aBeautifulHope
Young Bun
Hello! I currently have a young lion head who has not popped since sometime this morning, possibly last night. The past day or two her poops had been slightly 'wonky' but I chalked it up to the fact that I had just moved her into my room and she was still adjusting to my dog/whatnot (she was in a very quiet room prior to this). There is not ONE single emergency rabbit vet within 4 hours (I'm not sure there is even one that close tbh), and I live in the US so it's a holiday weekend, there isn't even a normal bunny vet open within two hours (the closest 'normal' one I have is about an hour away)...and won't be until Monday. So I'm in a bit of a pickle. She hasn't ever eaten much hay...I had been trying to sprinkle her pellets throughout it, I put dried flowers (her favorite), alfalfa leaf, dandelion greens, the whole gamut to try to get her to eat it (I also had it ALL over the place thinking maybe seeing it everywhere would help her eat some? Nope. She just pees on it.). But she is on unlimited pellets and eats a good bit of them. She is eating her pellets today, I even gave her some romaine an hour or two ago to see if maybe getting some fluid/fiber into her would help...but so far no luck. She's hopping about and acting totally normal, so I don't know what to think? She's not really shedding so I don't THINK it's wool block, but it could be that...I'm going to pick up simethicone, some alfalfa hay (I'm at the point where if she'll eat any hay I'll be happy), critical care, and then I have over 40 liters of ringers on hand for my horses that I could easily use to sub-q her (just have to get some smaller syringes and needles)...what gage needle should I use for a small rabbit (stores are going to close soon so I want to make sure I have everything on hand in case things go south tonight)? Brand of simethicone? Doesn't matter? I would appreciate any help I could get