Sorry about my many questions but I am finding it difficult to research online.
Ruby's head seems much more tilted today, almost at a sideways angle. I have seen her clean herself and her head seems almost upright, is this normal? I thought it would be stuck tilted.
Is there any way of working out the cause of the tilt? are there any give aways that it could be ec related rather than say an ear infection? Without the ec blood test? Bertie has ec so he could have passed it on, she didn't show a tilt until a week after getting an ulcer in her eye, but her ear had been lowered for a few days after I noticed the ulcer, the tilt is on the other side to the lowered ear though.
is there any extra care I need to do with a rabbit that has head tilt. The bottom eye looks ok apart from a little watery. The top eye has an ulcer which is being treated.
How long would it take to treat a head tilt? Is it something that will bother her if her head remains tilted? I don't want to think about pts but it's niggling at me that I don't want her to be uncomfortable and it to affect her quality of life. I think I am too early in the treatment to give up on her at the moment but want to be able to decide when enough is enough. She is underweight which is worrying me but she is eating and drinking. Both bunnies are on unlimited pellets to ensure she gets enough. I had a cat who had a tumour on her tongue and I tried and tried to help her knowing that all it would do was prolong her life and not cure her. In the end she died at home which was comforting to me as I didn't have to make the pts decision but really I should have let her go at least a month before that happened, it's just so hard when you love your pet so much and I think that sometimes that love prevents you from making the right decisions.
Ruby's head seems much more tilted today, almost at a sideways angle. I have seen her clean herself and her head seems almost upright, is this normal? I thought it would be stuck tilted.
Is there any way of working out the cause of the tilt? are there any give aways that it could be ec related rather than say an ear infection? Without the ec blood test? Bertie has ec so he could have passed it on, she didn't show a tilt until a week after getting an ulcer in her eye, but her ear had been lowered for a few days after I noticed the ulcer, the tilt is on the other side to the lowered ear though.
is there any extra care I need to do with a rabbit that has head tilt. The bottom eye looks ok apart from a little watery. The top eye has an ulcer which is being treated.
How long would it take to treat a head tilt? Is it something that will bother her if her head remains tilted? I don't want to think about pts but it's niggling at me that I don't want her to be uncomfortable and it to affect her quality of life. I think I am too early in the treatment to give up on her at the moment but want to be able to decide when enough is enough. She is underweight which is worrying me but she is eating and drinking. Both bunnies are on unlimited pellets to ensure she gets enough. I had a cat who had a tumour on her tongue and I tried and tried to help her knowing that all it would do was prolong her life and not cure her. In the end she died at home which was comforting to me as I didn't have to make the pts decision but really I should have let her go at least a month before that happened, it's just so hard when you love your pet so much and I think that sometimes that love prevents you from making the right decisions.
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