Fionabun
Mama Doe
Hi there. My bun Nell is in need of some vibes for tomorrow morning. She is having another dental having been off her food for sufficiently long. She has molar spurs again.
Bless her little heart, she has been such a good little patient and completely cooperative during syringe feeding, no mess, no fuss, just gets it over with. She has been off her food for a good few days, I have tried to nurse her through with syringe feeding, tempting foods and meds (and of course seeing the vet) just to see if it was a simple tummy ache but it has not passed and I have to trust that it is her teeth again.
I hope so much that she does well tomorow during her dental. She has had far too many recently and I am concerned about her quality of life. She takes longer and longer to come round from the anaesthetic each time and her dentals seem to be down to almost every four-five weeks now. Nell is only 3.5 years old. It breaks my heart.
I have posted so much about her in recent months. Her problems with recurrent bloat seem to have tailed off, having cut out certain veg known to cause wind and offering only very little veg in the diet to encourage more hay eating. But she is certainly not out of the woods.
Do you think it is wise to book her in now for a routine regular dental to save her the trauma of going off her food in the first place, risking gut stasis, getting gas and needed lots of TLC before the dental. At the moment, I wait until I see signs of her going off her food and looking uncomfortable/in pain. It seems so unneccessary being as I now know she gets problems with spikes every month or so. I so want to be proactive about this but similarly wish I could hold out for a miracle that they never return and certainly don't want to put her under GA unecessarily.
What would you do if it was your bunny. Please bear in mind that her husbun Sumi also seems to be only managing 5-6 weeks in between dentals and it never happens at the same time. My other two, Clover and Marcy, have only had one each so far but I am keeping a close eye on them.
I know I am not the important one here but it has been a sick bunny marathon since Christmas Eve in particular (but it really has been terrible since September) and I have only had two days without syringe feeding since Christmas Eve. Might sound ok but I am also holding down a job and losing serious sleep. I am so worried all the time too.
It would be easier if I didn't have all the worry and stress of finding them sick/off food, giving first aid and all the feeding care, rearranging time at work to get them to the vet, TLC until they are back munching again. And then what has been happening is that two days later, my next bunny is due her dental and has gone off her food. And then it has had to start all over again.
I love my bunnies so much and would be devastated if anyone thought that I was more concerned about the inconvenience of it all for me. I would do anything for them. But it struck me that if I could try to work in with the pattern of when they usually need a dental, I could organise it to be done routinely. And it saves them from the stress of going off food, risking gut stasis, then getting dental. But the obvious down side is the regular GA required and the fact that maybe it is unnecessary. My vet will not do dentals without GA which I understand fully.
I would so much appreciate opinions on this. Does anyone else 'book in' dentals. I am so sorry that this has turned into a very long post.
More importantly though, my beautiful Nell needs lots of bunny vibes!
Fiona x
Bless her little heart, she has been such a good little patient and completely cooperative during syringe feeding, no mess, no fuss, just gets it over with. She has been off her food for a good few days, I have tried to nurse her through with syringe feeding, tempting foods and meds (and of course seeing the vet) just to see if it was a simple tummy ache but it has not passed and I have to trust that it is her teeth again.
I hope so much that she does well tomorow during her dental. She has had far too many recently and I am concerned about her quality of life. She takes longer and longer to come round from the anaesthetic each time and her dentals seem to be down to almost every four-five weeks now. Nell is only 3.5 years old. It breaks my heart.
I have posted so much about her in recent months. Her problems with recurrent bloat seem to have tailed off, having cut out certain veg known to cause wind and offering only very little veg in the diet to encourage more hay eating. But she is certainly not out of the woods.
Do you think it is wise to book her in now for a routine regular dental to save her the trauma of going off her food in the first place, risking gut stasis, getting gas and needed lots of TLC before the dental. At the moment, I wait until I see signs of her going off her food and looking uncomfortable/in pain. It seems so unneccessary being as I now know she gets problems with spikes every month or so. I so want to be proactive about this but similarly wish I could hold out for a miracle that they never return and certainly don't want to put her under GA unecessarily.
What would you do if it was your bunny. Please bear in mind that her husbun Sumi also seems to be only managing 5-6 weeks in between dentals and it never happens at the same time. My other two, Clover and Marcy, have only had one each so far but I am keeping a close eye on them.
I know I am not the important one here but it has been a sick bunny marathon since Christmas Eve in particular (but it really has been terrible since September) and I have only had two days without syringe feeding since Christmas Eve. Might sound ok but I am also holding down a job and losing serious sleep. I am so worried all the time too.
It would be easier if I didn't have all the worry and stress of finding them sick/off food, giving first aid and all the feeding care, rearranging time at work to get them to the vet, TLC until they are back munching again. And then what has been happening is that two days later, my next bunny is due her dental and has gone off her food. And then it has had to start all over again.
I love my bunnies so much and would be devastated if anyone thought that I was more concerned about the inconvenience of it all for me. I would do anything for them. But it struck me that if I could try to work in with the pattern of when they usually need a dental, I could organise it to be done routinely. And it saves them from the stress of going off food, risking gut stasis, then getting dental. But the obvious down side is the regular GA required and the fact that maybe it is unnecessary. My vet will not do dentals without GA which I understand fully.
I would so much appreciate opinions on this. Does anyone else 'book in' dentals. I am so sorry that this has turned into a very long post.
More importantly though, my beautiful Nell needs lots of bunny vibes!
Fiona x