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Wise Old Thumper
I have been thinking about this a lot in recent days because of Valerie
This is a theory I came up with a while back just wondered if anyone else agrees :?
Bunnies that have experienced pain or discomfort most of their lives due either to disability or serious neglect rarely communicate any new pain they are suffering in a way a happy healthy bunny might do. Especially if they have moved from a neglect situation to a loving home where they have never been happier.
the two main examples among many we have come across is Moses a bunny who was seriously abused before he came to us. At 7 years old he had been left with a permanently deformed front leg due to a break that never received medical treatment, his teeth were some of the worst we had ever seen, his abdomen had been cut open with scissors and our vet was pretty convinced scissors were also involved in a home castration While he was with us he needed repeated dentals but never once indicated he had any tooth pain or changed his eating habits. He was eventually pts when we woke one morning to find the whole side of his face had abscesed. X-rays showed he had a tumour in his middle ear that had become infected and tracked through his face. He would have been in agony but he never gave us a hint anything was wrong.
Wesley was born with a deformity which while he was tiny never appeared to give him any problems. A the months progressed and he started to grow it gave him a lot of discomfort to the point that he was on high doses of metacam and needed acupuncture. He passed away a few months back from kidney failure. he was only diagnosed a week or two before we had to let him go, the vet thought he should have had around 6 months. we now think it was going on a lot longer but he just didn't tell us their was a problem because he was used to coping with his issues :?
Both these bunnies were house bunnies that free ranged in our lounge so i was with them all the time.
I am now worrying that we have the same situation with Valerie. Her roots and teeth were horrendous when she came to us. It was clear she had been neglected in her previous home. For the past 18 months she has 24 hours free range, lots of bunny companions, soft beds and good food, although her personality has changed slightly she is basically in bunny heaven and doesn;t want to give that up easily. But both us and the vets are convinced she is in a lot more pain than she is letting on, despite the fact she doesn't want to communicate this to us. It is making it incredibly hard to help her in the best way.
So going back to my original question at the start of the post - if you can remember that far back - has anyone else found this with their bunnies?
This is a theory I came up with a while back just wondered if anyone else agrees :?
Bunnies that have experienced pain or discomfort most of their lives due either to disability or serious neglect rarely communicate any new pain they are suffering in a way a happy healthy bunny might do. Especially if they have moved from a neglect situation to a loving home where they have never been happier.
the two main examples among many we have come across is Moses a bunny who was seriously abused before he came to us. At 7 years old he had been left with a permanently deformed front leg due to a break that never received medical treatment, his teeth were some of the worst we had ever seen, his abdomen had been cut open with scissors and our vet was pretty convinced scissors were also involved in a home castration While he was with us he needed repeated dentals but never once indicated he had any tooth pain or changed his eating habits. He was eventually pts when we woke one morning to find the whole side of his face had abscesed. X-rays showed he had a tumour in his middle ear that had become infected and tracked through his face. He would have been in agony but he never gave us a hint anything was wrong.
Wesley was born with a deformity which while he was tiny never appeared to give him any problems. A the months progressed and he started to grow it gave him a lot of discomfort to the point that he was on high doses of metacam and needed acupuncture. He passed away a few months back from kidney failure. he was only diagnosed a week or two before we had to let him go, the vet thought he should have had around 6 months. we now think it was going on a lot longer but he just didn't tell us their was a problem because he was used to coping with his issues :?
Both these bunnies were house bunnies that free ranged in our lounge so i was with them all the time.
I am now worrying that we have the same situation with Valerie. Her roots and teeth were horrendous when she came to us. It was clear she had been neglected in her previous home. For the past 18 months she has 24 hours free range, lots of bunny companions, soft beds and good food, although her personality has changed slightly she is basically in bunny heaven and doesn;t want to give that up easily. But both us and the vets are convinced she is in a lot more pain than she is letting on, despite the fact she doesn't want to communicate this to us. It is making it incredibly hard to help her in the best way.
So going back to my original question at the start of the post - if you can remember that far back - has anyone else found this with their bunnies?