Thank you donnamt & biscandmatt1, and everyone who has posted for us.
Your support means so much to me.
Before I found my wonderful rabbit specialist vet we lurched from hypomotility to dysbiosis about every 6weeks. I was often beside myself trying to get something he could eat. I still worry too much, but with less sewer flooding, dentals, & cutting out all starch & fruit sugars, he's actually got quite a resilient gut. I had to learn how his body functioned normally because I could only correct a problem with diet really. He was ace, he instinctively knew what to eat, but I had to find the right stuff for him.
Donnamt, I know him because I'm retired, so we live together 24/7.
In fact
he knows
me much better than I know him. When I 1st. got him, I wondered whether we could communicate, expecting nothing more than "I need food". Did I get the shock of my life!! Then I wondered how he experienced the world, & what it was like from his view point = improved understanding. I asked daft questions like as rabbits don't learn from their mothers, how do they know what's safe to eat, what animals are dangerous, & complex rabbit social behaviour?
I found out about meds. Rabbits have very sensitive lips & whiskers. They can't see their food, & select it all by touch. They don't like the muzzle being touched. (Thumps likes me stroking his whiskers, a front paw always comes up as a reflex action)
Because it takes time for the medicine to be absorbed from the stomach, they don't associate our obsession with squirting something in their mouths with the beneficial effect.
He's absolutely zonked on buprenophine at present, but awake enough to have sorted out his ears, from both lop to his up ear folded away over his back! He's dozing with his chin on his food bowl, occasionally waking up enough to munch some spring green & fall asleep in the middle of doing so. :lol: He's brightening up a bit, but occasionally falling asleep IN his food bowl. Fantastic, he's never been this interested in food after a dental before.
