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Mama Doe
Elphie is missing one of her hind claws after the big fight with Athena over a satsuma yesterday.
Galinda is overweight.
Athena has a strange lump from where she was spayed and is now on baytril. I had been keeping an eye on it, but it had been cleared as being ok by the vet who spayed her. My local vets, the one she'll be a regular at, is unhappy though and I feel awful for not taking her sooner.
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Okay, so I've slept on it (well not really, I slept terribly) and I still feel awful about how the health checks went. I still feel like a bad bunny mama and that I should have seen the signs and all of that. Still, I can't change the past but I can change the future.
Re: Elphie (and Athena): the vet nurse said to keep the war wounds from their fight clean with tepid slightly salted water and I've been doing that. However, I have to ask: how do I keep an eye out for a nail bed infection? The vet nurse said that it is a possibility and I want to make sure I know what I'm looking at. Or is it blindingly obvious? A sudden reaction to pain/starting to limp/something like that?
Re: Athena: any advice on giving baytril? She HATES it with a passion. I'm glad I only have to do it once a day. Between having to give Zara (cat) her epilepsy pill and Athena the baytril, I'm getting a lovely collection of scratch marks. :roll:
Re: Galinda: I've been told 3x veg in the morning, half an egg cup of pellets at night. Does veg include forage materials like cow parsley, plantain, bramble etc? Is hay still unlimited? Does picked grasses come under hay or veg? Where does dried forage come in? I think half her problem is that she's always been the laziest rabbit I've ever had. The vet said that should change when I get her partner, but I'm still not 100% sure when exactly that'll happen. She continually begs for food and that leads to people overfeeding her when I'm not well enough to feed.
Thanks in advance.
Galinda is overweight.
Athena has a strange lump from where she was spayed and is now on baytril. I had been keeping an eye on it, but it had been cleared as being ok by the vet who spayed her. My local vets, the one she'll be a regular at, is unhappy though and I feel awful for not taking her sooner.
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Okay, so I've slept on it (well not really, I slept terribly) and I still feel awful about how the health checks went. I still feel like a bad bunny mama and that I should have seen the signs and all of that. Still, I can't change the past but I can change the future.
Re: Elphie (and Athena): the vet nurse said to keep the war wounds from their fight clean with tepid slightly salted water and I've been doing that. However, I have to ask: how do I keep an eye out for a nail bed infection? The vet nurse said that it is a possibility and I want to make sure I know what I'm looking at. Or is it blindingly obvious? A sudden reaction to pain/starting to limp/something like that?
Re: Athena: any advice on giving baytril? She HATES it with a passion. I'm glad I only have to do it once a day. Between having to give Zara (cat) her epilepsy pill and Athena the baytril, I'm getting a lovely collection of scratch marks. :roll:
Re: Galinda: I've been told 3x veg in the morning, half an egg cup of pellets at night. Does veg include forage materials like cow parsley, plantain, bramble etc? Is hay still unlimited? Does picked grasses come under hay or veg? Where does dried forage come in? I think half her problem is that she's always been the laziest rabbit I've ever had. The vet said that should change when I get her partner, but I'm still not 100% sure when exactly that'll happen. She continually begs for food and that leads to people overfeeding her when I'm not well enough to feed.
Thanks in advance.
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