Recent content by Makhwushi

Thanks. He was ever so brave and co-operative with all the visits to the vet and having the recovery food syringed into his mouth in his last weeks. It was horrible seeing him deteriorate but he went here with us in his favourite place and I think maybe by the end he was just weak and exhausted...

I'm sad but also a little relieved to say that Thumper's time came earlier this morning. He wouldn't swallow his recovery food in the end yesterday and was ultimately getting weaker sadly. Still, we had nine wonderful years with him and he passed at home in his favourite place just underneath...

Additionally, it's also a concern that his front legs sometimes spread quite wide either side of him when he lies down. Firstly it looks uncomfortable for him, but secondly, I wonder whether this is just an indication of a general loss of strength or feeling in his front legs? Again, any...

Right, well he's battling on and receiving a good amount of syringed recovery food (Supreme Science recovery), and co-operating brilliantly with the regular doses (every 1-2 hours), and this plus metacam, veraflox, and perhaps even the benefit of plenty of attention from us all seems to have...

Yea, I hope it's just something like the former, though given that he's come down from about 8.25lbs immediately post-op at the end of May to maybe 6.5-6.75lbs now, I fear the latter. He's booked in for later today, we'll see what they say. He was better in the day or so after they gave him...

Thanks for your replies, appreciated. He had his teeth checked only last week during a thorough checkup at the vets and they said they looked good. It's only really in the last day or so that he's been off most things bar grass; prior to that he was eating a bit of everything, just not in the...

Hi, I am the owner of a nine year-old Dutch (we think/were told) lop. About a month ago he underwent a major operation which involved neutering and the removal of a benign abcess from just above and behind his right-front leg. Having been given only 60% odds through by the vet due to his age...

Abbeyfields Veterinary Centre, 67 High Street, Rocester, Staffordshire ST14 5JU Tel 01889 590449 email: [email protected] We took our nine year-old lop Thumper to Abbeyfields for an overall health check last Tuesday. We were in consultation for a good 40 minutes while Thumper was...

Okay, thanks guys, I'll get looking for a vet and suggest those possibilities to them regarding X Rays and so on to assess his general health. Whilst I'm doing that, is there anything anyone would advise with regard to the tail itself?

Hi, I'm the owner of an un-neutered 8 1/2 year-old male lop-eared rabbit (Thumper, he's grey and my sister chose his name not me :) ). He's always lived in the house. Anyway, going back to around October, I started to notice a slight bloodiness and loss of fur at the tip of his tail...