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Had a terrible emergency vet appointment for Casper and am angry

I hope you can get some rest whilst they are at the vets. I’m sure you will be worried but I’m sure he will be fine:love:
 
Aw, thank you, Zoobec and Rhianna. :love: I did get some sleep and I'll go take another nap now, so that's been nice. And I just got off the phone with the vets and everything went well, so that's a big relief! :D I can't wait until they're back home. :love:
 
Thank you, Zoobec and IM. :love: They're back home and Casper's already running around, and Sophie's eaten some hay already. Hopefully Casper will start eating soon, too, but it usually takes a few days before he's back to eating normally, so we'll see. :love:
 
Thank you, Zoobec and IM. :love: They're back home and Casper's already running around, and Sophie's eaten some hay already. Hopefully Casper will start eating soon, too, but it usually takes a few days before he's back to eating normally, so we'll see. :love:

The fact that he’s running around is great news. Hopefully once he realises his mouth won’t hurt when he eats he will start doing so x
 
Awww what clever bunnies. I'm happy they are back home . I don't think I need to send recovery vibes if he is bounding about already :lol:
 
Thank you, IM, Omi, and j&b. :love: I was glad to see him running around already, yeah! :D I offered him some different things and he ate some dried forage, so that's a good start.

I'll do as the vet recommended on Monday and encourage him to eat as much hay as he can instead of other things. I guess I'll give him a smaller daily salad than he gets now? And less dried forage, although they already don't get much of that. I don't really want to cut down his pellets, though, since he doesn't get that much to begin with and I feel he needs them for nutrients. The only treats they get are a few small grass pellets throughout the day, and a piece of dried cucumber before bed, but maybe I should stop that...? I don't want him to eat only hay, though, as I think it's good for them to get a variety of things.
 
I think that's pretty sensible. Cucumber is pretty much all water so I can't see it keeping him full for long. I personally wouldn't worry too much about needing nutrition from pellets as hay & forage would provide enough. Did your vet say whether they thought the change in hay could have caused the spur to develop so quickly?
 
I think that's pretty sensible. Cucumber is pretty much all water so I can't see it keeping him full for long. I personally wouldn't worry too much about needing nutrition from pellets as hay & forage would provide enough. Did your vet say whether they thought the change in hay could have caused the spur to develop so quickly?
Oh, I forgot to ask! I'll send them a message tomorrow. Does hay and forage have enough vitamin D? That's the one I always worry about, since they're indoor bunnies and don't get any direct sunlight, except for Casper's short trips to the balcony. And I know vitamin D is important for their teeth, too.
 
Oh, I forgot to ask! I'll send them a message tomorrow. Does hay and forage have enough vitamin D? That's the one I always worry about, since they're indoor bunnies and don't get any direct sunlight, except for Casper's short trips to the balcony. And I know vitamin D is important for their teeth, too.

now theres a question ...not one i can confidently answer . You could ask your vet while you're asking about the hay maybe. The reason I don't think nuggets are important is that for 20 odd years I saw Frances Harcourt-Brown as my vet. She was happy to put my (fat) bunny on a hay only diet. She feeds her own bunnies forage, hay & tiny bits of fruit - no nuggets. She always said the best diet is closest to a natural rabbits diet. I know wildies sunbathe so its different but I do think she'd raise it as a concern (her expertise was in rabbit dentistry & digestive stuff...to be fair she was awesome at it all:love:)

I wonder what source the vitamin D in pellets comes from? You've got me wondering & googling now
 
now theres a question ...not one i can confidently answer . You could ask your vet while you're asking about the hay maybe. The reason I don't think nuggets are important is that for 20 odd years I saw Frances Harcourt-Brown as my vet. She was happy to put my (fat) bunny on a hay only diet. She feeds her own bunnies forage, hay & tiny bits of fruit - no nuggets. She always said the best diet is closest to a natural rabbits diet. I know wildies sunbathe so its different but I do think she'd raise it as a concern (her expertise was in rabbit dentistry & digestive stuff...to be fair she was awesome at it all:love:)

I wonder what source the vitamin D in pellets comes from? You've got me wondering & googling now
Ooh, Frances Harcourt-Brown does sound like someone who would know, yes, so if she thought that was fine and doesn't feed her own bunnies pellets it's very likely okay... I know when I took Sophie to the vet once because she kept gaining weight that they said, too, that I could stop feeding pellets, so I guess my vet thinks that's okay, too... Still, I can't help but worry. I did some research once into vitamin D in hay and apparently it really depended on... something I've forgotten, so it's not guaranteed that there's much vitamin D in it depending on the circumstances.

I'm not sure where the vitamin D in pellets comes from... It's vitamin D3 that's in pellets, or at least in the Science Selective, so it'll probably be some animal source.
 
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