RedFraggle
Warren Veteran
Scarlet's "in hospital" again and I just wanted to describe the chain of events and make a point about how important it is to be aware of normal faecal output and your own rabbit's behaviour.
Three weeks ago Scarlet had "yet another dental"
http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/s...other-traumatic-week-for-Scarlet-the-superbun!
Over the last two or three days her behaviour was a bit off, but it was hot and she's old and doesn't cope well with heat, and she was moulting and that tends to upset her a bit too and she was a bit picky with her food, but she often is as her mouth's a mess. So, maybe that explained it?
BUT, and this is the important bit, her faecal output was way down, only about 30 pellets a day, that's not enough. So I rang Crab Lane, spoke to Ruth, drove her the 90 minutes over there and Heather checked her and thought she could see pus in her saliva.
She's had another GA, and the teeth that I thought had been removed actually had loose crowns that had come off last time and were still there and they had gotten infected in the gums. With some effort they've gotten them out. She's an old rabbit (about 9) and to leave it until she stopped eating would've put her in a way worse position. She has a way to go, her gums have been debrided and cheek teeth removed again but if we hadn't caught this early she would be in a way worse position.
At the point I took her in she was: eating, pooing, weeing, doing rabbity things.
The purpose of this post is know your rabbit, don't assume they're ok if they're eating, if they appear to have stuff going in it should be coming out and if faecal output drops they could be in trouble.
Hopefully she'll bounce back again.
Three weeks ago Scarlet had "yet another dental"
http://forums.rabbitrehome.org.uk/s...other-traumatic-week-for-Scarlet-the-superbun!
Over the last two or three days her behaviour was a bit off, but it was hot and she's old and doesn't cope well with heat, and she was moulting and that tends to upset her a bit too and she was a bit picky with her food, but she often is as her mouth's a mess. So, maybe that explained it?
BUT, and this is the important bit, her faecal output was way down, only about 30 pellets a day, that's not enough. So I rang Crab Lane, spoke to Ruth, drove her the 90 minutes over there and Heather checked her and thought she could see pus in her saliva.
She's had another GA, and the teeth that I thought had been removed actually had loose crowns that had come off last time and were still there and they had gotten infected in the gums. With some effort they've gotten them out. She's an old rabbit (about 9) and to leave it until she stopped eating would've put her in a way worse position. She has a way to go, her gums have been debrided and cheek teeth removed again but if we hadn't caught this early she would be in a way worse position.
At the point I took her in she was: eating, pooing, weeing, doing rabbity things.
The purpose of this post is know your rabbit, don't assume they're ok if they're eating, if they appear to have stuff going in it should be coming out and if faecal output drops they could be in trouble.
Hopefully she'll bounce back again.
