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Please help.
For two weeks Rupert has suffered a variety of symptoms. These include:
Protruding eyes
3rd eyelid very prominent
Pain
Fast breathing
A mass in his stomach-thought to be a hairball but not certain
Bloods affected including liver
He's had xrays galore over a period of days, barian which showed the mass isn't causing a blockage and is on panacur and 2ml of metacam a day. We're awaiting the EC blood results.
My vet advises removal. He says it's better to do on a fit rabbit. Rupert is otherwise still strong, completely 'with it' and at times seems perfectly well until he then lies down and breathes quickly and shakes a bit.
My vet is a small vet, although both vets would be involved and when I asked the main vet he said he did have the necessary equipment and could do it despite never having done it before. I am sure they'd try their very best and yet, it's awful surgery, would I be sending Rupert to his death?
We're at least 2 hours to a referral centre, 3 to Frances Harcourt Brown and I don't have transport anyway. Ultimately I don't feel Rupert is up to travelling so far especially in this heat and to then travel back after abdominal surgery sounds horrible.
I'm trying as always to be calm. I'm a big 'knowledge is power' person. So.
I need a knowledgeable vet who can be sent the xrays, bloods etc and give some idea re: diagnosis and if further tests are required. We've a vet with an MRI about half an hour away.
If there is a diagnosis, then we need advice re treatment.
If surgery is the only option we need info re: what's needed etc and essentially if it can feasibility be done by inexperienced vets at a small practice.
I'd also be hugely grateful for anyone with experience of abdominal surgery to share their experiences. If you Google this it's all doom and gloom, I need a more positive view if there is one.
Currently I feel we're waiting for Rupert to go downhill. As he is strong still I do see the value of surgery now rather than when he is weak, but ultimately how do I make that decision when I don't know what's wrong with him?
PLEASE HELP. I really just don't know what to do and I'm really frightened. Rupert's such a lovely chap, he is really happy with Milly and he has years more of life to live.
For two weeks Rupert has suffered a variety of symptoms. These include:
Protruding eyes
3rd eyelid very prominent
Pain
Fast breathing
A mass in his stomach-thought to be a hairball but not certain
Bloods affected including liver
He's had xrays galore over a period of days, barian which showed the mass isn't causing a blockage and is on panacur and 2ml of metacam a day. We're awaiting the EC blood results.
My vet advises removal. He says it's better to do on a fit rabbit. Rupert is otherwise still strong, completely 'with it' and at times seems perfectly well until he then lies down and breathes quickly and shakes a bit.
My vet is a small vet, although both vets would be involved and when I asked the main vet he said he did have the necessary equipment and could do it despite never having done it before. I am sure they'd try their very best and yet, it's awful surgery, would I be sending Rupert to his death?
We're at least 2 hours to a referral centre, 3 to Frances Harcourt Brown and I don't have transport anyway. Ultimately I don't feel Rupert is up to travelling so far especially in this heat and to then travel back after abdominal surgery sounds horrible.
I'm trying as always to be calm. I'm a big 'knowledge is power' person. So.
I need a knowledgeable vet who can be sent the xrays, bloods etc and give some idea re: diagnosis and if further tests are required. We've a vet with an MRI about half an hour away.
If there is a diagnosis, then we need advice re treatment.
If surgery is the only option we need info re: what's needed etc and essentially if it can feasibility be done by inexperienced vets at a small practice.
I'd also be hugely grateful for anyone with experience of abdominal surgery to share their experiences. If you Google this it's all doom and gloom, I need a more positive view if there is one.
Currently I feel we're waiting for Rupert to go downhill. As he is strong still I do see the value of surgery now rather than when he is weak, but ultimately how do I make that decision when I don't know what's wrong with him?
PLEASE HELP. I really just don't know what to do and I'm really frightened. Rupert's such a lovely chap, he is really happy with Milly and he has years more of life to live.