Our Herbie is currently very poorly at the vets. He was off his food last night, although bright. He did this a couple of weekends ago and after zantac, metaclop and metacam he was fine by the morning. However today he was no better so we made an emergency dash to the vets first thing.
Teeth seemed to be the obvious culprit as Herbie had some spurs. Whilst waiting for a dental he was seen to nibble some hay and drink water. Then he suddenly regurgitated a load of fluid and his stomach blew up.
He has been operated on, there was no blockage, his stomach contained food and more of this fluid and some gas.
My vet had not seen this happen so suddenly before and has no idea why. She suspected liver torsion but his liver looked fine.
Any info on this would be welcome. And also some vibes for Herbie. He is a very poorly rabbit, it must be his 7th birthday about now too
Forgot to add that his partner Hollie was also a bit off last night too but was fine this morning. I had wondered if the high winds the previous day here had stressed them into gut slowdown
Teeth seemed to be the obvious culprit as Herbie had some spurs. Whilst waiting for a dental he was seen to nibble some hay and drink water. Then he suddenly regurgitated a load of fluid and his stomach blew up.
He has been operated on, there was no blockage, his stomach contained food and more of this fluid and some gas.
My vet had not seen this happen so suddenly before and has no idea why. She suspected liver torsion but his liver looked fine.
Any info on this would be welcome. And also some vibes for Herbie. He is a very poorly rabbit, it must be his 7th birthday about now too
Forgot to add that his partner Hollie was also a bit off last night too but was fine this morning. I had wondered if the high winds the previous day here had stressed them into gut slowdown
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