SamTheBunny
Young Bun
Hello all!
Yesterday evening at around 6:45 I went out to check on Basil and Lola. I noticed tht Lola didn't run out to meet me and had instead stayed in the top of her hutch which is rather unlike her. She often sits in there to go to sleep but usually follows Basil out. My immediate thought was GI stasis as she had it last May after her spay and looked just like she did then, only not quite as bad. I asked my mum what she thought as I know that I tend to worry unnecessarily about these things but she agreed with me that she didn't look quite right, even though she was still eating a little bit. We rang the vets and they said I should pop her in as soon as I can for them to have a look as I said that I thought it might be GI stasis. Luckily the vet hadn't gone home just yet! He took her temperature, which was normal, and then had a feel around her stomach. He said that she did feel a little bit blocked up and she felt a little bit harder just under her ribs. She was given SC metaclopramide then and we gave her another at 8 this morning. The vet said she should be back to her normal self by the middle of the day, but to pop her back in this evening if she hasn't improved.
She doesn't seem to have improved at all over night, more worsened. She was sat hunched in the bottom of her hutch when I went out to feed them both and to giver her the metaclopramide, and she didn't show any interest in me or the food at all, whereas she did yesterday. Should I bring her inside to monitor her pooping and to keep her warm? As she is with Basil I cannot tell, but I don't think she is. Her eyes are also a tiny bit leaky but nothing major. She just looks so uncomfortable and poorly
If anyone has any advice that would be greatly appreciated by us both, as I have only dealt with this once when she had it before but they prescribed entirely different medication (fibreplex and ranitidine) and she had just been spayed so it may be a different cause this time around. Thank you
Yesterday evening at around 6:45 I went out to check on Basil and Lola. I noticed tht Lola didn't run out to meet me and had instead stayed in the top of her hutch which is rather unlike her. She often sits in there to go to sleep but usually follows Basil out. My immediate thought was GI stasis as she had it last May after her spay and looked just like she did then, only not quite as bad. I asked my mum what she thought as I know that I tend to worry unnecessarily about these things but she agreed with me that she didn't look quite right, even though she was still eating a little bit. We rang the vets and they said I should pop her in as soon as I can for them to have a look as I said that I thought it might be GI stasis. Luckily the vet hadn't gone home just yet! He took her temperature, which was normal, and then had a feel around her stomach. He said that she did feel a little bit blocked up and she felt a little bit harder just under her ribs. She was given SC metaclopramide then and we gave her another at 8 this morning. The vet said she should be back to her normal self by the middle of the day, but to pop her back in this evening if she hasn't improved.
She doesn't seem to have improved at all over night, more worsened. She was sat hunched in the bottom of her hutch when I went out to feed them both and to giver her the metaclopramide, and she didn't show any interest in me or the food at all, whereas she did yesterday. Should I bring her inside to monitor her pooping and to keep her warm? As she is with Basil I cannot tell, but I don't think she is. Her eyes are also a tiny bit leaky but nothing major. She just looks so uncomfortable and poorly
If anyone has any advice that would be greatly appreciated by us both, as I have only dealt with this once when she had it before but they prescribed entirely different medication (fibreplex and ranitidine) and she had just been spayed so it may be a different cause this time around. Thank you