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Help maybe pausterella (sp) if so where from! update!!!!!!!

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willow

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Orio has had a slight cough/sneeze for a few weeks and i just wanted to leave him a little bit to see if it got any worse, and i think it has and now i think Pepper has got it too. She has only done it once that i have seen. I would really like some advise on what anyone thinks it is. I am going to take them both to the vet as soon as i can, but i would like to have some idea of what the problem maybe.

They are both moulting really bad at the moment and i was just wondering if that could be a problem too.

Please help thanks!!!
 
No i dont use sawdust but i do use straw in their litter trays, most of the time they are on carpet in their bedroom. :D
 
It needs to see a vet. He probably needs antibiotics and if she has caught it from him then she'll probably need them too. Respiritary infections can get nasty so better get it treated sooner rather than later. Rabbits don't catch colds like humans.

Tam
 
Just wondering where they may have picked up an infection from. I dont have any other contact with other rabbits and neither do they. Is it something they can just contract. If so that is really worrying :!: :!:
 
Rabbits can carry the pasturella virus without it affecting them; I believe some studies suggest that most rabbits carry it, it just doesn't affect them all. A change of circumstances/ stress - maybe your rabbit moulting - can make the pasturella visible, i.e sneezing and discharge from eyes and nose. The rabbits could have been carrying it the whole time you have had them, they didn't necessarily just catch it.

Good luck at the vets, let us know how you get on! :D
 
kate said:
Rabbits can carry the pasturella virus without it affecting them; I believe some studies suggest that most rabbits carry it, it just doesn't affect them all. A change of circumstances/ stress - maybe your rabbit moulting - can make the pasturella visible, i.e sneezing and discharge from eyes and nose. The rabbits could have been carrying it the whole time you have had them, they didn't necessarily just catch it.

Good luck at the vets, let us know how you get on! :D
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This is right except that pasturella is a bacterium, not a virus :D
 
moulting badly could have made it start as rabbits are a bit under par when they go into a moult. I fermely believe that the probable cause would have been one og there parents had it .baby rabbits that are born to pasturela parents WILL eventualy come down with it. The vet is a good idea just to be sure.If it is you will be treating this for the rest of there lives. follow your vets advise but i wouldnt keep giving them batril untill they have a bad bout of it.Whot usualy happens is they will have a flare up and will be very snoty and chesty and then they will need treatment. After they get better they still may sneeze and have a bit of a wet nose but i would keep the batril till they need it.There is a chance that they will become used to the batril and when you rearly need it it wont work as well . val
 
willow said:
No i dont use sawdust but i do use straw in their litter trays, most of the time they are on carpet in their bedroom. :D
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In their bedroom!!! :lol: :lol:

Hope they get rid of the sniffles xx
 
They have been to the vet and he gave them some Baytril. He listened to their chests and looked at their noses and said that they def had some bacteria. Pepper was worse than Orio and i thought it was the other way around :shock: :shock: :shock: .

They have been in good spirits since i have been back and they are up in their bedroom ( yes a bedroom :lol: :lol: :lol: ) filling their faces with carrots and greens. I have had binkies out of Orio and he is normally a big grump. Pepper is being a bit off, but thats just cos the nasty vet man stuck a needle in her and picked her up. She's ok cos she is still eating what i give her even if she's not my friend :lol: :lol: :shock:

Thank you for all your advice, and i didnt know that once they suffer they always suffer, my poor little bunny wabbits :cry: :cry: :cry:
 
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