Tracybeakerisland
Mama Doe
For the past week I have watched Teasel [12] and even I as much as I hate this have to admit she has utterly lost the plot.
She does not seem to know where she is, she is trying to eat none food items and ignores food, or starts to eat then gets a glazed over expression forgets about food and sleeps at all sorts of weird times. She knew her name now she does not and she is not too sure who I am. If I put her on the carpet she does not know she is in the same room as her indoor base. Up until this week she has always been a fastinciously clean rabbit but this week I have been the one who has had to clean her- it may be the end of the year but fly strike is still possible. Her sore hip joints make bum washes increadibly painful no matter how careful I am. She has lost weight this week and the metacam she has for her artritisis no longer gives her a boing in her step to go off grumble and rummage for food. Even her fave treats do not bring her any real joy anymore.
The biggest dilemma has been knowing how horrendous death will be for her from her refussing food and starving herself to death. Doodee used up all my emergency vet funds so I know I have not the financial back up to pull on over the weekend and I know there is no cure for all the problems of extreme old age in a rabbit. My instincts tell me this is one rabbit who had more than enough of living at the start of the week. Kept her on her pain meds and warm and comfy but she is just fading.
She is not in stasis it is just she no longer seems to know what food is and she will be if I leave this much longer. I have had her for 10 years and she has cost me God alone knows what in vet fees from cancer surgery , serious scrapping with other rabbits and her run in with Myxi. I have booked her a one way trip to the vets for later this morning rather than see her begin to really suffer over this comming weekend.
I think my husbands more upset about this than me- and Teasel only ever bit him evry time she could get near him.
This is not fair. That will be the second of my rabbits needing to be humanely killed by the vet in the same month.
She does not seem to know where she is, she is trying to eat none food items and ignores food, or starts to eat then gets a glazed over expression forgets about food and sleeps at all sorts of weird times. She knew her name now she does not and she is not too sure who I am. If I put her on the carpet she does not know she is in the same room as her indoor base. Up until this week she has always been a fastinciously clean rabbit but this week I have been the one who has had to clean her- it may be the end of the year but fly strike is still possible. Her sore hip joints make bum washes increadibly painful no matter how careful I am. She has lost weight this week and the metacam she has for her artritisis no longer gives her a boing in her step to go off grumble and rummage for food. Even her fave treats do not bring her any real joy anymore.
The biggest dilemma has been knowing how horrendous death will be for her from her refussing food and starving herself to death. Doodee used up all my emergency vet funds so I know I have not the financial back up to pull on over the weekend and I know there is no cure for all the problems of extreme old age in a rabbit. My instincts tell me this is one rabbit who had more than enough of living at the start of the week. Kept her on her pain meds and warm and comfy but she is just fading.
She is not in stasis it is just she no longer seems to know what food is and she will be if I leave this much longer. I have had her for 10 years and she has cost me God alone knows what in vet fees from cancer surgery , serious scrapping with other rabbits and her run in with Myxi. I have booked her a one way trip to the vets for later this morning rather than see her begin to really suffer over this comming weekend.
I think my husbands more upset about this than me- and Teasel only ever bit him evry time she could get near him.
This is not fair. That will be the second of my rabbits needing to be humanely killed by the vet in the same month.