I have had Harley, my house bunny now for three years. He's a very happy, spunky Angora Lionhead.
Yesterday, he was sleeping a bit more than normal, which was to be expected. I had stayed up until 2:00AM rearranging the house as were moving. Rearranging is a very happy time for him, he loves chaos and exploration. I did two things differently:
1. I put baking soda on the ground behind the liter box to soak up a urine stain on the carpet (it was mostly inaccessible to him and I never saw him to get into it.
2. He ate more avocado leaves than normal and maybe a bit of the branch (I moved a box under it and didn't realize he was eating them, but he was fine all that night and it's not unusual he eat the leaves, they often fall off and he munches them down no problem, for nearly a year now)
Yesterday, we noticed he was very lethargic as if he were uncomfortable. At first I figured he was just sleeping more than normal as he was tired from the nights festivities, he is a day napper by trade. He would get up and move then just go lay back down. Didn't have much of an appetite when dinner time came. We hadn't seem him poop in a while so tried calling all vets in the area, and the only one we could get to see a bunny (through recommendations) is one who killed our last bunny and is known in local bunny community as "The Bunny Killer". Not a place we care to take our bunny at all. The drive there enough is just stressful then to see someone who we know as the bunny killer - it just did not work. We gave him some massage, infant gas relief drops (simethicone) and he dropped some poops. We monitored him all night checking on him giving him water, and some food. He would always nibble on food, drink water but not really poop. In morning we did the same, fresh cilantro, light green romaines and baby food pumpkin and timothy hay and water, he ate/drank a bit of all. He then let out a nice big series of somewhat gooy poo. He's not super active but he is moving and eating/drinking/pooing (just not pooing very often). The only vet who is known for being good and seeing bunnies in the area is not in his office until tomorrow. As the bunny seems to be on the path to recovery, we really don't want to take him to the bunny killer. We can take him to another vet and get x-rays but that's it, they would wait for other vet tomorrow and send x-rays to him.
Our thought is to keep monitoring, feeding, watering and getting him to poop as we can (which yes, is much less than desired but definitely more than every 12 hours).
Has anyone had a similar experience and could suggest anything we can do to keep him on the path to recovery and worse case he seems the same tomorrow, we take him to the vet who is capable of helping and we feel comfortable with?
Thank You!
Yesterday, he was sleeping a bit more than normal, which was to be expected. I had stayed up until 2:00AM rearranging the house as were moving. Rearranging is a very happy time for him, he loves chaos and exploration. I did two things differently:
1. I put baking soda on the ground behind the liter box to soak up a urine stain on the carpet (it was mostly inaccessible to him and I never saw him to get into it.
2. He ate more avocado leaves than normal and maybe a bit of the branch (I moved a box under it and didn't realize he was eating them, but he was fine all that night and it's not unusual he eat the leaves, they often fall off and he munches them down no problem, for nearly a year now)
Yesterday, we noticed he was very lethargic as if he were uncomfortable. At first I figured he was just sleeping more than normal as he was tired from the nights festivities, he is a day napper by trade. He would get up and move then just go lay back down. Didn't have much of an appetite when dinner time came. We hadn't seem him poop in a while so tried calling all vets in the area, and the only one we could get to see a bunny (through recommendations) is one who killed our last bunny and is known in local bunny community as "The Bunny Killer". Not a place we care to take our bunny at all. The drive there enough is just stressful then to see someone who we know as the bunny killer - it just did not work. We gave him some massage, infant gas relief drops (simethicone) and he dropped some poops. We monitored him all night checking on him giving him water, and some food. He would always nibble on food, drink water but not really poop. In morning we did the same, fresh cilantro, light green romaines and baby food pumpkin and timothy hay and water, he ate/drank a bit of all. He then let out a nice big series of somewhat gooy poo. He's not super active but he is moving and eating/drinking/pooing (just not pooing very often). The only vet who is known for being good and seeing bunnies in the area is not in his office until tomorrow. As the bunny seems to be on the path to recovery, we really don't want to take him to the bunny killer. We can take him to another vet and get x-rays but that's it, they would wait for other vet tomorrow and send x-rays to him.
Our thought is to keep monitoring, feeding, watering and getting him to poop as we can (which yes, is much less than desired but definitely more than every 12 hours).
Has anyone had a similar experience and could suggest anything we can do to keep him on the path to recovery and worse case he seems the same tomorrow, we take him to the vet who is capable of helping and we feel comfortable with?
Thank You!
