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Mishka is now in stasis
After making some major changes to their diet back in feb/march after nearly losing Snowflake I thought the problems were over but apparently not. With the exception of Pixel (who stopped eating briefly due to teeth) now every one of the bunnies has been in stasis with no determinable cause. This is the first time for Mishka and each time it has been a different bun in stasis. Mishka's teeth were checked when she had her vaccination in.. July I think? And they were good at the time. She's always had good teeth so I doubt it's that.
They're all indoors and very happy. The most stressful thing they have to deal with is nail trims - other than that there's very minimal stress.
Their diet is almost entirely hay, for the past 2-3 monts even more so as they've found a real love for the hay from timothyhay.co.uk and as a result are eating even more than before. They have two fibafirst a day and the fresh part of their diet is forage when available (I only pick what I know and only from my own garden - blackberry leaves, strawberry leaves, dandelion and fresh grass) and herbs (thyme, mint, coriander, parsley, basil, tarragon, dill). The only other things besides that are rocket, lambs lettuce and pea shoots (mixed bag from asda, probably have it once to twice a week), very rarely a little romaine and their favourite, carrot tops. All other veg that I used to feed like spring greens, cavolo nero etc were eliminated months ago. I'm now at a complete loss. I really thought the diet alterations and cutting out the 'gassier' veg had solved the problem.
What on earth could be going on? I really can't understand why every few months one of them is going into stasis. We've already lost Maple to it and I can't lose another one.
I know I've asked before and I'm really sorry to keep bothering you all with it but I'm at such a loss - does anyone have any idea what else could be causing it? I could ask for a blood test but I'm not sure what exactly to ask them to look for. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to get my normal vet in today as I think she works wednesday onwards. She never seems to be in on a monday so I can't discuss it with her at the moment and the other vets, as wonderful as they are, are less rabbit-savvy.
As for Mishka tonight, I'm sitting up with her until the vet opens as my Mum can't drive her to the emergency vet so trying to get her through until my vet opens at 9. I found her like this at 11pm, last time I can confirm she definitely ate (when I actually saw her) was 3.30pm app. I've just given her her third dose of infacol and I gave her 1ml of emeprid at 1am. I don't like to give anything without checking with a vet first but have to get her through the night somehow. I'm giving her a little water by syringe every now and then and she drank a tiny bit from a bowl about half an hour ago. She's feeling quite cold so I'm trying to keep her warm and rub her underneath. Not a lot more I can do until 9 and I hope I've not done the wrong thing giving her the emeprid but I didn't know what else to do..
She did pass a single dropping around 1am and surprisingly it actually looked very normal but nothing since.
Edit: I'm now starting to hear the odd gurgly noise from her without using a stethoscope so I'm guessing the cause is gas vs an obstruction? That seems more likely anyway as I can't see what would cause an obstruction. But why has she got it? I've taken out all the gassy food from her diet. Unless there's something I've missed that could cause gas?
The last fresh food she had was parsley, corriander, carrot tops, mint and basil, and that would have been over 24hrs before I found her in stasis. She did have a little bit of carrot with it as a treat but it wasn't a lot.
The only thing she's had after that is timothy hay and fibafirst. Nothing else, not even a treat.
After making some major changes to their diet back in feb/march after nearly losing Snowflake I thought the problems were over but apparently not. With the exception of Pixel (who stopped eating briefly due to teeth) now every one of the bunnies has been in stasis with no determinable cause. This is the first time for Mishka and each time it has been a different bun in stasis. Mishka's teeth were checked when she had her vaccination in.. July I think? And they were good at the time. She's always had good teeth so I doubt it's that.
They're all indoors and very happy. The most stressful thing they have to deal with is nail trims - other than that there's very minimal stress.
Their diet is almost entirely hay, for the past 2-3 monts even more so as they've found a real love for the hay from timothyhay.co.uk and as a result are eating even more than before. They have two fibafirst a day and the fresh part of their diet is forage when available (I only pick what I know and only from my own garden - blackberry leaves, strawberry leaves, dandelion and fresh grass) and herbs (thyme, mint, coriander, parsley, basil, tarragon, dill). The only other things besides that are rocket, lambs lettuce and pea shoots (mixed bag from asda, probably have it once to twice a week), very rarely a little romaine and their favourite, carrot tops. All other veg that I used to feed like spring greens, cavolo nero etc were eliminated months ago. I'm now at a complete loss. I really thought the diet alterations and cutting out the 'gassier' veg had solved the problem.
What on earth could be going on? I really can't understand why every few months one of them is going into stasis. We've already lost Maple to it and I can't lose another one.
I know I've asked before and I'm really sorry to keep bothering you all with it but I'm at such a loss - does anyone have any idea what else could be causing it? I could ask for a blood test but I'm not sure what exactly to ask them to look for. Unfortunately I don't think I'll be able to get my normal vet in today as I think she works wednesday onwards. She never seems to be in on a monday so I can't discuss it with her at the moment and the other vets, as wonderful as they are, are less rabbit-savvy.
As for Mishka tonight, I'm sitting up with her until the vet opens as my Mum can't drive her to the emergency vet so trying to get her through until my vet opens at 9. I found her like this at 11pm, last time I can confirm she definitely ate (when I actually saw her) was 3.30pm app. I've just given her her third dose of infacol and I gave her 1ml of emeprid at 1am. I don't like to give anything without checking with a vet first but have to get her through the night somehow. I'm giving her a little water by syringe every now and then and she drank a tiny bit from a bowl about half an hour ago. She's feeling quite cold so I'm trying to keep her warm and rub her underneath. Not a lot more I can do until 9 and I hope I've not done the wrong thing giving her the emeprid but I didn't know what else to do..
She did pass a single dropping around 1am and surprisingly it actually looked very normal but nothing since.
Edit: I'm now starting to hear the odd gurgly noise from her without using a stethoscope so I'm guessing the cause is gas vs an obstruction? That seems more likely anyway as I can't see what would cause an obstruction. But why has she got it? I've taken out all the gassy food from her diet. Unless there's something I've missed that could cause gas?
The last fresh food she had was parsley, corriander, carrot tops, mint and basil, and that would have been over 24hrs before I found her in stasis. She did have a little bit of carrot with it as a treat but it wasn't a lot.
The only thing she's had after that is timothy hay and fibafirst. Nothing else, not even a treat.
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