed Bisky when we got there and said that his fur smelt rancid and that's usually a good indication of illness. He felt all around his gut and Bisky kept jumping when he touched his bladder. The vet said that we needed to x-ray him to find out what was going on or we'd lose him
Tuesday: Picked him up in the evening. They'd x-rayed him, blown air through his bladder - nothing. Put some liquid dye stuff through - nothing. Found blood in his urine and decided it was cystitus. His gut is still seized at this time. They gave him anti-biotics, painkillers, B12 vitamins, gut stuff and more fluid into his skin. I've got anti-biotics here at home with him.
Today: He's still not eating or drinking and is pooing very little (although more then he was, perhaps 10 poos a day). I can feel all his bones through his skin so he may not have lost weight but he's definitely lost plenty of fat.
He's going back for a check up tomorrow and I don't know if there is anything else they can do as they told me on Tuesday that the fluid into the skin is the treatment for his gut and that an operation is unlikely to be unsuccessful and they would be reluctant to try it (he's a very small bunny).
Through all this he's still had buckets of energy and apart from being quite irritable it doesn't seem to have had much effect on him.
Does anyone have any suggestion as to where we might go from here and whether they know if this is something that he will recover from? Right now I'm preparing myself for the very worst
Edit: Forgot to say, the vet called his gut problem something beginning with an L but I'm so sorry I can't remember what he said. Also the anti-biotic is Baytril.
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