icrewtoo
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Hi, I'm hoping someone here has had a similar situation and can shed some light...
Saturday morning my bunny (Buttercup, who is a male lionhead) was panting and kept laying down. I took him right to the vet. She took xrays, said she didn't see anything, gave him fluids and sent us home. Buttercup seemed to perk up and be normal again but by Saturday night he wasn't eating, drinking or pooping.
Yesterday morning (Sunday) he didn't eat, except a little hay, he didn't poop or drink water. By the afternoon he had a few clumpy, soft and shiny stools and then it turned to a little diarrhea. I heard some gurgling coming from his stomach. No emergency vet around us, so I syringe-fed him baby food and water. Still not eating on his own (except the hay) or drinking. Ignoring all his treats...
By the evening he ate a small piece of lettuce and started producing stools and they looked more normal, still slightly shiny. At bedtime he ate a few pellets of his normal food, but I still didn't see him drink.
This morning he left a pile of great looking poop in his litterbox and I could see he ate some pellets last night. He was also acting binky this morning and devoured his morning banana slice (hasn't done that in two days). I still haven't seen him drink, but he is acting totally normal.
The vet can't see him until tonight, but my question is this- is it normal for a rabbit to be acting strange like that on Sunday and then just turn around, or is he still not out of the woods? My fear is that I'll take him to the vet and put him through unneeded stress OR, I won't take him and he'll die suddenly because there is an underlying problem Buttercup isn't showing.
Any mature advice is much appreciated. Thank you!
Saturday morning my bunny (Buttercup, who is a male lionhead) was panting and kept laying down. I took him right to the vet. She took xrays, said she didn't see anything, gave him fluids and sent us home. Buttercup seemed to perk up and be normal again but by Saturday night he wasn't eating, drinking or pooping.
Yesterday morning (Sunday) he didn't eat, except a little hay, he didn't poop or drink water. By the afternoon he had a few clumpy, soft and shiny stools and then it turned to a little diarrhea. I heard some gurgling coming from his stomach. No emergency vet around us, so I syringe-fed him baby food and water. Still not eating on his own (except the hay) or drinking. Ignoring all his treats...
By the evening he ate a small piece of lettuce and started producing stools and they looked more normal, still slightly shiny. At bedtime he ate a few pellets of his normal food, but I still didn't see him drink.
This morning he left a pile of great looking poop in his litterbox and I could see he ate some pellets last night. He was also acting binky this morning and devoured his morning banana slice (hasn't done that in two days). I still haven't seen him drink, but he is acting totally normal.
The vet can't see him until tonight, but my question is this- is it normal for a rabbit to be acting strange like that on Sunday and then just turn around, or is he still not out of the woods? My fear is that I'll take him to the vet and put him through unneeded stress OR, I won't take him and he'll die suddenly because there is an underlying problem Buttercup isn't showing.
Any mature advice is much appreciated. Thank you!