I lost one of my rabbits earlier this year - to make a long story short there were quite a few things wrong with him, but in-between it all he got snuffles and passed it on to his brother. After Cadbury passed away we took Biscuit to the Vet several times, with no luck. He was put on Baytril first and a few others, that didn't work. After several weeks of antibiotics with no real improvement we got referred to the Royal Vet Exotic animal hospital in Camden. Traveling into London on a train with a rabbit was quite the experience but we were hopeful! They did a CT scan and some Xrays that came up clear so put him on Marbocyl which helped at first but then stopped. Back to the Vet again and they tried Zitromax as a last resort - within four days the sneezing stopped. The dosage for our 1.8kg dutch rabbit was 1.3 ml once a day for six weeks (just to be sure). He's been ok - will be taking his last dosage next week. Hopefully this is gone for good, but I wanted to share this here as I know many vets in the UK don't normally prescribe Zitromax for snuffles in rabbits, but it's been such a relief that after so long Biscuit is ok.
Just as a side note, we give him a sachet of Bio-Lapis in the morning and 1ml of Fiberplex in the evening as it did upset his stomach quite a bit, but the probiotics seem to have helped.
Don't give up hope, snuffles can be a challenge to get over, but so far so good for us!
Just as a side note, we give him a sachet of Bio-Lapis in the morning and 1ml of Fiberplex in the evening as it did upset his stomach quite a bit, but the probiotics seem to have helped.
Don't give up hope, snuffles can be a challenge to get over, but so far so good for us!
