Kjrichings
New Kit
Last week I noticed our beautiful bunny was acting quite lathargic and a bit out of sorts. She went off her hay and these stick treats by Supreme that she usually loves. She later went in to full GI stasis as a result of gut impaction and I've been up with her the past week trying to take care of her with the vets limited help.
She now has some gut movement and is VERY intermittently passing droppings of poor quality. In order to keep her going during her sickness one vet recommended I try dandelion leaves which helped massively and were the only thing she'd actually eat for the past few days. She's very up and down at the moment and her behaviour is bizarre and erratic though this could be the medication and discomfort from gas. Our vet has prescribed ranatadine for a prokinetic and metaclopromide for pain and then said to take her home and just keep nursing. Does anyone have any experience wth these drugs on their own buns? If so, did you find any unusual behaviour; i.e licking walls, carpets, newspaper, scrabbling then laying down and growling at water?
Also, I wanted to ask if anyone had any advice with helping bunnies recover from this? I've done a fair amount of reading the past few days and it mostly says the same but I just thought I'd ask here. She's looking fairly bright at the moment but keeps having episodes of lethargy.
The biggest problem at the moment is she's completely gone off her hay. The usual hay she gets she now has no interest in whatsoever and I've bought 4 new types for her to try with no luck. Any ideas on how to get her eating hay again?
Thanks,
Kristian
She now has some gut movement and is VERY intermittently passing droppings of poor quality. In order to keep her going during her sickness one vet recommended I try dandelion leaves which helped massively and were the only thing she'd actually eat for the past few days. She's very up and down at the moment and her behaviour is bizarre and erratic though this could be the medication and discomfort from gas. Our vet has prescribed ranatadine for a prokinetic and metaclopromide for pain and then said to take her home and just keep nursing. Does anyone have any experience wth these drugs on their own buns? If so, did you find any unusual behaviour; i.e licking walls, carpets, newspaper, scrabbling then laying down and growling at water?
Also, I wanted to ask if anyone had any advice with helping bunnies recover from this? I've done a fair amount of reading the past few days and it mostly says the same but I just thought I'd ask here. She's looking fairly bright at the moment but keeps having episodes of lethargy.
The biggest problem at the moment is she's completely gone off her hay. The usual hay she gets she now has no interest in whatsoever and I've bought 4 new types for her to try with no luck. Any ideas on how to get her eating hay again?
Thanks,
Kristian