Hi everyone, I am posting here in the hope that someone has seen this before- even my very rabbit savvy vet is at loss... Saturday morning I found my Dutch bunny Fudge (2) with a very wet chin. A few days before I started to treat her for conjunctivitis because her eyes looked red and sore. A visit to the vet on Monday was planned. Anyhow other than the wet chin she was eating and moving fine, nosy as ever, apart from the odd moment when she suddenly sat totally hunched, eyes squinting. Minutes later, back to normal. About five in the afternoon her bum and mouth were covered in diarrhoea. Still eating with a vengeance though, not just nibbling! Cleaned her up and, lacking car, started syringe feeding water to keep her hydrated. This was the one night when I could not get her to the vet. She died at 4am, still eating parsley. Just closed her eyes as if she were to go to sleep, suddenly small and so, so bony. Words cannot describe how the kids and I felt.
Fudge shared the hutch with Benny (also Dutch, different breeder, 1). I suspect the Benny cleaned Fudge when her face and hind was messy. This morning I took Benny to the vet to have him checked over- and to ask if she would know what might have happened to Fudge. She didn't. As he sat there in front of her, I noticed his chin was very wet. Then he started to hunch. Then his belly started to feel bloated. His eyes became a little reddish. Within 20 minutes of consultation he went from check-up to medical emergency. He is now on 0.8 Septrin, Infacol and Bio-lapis but he is deteriorating before my eyes
He was always tiny (1.3 kg) but now he looks totally anorexic and super bloated at the same time, he kept eating fennel, apple, carrot and pellets until 5pm but now stopped eating completely. I keep giving infacol and syringe feed water and a tiny bit of banana. I am so scared that he won't survive the night. PLEASE has anybody seen red eyes + wet chin + extremely bloated tummy + possible diarrhoea witch passes from rabbit to rabbit? (Btw he had a dental recently) Please let me know.
Fudge shared the hutch with Benny (also Dutch, different breeder, 1). I suspect the Benny cleaned Fudge when her face and hind was messy. This morning I took Benny to the vet to have him checked over- and to ask if she would know what might have happened to Fudge. She didn't. As he sat there in front of her, I noticed his chin was very wet. Then he started to hunch. Then his belly started to feel bloated. His eyes became a little reddish. Within 20 minutes of consultation he went from check-up to medical emergency. He is now on 0.8 Septrin, Infacol and Bio-lapis but he is deteriorating before my eyes
He was always tiny (1.3 kg) but now he looks totally anorexic and super bloated at the same time, he kept eating fennel, apple, carrot and pellets until 5pm but now stopped eating completely. I keep giving infacol and syringe feed water and a tiny bit of banana. I am so scared that he won't survive the night. PLEASE has anybody seen red eyes + wet chin + extremely bloated tummy + possible diarrhoea witch passes from rabbit to rabbit? (Btw he had a dental recently) Please let me know.