doodlebugger
Well-Known Member
Chester is about 7 years old, and he was a rescue. When we got him, he had a pre-existing injury to his back leg. Our rabbit savvy vet thinks he was dropped, and the person didn't get treatment for his foot. So, he walked lop sided, and then this caused arthritis. He is on metacam twice daily for this. He is relatively healthy, with the exception that he has cataracts on his eyes and the back leg issue. Lately though, he has been randomly falling asleep. A few times a week, we find him slumped over his food bowl, once in his litter box, and today, as he was possibly cleaning a cecal from his nether regions, he must have fell asleep that way too (his back legs were pushed forward, and he was slumped down). When we find him this way, we typically talk really gentle to him, pet his head, or from his head down his back, and we tell him that he is just dreaming. When he wakes up, it's like everything resumes normally and he goes back to what he was doing. This is the oldest rabbit we have ever had because the rest have not made it past four or five at the oldest, and all of them have had some health issues which shortened their lives. I'm just wondering if this is what happens when a rabbit starts to decline due to old age? Or perhaps this is due to the metacam?