Livvie
Young Bun
Firstly, don’t worry, bunny is under vet care, this is not me asking for a substitute for that!
Secondly, this is a long but INTERESTING read, trust me!
Barney's story:
So, Barney has always been a very sickly bunny.
He came to the pet shop at 8 weeks (from breeder) with three other cage mates.
Sadly after a few days of being in store, one of the buns in his cage passed away, of confirmed RHD2.
Barney then stopped eating, and lost so much weight he became like a bag of bones! After days of hourly medical care and force feeding to prevent stasis he miraculously recovered. He actually became incredibly confident and fearless, and very naughty! All of this time the other two bunnies in his cage remained healthy.
After a few weeks Barney unfortunately developed snuffles/pasteurellosis and was brought back into the pet shop by the lady who had adopted him a day earlier, she said she couldn’t deal with it!
After many weeks of different medications (Baytril, Sulfatrim, Zithromax, Bisolvon, vitamin supplements) he was signed off by the vet and I adopted him.
A quick note also is that the two other original cage mates of his in the pet shop both unfortunately passed away from myxomatosis.
In the next couple months Barney developed what we (us and the vet) believed to be e.c. Infection as he began losing weight and was drinking and peeing an insane amount every day. He was peeing so much he was giving himself urine scald on his back legs.
We ended up treating him with a 40 day course of Panacur (as advised by the vet) and right at the end of the course he completely recovered - no more excessive drinking and weeing.
Since then he has had the odd case of snuffles and not eating. He had to be hospitalised with fluids one day last year, and we had to give him recovery every hour for several days.
I knew when I took Barney on that he would be more prone to issues than the average bun, and that’s fine.
However, I would like to know stories if anyone has had anything similar. I find it really interesting to compare the different symptoms these illnesses can cause.
Recently (in the last month) his snuffles flared up again and he had two weeks of Baytril, plus we had to give him recovery food for the first couple of days (he stopped eating). Now his attitude has massively changed, he keeps growling and terrorising the cats. Half of his face has also fallen (hence the title). When he drinks the water dribbles out of the paralysed side of his face. Obviously we can’t say for sure if it’s due to pasteurella or e.c. , but he’s also started drinking a lot too. He is now on a 28 day course of Panacur, hopefully his behaviour will calm down as/if the treatment works.
Thanks for reading, hope this was interesting, and I would love to hear your own stories.
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Secondly, this is a long but INTERESTING read, trust me!
Barney's story:
So, Barney has always been a very sickly bunny.
He came to the pet shop at 8 weeks (from breeder) with three other cage mates.
Sadly after a few days of being in store, one of the buns in his cage passed away, of confirmed RHD2.
Barney then stopped eating, and lost so much weight he became like a bag of bones! After days of hourly medical care and force feeding to prevent stasis he miraculously recovered. He actually became incredibly confident and fearless, and very naughty! All of this time the other two bunnies in his cage remained healthy.
After a few weeks Barney unfortunately developed snuffles/pasteurellosis and was brought back into the pet shop by the lady who had adopted him a day earlier, she said she couldn’t deal with it!
After many weeks of different medications (Baytril, Sulfatrim, Zithromax, Bisolvon, vitamin supplements) he was signed off by the vet and I adopted him.
A quick note also is that the two other original cage mates of his in the pet shop both unfortunately passed away from myxomatosis.
In the next couple months Barney developed what we (us and the vet) believed to be e.c. Infection as he began losing weight and was drinking and peeing an insane amount every day. He was peeing so much he was giving himself urine scald on his back legs.
We ended up treating him with a 40 day course of Panacur (as advised by the vet) and right at the end of the course he completely recovered - no more excessive drinking and weeing.
Since then he has had the odd case of snuffles and not eating. He had to be hospitalised with fluids one day last year, and we had to give him recovery every hour for several days.
I knew when I took Barney on that he would be more prone to issues than the average bun, and that’s fine.
However, I would like to know stories if anyone has had anything similar. I find it really interesting to compare the different symptoms these illnesses can cause.
Recently (in the last month) his snuffles flared up again and he had two weeks of Baytril, plus we had to give him recovery food for the first couple of days (he stopped eating). Now his attitude has massively changed, he keeps growling and terrorising the cats. Half of his face has also fallen (hence the title). When he drinks the water dribbles out of the paralysed side of his face. Obviously we can’t say for sure if it’s due to pasteurella or e.c. , but he’s also started drinking a lot too. He is now on a 28 day course of Panacur, hopefully his behaviour will calm down as/if the treatment works.
Thanks for reading, hope this was interesting, and I would love to hear your own stories.
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