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She is a 3 years old rabbit and is pooping in small amounts. She is litter trained but since a few days ago stopped using the litter box. she shakes/vibrates from her head down to her front paws. She eats a tiny amount and drank a little bit of water than she freaks out and her head started to shake I heard her stomach growl and she grits her teeth. I’m hearing a weird breath out every now and then and she is in a loafing position right now. Plz help I don’t know what to do!
 
Get her to a vet ASAP.
I might be wrong, but for me that sounds like bloat, that means gas in her digestive system. It's a very serious condition. I didn't notice that shakingn thing though.

If it is bloat, there are some things you can do.Give her simethicone drops - you can get those at any pharmacy, it's baby gas drops. They come in different concentrations, about 20mg per feeding is right I guess. I mixed it with some oatmeal and partly force fed it. Keep her eating, offer her whatever she likes most. Leaves of rosea plants like apple, roses, bramble, raspberry are fine.
My doe, which never would let me touch her belly, accepted a belly massage, putting her on my lap and massaging her belly softly with my fingers to get things moving.

Anyway, a vet can do more.
 
Thank you for replies much help is wanted my parents refuse to take her to the vet but she has been pooping very tiny to moderate poops I got her the gas relief it’s hard to feed it to her though with a syringe she is in a hunched position with a small amount of discharged out of her eyes.
 
No offence, but why would they let you get a pet if they won’t let you get the proper care for it? Bloat can be life threatening, hunching up means a lot of pain. Poor bunny needs some medical help.
 
I know and none takin my parents take their dogs to the vet and right now we really dont have the money to take her to an exotic vet. I will be trying though to get her their and convince them to take her.
 
Thank you for replies much help is wanted my parents refuse to take her to the vet but she has been pooping very tiny to moderate poops I got her the gas relief it’s hard to feed it to her though with a syringe she is in a hunched position with a small amount of discharged out of her eyes.

The trick with using the dropper syringe to feed her the simithicone is to use the end of the dropper to open her lips by her cheek. You'll want the medicine to go between her cheek and her teeth a little bit at a time. This way she will have no choice but to swallow it. This is safer than trying to get it directly in the center of her mouth where there is a risk that she can aspirate or choke on it.
 
Vets can often offer payment plans etc so you don’t have to pay the full bill up front. It is really important she gets to a vet today, it’s not something that can really wait. It could be a few different things, but any time a rabbit is unwell and stops eating they are prone to bloat, which is fatal if untreated. Show your parents this link:
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/GI_diseases/Mechanical_diseases/bloat.htm
There are many sources online you can find yourself, they need to understand that a rabbit is not like a dog, they can become fatally ill very quickly and need emergency attention.
In the meantime keep trying with the simethicone, you don’t even need to force the mouth open just slide the syringe in the side, then it should trickle in and cause her to swallow.
 
Thank you we did get her to a vet but she sent us home with critter care and fluids with some pain medication she still doesn’t move she will only eat the critter care.I don’t know what to do anymore.
 
Ah not all Vets are rabbit savvy, but at least you got some pain relief, that can really help. So you are managing to get the critical care into her? Have they shown you how to give fluids again then, or did the vet just do it for you? Is she interested in food otherwise? Eating or drinking? Is he peeing and pooping? What do the poops look like?
 
she eats the critical very well she won’t eat pellets or hay I haven’t seen her drink water either. They did fluids for me. She has not peeped and her poop is super tiny. Every time she runs she runs on her toes with her back up and she will stay in one spot still.
 
You need to syringe feed the critical care. If she won’t stay still, wrap her in a towel like a burrito. Slip the syringe in her mouth at the side, just under the lip between lip and teeth. Then slowly inject in the mouth, which should trigger her to swallow it. I don’t want to panic you but this is an emergency situation if her poops are tiny and she isn’t peeing. If possible, see if you can call around for a more rabbit knowledgable vet, she needs help ASAP. But in the meantime make sure you get that critical care into her, and lots of it. Thinking of you, I’m sorry I know it is really stressful
 
If there is no food in there, that’s what causes bloat. I don’t know if your vet knows very much about rabbits.
Try and get 10ml/kg every 3 ish hours, or as much as you can get in.
 
I think my rabbit somehow got a diesease I’m pretty positive it isn’t Gi-stasis like how I originally thought. We have this big black thing in our house and before I noticed really anything strange she tried to jump on it then fell off it, it was really strange and that night she got sick she was in our house the whole day because it was raining and she lives in our back patio.
 
She could have a respiratory infection, from pasteurella. The strange breathing and stuff in her eyes would suggest that. Did the vet check her ears and listen to her breathing? She might need antibiotics.
 
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