newbabybuns
Warren Veteran
Two of my three bunnies get this occasionally. They always are fine in the day, but by late evening (it is always this time!) are displaying signs of pain - stomach pressing, not eating anything. But the main symptom is their abdomen feels completely empty like a deflated balloon. They let me massage them gently underneath and I make them get up and run around and bother them with hay until they start eating. Their abdomen then fills back up again (sometimes I can feel it do it in my hand when massaging them) and it is as if nothing is wrong at all with nothing to show the vet. They eat normally, poop normally (although start off smaller for the first few)
The vet said it sounds like gas but I would like to know exactly what is happening. It's as if something is stuck high up in their system (but they don't have blockages or pass anything abnormal once it has normal again) and it doesn't allow the normal gas to be in the abdomen. It's almost like it's the opposite of bloat.
Does anyone know what this is or have experienced it? The girls are siblings so I don't know if genetically they have a fault. I've never encountered it before (knowingly).
The vet said it sounds like gas but I would like to know exactly what is happening. It's as if something is stuck high up in their system (but they don't have blockages or pass anything abnormal once it has normal again) and it doesn't allow the normal gas to be in the abdomen. It's almost like it's the opposite of bloat.
Does anyone know what this is or have experienced it? The girls are siblings so I don't know if genetically they have a fault. I've never encountered it before (knowingly).
as it happened one time with Frankie a year ago although we never reached a conclusion as to what it was.
