Happy Hopping
Wise Old Thumper
I forgot which thread it is that one of you mentioned your rabbit has a stroke, so here's an idea if this kind of things happens:
Just the other week, I have watched "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", and he aired a story of a man, who improvised a rescue on his chinchilla by doing a CPR on a heart attack chinchilla, and it was a very successful rescue.
Now we know that Chinchilla and rabbit have similar features in their genes, so a CPR on a chinchilla can work on a rabbit. My 2nd rabbit back in 2000 died in a seizure, I don't know if CPR would have made a difference, but if I were to face with a heart attack, or seizure or anything I can do to make a difference via a CPR, I'll definitely give it one hell of a try.
The procedure is simple:
1) curl your hand in a circle to form a "hollow tube", and blow the air thru your curled hand, into his mouth
2) do the above two to three times, they use 2 fingers (index and middle finger) to press his heart two to three times as well.
3) repeat the above
The reason you can't blow all the air by doing direct mouth to mouth is because his lung is tiny, it can't stand all the air from your direct single blow.
In the end, the above procedure works and he saved that chinchilla successfully, I was very impressed with that story.
Just the other week, I have watched "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", and he aired a story of a man, who improvised a rescue on his chinchilla by doing a CPR on a heart attack chinchilla, and it was a very successful rescue.
Now we know that Chinchilla and rabbit have similar features in their genes, so a CPR on a chinchilla can work on a rabbit. My 2nd rabbit back in 2000 died in a seizure, I don't know if CPR would have made a difference, but if I were to face with a heart attack, or seizure or anything I can do to make a difference via a CPR, I'll definitely give it one hell of a try.
The procedure is simple:
1) curl your hand in a circle to form a "hollow tube", and blow the air thru your curled hand, into his mouth
2) do the above two to three times, they use 2 fingers (index and middle finger) to press his heart two to three times as well.
3) repeat the above
The reason you can't blow all the air by doing direct mouth to mouth is because his lung is tiny, it can't stand all the air from your direct single blow.
In the end, the above procedure works and he saved that chinchilla successfully, I was very impressed with that story.