Elena
Wise Old Thumper
Smudge is at the vets and has been since 11 yesterday and doesn't look like he'll be coming home very soon.
He stopped eating Sunday morning so I gave him metacam, infacol and some water like I have in the past and normally he bounces back after a couple of hours. But he didn't, he hadn't eaten anything all day so by six I started getting worried and took him off to the emergency vets who gave him a couple of injections (painkiller and prokenetic sp?!) and did a blood glucose test which was high but not massively so. He started eating hay as soon as we got home and took some syringe food but then during the night slid back to where he was before so off to Trinity.
Vet had a good look and he has the beginnings of spurs so she felt he'd probably been a bit off his food all week, I hadn't noticed but she said they often eat as often as usual but slower so it's not obvious. But she felt the spurs was effect rather than cause. They took him in (with Imogen) and have been giving him painkillers and trying to syringe food though he's not eating much. I assume they're also giving him fluids, though I can't remember than being specifically mentioned. They're going to do some blood tests as this is all a bit of a mystery.
I'm starting to loose it slightly as this is all so similar to Mini. I can't loose two rabbits in the space of a few months
Anyway I guess my question is can some rabbits stop eating even with tiny, minimal spurs? This seems to all be a bit of a mystery.
He stopped eating Sunday morning so I gave him metacam, infacol and some water like I have in the past and normally he bounces back after a couple of hours. But he didn't, he hadn't eaten anything all day so by six I started getting worried and took him off to the emergency vets who gave him a couple of injections (painkiller and prokenetic sp?!) and did a blood glucose test which was high but not massively so. He started eating hay as soon as we got home and took some syringe food but then during the night slid back to where he was before so off to Trinity.
Vet had a good look and he has the beginnings of spurs so she felt he'd probably been a bit off his food all week, I hadn't noticed but she said they often eat as often as usual but slower so it's not obvious. But she felt the spurs was effect rather than cause. They took him in (with Imogen) and have been giving him painkillers and trying to syringe food though he's not eating much. I assume they're also giving him fluids, though I can't remember than being specifically mentioned. They're going to do some blood tests as this is all a bit of a mystery.
I'm starting to loose it slightly as this is all so similar to Mini. I can't loose two rabbits in the space of a few months
Anyway I guess my question is can some rabbits stop eating even with tiny, minimal spurs? This seems to all be a bit of a mystery.