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Sneezing then coughing.

Aly&Poppy<3

Aly&Poppy<3

Wise Old Thumper
Poppy has been her fine and usual self all day, about 20 minutes ago she just hopped forward sneezed once and made a coughing noise. She did it about 4 times in 5 minutes but since then she has been lying down and grooming herself like she usually does. When she did cough her ears would shoot upright and face forwards, I don't know if that means anything?

During those 5 minutes she was loafing and her eyes were half shut, they are now wide open and she's chilling all stretched out by her heat pad.

It scared the **** out of me so my bf rang the emergency vet because I found some old threads on infections and things, unfortunately the vet on call is one who hasn't got a bloody clue about rabbits :evil: He told us to keep an eye on her, I don't like listening to that tit though.

Our usual vet is in tomorrow so my question is do we wait until tomorrow with her or do something sooner? As quickly as it happened it (whatever it was) is now over and she is seemingly fine..
 
I'd say she had a bit of dust or something up her nose. I wouldn't worry too much unless she does it again or shows signs of being in pain/distress.
 
Thank you both :) I know it's late so I appreciate your replies, I didn't think I'd get any! Trust a scare to happen so late in the evening!

She can't eat hay but it is still used in her litter tray along with wood based cat litter, after the coughing/sneezing she jumped back into her litter tray, peed and them shoved her head in the now broken down litter :? (She always dogs a little hole before she wees for some reason) and promptly sneezed again, no cough that time though.

Her hay is cut up finely as she used to get it stuck down her throat and we'd have to pull it out. She is moulting atm and when she made the first coughing noise she was sitting by a small pile of her that has formed where she had been lying.

We'll get her to the vets anyway but I'm going to blitz the room again, change the blankets and make sure there is no dust/fur anywhere.

It has been over an hour now and she's just been acting normal. Lying by her heat pad, weeing, grooming herself etc.
 
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