Jerseylotte
Warren Scout
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The general had four bouts of stasis in three weeks, accompanied by primarily stomach bloating. Each time he was in the vets overnight and they have failed to diagnose any underlying problem.
He had his teeth checked under anaesthetic, x-rayed.
At first I felt the reoccurence could be down to the fact my vet didn't supply me with metacam, metaclop etc to continue weaning off treatment at home after episodes. I felt like the cause could have been due to his heavy moult.
I've had him home for a week with metaclop (3x daily down to once daily by yesterday), metacam (once daily), critical care, fibreplex and fresh pineapple juice.
He's had three threats of stasis over the course of this week (including one right now). Each time I've given him plenty of fluids, juice, massage, syringe feeding, metaclop and metacam if already bloating up. And each time he's been back to normal within a couple of hours.
We've been brushing and plucking him so I don't think his moult can be as much of the problem as I first suspected.
He gets a bloated stomach with an empty GI tract behind it each time. He's had an incredibly poor appetite for the last 10 or so days.
He picks at one or two things and is now ignoring his pellets and just eating hay, although he will come running if he thinks treats are on the cards (his apple bits are completely off the menu right now.)
He has been licking lots of things, trying to chew wooden door frames etc (he has a shedload of willow things and fruit tree twigs)
He has also peed when I've picked him up twice in the last couple of days, his wee is orange and seems normal to me. (Is this my biggest clue?)
This can't go on forever and I feel like there must be something serious underlying this, I've read things about rabbits that died after stasis having necrotic stomach openings and things. He seems perfect inbetween these bad moments, despite having apparently no appetite at all. He is pooing sporadically, when he does they're normal and he'll do a whole pile, then maybe nothing for another 12 hours...
My vets are very good, but frankly they aren't coming up with anything, we've spent just under £1000 in a month with them and they have given us no answers whatsoever, treating just symptoms and the cause is still hidden.
I feel like the death of my little boy is inevitable and I have no choice but to keep prolonging this deadend situation by bringing him out of stasis each time it threatens.
Has anyone ever had a problem like this? What the hell can I do?
The general had four bouts of stasis in three weeks, accompanied by primarily stomach bloating. Each time he was in the vets overnight and they have failed to diagnose any underlying problem.
He had his teeth checked under anaesthetic, x-rayed.
At first I felt the reoccurence could be down to the fact my vet didn't supply me with metacam, metaclop etc to continue weaning off treatment at home after episodes. I felt like the cause could have been due to his heavy moult.
I've had him home for a week with metaclop (3x daily down to once daily by yesterday), metacam (once daily), critical care, fibreplex and fresh pineapple juice.
He's had three threats of stasis over the course of this week (including one right now). Each time I've given him plenty of fluids, juice, massage, syringe feeding, metaclop and metacam if already bloating up. And each time he's been back to normal within a couple of hours.
We've been brushing and plucking him so I don't think his moult can be as much of the problem as I first suspected.
He gets a bloated stomach with an empty GI tract behind it each time. He's had an incredibly poor appetite for the last 10 or so days.
He picks at one or two things and is now ignoring his pellets and just eating hay, although he will come running if he thinks treats are on the cards (his apple bits are completely off the menu right now.)
He has been licking lots of things, trying to chew wooden door frames etc (he has a shedload of willow things and fruit tree twigs)
He has also peed when I've picked him up twice in the last couple of days, his wee is orange and seems normal to me. (Is this my biggest clue?)
This can't go on forever and I feel like there must be something serious underlying this, I've read things about rabbits that died after stasis having necrotic stomach openings and things. He seems perfect inbetween these bad moments, despite having apparently no appetite at all. He is pooing sporadically, when he does they're normal and he'll do a whole pile, then maybe nothing for another 12 hours...
My vets are very good, but frankly they aren't coming up with anything, we've spent just under £1000 in a month with them and they have given us no answers whatsoever, treating just symptoms and the cause is still hidden.
I feel like the death of my little boy is inevitable and I have no choice but to keep prolonging this deadend situation by bringing him out of stasis each time it threatens.
Has anyone ever had a problem like this? What the hell can I do?