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Post by Andrea on Jan 10, 2011 13:55:47 GMT -4
All the prayers and thoughts payed off! Friday evening Pitters was eating more, and his poops were in large quantities with no mucous, just misformed. Saturday i caught him on my Bed in the morning LOL.
He's back to his old self next to his poops are still small, but that will improve with time.
We believe because of his pasturella he is more sensitive to things (plus his old age), my Vet believes this was stress induced. I think the Xmas holidays excitment, his shedding and 'poor diet' through his gut flora off, causing issues intensified by the pasturella. The poor diet is actually us spoiling him with to many treats, like carrots and crasins. So I have a new rule, only leafy greens as treats, and carrots must be small slices. He also had not been eating much hay before hand.
I must say to anyone experiancing a rabbit not eating/pooping ... CRITICAL CARE, force feed them! This is so important, to keep the animals guts moving things along. And of course keep them hydrated. I am sure if i had not been doing these things I wouldn't have my little bunny anymore.
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Post by Andrea on Jan 7, 2011 13:48:08 GMT -4
This got a lot worse, but i am refusing to belive he's just dying of old age... His age is up there but he's not 'old' he's much to active on a regular basis.
Anyways, I spent my evening force feeding him, cuddling him and crying. I hardly slept a wink. This Morning though there were poops, lots and lots of poop BUT they looked aweful, mushy, covered in mucous, not formed properly. So I did some research and came across something called Mucoid Enteropathy and it really had many of his symptoms plus the fact Pitters pasturella has flared up just this week.
I this morning he ate some parsley and celery tops, plus a bit of lettuce on his own, I force fed him a bit more critical care, plus 'cardus marianus' a homeo remedy for gut issues and then teh homeo immune system booster. He's on baytril but doesn't get that till tonight (1x a day).
Fingers crossed for my special little man, I am not strong enough to loose him, so i won't give up. Saturday he comes with me again for a weigh in and a re-check.
I'm not sure how i'm going to get through the financial situation I've put myself in. My vet has offered payment plans but on on big stuff like Surgeries. I always make it work, so i'm not going to stress about it.
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Post by Andrea on Jan 7, 2011 13:37:06 GMT -4
Two Thumbs up!
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Post by Andrea on Jan 6, 2011 13:33:37 GMT -4
With the amount of animals I have, I cannot afford insurance, most of them are uninsurable because of their ages anyways. I will one day look into it more when we only have say a dog and two rabbits type thing.
Pitters goes to the Vet today, he's not poopedin over a day, stopped drinking and is eating very minimaly mostly small amouts of parsley and celery tops and sometimes a baby carrot. I also was giving him pedialite to get some fluids into him. Poor bunbun.
Suzy has gas last night and so was off. A bit of Ovol and a run she was feeling better before I went to bed. This is regular with her and Spencer when they shed.
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Post by Andrea on Jan 5, 2011 15:18:22 GMT -4
It always happends this way... I spend a large amount of money on something and then suddenly someone get's sick and needs a vet and/or I make an appointment ahead of time for a check up for someone and then another animal get's sick and needs to go too ... So I bought myself an eliptical AND made a check up appointment for two fosters (Kyoto & Puff) then yesterday I notice Pitters is dribbling urine Poor guy. He's eating thought not a lot, he's using his litter box, but he's just not a happy camper On top of it he'd sheding like crazy. I started him on Antibiotics yesterday, and tomorrow morning if he's not perks up some I may have Ry drop him off at the Vet on his way to work, otherwise we wait until Saturday when Kyoto and Puff go in. Kyoto is getting his 'man boobs' (as we call it lol) checked and his teeth. Puff is the new lionhead foster, I am having her checked over because of the mobility issues I am noticing. So let's hope this doesn't break the bank because paydays still over a week away.
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Post by Andrea on Jan 5, 2011 15:06:28 GMT -4
My garbage was to full to put the Degu litter in, so it has to wait till next week. The rabbit litter I save in the garage then take to the shelter to be picked up for composting. Sometimes (thought not in the winter) i will even dump it out back in the field to let it compost there.
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Post by Andrea on Jan 4, 2011 13:30:58 GMT -4
Flemies are so cute. We have a few at the shelter including a Flemie cross family, unfortunetly Momma Lucy passed away recently. She was probably close to 20lbs.
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Post by Andrea on Jan 4, 2011 13:26:07 GMT -4
I had a full animal cleaning day on Sunday. I have noticed each time I clean my Degus my hands and arms itch and burn If I play with them and their nails touch my skin I get large welts.... Seems I have a new allergy, it's been happening a while now, but I never really put 2 and 2 together. The two new rabbits need to be cleaned often because the female doesn't use a litter box, and seems to have back issues.
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Post by Andrea on Dec 28, 2010 23:32:24 GMT -4
I don't see anything in the windows/curtins ... i see something else.
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Post by Andrea on Dec 28, 2010 20:07:28 GMT -4
NVM, I see 'it' I was going to joke about the carpet being pretty scarey LOL
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Post by Andrea on Dec 28, 2010 14:23:47 GMT -4
... no? i guess.
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Post by Andrea on Dec 28, 2010 14:20:27 GMT -4
Issues: Izzy started biting me, not like her. I also noticed the back end sorta of wobble she has has gotten worse, she still active, eating and seems happy, but I notice she's getting a bit 'round' in the back end, her bottom/tail is more curved under. I believe she may have a uterin tumor growing. I had some other white dwarfs I was fostering who had the same thing before having to be put down. So, as long as she is still happy, eating and running in her wheel then I'll keep her comfortable. Kinda stinks because i really don't think she's that old.
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Post by Andrea on Dec 28, 2010 14:15:23 GMT -4
*HUGS* Sorry for your loss. She was a lucky little hammy to have such a great caring home.
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Post by Andrea on Dec 17, 2010 14:51:25 GMT -4
oh oh oh, I know what it is!
CUTE! it's darn cute and i want one LOL
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Post by Andrea on Dec 15, 2010 13:17:33 GMT -4
Page 12? odd.... It's so sad, those poor birdies. I guess the one benifit of him not going anywhere, is no other bird will replace his 'live stock' position and have to live like that so one greedy butt head can make a pretty penny. At elast he has you to come visit him I perfer to only shop at Pet Supply stores, ones that do not sell pets. For a while i didn't have a choice though, as we only had petCetera and a small family type pet store, all of which sold sick sad animals (Which i complained about). But now we have two stores that don't sell pets, one I buy my rabbit food from (SO excited they even sold it, no more 1 hour drives just to get bunny food), they are also a SPCA satalite adoption centre and have kittens for adoption.
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