Caz
Mama Doe
Hi
Its been a while - wasn't even sure my logon would work anymore but it did.
I just have Adele the rabbit left now (aged 6), after losing two of her partners to head tilt and despite treating her and her testing negative for E.cuniculi I decided to stop pairing her up and she has lived quite happily I think on her own now for roughly three years. She now lives in our new house in Lincolnshire, indoors in her modified dog crate as before in the cellar (it has windows) with the cat for company (window has cat flap). We now have two children (18months and 3), two dogs, a cat, pony, chickens, ducks and pigs as well as doing B&B.
I am after a bit of advice - we have been away overnight and I have to admit that yesterday morning in the stress of packing I just quickly fed her and didn't really look at her properly when we got back this evening and I went to feed her I noticed one of her eyes was tearing and the other eye looked a bit red. Upon closer examination she has what appears to be a small abcess (about 3mm x 3mm) on the non-tearing eye in the upper eyelid which has slightly burst and is leaking a bit of pus, this eye is quite clear and open, the tearing eye has red in the whites of the eye but again is open no coloured discharge, she is relatively active and has been eating and drinking as normal - didn't really jump on the carrot bribe just now (after I manhandled her to get a closer look ) but she did eat her pellets up fine.
She also appears to have a slight swelling at the base of one of her ears - i.e. it looks a little red and inflammed under the fur compared to the other side and this is where I start panicking. No swelling of genitals or anywhere else on body, eyes open wide and no nasal discharge or odd lumps apart from the possible abscess on her eyelid. Her VHD was done three weeks ago but her myxi was 18months ago - we moved last year and I didn't get the reminder notice from old vets but new vets didn't have her boosters on the system yet so I managed to miss her myxi vaccination date this year (normally June) by the time I realised I thought it would be better to wait until next Spring to get maximum immunity over Summer especially being winter now and I thought low risk. Myxi is common in the area but she is fully indoors atm so I decided to stay with yearly vaccs but just get it done at the optimal time to cover the whole year, although obviously cat could have brought in something with fleas on (cat is regularily treated for fleas etc but does bring in her kills sometimes) and it has been a mild winter hence the panic it is something worse. Up until this year she was vaccinated at least yearly and some years 6 monthly for myxi.
Rang emergency vets and this sounds awful but they said £100 call out just to look at her and frankly that is just too high. I am going to have to wait until they reopen on Tuesday - why do these things always happen over the holidays? She intimated if it was myxi it was straight PTS but from what I've looked up it would be far more likely to be chronic myxi which is recoverable even with the lapsed vaccination as she should have some immunity (anyone here had a case of chronic myxi?).
As she doesn't appear to be affected or suffering I am hoping to keep an eye on her (no pun intended) and wait for now as after watching a few videos and pictures online I think I may be overreacting and its just a bit of conjuntivitus and an abcess but obviously with both eyes infected at once it worries me. I did notice when she was trying to clean her eye fur where it was tearing one of her back claws is overlong I must have missed it somehow when I was clipping so am thinking/hoping she scratched her eyelid and caused an abscess and that she's transferred the bacteria to the other eye giving her the conjuntavitis - the tearing is clear, not white or pus like in that eye even though the whites look a bit red.
I have some fucithalmic eye drops which I have started putting in but am all out of Baytril (typically MILs where I just was, works at vets and could have got me some if I'd known as she gets a discount on emergency call outs etc but now we are too far away - 2.5hrs drive).
I can post some pictures later when I can remember how to upload them to my webspace.
Any thoughts - it would literally just be 36 hours until I can get to the vets? Anyone local to Spalding/Wisbech have any Baytril spare as the abcess will need antibiotics and the vet said to start her on antibiotics if I had any as even if myxi its the secondary bacterial infections that kill. I know I sound bad but £100 call out for £10's worth of Baytril just seems extreme.
Thanks for reading
Caz
Its been a while - wasn't even sure my logon would work anymore but it did.
I just have Adele the rabbit left now (aged 6), after losing two of her partners to head tilt and despite treating her and her testing negative for E.cuniculi I decided to stop pairing her up and she has lived quite happily I think on her own now for roughly three years. She now lives in our new house in Lincolnshire, indoors in her modified dog crate as before in the cellar (it has windows) with the cat for company (window has cat flap). We now have two children (18months and 3), two dogs, a cat, pony, chickens, ducks and pigs as well as doing B&B.
I am after a bit of advice - we have been away overnight and I have to admit that yesterday morning in the stress of packing I just quickly fed her and didn't really look at her properly when we got back this evening and I went to feed her I noticed one of her eyes was tearing and the other eye looked a bit red. Upon closer examination she has what appears to be a small abcess (about 3mm x 3mm) on the non-tearing eye in the upper eyelid which has slightly burst and is leaking a bit of pus, this eye is quite clear and open, the tearing eye has red in the whites of the eye but again is open no coloured discharge, she is relatively active and has been eating and drinking as normal - didn't really jump on the carrot bribe just now (after I manhandled her to get a closer look ) but she did eat her pellets up fine.
She also appears to have a slight swelling at the base of one of her ears - i.e. it looks a little red and inflammed under the fur compared to the other side and this is where I start panicking. No swelling of genitals or anywhere else on body, eyes open wide and no nasal discharge or odd lumps apart from the possible abscess on her eyelid. Her VHD was done three weeks ago but her myxi was 18months ago - we moved last year and I didn't get the reminder notice from old vets but new vets didn't have her boosters on the system yet so I managed to miss her myxi vaccination date this year (normally June) by the time I realised I thought it would be better to wait until next Spring to get maximum immunity over Summer especially being winter now and I thought low risk. Myxi is common in the area but she is fully indoors atm so I decided to stay with yearly vaccs but just get it done at the optimal time to cover the whole year, although obviously cat could have brought in something with fleas on (cat is regularily treated for fleas etc but does bring in her kills sometimes) and it has been a mild winter hence the panic it is something worse. Up until this year she was vaccinated at least yearly and some years 6 monthly for myxi.
Rang emergency vets and this sounds awful but they said £100 call out just to look at her and frankly that is just too high. I am going to have to wait until they reopen on Tuesday - why do these things always happen over the holidays? She intimated if it was myxi it was straight PTS but from what I've looked up it would be far more likely to be chronic myxi which is recoverable even with the lapsed vaccination as she should have some immunity (anyone here had a case of chronic myxi?).
As she doesn't appear to be affected or suffering I am hoping to keep an eye on her (no pun intended) and wait for now as after watching a few videos and pictures online I think I may be overreacting and its just a bit of conjuntivitus and an abcess but obviously with both eyes infected at once it worries me. I did notice when she was trying to clean her eye fur where it was tearing one of her back claws is overlong I must have missed it somehow when I was clipping so am thinking/hoping she scratched her eyelid and caused an abscess and that she's transferred the bacteria to the other eye giving her the conjuntavitis - the tearing is clear, not white or pus like in that eye even though the whites look a bit red.
I have some fucithalmic eye drops which I have started putting in but am all out of Baytril (typically MILs where I just was, works at vets and could have got me some if I'd known as she gets a discount on emergency call outs etc but now we are too far away - 2.5hrs drive).
I can post some pictures later when I can remember how to upload them to my webspace.
Any thoughts - it would literally just be 36 hours until I can get to the vets? Anyone local to Spalding/Wisbech have any Baytril spare as the abcess will need antibiotics and the vet said to start her on antibiotics if I had any as even if myxi its the secondary bacterial infections that kill. I know I sound bad but £100 call out for £10's worth of Baytril just seems extreme.
Thanks for reading
Caz
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