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I was hoping my first post about our newer little one was going to be a happier one...
Cutting a long story short, a few weeks ago we ended up with a new baby rex. We've had him between 3-4 weeks now, he's app 3 months old with the most beautiful, wild personality. He's as hyper as anything and has incredible balance. He regularly perches on the edge of an open cardboard box (!) we've got for him in his pen. I've never seen a rabbit balance like that. He can perch on anything. He's like a bird.
Last night however I noticed he seemed to be favouring the left side of his head. It was hard to tell if it was there or not as he was too hyper to sit still and let you get a good look. This morning however I realised I wasn't imagining it and his normal balance wasn't 100%. He fell over a few times when periscoping and just looked slightly unsteady. Since then I've seen him have some nasty looking falls backwards and sideways.
Obviously he went straight up the vet and he's been put on panacur and metacam at the moment (though the vet has ordered him in another form of fenbendazole - I'm guessing lapizole? - to swap to on Tuesday as panacur is hard to dose accurately and he's only 1.25kg at the moment.
Thankfully he's still himself from a mental point of view and still very, very hungry. But I'm so worried about him. It's hard to tell if he's still the same or if he's gotten any worse. I have an awful suspicion his head is tilted a bit more than it was and his balance may have gotten worse. But it's hard to tell. He's been unusually quiet for a lot of the day, though has gone more like himself tonight and finished all his veg earlier within minutes.
We don't know the cause yet but he's so young to have this Having had EC (along with severe stasis) take both Willow and Maple from us I'm terrified of it being EC.. The vet did find a small amount of wax when he inspected his ears but didn't think it was significant enough to cause the problem (as far as it's possible to see into the ear visibly anyway).
I don't know what to do for him, poor little thing He's such a healthy, bright, hyper little thing. He's so young and tiny, he doesn't deserve this at his age
I don't know if I should see what, if anything, the panacur does until Tuesday or if he should go back for antibiotics or something in the morning? Or whether he should just have an x-ray at this stage or not. Unfortunately Willow and Maple went downhill rapidly so my experience with EC (if it is EC) is limited to just a rapid and awful outcome Though in the their cases they actually never developed head tilt but balance issues and rear end paralysis along with rapid weight loss (Maple in particular), incontinence and severe stasis. Harley at least is still eating very, very well. Only symptoms seem to be head tilt and balance/rolling over backwards issues. He can still run fast, just has the odd issue with balance. No nystagmus that I can see either (vet did also check his eyes)
I hate seeing him like this
Cutting a long story short, a few weeks ago we ended up with a new baby rex. We've had him between 3-4 weeks now, he's app 3 months old with the most beautiful, wild personality. He's as hyper as anything and has incredible balance. He regularly perches on the edge of an open cardboard box (!) we've got for him in his pen. I've never seen a rabbit balance like that. He can perch on anything. He's like a bird.
Last night however I noticed he seemed to be favouring the left side of his head. It was hard to tell if it was there or not as he was too hyper to sit still and let you get a good look. This morning however I realised I wasn't imagining it and his normal balance wasn't 100%. He fell over a few times when periscoping and just looked slightly unsteady. Since then I've seen him have some nasty looking falls backwards and sideways.
Obviously he went straight up the vet and he's been put on panacur and metacam at the moment (though the vet has ordered him in another form of fenbendazole - I'm guessing lapizole? - to swap to on Tuesday as panacur is hard to dose accurately and he's only 1.25kg at the moment.
Thankfully he's still himself from a mental point of view and still very, very hungry. But I'm so worried about him. It's hard to tell if he's still the same or if he's gotten any worse. I have an awful suspicion his head is tilted a bit more than it was and his balance may have gotten worse. But it's hard to tell. He's been unusually quiet for a lot of the day, though has gone more like himself tonight and finished all his veg earlier within minutes.
We don't know the cause yet but he's so young to have this Having had EC (along with severe stasis) take both Willow and Maple from us I'm terrified of it being EC.. The vet did find a small amount of wax when he inspected his ears but didn't think it was significant enough to cause the problem (as far as it's possible to see into the ear visibly anyway).
I don't know what to do for him, poor little thing He's such a healthy, bright, hyper little thing. He's so young and tiny, he doesn't deserve this at his age
I don't know if I should see what, if anything, the panacur does until Tuesday or if he should go back for antibiotics or something in the morning? Or whether he should just have an x-ray at this stage or not. Unfortunately Willow and Maple went downhill rapidly so my experience with EC (if it is EC) is limited to just a rapid and awful outcome Though in the their cases they actually never developed head tilt but balance issues and rear end paralysis along with rapid weight loss (Maple in particular), incontinence and severe stasis. Harley at least is still eating very, very well. Only symptoms seem to be head tilt and balance/rolling over backwards issues. He can still run fast, just has the odd issue with balance. No nystagmus that I can see either (vet did also check his eyes)
I hate seeing him like this
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