Sproggie14
Warren Scout
Two weeks ago my lad Ginger, who is a rescue so we don't know his exact age but estimated at 7 or 8, had a dental. He'd lost some weight and was doing very small poops and an examination confirmed that he had some spurs.
The dental didn't go very well and his heart stopped under the anaesthetic. They got him back and he stayed at the vets overnight because he was recovering slowly and not eating much.
He came home 48 hours after the op and was still very wobbly, like a newborn foal, all daft on his legs. That evening I had to clean a big wadge of diarrhoea off his bottom. But he was eating ok and gained weight over the first couple of days. We were told to continue metacam for 5 days.
A week after the op and a couple of days after he stopped the metacam he'd lost a little weight so I took him back to the vets last Friday. On their scales he'd lost 10g since the op so they weren't too worried. They said to carry on with the metacam for another 5 days as his mouth was still quite red in places.
But over the weekend he continued to lose weight and had a little diarrhoea. He wasn't eating his pellets although he would eat certain other things.
I took him back to the vets again Wednesday as I wasn't happy with him. The vet could feel a lump in his abdomen so he was admitted for tests. Long story short an x-ray showed food lodged in his stomach and his bloods were pretty much ok. So they started him on treatment to stimulate his digestion as well as painkillers and fluids.
This morning the vet says there is a small amount of improvement in that he has eaten and pooped and even gained a little weight. But there is still food in his tummy and they have also removed some fluid and his feeling is that there may be a tumour in his gut causing a blockage. He said in a younger, healthier rabbit who hadn't had problems with his last GA he might do exploratory surgery but didn't recommend it with Ginger. He said the prognosis was not good and asked did we want to continue with symptomatic treatment or let him go.
Well I opted to keep going. The vet doesn't think he's in pain and in the absence of any definite hopeless cause I think he needs to have a chance to pick up. I wonder if he got into a slump following the surgery since he took so long to really recover and if his digestion has just been in a downward spiral since. I don't know, this is my first experience of stasis, but it seemed like a possible cause to me.
Anyway, I really just wanted to ask the opinions of those who have maybe seen similar in their buns. Does stasis sometimes just happen without an apparent cause? Is there anything else you have found worked that I could suggest to my vet? Any thoughts, experiences etc gratefully received. Ginge is a very special man and I want to ensure we do the right thing and absolutely everything possible to keep him with us.
Thanks x
The dental didn't go very well and his heart stopped under the anaesthetic. They got him back and he stayed at the vets overnight because he was recovering slowly and not eating much.
He came home 48 hours after the op and was still very wobbly, like a newborn foal, all daft on his legs. That evening I had to clean a big wadge of diarrhoea off his bottom. But he was eating ok and gained weight over the first couple of days. We were told to continue metacam for 5 days.
A week after the op and a couple of days after he stopped the metacam he'd lost a little weight so I took him back to the vets last Friday. On their scales he'd lost 10g since the op so they weren't too worried. They said to carry on with the metacam for another 5 days as his mouth was still quite red in places.
But over the weekend he continued to lose weight and had a little diarrhoea. He wasn't eating his pellets although he would eat certain other things.
I took him back to the vets again Wednesday as I wasn't happy with him. The vet could feel a lump in his abdomen so he was admitted for tests. Long story short an x-ray showed food lodged in his stomach and his bloods were pretty much ok. So they started him on treatment to stimulate his digestion as well as painkillers and fluids.
This morning the vet says there is a small amount of improvement in that he has eaten and pooped and even gained a little weight. But there is still food in his tummy and they have also removed some fluid and his feeling is that there may be a tumour in his gut causing a blockage. He said in a younger, healthier rabbit who hadn't had problems with his last GA he might do exploratory surgery but didn't recommend it with Ginger. He said the prognosis was not good and asked did we want to continue with symptomatic treatment or let him go.
Well I opted to keep going. The vet doesn't think he's in pain and in the absence of any definite hopeless cause I think he needs to have a chance to pick up. I wonder if he got into a slump following the surgery since he took so long to really recover and if his digestion has just been in a downward spiral since. I don't know, this is my first experience of stasis, but it seemed like a possible cause to me.
Anyway, I really just wanted to ask the opinions of those who have maybe seen similar in their buns. Does stasis sometimes just happen without an apparent cause? Is there anything else you have found worked that I could suggest to my vet? Any thoughts, experiences etc gratefully received. Ginge is a very special man and I want to ensure we do the right thing and absolutely everything possible to keep him with us.
Thanks x