christina83
Warren Scout
Hi everyone, my Sweetpea (he's a boy, just so pretty and sweet we called him Sweetpea), he's been having dentals on and off for about 2years and has developed an abscess which has been kept under control and hasn't seemed to bother him. 3 weeks ago he started dribbling to we took him to the vets to find out our usual vet had left the practice (she was really good with our bunnies), anyway this vet seemed horrible and said he'd need a dental and if that didn't fix him we were to put him to sleep. So we were stunned at what she'd said, we've had other bunnies who've had dental and abscesses but no vet had said that to us. Sweetpea is happy in himself and eats well and loves banana. Anyway we took him to have his dental on Friday the 29th of September, and he was awake from the anesthetic when we picked him up. The veterinary nurse explained he needed antibiotics and the usual aftercare, while the nurse was telling us all of this the vet who had done his dental sat by the desk in front of us and ignored me and mum. Mum said thank you to the vet on the way out and she blanked mum, so the receptionist had to tell the vet mum had said thank you, and all the vet said was if it doesn't work we'll put him down.
Anyway he's been ok but his dribble has come back and he has his tongue sticking to the side slightly, and on Saturday night dad noticed he seemed to fall getting out of his litter box in the sitting room and he started panting, so we comforted him and he did a weird yawn. 10mins after this he was back to normal, so we thought maybe he'd been over stressed. On monday mum phoned the vet and asked for flagyl instead of baytril as we felt it wasn't working anymore (we've had other buns on flagyl that responded well to it and sweepea has never had it before). So the vet told mum to take him down and she'll give her flagyl. Mum took him to the vet and the vet made mum wait 30mins with sweetpea while she sat at the desk and then called mum in, she looked at sweetpea and said he had a sore in his mouth, and said no to flagyl 'put him to sleep'. Mum came home crying her eyes out.
Anyway we decided we'll have to take sweetpea to another vet, 30mins drive away. Tonight though after me cuddling him and fussing him I went upstairs and dad called me down, sweetpea had had another funny turn. I sat and stroked sweetpea until he got over it, then he got up and nudged my nose with his nose.
We just have no idea whats happened, he'd never had a funny turn until he had his dental. His jaw bone feels bigger but the vet didn't even say what it was (I'm guessing theres some sort of abscess there). I just really don't know what is causing these weird little seizures. He sort of loses control of his back leg, pants and lies flat out for 7-10mins and then gets back to normal.
All my 4 boy buns are brothers and they're all 8years old and 4months old.
Anyway he's been ok but his dribble has come back and he has his tongue sticking to the side slightly, and on Saturday night dad noticed he seemed to fall getting out of his litter box in the sitting room and he started panting, so we comforted him and he did a weird yawn. 10mins after this he was back to normal, so we thought maybe he'd been over stressed. On monday mum phoned the vet and asked for flagyl instead of baytril as we felt it wasn't working anymore (we've had other buns on flagyl that responded well to it and sweepea has never had it before). So the vet told mum to take him down and she'll give her flagyl. Mum took him to the vet and the vet made mum wait 30mins with sweetpea while she sat at the desk and then called mum in, she looked at sweetpea and said he had a sore in his mouth, and said no to flagyl 'put him to sleep'. Mum came home crying her eyes out.
Anyway we decided we'll have to take sweetpea to another vet, 30mins drive away. Tonight though after me cuddling him and fussing him I went upstairs and dad called me down, sweetpea had had another funny turn. I sat and stroked sweetpea until he got over it, then he got up and nudged my nose with his nose.
We just have no idea whats happened, he'd never had a funny turn until he had his dental. His jaw bone feels bigger but the vet didn't even say what it was (I'm guessing theres some sort of abscess there). I just really don't know what is causing these weird little seizures. He sort of loses control of his back leg, pants and lies flat out for 7-10mins and then gets back to normal.
All my 4 boy buns are brothers and they're all 8years old and 4months old.
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