Jordan
Active Member
The last couple days I noticed that my bunny, Gypsy, hadn't been eating as much as usual. She was on antibiotics and metacam for a digestive upset she had that caused a lot of gas. When I woke up this morning I noticed that she hadn't eaten anything at all throughout the night. I took her to the vet right away this morning. She said that her bloating had gone down significantly and that I could stop giving her the medicine for it and gave me some Critical Care to feed to her.
Now that I'm home and have actually tried to feed her the Critical Care I am having some problems. I mixed it up and tried to give it to her on a plate, like I have done with all of my rabbits who needed it in the past, but she didn't want anything to do with it. So I tried to syringe feed it to her, for some reason she seems to be more receptive to things in a syringe lol, but that didn't work either. She ran and hid. Once I caught her I wrapped her up in a towel and very, very, slowly injected some of it in her mouth. That seemed to work okay except that she wouldn't chew or swallow while I was holding her, I'd have to put her down and wait for her to swallow then pick her back up and try again. I got about 10ccs in her but the whole ordeal was so stressful for her. I hate to do that to her knowing how scared she is, but I don't know what else I can do to get her to eat...
Is there anything that I could add to it to make it a little more appealing to her? Maybe some kind of fruit juice with no sugar? The antibiotic I was giving her was cherry flavored and she would do tricks for that stuff haha. Any ideas?
Now that I'm home and have actually tried to feed her the Critical Care I am having some problems. I mixed it up and tried to give it to her on a plate, like I have done with all of my rabbits who needed it in the past, but she didn't want anything to do with it. So I tried to syringe feed it to her, for some reason she seems to be more receptive to things in a syringe lol, but that didn't work either. She ran and hid. Once I caught her I wrapped her up in a towel and very, very, slowly injected some of it in her mouth. That seemed to work okay except that she wouldn't chew or swallow while I was holding her, I'd have to put her down and wait for her to swallow then pick her back up and try again. I got about 10ccs in her but the whole ordeal was so stressful for her. I hate to do that to her knowing how scared she is, but I don't know what else I can do to get her to eat...
Is there anything that I could add to it to make it a little more appealing to her? Maybe some kind of fruit juice with no sugar? The antibiotic I was giving her was cherry flavored and she would do tricks for that stuff haha. Any ideas?