Dolly, my elderly french lop was admitted to the vets on Saturday with a messy bottom and sore lady bits. It's something we've had to manage with her periodically since she was young and had all of her incisors removed, she's been to the vets for a bottom shave/tidy up on a number of occasions. Now she is a little older and becoming slightly incontinent I am having to be more on it with her. So, Saturday popped her to the vets. Vet took her off to get her cleaned up. She was sore and swollen down there so the vet advised cream and some antibiotics. However, more worrying was that there were fly eggs. After going through what we did with Adam, my heart sank. Not again. Thankfully, no maggots so there was no skin damage but due to her age and size, both vet and I felt it wise to keep her in to monitor and to kick start her medication to get her healing up and to monitor that all fly eggs had been removed. I brought Bear along to keep her company.
The vets have been wonderful (as they always are tbh), keeping me updated. Yesterday they reported that her bits were looking less red and swollen so she was responding well to the treatment. This morning the report was that they had found a couple of maggots in one of the folds around her lady area, but removed them without any damage being caused. Both vet and I agreed it would be wise to keep her in for a further 48 hours to monitor incase of any further hatching of missed eggs.
Both Dolly and Bear are relaxed and eating as normal so not stressed.
I on the other hand cannot believe this...again....after all that we went through with Adam. I've gone through every emotion. Keeping rabbits is so, so hard.
The vets have been wonderful (as they always are tbh), keeping me updated. Yesterday they reported that her bits were looking less red and swollen so she was responding well to the treatment. This morning the report was that they had found a couple of maggots in one of the folds around her lady area, but removed them without any damage being caused. Both vet and I agreed it would be wise to keep her in for a further 48 hours to monitor incase of any further hatching of missed eggs.
Both Dolly and Bear are relaxed and eating as normal so not stressed.
I on the other hand cannot believe this...again....after all that we went through with Adam. I've gone through every emotion. Keeping rabbits is so, so hard.