Ggg Ridd
Member
Hi all,
We have a 6 year old female. We recently adopted a 6 year old male. Both are fixed. They mostly ignore each other but sometimes the new bun chases. He's not very aggressive but our female is very skittish. They're separate at night and when nobody is home by a metal fence that splits our apartment in half in a hallway.
On the 2nd night after adoption, our old bun, the female, stopped eating. She didn't eat pellets (very unusual), treats, she even ignored a piece of banana. I have seen her drink a little water this morning. She hasn't taken a single bit of anything on her own for 36 hours so far. Yesterday morning, around the 12 hour mark of no eating, we took her to our rabbit vet.
The vet said her eyes, ears, and teeth look healthy. Her stomach is empty, she has few poops on the way. She said it could be stress from the new bun but she doesn't know. We were sent home with a Meloxicam and Metroclopramide and Oxbow critical care. The vet said to give her critical care 4x/day and things should improve in a couple days. We've been doing that. I would say nothing has gotten better or worse in the 24 hours since.
The two buns have stayed separated since she stopped eating and one thing we've noticed is our female, who isn't eating, has started peeing all over her room in different areas. She was litter box trained and now she's peeing everywhere and has no interest in eating.
It's been 24 hours since we've been to the vet. She still hasn't eaten anything on her own. I guess I'm here wondering if there's anything else I should be looking out for or paying attention to? Her urine seems normal in color and consistency. Her energy levels are a bit low but she doesn't appear to be in pain. She can still hop around when she wants to. Should we take her back to the vet? Should we get bloodwork or an xray? How long until she should be eating *something* on her own?
We have a 6 year old female. We recently adopted a 6 year old male. Both are fixed. They mostly ignore each other but sometimes the new bun chases. He's not very aggressive but our female is very skittish. They're separate at night and when nobody is home by a metal fence that splits our apartment in half in a hallway.
On the 2nd night after adoption, our old bun, the female, stopped eating. She didn't eat pellets (very unusual), treats, she even ignored a piece of banana. I have seen her drink a little water this morning. She hasn't taken a single bit of anything on her own for 36 hours so far. Yesterday morning, around the 12 hour mark of no eating, we took her to our rabbit vet.
The vet said her eyes, ears, and teeth look healthy. Her stomach is empty, she has few poops on the way. She said it could be stress from the new bun but she doesn't know. We were sent home with a Meloxicam and Metroclopramide and Oxbow critical care. The vet said to give her critical care 4x/day and things should improve in a couple days. We've been doing that. I would say nothing has gotten better or worse in the 24 hours since.
The two buns have stayed separated since she stopped eating and one thing we've noticed is our female, who isn't eating, has started peeing all over her room in different areas. She was litter box trained and now she's peeing everywhere and has no interest in eating.
It's been 24 hours since we've been to the vet. She still hasn't eaten anything on her own. I guess I'm here wondering if there's anything else I should be looking out for or paying attention to? Her urine seems normal in color and consistency. Her energy levels are a bit low but she doesn't appear to be in pain. She can still hop around when she wants to. Should we take her back to the vet? Should we get bloodwork or an xray? How long until she should be eating *something* on her own?