I’m gutted. He has been sneezing and had weepy eyes for a while, so today he went in for an anaesthetic, skull x ray and possible dental. I didn’t expect the vet to ring so soon, but she managed to do him after I left and it’s not good news
He has severe dental disease, bone erosion and his tooth roots have grown even further. There is an abscess within his skull and the vet could see a lot of pus too. The treatment options are to take his teeth out to access the abscess, put him on penicillin or another oral anti-biotic (begins with a - amythro something or other?).
I don’t think I can take his teeth out. It’s a big procedure and I don’t think I can do that to him.
I am not comfortable injecting penicillin and neither is anyone in my family. Even if I was comfortable with the actual injecting, he’d hate it. He loves fuss but only on his own terms. When I’ve had to force meds into him in the past, involving picking him up and holding him, he’s become withdrawn and begins to run away from me.
I’ve opted to put him on the other anti-biotic (begins with a), which is a real gamble. One of the side effects is fatal diarrhea, so he might react badly to the dose and die. If he doesn’t react badly, the stuff still might not work. We don’t know what we are dealing with because the vet cannot get in to get a swab, so it might be useless against the bug.
He is six years old. He’s had condition after condition right from five weeks old. He’s always been a sickly bunny, really. He’s had a good life, I think, and you can’t tell anything is wrong with him apart from sneezing and a slightly weepy eye. He loves fuss - nose rubs are his favourite - and always runs to the bars to greet us. Am I doing the right thing? Is it kinder on him to just dose him up with pain killers and then let him go with dignity when the time is right? I really don’t feel it’d be fair to take his teeth out, I think injecting him every two days would traumatize him and he’d begin to fear my touch, but instead I will be putting drugs into his system that could a) kill him anyway and b) not help at all.
I don’t know what to do I love him so much and want to do the right thing by him. The abscess is, in the vet’s opinion, never going to go away. I can’t reverse his erosion, or solve the tooth root problem. I’ve consented to the second drug but I don’t know if that was the right decision. Help
He has severe dental disease, bone erosion and his tooth roots have grown even further. There is an abscess within his skull and the vet could see a lot of pus too. The treatment options are to take his teeth out to access the abscess, put him on penicillin or another oral anti-biotic (begins with a - amythro something or other?).
I don’t think I can take his teeth out. It’s a big procedure and I don’t think I can do that to him.
I am not comfortable injecting penicillin and neither is anyone in my family. Even if I was comfortable with the actual injecting, he’d hate it. He loves fuss but only on his own terms. When I’ve had to force meds into him in the past, involving picking him up and holding him, he’s become withdrawn and begins to run away from me.
I’ve opted to put him on the other anti-biotic (begins with a), which is a real gamble. One of the side effects is fatal diarrhea, so he might react badly to the dose and die. If he doesn’t react badly, the stuff still might not work. We don’t know what we are dealing with because the vet cannot get in to get a swab, so it might be useless against the bug.
He is six years old. He’s had condition after condition right from five weeks old. He’s always been a sickly bunny, really. He’s had a good life, I think, and you can’t tell anything is wrong with him apart from sneezing and a slightly weepy eye. He loves fuss - nose rubs are his favourite - and always runs to the bars to greet us. Am I doing the right thing? Is it kinder on him to just dose him up with pain killers and then let him go with dignity when the time is right? I really don’t feel it’d be fair to take his teeth out, I think injecting him every two days would traumatize him and he’d begin to fear my touch, but instead I will be putting drugs into his system that could a) kill him anyway and b) not help at all.
I don’t know what to do I love him so much and want to do the right thing by him. The abscess is, in the vet’s opinion, never going to go away. I can’t reverse his erosion, or solve the tooth root problem. I’ve consented to the second drug but I don’t know if that was the right decision. Help