This is more of a rant than anything because I'm sad and anxious and getting stressed out.
Pandora is elderly and her jaw muscles are not as strong as they once were, so her teeth are a bit misaligned now. She had a dental last week and took a while to recover from it, with abdominal pain and refusing to eat. She eventually came right but I really felt for her.
Bailey B is a megacolon rabbit, so stasis in his case is nothing hugely unexpected. All the same, going out on Monday evening and finding him desperately snuggling up to his wife Ciara and refusing food was a reason for my heart to sink. I gave him his meds and brought them both inside in order to keep him warm and keep an eye on him. He soon bounced back and I left them in overnight anyway.
On Tuesday morning I got up to find Bailey in full spirits but Ciara not eating. I took her to the vets and they gave her painkillers and gut stimulants and said she'd still got gut sounds and food in her stomach. She began eating when we got home and I went to work thinking we'd be ok. When I got home (my mother having watched over her and giving her afternoon meds) she wasn't eating again and then took a sudden turn for the worse and died on the way to the emergency vets. I decided against having a post mortem but the vets believe there was a secondary cause of death that I guess we'll never know about.
Tonight I went out to give Bailey and Pandora dinner and found him not eating AGAIN. I gave him meds, yummy incentives and snugglesafes and after around an hour he still wasn't eating so I set up the indoor pen (with the usual inconvenience...) and brought him in. When I went back out to close up the aviary I came back to mum saying "I reckon this one is having you on". He was hopping around and sampling the food.
Worse for me is that I suffer from Anxiety. Anything to do with the rabbits immediately makes me physically ill. As soon as I realised he wasn't eating I got gut cramps and felt nauseous.
Really hoping he's going to be ok this time, but for him to do this twice in one week and for me to lose Ciara to stasis/not eating as well, I'm deeply concerned. Even if I took him to the vets for a review (of course he'd be ill on a Saturday night when the vets are shut Sunday...) I don't know what they'd be able to do about it. His condition is terminal so degradation is expected but twice in a week out of nowhere is unusual even for him.
Just a very stressed bunny mummy... :?
Pandora is elderly and her jaw muscles are not as strong as they once were, so her teeth are a bit misaligned now. She had a dental last week and took a while to recover from it, with abdominal pain and refusing to eat. She eventually came right but I really felt for her.
Bailey B is a megacolon rabbit, so stasis in his case is nothing hugely unexpected. All the same, going out on Monday evening and finding him desperately snuggling up to his wife Ciara and refusing food was a reason for my heart to sink. I gave him his meds and brought them both inside in order to keep him warm and keep an eye on him. He soon bounced back and I left them in overnight anyway.
On Tuesday morning I got up to find Bailey in full spirits but Ciara not eating. I took her to the vets and they gave her painkillers and gut stimulants and said she'd still got gut sounds and food in her stomach. She began eating when we got home and I went to work thinking we'd be ok. When I got home (my mother having watched over her and giving her afternoon meds) she wasn't eating again and then took a sudden turn for the worse and died on the way to the emergency vets. I decided against having a post mortem but the vets believe there was a secondary cause of death that I guess we'll never know about.
Tonight I went out to give Bailey and Pandora dinner and found him not eating AGAIN. I gave him meds, yummy incentives and snugglesafes and after around an hour he still wasn't eating so I set up the indoor pen (with the usual inconvenience...) and brought him in. When I went back out to close up the aviary I came back to mum saying "I reckon this one is having you on". He was hopping around and sampling the food.
Worse for me is that I suffer from Anxiety. Anything to do with the rabbits immediately makes me physically ill. As soon as I realised he wasn't eating I got gut cramps and felt nauseous.
Really hoping he's going to be ok this time, but for him to do this twice in one week and for me to lose Ciara to stasis/not eating as well, I'm deeply concerned. Even if I took him to the vets for a review (of course he'd be ill on a Saturday night when the vets are shut Sunday...) I don't know what they'd be able to do about it. His condition is terminal so degradation is expected but twice in a week out of nowhere is unusual even for him.
Just a very stressed bunny mummy... :?