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Young Bun
Hi all,
My beautiful girl(9 years old) started to lose weight since winter and also a week ago I noticed she wasn't using her rear feet too well. Decided to weight her and was shocked to see that she weights 2,2kg (before she had 4 / 4,5kg). She also has some sore hocks (one of the feet has it covered by fur and it's a bit hard and on the other feet is a bit red without fur) and also she is a bit dirty (yellow fur from pee) and some missing fur between her legs. She also has moments when a big egg size lump appears on her ride side below the ribs and after some time disappears.
So we've made an appointment to a vet specialized in exotic animals and didn't get any answers from him. He had like only 10 min appointments. He didn't even want to look carefully at her saying that she is like this because she is deadly skinny and has sore hocks. I've explained it to him that this is strange but nothing else came out of him. He just wanted to get rid of us quickly.
So we decided to make some research ourselves for the start and based on it we started to raise her daily food pallet/veggies and also added dried bread, washed her with hydrogen peroxide, sprayed some zinc oxide and bandaged her feet. Then we searched for another vet and today we've taken her to the new vet. The vet cut the dirty hair, made her an ultrasound where the lump appears and said that everything looks ok and that the lump probably is the kidney when she is too full. Then we decided to make an x-ray to see what the problem is with her feet. The result was that she has spondylosis on more that 80% of her spine and that is nothing that we can do except to lessen her pain with some Rheumocam (Meloxicam). Does anyone have a better experience with some other med?
I also thought of using glucosamine as I've read is good but I can only find those for humans here, for example this one (my grandma uses this for spondylosis as well and is good) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Proenzi-R...6554?hash=item3d0cdda1ea:g:~uMAAOSw5IJWfaO F
What do you say? Can this one work? How much should I give her?
There is also another thing that I don't find it right these days. She drinks water, eats well, pees but doesn't poo that much. For example in the first half of the day she doesn't poo almost at all, then she makes some caecotrophs and them normal ones. Her stomach rarely also seems to make some gas sounds. I was afraid that she might have some hair ball.
I've attached the x-ray she took. The vet that saw her and the one from where the x-ray was taken didn't mention anything saying that the abdomen looks ok. Does anyone knows how a hair ball looks on an x-ray?
Also just noticed when she was lying on her side that something seems like is moving inside her abdomen on the side that was shaved for the ultrasound. Small bunnies are out of discussion as she was spayed 8 years ago. So it kind of remind me of those alien/horror movies.
Here are some video so you can all see what I'm talking about:
What do you think? Is that normal or are those gas or something?
Hope I didn't write too much but some answers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
My beautiful girl(9 years old) started to lose weight since winter and also a week ago I noticed she wasn't using her rear feet too well. Decided to weight her and was shocked to see that she weights 2,2kg (before she had 4 / 4,5kg). She also has some sore hocks (one of the feet has it covered by fur and it's a bit hard and on the other feet is a bit red without fur) and also she is a bit dirty (yellow fur from pee) and some missing fur between her legs. She also has moments when a big egg size lump appears on her ride side below the ribs and after some time disappears.
So we've made an appointment to a vet specialized in exotic animals and didn't get any answers from him. He had like only 10 min appointments. He didn't even want to look carefully at her saying that she is like this because she is deadly skinny and has sore hocks. I've explained it to him that this is strange but nothing else came out of him. He just wanted to get rid of us quickly.
So we decided to make some research ourselves for the start and based on it we started to raise her daily food pallet/veggies and also added dried bread, washed her with hydrogen peroxide, sprayed some zinc oxide and bandaged her feet. Then we searched for another vet and today we've taken her to the new vet. The vet cut the dirty hair, made her an ultrasound where the lump appears and said that everything looks ok and that the lump probably is the kidney when she is too full. Then we decided to make an x-ray to see what the problem is with her feet. The result was that she has spondylosis on more that 80% of her spine and that is nothing that we can do except to lessen her pain with some Rheumocam (Meloxicam). Does anyone have a better experience with some other med?
I also thought of using glucosamine as I've read is good but I can only find those for humans here, for example this one (my grandma uses this for spondylosis as well and is good) http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Proenzi-R...6554?hash=item3d0cdda1ea:g:~uMAAOSw5IJWfaO F
What do you say? Can this one work? How much should I give her?
There is also another thing that I don't find it right these days. She drinks water, eats well, pees but doesn't poo that much. For example in the first half of the day she doesn't poo almost at all, then she makes some caecotrophs and them normal ones. Her stomach rarely also seems to make some gas sounds. I was afraid that she might have some hair ball.
I've attached the x-ray she took. The vet that saw her and the one from where the x-ray was taken didn't mention anything saying that the abdomen looks ok. Does anyone knows how a hair ball looks on an x-ray?
Also just noticed when she was lying on her side that something seems like is moving inside her abdomen on the side that was shaved for the ultrasound. Small bunnies are out of discussion as she was spayed 8 years ago. So it kind of remind me of those alien/horror movies.
Here are some video so you can all see what I'm talking about:
What do you think? Is that normal or are those gas or something?
Hope I didn't write too much but some answers would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.