Hi everyone,
Me again - some you know that the last year has been very tough for us. Lots of bereavements of family members as well as two of our bunnies.
Sparky is coming up to his 13th birthday, he is a netherland dwarf/rex cross and we have had him since he was 10 weeks old.
In recent years, he's had two bouts of head tilt - both were due to an ear inflection as the blood test was negative for EC both times; though the first bout we treated him for both an ear infection and EC as he was in really bad way. The second bout he had in October last year - nowhere near as bad as the first time and both times he made a full recovery.
He has arthritis in his left leg and he is on 0.5mi of loxicom twice a day which has helped him an awful lot and he does also have cataracts in both eyes. He is able to get around, though he is a bit unsteady and because of his eyesight he's not wholly comfortable outside of his area which we have padded with rolled up towels so if he loses his balance due to his leg he get himself back up. He knows where his food and water bowel is and still eats and drinks like a trooper.
Late last night we noticed he was stumbling around a bit more than usual which we thought might be because he had too much hay under him making the ground unsteady.
We got him out this morning to see how he was, he was moving about ok but one of his eyes looks "shiny" and under one of his eyes it feels a bit "gummy" but we can't see any discharge actually coming out.
He is still happy in himself, eating, drinking, pooping, no signs of pain, moving about as much as he can /his leg allows and the exotics vet isn't in until tomorrow so he has an appointment at 930am, however, my husband is of the view that Sparky now may be completely blind in one of his eyes and the arthritis in his leg might have gotten substantially worse and we may need to consider PTS.
I know we don't know anything for definite and he has had a long and happy life and we don't want to be selfish and prolong his life but equally I'm not sure if I'm prepared to make the decision /let him go.
My hope is that perhaps he does have a slight infection in his eye which the loxicom has been helping with but because it's working on his eye, it might not be being as effective on his leg so maybe he will need a higher dosage of loxicom and maybe some eyedrops/anti-biotics.
I just really needed to get this off my chest and ask for some vibes for him.
Me again - some you know that the last year has been very tough for us. Lots of bereavements of family members as well as two of our bunnies.
Sparky is coming up to his 13th birthday, he is a netherland dwarf/rex cross and we have had him since he was 10 weeks old.
In recent years, he's had two bouts of head tilt - both were due to an ear inflection as the blood test was negative for EC both times; though the first bout we treated him for both an ear infection and EC as he was in really bad way. The second bout he had in October last year - nowhere near as bad as the first time and both times he made a full recovery.
He has arthritis in his left leg and he is on 0.5mi of loxicom twice a day which has helped him an awful lot and he does also have cataracts in both eyes. He is able to get around, though he is a bit unsteady and because of his eyesight he's not wholly comfortable outside of his area which we have padded with rolled up towels so if he loses his balance due to his leg he get himself back up. He knows where his food and water bowel is and still eats and drinks like a trooper.
Late last night we noticed he was stumbling around a bit more than usual which we thought might be because he had too much hay under him making the ground unsteady.
We got him out this morning to see how he was, he was moving about ok but one of his eyes looks "shiny" and under one of his eyes it feels a bit "gummy" but we can't see any discharge actually coming out.
He is still happy in himself, eating, drinking, pooping, no signs of pain, moving about as much as he can /his leg allows and the exotics vet isn't in until tomorrow so he has an appointment at 930am, however, my husband is of the view that Sparky now may be completely blind in one of his eyes and the arthritis in his leg might have gotten substantially worse and we may need to consider PTS.
I know we don't know anything for definite and he has had a long and happy life and we don't want to be selfish and prolong his life but equally I'm not sure if I'm prepared to make the decision /let him go.
My hope is that perhaps he does have a slight infection in his eye which the loxicom has been helping with but because it's working on his eye, it might not be being as effective on his leg so maybe he will need a higher dosage of loxicom and maybe some eyedrops/anti-biotics.
I just really needed to get this off my chest and ask for some vibes for him.