Ladylionheart
New Kit
Hi there,
We bought a white Lop eared rabbit from the pet shop 3 months ago who was in a very bad state [all bone&torn ears&cuts all over]. [I reported the pet shop to the GSPCA] We took him to our local Vets in Galway, who gave him antibiotics and after a month of tlc, we took him back to the vets to get his vaccinations. The morning after receiving his vaccinations, he suffered a series of seizures and a stroke and lost all power on his right side, was very distressed, eyes flicking&involuntary movements.
We rushed him to the vets who had to sedate him as the seizures were so violent in nature. After two days of steriods, antibiotics and fluids, he started to slowly recover and he came home. The vets had never seen anything like this and were shocked.
Gandalf had a relapse a week later [head tilt&eyes flicking] and went on another week of antibiotics and steriods which I administrated to him daily by injection, as they thought here might be still some intracranial swelling.
He was doing great until last night when he had a series of seizures and extreme head tilt.
The other new problem in the last two weeks is that his hormones have really came into play [The vets think he is about a year old] and he is spraying and marking terrority all over the house, honking, circling, humping toys and is very hyper.
We brought him to the vets this morning to ask about neutering but they discovered he has a irregular heart beat and so they feel its too risky to do the traditional neutering methods on him. They have never done chemical castration on rabbits but they will look into it.
What would you recommend? Is there anything you would suggest either in regard to the heart beat or the neutering?
I love Gandalf dearly and just wish him to have as long and as happy a life as possible so any advice you might have would be greatly appreicated.
We bought a white Lop eared rabbit from the pet shop 3 months ago who was in a very bad state [all bone&torn ears&cuts all over]. [I reported the pet shop to the GSPCA] We took him to our local Vets in Galway, who gave him antibiotics and after a month of tlc, we took him back to the vets to get his vaccinations. The morning after receiving his vaccinations, he suffered a series of seizures and a stroke and lost all power on his right side, was very distressed, eyes flicking&involuntary movements.
We rushed him to the vets who had to sedate him as the seizures were so violent in nature. After two days of steriods, antibiotics and fluids, he started to slowly recover and he came home. The vets had never seen anything like this and were shocked.
Gandalf had a relapse a week later [head tilt&eyes flicking] and went on another week of antibiotics and steriods which I administrated to him daily by injection, as they thought here might be still some intracranial swelling.
He was doing great until last night when he had a series of seizures and extreme head tilt.
The other new problem in the last two weeks is that his hormones have really came into play [The vets think he is about a year old] and he is spraying and marking terrority all over the house, honking, circling, humping toys and is very hyper.
We brought him to the vets this morning to ask about neutering but they discovered he has a irregular heart beat and so they feel its too risky to do the traditional neutering methods on him. They have never done chemical castration on rabbits but they will look into it.
What would you recommend? Is there anything you would suggest either in regard to the heart beat or the neutering?
I love Gandalf dearly and just wish him to have as long and as happy a life as possible so any advice you might have would be greatly appreicated.