honeywebb
Young Bun
Hi everyone
Haven’t been on for ages but now need some advice please.
My beautiful elderly Skittle (10 & a half years old) was fine Monday, her normal sprightly self. Tuesday morning she appeared OK but didn’t make her usual mad dash to her food. Didn’t see her during the day as i was at work but Tuesday evening she made her way into her outside run as per her usual routine but then just sat, hunched, in one corner (a corner she never sits in) and despite every attempt by her adoring husband Mojo, to get her to engage, she wasn’t interested. I kept an eye and by 9.30, in the dark, she was still sitting in the same spot. I was able to pick her up (far too easily) and we put her back in her bedroom hutch.
This morning at 5am she is back out in her outside run, sitting in the same corner, looking miserable, not even tempted by her favourite herb mint.
Is this the sign of a poorly bunny - or is it the sign of an elderly bunny dying of old age?
I will take her to the vet of course but if she is just in the throes of dying from old age I don’t want to put her through the stress of the hated trip to the vet and would rather she died peacefully in her home with her best fluffy friend in attendance.
Feel really sad right now but want to do the right thing by her x
Haven’t been on for ages but now need some advice please.
My beautiful elderly Skittle (10 & a half years old) was fine Monday, her normal sprightly self. Tuesday morning she appeared OK but didn’t make her usual mad dash to her food. Didn’t see her during the day as i was at work but Tuesday evening she made her way into her outside run as per her usual routine but then just sat, hunched, in one corner (a corner she never sits in) and despite every attempt by her adoring husband Mojo, to get her to engage, she wasn’t interested. I kept an eye and by 9.30, in the dark, she was still sitting in the same spot. I was able to pick her up (far too easily) and we put her back in her bedroom hutch.
This morning at 5am she is back out in her outside run, sitting in the same corner, looking miserable, not even tempted by her favourite herb mint.
Is this the sign of a poorly bunny - or is it the sign of an elderly bunny dying of old age?
I will take her to the vet of course but if she is just in the throes of dying from old age I don’t want to put her through the stress of the hated trip to the vet and would rather she died peacefully in her home with her best fluffy friend in attendance.
Feel really sad right now but want to do the right thing by her x