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Mama Doe
9 month old Phillip was diagnosed by the vet with stasis on Monday, after not being his usual self on Sunday then stopping eating Monday morning. He’s been on Metacam, gut meds and gas drops since.
The picture was taken in his cage and is how he is spending much of his time at the moment since Monday, not eating and looking pretty lifeless, even though the cage door is open and he has free reign of the house. Yesterday evening he binkied and ate a bit, so I thought he was improving but then today it’s back to this. He gets up to nibble on hay occasionally then it’s back to lying down or sitting up grinding his teeth so something is obviously bothering him. He’s also grooming himself a lot.
It was only a few weeks ago that he had X-rays, blood tests etc for an ongoing UTI (which has currently cleared up) so I don’t think there is anything underlying . I spoke to the vet today who has put him on a course of baytril as well. The vet found no blockage so I am syringe feeding him alongside. He’s going to the toilet a little but nowhere near like normal. I'm trying to tummy massage him but he's not a strokey rabbit at the best of times and is currently grunting at me when I go near his stomach.
Our other bunny is a stasis bunny so I’m usually pretty confident in knowing the signs and treating it but with Phillip I’m finding it very hard as he just looks so deflated. Please send him good thoughts
The picture was taken in his cage and is how he is spending much of his time at the moment since Monday, not eating and looking pretty lifeless, even though the cage door is open and he has free reign of the house. Yesterday evening he binkied and ate a bit, so I thought he was improving but then today it’s back to this. He gets up to nibble on hay occasionally then it’s back to lying down or sitting up grinding his teeth so something is obviously bothering him. He’s also grooming himself a lot.
It was only a few weeks ago that he had X-rays, blood tests etc for an ongoing UTI (which has currently cleared up) so I don’t think there is anything underlying . I spoke to the vet today who has put him on a course of baytril as well. The vet found no blockage so I am syringe feeding him alongside. He’s going to the toilet a little but nowhere near like normal. I'm trying to tummy massage him but he's not a strokey rabbit at the best of times and is currently grunting at me when I go near his stomach.
Our other bunny is a stasis bunny so I’m usually pretty confident in knowing the signs and treating it but with Phillip I’m finding it very hard as he just looks so deflated. Please send him good thoughts
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