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Heavy/Laboured breathing Ud at the bridge:(

Bumbling

Bumbling

Warren Scout
Noticed Melody my 9 year old REW had quite flared nostrils and breathing heavy yesterday afternoon.

After a trip to 2 vet practices she had an xray which showed no sign of tumours or anything wrong to worry about too much just that her lungs didn't look good from the image but could have been because she moved when the image was taken.

Had metaclopramide inj and metacam inj and baytril to bring home.

This morning her appetite is better and she seems better in herself. Just hoping the meds work but wondered what could be causing a problem with lungs. She has no noisy breathing just an increased resp rate. They checked her teeth and said there were little spurs but nothing to worry about. Any ideas would be great.
 
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Sorry don't really know, but did she have her heart checked out, as well as her lungs for any pneumonia?

Or could she be in pain anywhere?
 
Same happened to Misty last week, the vet couldn't find anything, temperature didn't indicate pneumomia. You will be pleased to hear she is back to normal so just opening up her airways mmay have done the trick? Hope Yours is ok.
 
Don't thick there is any fluid on the lungs as she is not making any raspy sounds when breathing. All sounded normal to the vet. On the xray the lungs were not very clear to me. Are normal lungs supposed to show up with white in them on xray or should they show dark colouration as her xray showed white in the lungs???

They said everything looked normal so i would of hoped that they would have spotted a problem with her heart. Stomach and intestines were all normal no blockage. She seems to be acting much more normal today although still breathing heavy. I wonder if the pain relief helped her.

Hoping she gets back to normal as your Misty did.
 
Had melody helped to the bridge this afternoon.

She had an ultrasound which showed an ovarian tumour which they think spread to the lungs so did the kindest thing I thought I could for her.

Me and her partner Luke will miss her very much
 
Bumbling said:
Had melody helped to the bridge this afternoon.

She had an ultrasound which showed an ovarian tumour which they think spread to the lungs so did the kindest thing I thought I could for her.

Me and her partner Luke will miss her very much
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I am sorry :cry:
 
Bumbling said:
Had melody helped to the bridge this afternoon.

She had an ultrasound which showed an ovarian tumour which they think spread to the lungs so did the kindest thing I thought I could for her.

Me and her partner Luke will miss her very much
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I'm so sorry to hear this. You did all you can for her xxx
 
Thank you.

Had to get a second opinion at another vets. The chap who saw us owned the practice and missed my appointment and then kept telling me to scruff my rabbit to hold her on the table. Was awful.

Thank god she was scanned and dealt with by the small animal vet who knew what she was talking about.

Why are so many vets so bad with bunnies, it's awful. Didn't make the experience any easier.
 
I'm sorry about Melody :cry: It doesn't help when you have a bad experience with the vet either, when you are already stressed and upset :(
 
Thanks everyone. We buried her this morning next to her house so she will be close to Luke.

He's eating and drinking ok today thank god. Think he knew melody was at peace now. x
 
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