JessAndRoxy
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Hello,
I hope someone can advise me on what they think is best to do for my rabbit Jess. She needed to see the emergency vet last night as she wasn't eating and she was gassy and lethargic. She had pain meds, zantac, emeprid and a syringe feed of critical care. We kept her indoors over night and she wouldn't take her meds or critical care this morning so we panicked and made a vet appointment. However since then we let her out in the garden to see her sister, Roxy, and then put her back in the hutch. Within half an hour she was eating hay so I gave her some carrots and spring greens. She's had half a carrot and 2 leaves of spring greens and I've now let her out and she seems much better than yesterday. She did some soft droppings this morning and now she's just done some small but firm, normal looking droppings.
So my question is should I stress her by taking her to the vets this afternoon or should we just keep monitoring her ourselves? I've tried to speak to the vet but he can't come to the phone. I spoke to one of the vet nurses and she thinks the vet should see her but Jess hates being picked up and I know it's going to stress her a lot to be captured up again. I don't want her to get stressed and stop eating again. Does anyone have any thoughts on what we should do? I'm not worried about the cost of taking her back to the vets again, I just don't want to do more harm than good by taking her back to the vets if she doesn't need it.
I hope someone can advise me on what they think is best to do for my rabbit Jess. She needed to see the emergency vet last night as she wasn't eating and she was gassy and lethargic. She had pain meds, zantac, emeprid and a syringe feed of critical care. We kept her indoors over night and she wouldn't take her meds or critical care this morning so we panicked and made a vet appointment. However since then we let her out in the garden to see her sister, Roxy, and then put her back in the hutch. Within half an hour she was eating hay so I gave her some carrots and spring greens. She's had half a carrot and 2 leaves of spring greens and I've now let her out and she seems much better than yesterday. She did some soft droppings this morning and now she's just done some small but firm, normal looking droppings.
So my question is should I stress her by taking her to the vets this afternoon or should we just keep monitoring her ourselves? I've tried to speak to the vet but he can't come to the phone. I spoke to one of the vet nurses and she thinks the vet should see her but Jess hates being picked up and I know it's going to stress her a lot to be captured up again. I don't want her to get stressed and stop eating again. Does anyone have any thoughts on what we should do? I'm not worried about the cost of taking her back to the vets again, I just don't want to do more harm than good by taking her back to the vets if she doesn't need it.