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Spencer again

I lost a pets at home rabbit to stasis, but they couldn't work out why she wasn't eating, as in what the underlying cause was. I really am wondering about pets at homes stock :/

It's such an awful thing to happen :'( I'm just wondering I guess how many pets at home rabbits make it to old age...? Maybe I'm being unfair there.

I wish there was something I could say, but this is a heartbreaking thing to go through :'(

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OMG, I am so sorry.

For what it's worth, you did exactly the right thing for him. Just so sad i'm starting to cry.
Please pm me your bank details or phone #. I would like to make a small contribution to your c/card bill.
 
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I’m so very sorry :cry: you did everything you could for him. I hope the PM gives you some answers.

Binky free Spencer xx
 
zarathustra said:
The vet called about 5 minutes ago, sadly Spencer has passed away.

She said that he was hypoglycaemic and despite everything they tried his condition just kept deteriorating.

His body temperature also kept dropping, even when they had him on heat pads etc to warm him up.

They can’t say anymore about what might have caused this, but I will call our vets at 9 and ask about a PM.

We’ve had two rabbits that have passed away in the space of 4 days, both going down hill really quickly.

I am upset, but not as upset as I was last night worrying about him, or as I was when Frank died.

We did everything we could, he was in the vets where he was getting the best possible care. And what is important to me, while he might not have had his mum and dad there at least he wasn’t alone in the dark.

RIP Spencer rabbit, you were an awesome (if a little grumpy) dude, but you can go and hang out with Frank and eat all of the tastiest grass.


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I am so very sorry to hear this :cry:
 
My wife left for work at 6 so I’m at the vets with my father in law waiting to see someone about a PM.

The nurses were shocked, they all knew Frank and Spencer.

I have a copy of his treatment notes.

His glucose was normal when tested at 23:00, he was taking syringe feeding well.

He was fed at midnight, 1am, and 2am. He was bright and jumping around but still not producing faeces and had poor gut sounds.

He deteriorated at 4am, his glucose had dropped to 2.3. They gave him glucose and antibiotics and initiated warming.

He continued to deteriorate and at 6am was very lethargic and had passed 2 poops.

He passed away at 07:20


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Our vets don’t do PMs so they are trying to find out costs etc and how they go about getting one done.


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I'm very sorry that you have now lost Spencer and I think your wife is quite right not to consider more rabbits until you find out what happened to Frank and Spencer.
Such a very sad time. I hope you get the answers you need. :cry:
 
Thanks.

The vets have him now, and they will call when I can go and pick him up.

He is going next to Frank, they were together for their whole lives, it’s only right that they should be together now.

It could take a week or two before we get the lab results back, and I need to find their vaccination books, the vets computer system has them down as having had RHD twice, instead of RHD and RHD2.



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zarathustra said:
Thanks.

The vets have him now, and they will call when I can go and pick him up.

He is going next to Frank, they were together for their whole lives, it’s only right that they should be together now.

It could take a week or two before we get the lab results back, and I need to find their vaccination books, the vets computer system has them down as having had RHD twice, instead of RHD and RHD2.





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I do hope that you get some answers as to 'why'. Of course nothing can bring Frank or Spencer back, nothing can lessen the immense grief you and your Wife are enduring. But in my experience having some explanation as to why a beloved Rabbit /Rabbits was/ were taken so unexpectedly makes coping with the grief marginally more doable.

It is utterly tragic to have lost your two Rabbits and my heart goes out to both you and your wife x
 
Thanks everyone, I managed to find their vaccination records, they’d been tidied away.

This is Spencer’s, and it doesn’t look right to me.

I know the vets will need to take a look, and we won’t know whether their deaths had anything to do with RHD2, but why would they get the same thing twice?

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zarathustra said:
Thanks everyone, I managed to find their vaccination records, they’d been tidied away.

This is Spencer’s, and it doesn’t look right to me.

I know the vets will need to take a look, and we won’t know whether their deaths had anything to do with RHD2, but why would they get the same thing twice?

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Oh no, it looks like they have given the same injection twice instead of RHD2??

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