Hi, we've had our Minilop Cherry for a few months now, since she was around 8 weeks old. Straight away we noticed she makes a funny snorting noise when she got excited or scared. After around 3 months we noticed one day that she was making it on every breath and it was much, much louder, like she couldn't get her breath. We took her to the vets but they couldn't diagnose it and gave us antibiotics. The next day it was fine and she was breathing normally again but we finished the course of antibiotics just in case.
She always makes the noises but normally its only slight and doesn't appear to bother her but every couple of weeks she'll make the loud noises again and looks like she can't breath properly. She eats and drinks fine, even at its worse. It normally only lasts 24 hours. Randomly if you stretch her out on her tummy the noise goes away.
Can anyone shed any light into this? This is our first rabbit so we're not sure if this is normal. I have a couple of videos of the noise but I don't know how to upload them.
Edit: Here's the videos:
https://imgur.com/gallery/Wi6ErC4
Thanks,
Craig
She always makes the noises but normally its only slight and doesn't appear to bother her but every couple of weeks she'll make the loud noises again and looks like she can't breath properly. She eats and drinks fine, even at its worse. It normally only lasts 24 hours. Randomly if you stretch her out on her tummy the noise goes away.
Can anyone shed any light into this? This is our first rabbit so we're not sure if this is normal. I have a couple of videos of the noise but I don't know how to upload them.
Edit: Here's the videos:
https://imgur.com/gallery/Wi6ErC4
Thanks,
Craig
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