After having a decent few months of healthy bunnies, it appears that Coco may have bladder stones .
She had blood in her wee in November, but after a course of Baytril and Metacam, it seemed to clear. She was quite sore looking around her genitals but was alright in herself, no excess licking that I could see. Anyway, that all seemed well and the blood seemed to cease. Plus, both girls were quite dirty down there with old poo - I was horrified actually as of course it was an open invitation for fly-strike. But now I check them there quite regularly which of course they're both delighted with :lol:.
Fast-forward several weeks and I started to notice dried blood on the newspaper in a morning when I did the litter trays again. Wasn't much, and wasn't every day.
But then it seemed to increase so back to the vet we went last week. She was rather inflamed again around her genitals (Coco, not the female vet!) so another week's course of Metacam was prescribed. The bloodied wee on the paper faded but was still there so I took her back yesterday.
Long story short - Filip had a good squidge of her tummy/bladder and doesn't seem to think it's cancer although he can't rule it out altogether, which is kind of a relief that he doesn't think it is but of course that's not quite 100% not, but he is more inclined to think it's stones. I've managed to get a urine sample and took that in which was sent off last night, I think they're looking for crystals? But the vet still wants to ultrasound her bladder to make sure, which will mean shaving her belly . She'll hate it and thus will need to be slightly sedated "so she feels drunk" I said, and Filip laughed :lol: otherwise she'll go into stasis. Coco detests the vets, even for jabs, or a pedicure she shakes like a leaf so tummy shaved and then a scan, I dread to think how she'd react without sedation, I really do. It'd finish her off!
So that's next week I think, or they may wait until the urine results are in, I'm not sure.
But the point to my essay is, has anyone else's bunnies had bladder stones and if they have, how do they treat them? I'm guessing meds and/or laser perhaps? But the latter again would have to involve sedation.
It wasn't until I had to use these plastic type tiny balls on a sheet of plastic to collect the bloodied wee that I realised how much blood there was in her wee, it was quite upsetting actually . But on the upside, Coco is actually perfectly fine in herself - you couldn't tell there was anything wrong so at least that's something. She's back on pain relief for the foreseeable - her oojit is very sore looking. I feel so sorry for her, I really do, but hopefully it's nothing major and can be sorted quickly. She/they are 7 in May.
She had blood in her wee in November, but after a course of Baytril and Metacam, it seemed to clear. She was quite sore looking around her genitals but was alright in herself, no excess licking that I could see. Anyway, that all seemed well and the blood seemed to cease. Plus, both girls were quite dirty down there with old poo - I was horrified actually as of course it was an open invitation for fly-strike. But now I check them there quite regularly which of course they're both delighted with :lol:.
Fast-forward several weeks and I started to notice dried blood on the newspaper in a morning when I did the litter trays again. Wasn't much, and wasn't every day.
But then it seemed to increase so back to the vet we went last week. She was rather inflamed again around her genitals (Coco, not the female vet!) so another week's course of Metacam was prescribed. The bloodied wee on the paper faded but was still there so I took her back yesterday.
Long story short - Filip had a good squidge of her tummy/bladder and doesn't seem to think it's cancer although he can't rule it out altogether, which is kind of a relief that he doesn't think it is but of course that's not quite 100% not, but he is more inclined to think it's stones. I've managed to get a urine sample and took that in which was sent off last night, I think they're looking for crystals? But the vet still wants to ultrasound her bladder to make sure, which will mean shaving her belly . She'll hate it and thus will need to be slightly sedated "so she feels drunk" I said, and Filip laughed :lol: otherwise she'll go into stasis. Coco detests the vets, even for jabs, or a pedicure she shakes like a leaf so tummy shaved and then a scan, I dread to think how she'd react without sedation, I really do. It'd finish her off!
So that's next week I think, or they may wait until the urine results are in, I'm not sure.
But the point to my essay is, has anyone else's bunnies had bladder stones and if they have, how do they treat them? I'm guessing meds and/or laser perhaps? But the latter again would have to involve sedation.
It wasn't until I had to use these plastic type tiny balls on a sheet of plastic to collect the bloodied wee that I realised how much blood there was in her wee, it was quite upsetting actually . But on the upside, Coco is actually perfectly fine in herself - you couldn't tell there was anything wrong so at least that's something. She's back on pain relief for the foreseeable - her oojit is very sore looking. I feel so sorry for her, I really do, but hopefully it's nothing major and can be sorted quickly. She/they are 7 in May.