MichelleBee
Alpha Buck
At the start of this week we had three happy, healthy rabbits. On Tuesday evening, two hours after my partner supervised the trio free ranging in the garden, we found Muchu dead in the enclosure. No signs of trauma, no discharge etc. He had been eating, drinking normally and behaving normally 2 hours previously.
Yesterday evening, an hour after my partner supervised the remaining two freeranging, we found Dilys dead in the enclosure. Same as before - no signs of trauma or discharge. She had been eating, drinking and behaving normally an hour before. The vet has checked her body (but not done a Post Mortem) and said he could see nothing obvious.
We now just have Mavis but are very scared that the same thing will happen to her. The vet has checked her over and said that all is fine apart from her guts were a bit slow. He's given her some meds and we're managing that at home. We're very much used to stasis. We've moved her inside and changed the hay. We won't be letting her outside for the time being.
All three were neutered and vaccinated (vaccinations were up to date). Nothing has changed in the garden since we moved in a year ago. We also have a cat, so the rabbits were used to cats, so I don't think it can be that. The enclosure is intact, so nothing looks like it's got in.
The emergency vet is stumped. We have no more ideas.
Our usual vet won't do a Post Mortem. She says it isn't what they do, but somewhere in Liverpool or Leeds will do it, as they're pathologists. However, I thought vets could do a basic PM.
If anyone has any ideas / suggestions etc, please let me know, as we're so scared about Mavis succumbing to the same illness / infection etc.
Yesterday evening, an hour after my partner supervised the remaining two freeranging, we found Dilys dead in the enclosure. Same as before - no signs of trauma or discharge. She had been eating, drinking and behaving normally an hour before. The vet has checked her body (but not done a Post Mortem) and said he could see nothing obvious.
We now just have Mavis but are very scared that the same thing will happen to her. The vet has checked her over and said that all is fine apart from her guts were a bit slow. He's given her some meds and we're managing that at home. We're very much used to stasis. We've moved her inside and changed the hay. We won't be letting her outside for the time being.
All three were neutered and vaccinated (vaccinations were up to date). Nothing has changed in the garden since we moved in a year ago. We also have a cat, so the rabbits were used to cats, so I don't think it can be that. The enclosure is intact, so nothing looks like it's got in.
The emergency vet is stumped. We have no more ideas.
Our usual vet won't do a Post Mortem. She says it isn't what they do, but somewhere in Liverpool or Leeds will do it, as they're pathologists. However, I thought vets could do a basic PM.
If anyone has any ideas / suggestions etc, please let me know, as we're so scared about Mavis succumbing to the same illness / infection etc.
