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Hi everyone, I could use some objective advice on this situation. My own bunny Ula died in the summer due to old age and many separate but interrelated issues that started to manifest in her elderbun years. After a good chunk of time mourning her, we decided to foster a bunny through a local...

I haven't posted in a while, as things had generally been fairly good with Ula's health and I found a vet that I really liked. As she was getting older, some problems started to pop up. She had molar spurs that needed annual or bi-annual trims, and she'd have very infrequent seizures which...

Right now Ula is eating Oxbow Bunny Basics Adult timothy pellets, but she tends to go through cycles of pickiness and will likely refuse to eat it shortly. Her go-to food whenever she becomes finicky is Peter's Maintenance pellets, which is mostly alfalfa based with other hays mixed in. The vet...

Ula had some x-rays done a few weeks ago and they showed moderate lung cloudiness. The vet prescribed Baytril, but Ula reacted so badly to it that I stopped it after 2 days. This was about 2 weeks ago. She went for repeat x-rays today and her lungs are totally clear. I'm guessing 2 days of...

So I just noticed this giant bumbling fly thing in my living room, going crazy trying to find its way out near the window. It came in because my boyfriend had the front door open. The fly finally stood still long enough for me to look at it...totally, without question, a rabbit-specific botfly...

Do I discontinue use? She's had 4 doses so far out of 42. I'm not sure if it's the stress of being medicated or the drug itself, but she had really bad gas gurgles last night (gave simethicone) and hasn't eaten since her dose this morning. I called the vet's office and they said she "needs to be...

They are still well-formed and a decent size, but are light beige instead of her usual dark brown. Is this just representative of her diet (she's been eating mostly hay lately, and it's a different brand than usual), or is this something to worry about? I know in humans it signifies some sort of...

Ula was supposed to have her molars trimmed today but a preliminary x-ray (done as a precaution because she's older and has had a respiratory infection before) showed cloudy lungs, or as the vet put it, a "lower" respiratory infection likely caused by pasteurella. It also showed a little bit of...

Does anesthesia have a cumulative effect in rabbits? Is repeat anesthesia harmful? This will be Ula's 3rd time under anesthesia (spay, molar trim last year) and she's 6 yrs old now. Is there a risk to her health in getting repeat molar trims? I know that repeat anesthesia can cause issues in...

Ula (6 yrs dwarf-Dutch mix, healthy weight, generally healthy aside from occasional gas) was eating, urinating and pooping normally today. In the middle of the afternoon she jumped in her cage and started digging. That's fairly normal for her, but in between her bouts of digging she would flop...

My "rabbit savvy" vet told me that simethicone doesn't work and they don't use it in their veterinary practice anymore. However, every time Ula stops eating or has gurgling gas noises, it's my first line of defense and it seems to always help after one or two doses. She wasn't eating yesterday...

She's been doing this for a few days...she sits under the coffee table to groom, and occasionally after licking her hind quarters she sneezes. Is it more likely to be a fur nose tickle situation, or an infection? No changes in terms of eye or nasal discharge. She sometimes has eye crusties that...

She didn't actually ingest any of it but it had a good amount of bunny slobber on it. It's Bounce brand. And had been through the dryer, but was still very fragrant. Should I be worried? Is this a potential poison? :expressionless

Ula finally went for a molar trim after a couple weeks on antibiotics for a respiratory infection. She had repeat x-rays and her lungs were clear, so we went for it. The vet noted that her molars were quite long and sharp, but that there weren't any lacerations on her tongue or cheeks. She's...

When she was sprawled out on the floor earlier today, her whole body started to ripple in what looked like a series of muscle contractions. Her head or limbs were not involved, just her torso. Her relaxed facial expression didn't change at all...she seemed to not be bothered by it. I've never...

How long should I wait to have a repeat chest x-ray taken to see if the antibiotic is having an effect on Ula's respiratory infection? The story is: She has molar spurs which cannot be trimmed because she is an anesthesia risk with her lung congestion. Antibiotics have been administered since...

Ula had an appointment to go under anesthesia today to get her molars trimmed. As a precaution, the vet ran chest x-rays to make sure she was a healthy anesthesia candidate. The vet just called and said it looked like there was some congestion in Ula's lungs and that she's not going to do the...

So Miss Ula (4 yrs old) is turning into a finicky eater and decided that she no longer likes her Oxbow Bunny Basics T pellets (which she has been eating without an issue for over a year!). I purchased Zupreem timothy pellets, which she has eaten in the past, as well as a lower-end Alfalfa...

So I just went through hell with my dwarf bunny Earl (RIP) trying to get him to eat through what me and my vet thought was stasis, and it turned out to be a systemic infection that he couldn't beat. Now Ula is eating significantly less than she normally does - not touching her pellets, barely...

Every now and again Ula gets a bunch of dandruff looking flakes on her head and ears. No fur loss, no excessive scratching or licking. Is it likely to be mites, or can bunnies just have dry skin?