pope_pius_ix
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Hello everyone,
First post on here, motivated by something very unusual happening to Thumper! Apologies if all the details are unnecessary but I'd rather put down too much than too little.
Thumper's a female English rabbit who's had all relevant jabs and ops. She's almost a year old. In November, I picked her up for a cuddle before putting her in her hutch, and whilst I was holding her, she stretched out her spine and neck and twisted to one side. I thought I'd somehow caught a nerve or otherwise hurt her, so put her down. She slowly began hopping around, seemingly keen to get into the corners of the walk-in cage that she lives in. She kept bumping herself onto things as she did this and I actually thought she'd somehow gone blind. She didn't respond to any stimulus I was giving, such as food, strokes, or waving my hand in front of her face, but she was movement. Her movement was really odd; it was as if she was drunk. She didn't seem to be in pain - there were no rapid movements - or discomfort, as far as I could tell. She made no noise, which is normal.
I took her to the vet; it was about forty minutes after this had happened that we got there, and when we opened the door to her carry basket, she hopped out and started sniffling around like nothing had happened. The vet felt her over, took her temperature, checked all sorts of things, and found absolutely nothing wrong. Which, obviously, was great. A mystery, but great. So we took her away and concluded that by picking her up, I'd stunned her in some way but she was now better. The vet told us if it happened again, we should film it - which we didn't think was great because the chances of taking our cameras with us at Bunny Bedtime was pretty minimal.
Some reading online (well, frantic googling) led me to conclude that she wasn't immediately on the way out, and since then, nothing's happened. Until today, when - I wasn't there - she apparently did a very similar thing. This time, she either fell about 8 inches and this prompted the odd stretch/strange movements, or she began the odd stretch/strange movements and in the course of this, fell about 8 inches. We have filmed it, and it's essentially as described above. The other two bunnies she lives with (whom she has lived with since before we bought them) were very interested when she started trying to get to the corners; they sniffled around her and seemed to be able to tell something was wrong.
This evening, she seems fine again - I'm about to put them to bed - but has anyone got any ideas what may be the matter, and what if anything I can do about it?
Thanks!
If I've left anything out, let me know...!
First post on here, motivated by something very unusual happening to Thumper! Apologies if all the details are unnecessary but I'd rather put down too much than too little.
Thumper's a female English rabbit who's had all relevant jabs and ops. She's almost a year old. In November, I picked her up for a cuddle before putting her in her hutch, and whilst I was holding her, she stretched out her spine and neck and twisted to one side. I thought I'd somehow caught a nerve or otherwise hurt her, so put her down. She slowly began hopping around, seemingly keen to get into the corners of the walk-in cage that she lives in. She kept bumping herself onto things as she did this and I actually thought she'd somehow gone blind. She didn't respond to any stimulus I was giving, such as food, strokes, or waving my hand in front of her face, but she was movement. Her movement was really odd; it was as if she was drunk. She didn't seem to be in pain - there were no rapid movements - or discomfort, as far as I could tell. She made no noise, which is normal.
I took her to the vet; it was about forty minutes after this had happened that we got there, and when we opened the door to her carry basket, she hopped out and started sniffling around like nothing had happened. The vet felt her over, took her temperature, checked all sorts of things, and found absolutely nothing wrong. Which, obviously, was great. A mystery, but great. So we took her away and concluded that by picking her up, I'd stunned her in some way but she was now better. The vet told us if it happened again, we should film it - which we didn't think was great because the chances of taking our cameras with us at Bunny Bedtime was pretty minimal.
Some reading online (well, frantic googling) led me to conclude that she wasn't immediately on the way out, and since then, nothing's happened. Until today, when - I wasn't there - she apparently did a very similar thing. This time, she either fell about 8 inches and this prompted the odd stretch/strange movements, or she began the odd stretch/strange movements and in the course of this, fell about 8 inches. We have filmed it, and it's essentially as described above. The other two bunnies she lives with (whom she has lived with since before we bought them) were very interested when she started trying to get to the corners; they sniffled around her and seemed to be able to tell something was wrong.
This evening, she seems fine again - I'm about to put them to bed - but has anyone got any ideas what may be the matter, and what if anything I can do about it?
Thanks!
If I've left anything out, let me know...!
