velveteen
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Hi all.
So it seems Winston, our problem child (8 month old neth. dwarf cross) is once again causing us emotional and financial anguish!
He has in the past had a problem with mushy cecotropes... anyhow, after flagyl, seemed to clear him up so booked him in for castration as we have been putting this off to get other problem sorted.
He had the op, no problems there. Sent home with pain relief, tramadol and also anti inflamm metacam to reduce swelling as he is a mature male.
Note, the vet specialises in rabbits.
So... that evening, he started licking at the wound. So much so, he would just NOT stop. We noticed it was oozing blood. So, we took him to an emergency vet. Our rabbit vet was not open. They said to simply watch him and stop him from licking until next morning to take to the rabbit savvy vet as the bleeding was not too heavy and they did not want to interfere.
So, we sat up all night, taking sleep shift and prevented him from licking until vet saw him today. They glued him back up, and gave us more tramadol and anti inflamms - told us to increase frequency of anti inflamms, to reduce swelling as he was very swollen. One was much larger than the other and the vet assumes that was the one he was licking the most.
They have put on a collar as he is just obsessed with going down to clean. Only option to allow us to get some sleep.
Problem is - his cecotropes have gone back mushy, i would say stress related. With collar this means a total mess. It is ALL over him. We give him a butt bath and then he just does another, and it is all over again. Trying to focus on keeping the wound clean. They did give us antiobiotics also.. to prevent it getting infected.
So, we have to administer anti inflamms every 4 hours until swelling goes down (meaning getting up in the night), pain relief every 6 hours and anti biotics twice a day! Not to mention his poopy butt.
We both have work tomorrow, and can't afford anymore money to put him in care. I am worried! He does not drink from a bottle, never has. He cant get to a crock with this cone, so I have been syringing water into his mouth.
Has anyone had a similar experience, or know what we can use instead of the collar while we are at work so he can drink?
Someone mentioned a sock, or two around his neck to prevent him getting to the wound but still allowing him to eat and drink?
We are both emtionally and financially wrecked. Not to mention very tired! It is only day 2 and hoping this fixes itself ASAP!
So it seems Winston, our problem child (8 month old neth. dwarf cross) is once again causing us emotional and financial anguish!
He has in the past had a problem with mushy cecotropes... anyhow, after flagyl, seemed to clear him up so booked him in for castration as we have been putting this off to get other problem sorted.
He had the op, no problems there. Sent home with pain relief, tramadol and also anti inflamm metacam to reduce swelling as he is a mature male.
Note, the vet specialises in rabbits.
So... that evening, he started licking at the wound. So much so, he would just NOT stop. We noticed it was oozing blood. So, we took him to an emergency vet. Our rabbit vet was not open. They said to simply watch him and stop him from licking until next morning to take to the rabbit savvy vet as the bleeding was not too heavy and they did not want to interfere.
So, we sat up all night, taking sleep shift and prevented him from licking until vet saw him today. They glued him back up, and gave us more tramadol and anti inflamms - told us to increase frequency of anti inflamms, to reduce swelling as he was very swollen. One was much larger than the other and the vet assumes that was the one he was licking the most.
They have put on a collar as he is just obsessed with going down to clean. Only option to allow us to get some sleep.
Problem is - his cecotropes have gone back mushy, i would say stress related. With collar this means a total mess. It is ALL over him. We give him a butt bath and then he just does another, and it is all over again. Trying to focus on keeping the wound clean. They did give us antiobiotics also.. to prevent it getting infected.
So, we have to administer anti inflamms every 4 hours until swelling goes down (meaning getting up in the night), pain relief every 6 hours and anti biotics twice a day! Not to mention his poopy butt.
We both have work tomorrow, and can't afford anymore money to put him in care. I am worried! He does not drink from a bottle, never has. He cant get to a crock with this cone, so I have been syringing water into his mouth.
Has anyone had a similar experience, or know what we can use instead of the collar while we are at work so he can drink?
Someone mentioned a sock, or two around his neck to prevent him getting to the wound but still allowing him to eat and drink?
We are both emtionally and financially wrecked. Not to mention very tired! It is only day 2 and hoping this fixes itself ASAP!
