Pippa Pots
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Hi there,
Sorry this is going to be a long thread! I have a 2 year old female french lop who has been poorly for roughly 8-12 weeks. She has visited the vet three times now for GI stasis and I am managing that pretty well.
My rabbits live outdoors, but are free to roam the garden during the day. Over summer, particularly during the heatwave, Pippa started to show signs of severe lethargy and discomfort, she would not eat or drink. I have nursed rabbits through stasis before so took her straight to the vets. She was given fluids and meds to kick start her digestive tract, I also syringe fed her water and critical care food on my return. She started to show signs of improvement, but for many weeks she didnt really eat many pellets, she preferred eating her leafy greens which I made sure she had plenty of. Over the next few weeks, she had episodes of looking back to full health and then there might be an off day where I had to syringe feed etc.
I went on holiday and left her with my mum and dad. I came home and noticed she had lost tons of weight. This was 3-4 weeks ago. She was taken to the vets and given the same treatment, the vet could feel impacted matter in her stomach and gave me some pain relief meds, a tonic to boost her gut and advised me to keep supporting her with the same care as before.
My bun is so boney, I can feel her spine and her ribs. She had a few relapses were she has the stasis again so I reduced her amount of garden time incase she was eating plants that might be upsetting her. I have only been giving her pellets and very few limited greens. This has proven to stabilise her now for 2 weeks with no bad episodes of stasis. She is eating loads, drinking plenty and eating her hay. I wondered if her diet had perhaps been lacking in fibre before.
Although she is much improved, my old bunny has not returned, there are no binkys, she is not her usual self. I havent weighed her but I can still see and feel her bones, he stools are irregular, at times the are normal, others are small and hard or sloppy!
I am keeping her in the cage more to monitor her intake of food, water and her stools.
Her coat is dull and she looks a little scraggy.
I have checked her stools for worms, but there is no signs of this. I will mention that one of the first bad episodes of stasis included some stringy masses in her stools, very unusual. She is not in pain as far as I can see. Her front teeth look fine, but obviously I cannot check her molars.
Not sure where to go from here,
Any advice would be extremely welcome!
Pippa Pots
Sorry this is going to be a long thread! I have a 2 year old female french lop who has been poorly for roughly 8-12 weeks. She has visited the vet three times now for GI stasis and I am managing that pretty well.
My rabbits live outdoors, but are free to roam the garden during the day. Over summer, particularly during the heatwave, Pippa started to show signs of severe lethargy and discomfort, she would not eat or drink. I have nursed rabbits through stasis before so took her straight to the vets. She was given fluids and meds to kick start her digestive tract, I also syringe fed her water and critical care food on my return. She started to show signs of improvement, but for many weeks she didnt really eat many pellets, she preferred eating her leafy greens which I made sure she had plenty of. Over the next few weeks, she had episodes of looking back to full health and then there might be an off day where I had to syringe feed etc.
I went on holiday and left her with my mum and dad. I came home and noticed she had lost tons of weight. This was 3-4 weeks ago. She was taken to the vets and given the same treatment, the vet could feel impacted matter in her stomach and gave me some pain relief meds, a tonic to boost her gut and advised me to keep supporting her with the same care as before.
My bun is so boney, I can feel her spine and her ribs. She had a few relapses were she has the stasis again so I reduced her amount of garden time incase she was eating plants that might be upsetting her. I have only been giving her pellets and very few limited greens. This has proven to stabilise her now for 2 weeks with no bad episodes of stasis. She is eating loads, drinking plenty and eating her hay. I wondered if her diet had perhaps been lacking in fibre before.
Although she is much improved, my old bunny has not returned, there are no binkys, she is not her usual self. I havent weighed her but I can still see and feel her bones, he stools are irregular, at times the are normal, others are small and hard or sloppy!
I am keeping her in the cage more to monitor her intake of food, water and her stools.
Her coat is dull and she looks a little scraggy.
I have checked her stools for worms, but there is no signs of this. I will mention that one of the first bad episodes of stasis included some stringy masses in her stools, very unusual. She is not in pain as far as I can see. Her front teeth look fine, but obviously I cannot check her molars.
Not sure where to go from here,
Any advice would be extremely welcome!
Pippa Pots