We've just rescued a giant French lop called Molly who we estimate to be around 3/4. As far as we know, she's been a hutch bunny all her life before being surrendered to the rescue centre at the end of August this year. Whilst she was at the rescue, they spayed her and treated her for fleas and ear mites. They also noted that she had lots of little pimples on her body (sebaceous cysts), which the rescue centre vet didn't seem worried about.
After the first few days of her being home, we noticed a slight runny nose and sneezing, so took her to our vet for a check over. She was immediately diagnosed with pasteurella and an ear infection. The cysts also seem to be a symptom of pasteurella, although they're clean and don't seem to be bothering her so are being left for now. Our vet suggested we might want to take her back as pasteurella means she'll be prone to ongoing health problems - but there's no way I could do that, knowing she'll get much better care with us than she could at a rescue centre.
She's currently on a 4 week course of penicillin injection with a specially mixed eardrop cocktail (including baytril). So far her runny nose has cleared up and no more sneezing! She seems very perky in herself and is eating/ pooping really well.
I've no experience of pasteurella and I don't really know what to expect. I'm pretty gutted that we're having to deal with it - we rescued Molly having lost our 8 year old lady to pneumonia which required intensive treatment for the last month of her life and I was really hoping to avoid such ntensive care for a little while! Also feel pretty terrible for exposing our existing bun Harry to pasteurella. I feel rather overwhelmed as the research I've done on pasteurella so far suggests that every bun has different symptoms and that the best way to manage it is through diet and lifestyle.
I'm really looking for any words of wisdom from anyone who has had a pasteurella bun - anything to look for, or anything I can do to help Molly?
After the first few days of her being home, we noticed a slight runny nose and sneezing, so took her to our vet for a check over. She was immediately diagnosed with pasteurella and an ear infection. The cysts also seem to be a symptom of pasteurella, although they're clean and don't seem to be bothering her so are being left for now. Our vet suggested we might want to take her back as pasteurella means she'll be prone to ongoing health problems - but there's no way I could do that, knowing she'll get much better care with us than she could at a rescue centre.
She's currently on a 4 week course of penicillin injection with a specially mixed eardrop cocktail (including baytril). So far her runny nose has cleared up and no more sneezing! She seems very perky in herself and is eating/ pooping really well.
I've no experience of pasteurella and I don't really know what to expect. I'm pretty gutted that we're having to deal with it - we rescued Molly having lost our 8 year old lady to pneumonia which required intensive treatment for the last month of her life and I was really hoping to avoid such ntensive care for a little while! Also feel pretty terrible for exposing our existing bun Harry to pasteurella. I feel rather overwhelmed as the research I've done on pasteurella so far suggests that every bun has different symptoms and that the best way to manage it is through diet and lifestyle.
I'm really looking for any words of wisdom from anyone who has had a pasteurella bun - anything to look for, or anything I can do to help Molly?