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Wise Old Thumper
Thought I'd start my new thread with some wise advice.
My pet sitter/best mate commenting on my report of Lopsy's vet follow-up this morning: "if your rabbit is well enough to be a [rhymes with thickhead], your rabbit is well enough." :lol: Vet reported him having 'full range of movement' which he was using to good effect XD Definite bunnitude today He even thumped while we were waiting, he's never done that before, except at the emergency vets, not with me there!
He is well enough, he's lost a lot of weight and now weighs under 2kgs (was 2.3 at last weigh-in on 24th August): he did feel a bit light in the carrier. I suspect the lack of fresh forage hasn't helped. I also suspect this batch of hay is No Good really and so I might consign it to boxes for winter litter tray stuffing etc. I'll try them on other hay first (J&B's given me some of her Artisan Hay so we'll see what they think later today) and keep an eye on his weight myself for a bit. He's probably maintained the weight from his emergency vet weekend when he wasn't really eating but not put anything back on. He has no problems (that i've seen) eating, weeing, pooing, drinking. He's got nice poos today actually He's moving a lot freer than even a week ago. No binkies yet, and he's not reaching quite all the way up for bramble, but more than he was in the 2-3 weeks leading up to his first appointment. He's still chewing a lot, but so is Chibbs, so I've put it down to me just not really noticing quite so much before. It's not loud (not that it really was before) and not the same sort of rough movements, they both just run around chewing after eating forage, so I guess they're just making sure the last bits are down while they have a bit of a look around and then back to the food pile
He's taking his metacam on pellets twice a day and I'm reluctant to change away from pellets until he's got his weight thing sorted.
He did eat a fenugreek crunchie this morning so he's definitely almost back to normal :lol: He also escaped on Matt which was totally expected this morning XD Matt wanted to help and get Lopsy in the carrier, which was straightforward as he wants pellets in the morning now, but Lopsy finished them really quick and went for a wander as he could get round the sides (we shove the carrier up to the hutch bottom level in this case). Matt came in for more pellets, thinking he'd shut the hutch door but he'd only pushed it to, so as soon as Lopsy was dealt with, Chibbs came out for a runaround :lol: Lopsy had enough pellets to keep his mouth occupied while Matt dealt with her and then the carrier was closed and normal service was resumed XD
My pet sitter/best mate commenting on my report of Lopsy's vet follow-up this morning: "if your rabbit is well enough to be a [rhymes with thickhead], your rabbit is well enough." :lol: Vet reported him having 'full range of movement' which he was using to good effect XD Definite bunnitude today He even thumped while we were waiting, he's never done that before, except at the emergency vets, not with me there!
He is well enough, he's lost a lot of weight and now weighs under 2kgs (was 2.3 at last weigh-in on 24th August): he did feel a bit light in the carrier. I suspect the lack of fresh forage hasn't helped. I also suspect this batch of hay is No Good really and so I might consign it to boxes for winter litter tray stuffing etc. I'll try them on other hay first (J&B's given me some of her Artisan Hay so we'll see what they think later today) and keep an eye on his weight myself for a bit. He's probably maintained the weight from his emergency vet weekend when he wasn't really eating but not put anything back on. He has no problems (that i've seen) eating, weeing, pooing, drinking. He's got nice poos today actually He's moving a lot freer than even a week ago. No binkies yet, and he's not reaching quite all the way up for bramble, but more than he was in the 2-3 weeks leading up to his first appointment. He's still chewing a lot, but so is Chibbs, so I've put it down to me just not really noticing quite so much before. It's not loud (not that it really was before) and not the same sort of rough movements, they both just run around chewing after eating forage, so I guess they're just making sure the last bits are down while they have a bit of a look around and then back to the food pile
He's taking his metacam on pellets twice a day and I'm reluctant to change away from pellets until he's got his weight thing sorted.
He did eat a fenugreek crunchie this morning so he's definitely almost back to normal :lol: He also escaped on Matt which was totally expected this morning XD Matt wanted to help and get Lopsy in the carrier, which was straightforward as he wants pellets in the morning now, but Lopsy finished them really quick and went for a wander as he could get round the sides (we shove the carrier up to the hutch bottom level in this case). Matt came in for more pellets, thinking he'd shut the hutch door but he'd only pushed it to, so as soon as Lopsy was dealt with, Chibbs came out for a runaround :lol: Lopsy had enough pellets to keep his mouth occupied while Matt dealt with her and then the carrier was closed and normal service was resumed XD
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