A genuine thank you all for your advice which is excellent.:thumb:
Benjie has bisolvon which is a powder & goes in nicely on a basil leaf. (I reckon he thinks that bisolvon is normal seasoning for basil by now!:lol:
The others have been;
An antibiotic, Marbocyl, & I have to get the full dose into him, or we'll get all sorts of probs like it won't work & create drug resistance if he doesn't get the full dose.
I give him 2 different herbal medicines echinacea cos he's a nervous bunny, & stress knocks out their immune system. (He's got snuffles) Echinacea helps to stop this effect of stress.
I've recently tried a combination herbal remedy which cured one of Maizey's buns from long standing snuffles. It's less than 0.1ml of each. They're so strongly smelling I can't hide them in anything.
Lastly he has metacam to reduce swelling in the nasal passages & for pain relief from any blocked sinuses.
It's no major problem cos he just lies on my knee, & doesn't need wrapping in a towel or anything. He could actually do a runner very easily if he really didn't like it big time!
On top of all that he has a saline nebuliser x3 per day where he sits on my lap while I stroke him with 1 hand & direct the mist on his nose with the other. It's to help all the pus to come out of his nose. He's fine with that until his nose starts running when he gets a bit fed up & as it's doing it's job by then, I let him down. As soon as he's down he turns round for his reward.
Guess what? More stroking. :lol::lol::lol:
My bridge bun Thumper was a right difficult bun to medicate at 1st. & very bright, but didn't kick ot bite. He stretched my ingenuity to outwit him in several ways. Once I'd sussed one thing out he'd try something else.:lol: I reckon it's a bit of a game with both my buns as if they
have to put up a token protest. :lol:
If Thumper really meant NO he meant
NO!!! He didn't kick or bite either. I had a fantastic relationship with him. Thumper "talked". I had a lovely exotics vet at the time, Marie. She worked in an exotics center, & realised that Thumper "talked" very early on.
Nobody could get critical care into Thumper!!! It wasn't until I saw Marie return him to me with CC even in her hair that I stopped feeling totally inadequate with him. Fortunately Marie "listened to him" & instead of a battle we just gave subQ fluids after dentals. He was a sweetie too. While still drowsy after a GA you could watch him in the mind set, "Gotta eat to get out of here" (hospital) I'd take him home very early when he was still zonked, & he'd carry on in the same mind set at home, falling asleep in his bowl, until he came round properly. :lol: Once he came round he had to show his disapproval of me, giving me the "order of the bum" & I had to make up to him. :lol:
Here's a very dopey Thumper falling asleep in his food bowl
Here's a fully recovered Thumper giving me the order of the bum.:lol:
His gut gradually packed up, & I started a thread when he was only given 2 more months to live, cos we were trying a drug which hadn't been used for buns before. That thread went on & on for 18 months before he finally passed.
Then Benjie was found as a baby bun trying to cross one of the busiest roads in Swindon at rush hour, just after New years day, in the dark, & coloured jet black, only 2 months after Thumper passed. He had a generalised pastuerella infection - abscesses & snuffles, & had probably been bitten on 1 ear. I couldn't refuse him a home.
You couldn't imagine 2 more totally different bunnies. I'm quietly pleased that I love Benjie just as much, & very much in his own right, ie because of the difference.
ETA Here's Benjie being nebulised - see -he's an absolute sweetie.
