xxchelle
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This is my first post here, so I suppose I should introduce myself, but I'm too stressed to do that right now...
I'll try to give you all the information I can, hopefully someone can help me...
I have a 2 year old female lop eared bunny. She is spayed.
We *just* adopted her last week from the Humane Society here. They spayed her for us a week ago (Tuesday the 23rd of June), and we took her home today.
They told us she wasn't eating as much as they'd like after the spay, so they kept her a bit longer (we were supposed to take her home towards the end of last week). But they said they had vet technicians on site who were watching her every day, and her eating got back up to mostly normal, so they told me she was fine to go home.
We brought her home at 2:00 this afternoon, and she hasn't eaten or pooped since then. There are Oxbow rabbit pellets available to her, and Timothy hay. When I noticed she wasn't eating, I tried to entice her with a bit of Alfalfa, but that didn't work either. She has unlimited fresh water.
She's urinated three times since 2:00. It's now 11:30PM here. We have seen her drink.
I tried to bribe her with a pear slice, raisins, grapes, carrots, romaine lettuce, etc. and she was uninterested in everything.
Then I got out my blender, and tried to make a "bunny smoothie" of sorts, with some fruit, pellets, hay, and water. Then I tried to feed it to her through a large syringe. She would not eat that either.
I'm at a loss for what to do. Everything is now closed where I am, so I'm left with whatever I have at home. Tomorrow is a national holiday (Canada Day), and therefore everything will be closed. My husband and I are supposed to be going to a baseball game, then out to dinner with my parents tomorrow. I'm really hoping I can solve this by then.
There is a bunny-savvy emergency clinic near by that I could call, but I'm wondering if I'm just overreacting?
She is lying in the "frog position", which I don't think bunnies do if they're having pains from gas, so I don't think it's gas.
Could all this just be stress? Is it normal for a bunny to be stressed to the point of not eating for over 9 hours, or is there something more going on here?
Sorry for such a long winded post, I tried to include as much information as I could.
I'll try to give you all the information I can, hopefully someone can help me...
I have a 2 year old female lop eared bunny. She is spayed.
We *just* adopted her last week from the Humane Society here. They spayed her for us a week ago (Tuesday the 23rd of June), and we took her home today.
They told us she wasn't eating as much as they'd like after the spay, so they kept her a bit longer (we were supposed to take her home towards the end of last week). But they said they had vet technicians on site who were watching her every day, and her eating got back up to mostly normal, so they told me she was fine to go home.
We brought her home at 2:00 this afternoon, and she hasn't eaten or pooped since then. There are Oxbow rabbit pellets available to her, and Timothy hay. When I noticed she wasn't eating, I tried to entice her with a bit of Alfalfa, but that didn't work either. She has unlimited fresh water.
She's urinated three times since 2:00. It's now 11:30PM here. We have seen her drink.
I tried to bribe her with a pear slice, raisins, grapes, carrots, romaine lettuce, etc. and she was uninterested in everything.
Then I got out my blender, and tried to make a "bunny smoothie" of sorts, with some fruit, pellets, hay, and water. Then I tried to feed it to her through a large syringe. She would not eat that either.
I'm at a loss for what to do. Everything is now closed where I am, so I'm left with whatever I have at home. Tomorrow is a national holiday (Canada Day), and therefore everything will be closed. My husband and I are supposed to be going to a baseball game, then out to dinner with my parents tomorrow. I'm really hoping I can solve this by then.
There is a bunny-savvy emergency clinic near by that I could call, but I'm wondering if I'm just overreacting?
She is lying in the "frog position", which I don't think bunnies do if they're having pains from gas, so I don't think it's gas.
Could all this just be stress? Is it normal for a bunny to be stressed to the point of not eating for over 9 hours, or is there something more going on here?
Sorry for such a long winded post, I tried to include as much information as I could.