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Hi I'm new to the website and signed up specifically to ask about this. I've already learnt a lot from reading other posts on here.
I have a male dwarf lop who is 5 years old. For the last 2 years or so he's had, what I now realise after reading through this forum, to be gut stasis every 3 or 4 months. It only lasts one night and he's absolutely fine. The first time it happened I was terrified. I made a vet appointment as early as I could but by the time it came around he was absolutely fine. We always thought it was furballs. It always seems to happen around moulting time. He lives with a female dwarf lop, who has extra thick, extra soft fur and he grooms her a lot, so we just thought it was from that.
In the past I've always noticed it in the evenings when I go to feed them and by morning he's fine. But 2 or 3 weeks ago it happened in the afternoon and he was still not right when I went to bed 12 hours later, but again by morning he was fine. Except ever since then he's had stomach rumbles. They are really loud. Louder than a persons stomach rumbles. He's eating fine and he's moving about fine. As far as I can tell he's pooing fine. There even seemed to be more poo than normal today. I can't tell if he's drinking as normal because he shares the bottle with the other rabbit and it's started leaking lately. The rumbles are worse when he's eating. Today I had him on my lap for about an hour and he seemed himself, but his tummy felt a bit hard. I've never really felt it normally though as he hates it being touched. I will try the other rabbits tummy and see if it's the same to compare as she seems absolutely fine.
Any ideas what could be wrong? Should I take him to the vet? When I took him for his injections once I mentioned to the vet about these stasis episodes and she just shrugged and said she didn't know. I think I know more about rabbits than my vets do. Also because he's been eating and pooing fine I wasn't sure if I needed to take him.
Any advice would be really appreaciated
Thanks,
Pippa
I have a male dwarf lop who is 5 years old. For the last 2 years or so he's had, what I now realise after reading through this forum, to be gut stasis every 3 or 4 months. It only lasts one night and he's absolutely fine. The first time it happened I was terrified. I made a vet appointment as early as I could but by the time it came around he was absolutely fine. We always thought it was furballs. It always seems to happen around moulting time. He lives with a female dwarf lop, who has extra thick, extra soft fur and he grooms her a lot, so we just thought it was from that.
In the past I've always noticed it in the evenings when I go to feed them and by morning he's fine. But 2 or 3 weeks ago it happened in the afternoon and he was still not right when I went to bed 12 hours later, but again by morning he was fine. Except ever since then he's had stomach rumbles. They are really loud. Louder than a persons stomach rumbles. He's eating fine and he's moving about fine. As far as I can tell he's pooing fine. There even seemed to be more poo than normal today. I can't tell if he's drinking as normal because he shares the bottle with the other rabbit and it's started leaking lately. The rumbles are worse when he's eating. Today I had him on my lap for about an hour and he seemed himself, but his tummy felt a bit hard. I've never really felt it normally though as he hates it being touched. I will try the other rabbits tummy and see if it's the same to compare as she seems absolutely fine.
Any ideas what could be wrong? Should I take him to the vet? When I took him for his injections once I mentioned to the vet about these stasis episodes and she just shrugged and said she didn't know. I think I know more about rabbits than my vets do. Also because he's been eating and pooing fine I wasn't sure if I needed to take him.
Any advice would be really appreaciated
Thanks,
Pippa