Hello everyone, this is my first official post here, I didn't know much about this community but it seems to be big rabbit community, so I was hoping someone could provide some insight since I'm a bit desperate.
I have a male mini lion lop which is 5 years old now, he is not neutered, he hasn't had many major problems in the past except for maybe two episodes of GI stasis in two different years, we believe it may have been due to hair accumulation in the stomach, as it was in the same period of the year.
Lately he has been losing weight and has started to drink and pee a lot, which is becoming a problem for his cleanliness. He has always weighed about 3.53lb, and now he is at 2.86lb. Also we notice in the past month that he has a case of alopecia, the hair on his back is falling off. We are already following the case with our vet, she is a specialist in exotic animals. We took samples of blood and urine twice in the past few months, in the first analysis his glucose levels were a bit low, and we suspected it could have been due to diabetes (which is rare in rabbits) so we took a second sample around two weeks ago, and all levels came back as normal. His kidney function seems to be ok aswell, as nothing came back from the blood tests. He hasn't had any significant changes in his behaviour, he is still quite active, specially during night time, his apetite seems to be normal, and we have also tried different types of hay to see if the greeness of the hay could have had an effect. All the hay that we feed him is very good quality, and he has a normal diet, pellets in the morning, hay all day, and greens in the afternoon, but no matter what, he keeps losing weight.
About a week ago we did an ultrasound scan on him to see if there was any evidence of tumours or anything abnormal. We didn't discover anything notorius, and it is also quite difficult to see much with this technique in rabbits, but we didn't see any signs of tumours, which is a relief, but left us with no answer yet...
Right now we are giving him a Panacur treatment for 25 days, to see if it has any effect, he is on his 10th day now. The vet said that if he has E.cuniculi he would respond well to the treatment, but we can also test him for that in the future. He doesn't have many symptoms that correspond with that anyway, only thing I've noticed is a small loss of balance, but it may be because of the weight loss.
Any help will be much appreciated, and sorry for the long post, I wanted to cover all I could.
I have a male mini lion lop which is 5 years old now, he is not neutered, he hasn't had many major problems in the past except for maybe two episodes of GI stasis in two different years, we believe it may have been due to hair accumulation in the stomach, as it was in the same period of the year.
Lately he has been losing weight and has started to drink and pee a lot, which is becoming a problem for his cleanliness. He has always weighed about 3.53lb, and now he is at 2.86lb. Also we notice in the past month that he has a case of alopecia, the hair on his back is falling off. We are already following the case with our vet, she is a specialist in exotic animals. We took samples of blood and urine twice in the past few months, in the first analysis his glucose levels were a bit low, and we suspected it could have been due to diabetes (which is rare in rabbits) so we took a second sample around two weeks ago, and all levels came back as normal. His kidney function seems to be ok aswell, as nothing came back from the blood tests. He hasn't had any significant changes in his behaviour, he is still quite active, specially during night time, his apetite seems to be normal, and we have also tried different types of hay to see if the greeness of the hay could have had an effect. All the hay that we feed him is very good quality, and he has a normal diet, pellets in the morning, hay all day, and greens in the afternoon, but no matter what, he keeps losing weight.
About a week ago we did an ultrasound scan on him to see if there was any evidence of tumours or anything abnormal. We didn't discover anything notorius, and it is also quite difficult to see much with this technique in rabbits, but we didn't see any signs of tumours, which is a relief, but left us with no answer yet...
Right now we are giving him a Panacur treatment for 25 days, to see if it has any effect, he is on his 10th day now. The vet said that if he has E.cuniculi he would respond well to the treatment, but we can also test him for that in the future. He doesn't have many symptoms that correspond with that anyway, only thing I've noticed is a small loss of balance, but it may be because of the weight loss.
Any help will be much appreciated, and sorry for the long post, I wanted to cover all I could.