Excellent advice!
I *think* the bunny is doing better now and by what i've read it certainly does seem like a case of floppy rabbit syndrome...something antibiotics won't help with. Hopefully if they continue treating as they are the bunny will be fine!
I *think* the bunny is doing better now and by what i've read it certainly does seem like a case of floppy rabbit syndrome...something antibiotics won't help with. Hopefully if they continue treating as they are the bunny will be fine!
what type of anti-biotics is given? Is it Enro., Pen G., what's the name of it?
You need to get your bun to a rabbit savvy specialist, your prev. vet, like you said, clearly doesn't know much about bun.
At this pt., I would do urine test as well as X-ray. This kind of sickness cannot keep repeating themselves.
Also, the duration of the anti-biotics is clearly not remotely close to be enough. At one time, w/ one of my bun, even w/ Pen G. injection, we have to do it for 2 weeks.
So, anti-biotics for 5 days is useless. There is no such Anti-biotics that can cure a bacteria in 5 days.
2 other important things, you have ask your vet to get a pain killer called Metacam 1.5 mg
The dosage is calculated by:
dosage = weight of the bun. in KG x 0.1 / 1.5
You can give ONCE a day only
Since your bun is clearly in pain, if you don't give the metacam, he will have a GI stasis due to the pain itself. It's okay to give metacam for 2 weeks, it's also an anti-inflam. drug.
You have to keep his fluid intake up. If you are up to it, and feel it is necessary, you have to learn how to inject sub-Q fluid under the skin 2 - 3 times a day. It's not difficult, although fluid since as pineapple juice, freshly squeezed blackberry juice, raspberry juice are all excellent. I personally prefer syringe feed juice than sub-Q fluid under the skin. But in the rare case that you need to give Sub Q, here's a diagram:
