BB Mommy
Warren Veteran
Poor Strawbs was admitted to the vets yesterday.
She'd stopped eating on Thursday, and didn't respond to her normal treatments (pain relief/gut stimulants etc) and as I suspected in turned out to be secondary to the main issue.
When syringe feeding her she produced some small puddles of very pink wee, which explained why her level of pain was much higher than normal
My normal rabbit savvy vet is between practices at the moment, and became unavailable last week so I was at panic stations to find another good rabbit vet.
Luckily on researching alternatives I found Marie Kubiak - she's about 11 miles from where I am, but really rabbit savvy. Luckily I got Strawbs seen by her yesterday and admitted her.
I got an update last night at 8.30pm to say she was still hunched in pain and not looking very happy, but they were treating her with sub cuts, vetergesic, gut stimulants, septrin and they had got a wee sample which was very bloody and had protein in it, and they were going to carry on treating as suspected cystitsis along with her stasis, but it could also be a kidney problem. The vet couldn't feel stones in her bladder.
This morning she is looking a bit brighter, but her wee is sludgy (just what I'd suspected) so they are loading the fluids to get her to flush it through, but need to see her eating (Roger is scoffing everything they put in so they are going to temporarily separate them)
IF she doesn't improve this afternoon I suspect we'll be looking to xray.....
Can Strawbs have some get well vibes please - I've never seen a bunny shake with pain before, and she's such a little sweetheart...
Vet is calling me again around 2pm, so fingers crossed.
She'd stopped eating on Thursday, and didn't respond to her normal treatments (pain relief/gut stimulants etc) and as I suspected in turned out to be secondary to the main issue.
When syringe feeding her she produced some small puddles of very pink wee, which explained why her level of pain was much higher than normal
My normal rabbit savvy vet is between practices at the moment, and became unavailable last week so I was at panic stations to find another good rabbit vet.
Luckily on researching alternatives I found Marie Kubiak - she's about 11 miles from where I am, but really rabbit savvy. Luckily I got Strawbs seen by her yesterday and admitted her.
I got an update last night at 8.30pm to say she was still hunched in pain and not looking very happy, but they were treating her with sub cuts, vetergesic, gut stimulants, septrin and they had got a wee sample which was very bloody and had protein in it, and they were going to carry on treating as suspected cystitsis along with her stasis, but it could also be a kidney problem. The vet couldn't feel stones in her bladder.
This morning she is looking a bit brighter, but her wee is sludgy (just what I'd suspected) so they are loading the fluids to get her to flush it through, but need to see her eating (Roger is scoffing everything they put in so they are going to temporarily separate them)
IF she doesn't improve this afternoon I suspect we'll be looking to xray.....
Can Strawbs have some get well vibes please - I've never seen a bunny shake with pain before, and she's such a little sweetheart...
Vet is calling me again around 2pm, so fingers crossed.