BlazeNFlash
New Kit
Hello,
i am new to this forum but i found your page through google and the information seemed very helpful on here. I have a bunny who recently stopped eating, she would eat small amounts of hay and was still drinking plenty, so i was not majorly concerned just keeping an eye on her, but now she is lethargic and will not eat any hay and i have not seen her drink today. from reading other posts it sounds like molar spurs, i know of one rabbit experience vet in my area (Windsor, ON, Canada, yes i know this is a UK forum), but when i called and asked i was told "we dont do that here". at which point she gave me a number for another exotic vet place which is closed. I will probably try to get to them tomorrow or maybe the day after, but i wondered if there is any way to help her from home, both to prevent molar spurs and to ensure she makes it to the vet. I have given her 3 CCs of water soaked with her pellets which revived her somewhat as well as i was able to get her to eat a small amount of soggy pellets. before she went off her hay she would get excited for treats but when they were offered she would ignore them. twice i have nursed her through GI stasis problems through stomach massage and force fed liquids as above, but this is different, she is getting thinner and i am very concerned for her. She was our second bunny (the first died 2 days after we bought it, the pet store i got it from was at fault for that it was sick when i bought it but i did not know enough about rabbit health to know then) she is a little over 2 years old and otherwise healthy apart from a bad habit of eating carpet if i do not watch her closely. i've just recalled she started eating things that she never tried to eat before she went off her hay. she was eating cardboard, plastic, and the gunk that seals the window into the sliding door. I love my little bunny, she is a black silver marten named Blaze for the white stripe on her face. Without a rabbit savvy vet i dont know what to do about her teeth if that is the issue. i am also concerned for her daughters, thumper and flash, who are still young, but i dont want them to have teeth issues. i read somewhere that giving them twigs to chew on can help, but i would appreciate some more reliable information than yahoo answers. thanks in advance.
i am new to this forum but i found your page through google and the information seemed very helpful on here. I have a bunny who recently stopped eating, she would eat small amounts of hay and was still drinking plenty, so i was not majorly concerned just keeping an eye on her, but now she is lethargic and will not eat any hay and i have not seen her drink today. from reading other posts it sounds like molar spurs, i know of one rabbit experience vet in my area (Windsor, ON, Canada, yes i know this is a UK forum), but when i called and asked i was told "we dont do that here". at which point she gave me a number for another exotic vet place which is closed. I will probably try to get to them tomorrow or maybe the day after, but i wondered if there is any way to help her from home, both to prevent molar spurs and to ensure she makes it to the vet. I have given her 3 CCs of water soaked with her pellets which revived her somewhat as well as i was able to get her to eat a small amount of soggy pellets. before she went off her hay she would get excited for treats but when they were offered she would ignore them. twice i have nursed her through GI stasis problems through stomach massage and force fed liquids as above, but this is different, she is getting thinner and i am very concerned for her. She was our second bunny (the first died 2 days after we bought it, the pet store i got it from was at fault for that it was sick when i bought it but i did not know enough about rabbit health to know then) she is a little over 2 years old and otherwise healthy apart from a bad habit of eating carpet if i do not watch her closely. i've just recalled she started eating things that she never tried to eat before she went off her hay. she was eating cardboard, plastic, and the gunk that seals the window into the sliding door. I love my little bunny, she is a black silver marten named Blaze for the white stripe on her face. Without a rabbit savvy vet i dont know what to do about her teeth if that is the issue. i am also concerned for her daughters, thumper and flash, who are still young, but i dont want them to have teeth issues. i read somewhere that giving them twigs to chew on can help, but i would appreciate some more reliable information than yahoo answers. thanks in advance.