mouse_chalk
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I'm hoping posting will be the 'jinx' that she needs to start acting like herself again!
We've been away at Steve's mum's up north since Sunday. My mum and petsitter (trusted, qualified vet nurse) were looking after them- mum in the mornings, and petsitter in the evenings. Mum called me yesterday morning to say that Chalk was sleeping in her hay basket and hadn't come out for food. This isn't entirely unusual, since she tends to sleep a lot during the day and both her and Mouse don't immediately rush to their food like the others do. Mum said she took a treat of a pinch of oats, and mum had her run about abit to get her some exercise in case she had any gas or something. Apparently last night she was eating hay, so the petsitter didn't see the need to give her Infacol or anything. This morning, my mum said she still wasn't eating either veg or pellets, but was eating a fair amount of hay.
Me and Steve got back at about 8pm this evening, and we think the petsitter must have been round at about 7pm to feed them at the latest. Barely any of the veg in their cage has been touched. She's pooed some decent looking poops just now, but there are a few small-ish looking ones in the cage too. Mouse is more than pooing fine!!
We've given her 2 doses of Infacol (Simeticone) and about an hour ago we gave her a dose of metacam since she was sat all hunched up, not moving and looking very uncomfortable. She perked up after that and had a run about and ate some hay, but she still wont touch any veggies, pellets OR a treat of dried banana, which she usually goes crazy for.
She turned 2 in August, is spayed, lives with her sister Mouse who she adores, weighs about 2kgish, and we think she's a Polish/mix.
She is known as 'Miracle Bunny' around these parts because as some of you will remember, last May she had a ruptured abscess in her abdomen that caused peritonitis and she had to have an emergency op that nobody thought she would recover from. She was in stasis for a week before she turned the corner. She then had another operation a month later to remove an encapsulated abscess that formed in the surgery wound, and another operation last November to remove yet another encapsulated abscess from her tummy, all of which she made complete recoveries from. Of course the first thing I did was pick her up and prod her belly, much to her disgust (I do it very regularly anyway!!) and there are no obvious lump or bumps, but as you can imagine I always think the worst with little Chalkie, considering all that she's been through.
She's drank tonight, so I haven't syringed her fluids yet, although I might before we go to bed along with another dose of Infacol. Of course, vets tomorrow. It's weird because there was Snowy a couple of weeks ago, Dotty 2 weeks ago, and now Chalk. It might all be coincidental, but it seems odd that 3 of our bunnies have had 'episodes' so close together recently :?
We've been away at Steve's mum's up north since Sunday. My mum and petsitter (trusted, qualified vet nurse) were looking after them- mum in the mornings, and petsitter in the evenings. Mum called me yesterday morning to say that Chalk was sleeping in her hay basket and hadn't come out for food. This isn't entirely unusual, since she tends to sleep a lot during the day and both her and Mouse don't immediately rush to their food like the others do. Mum said she took a treat of a pinch of oats, and mum had her run about abit to get her some exercise in case she had any gas or something. Apparently last night she was eating hay, so the petsitter didn't see the need to give her Infacol or anything. This morning, my mum said she still wasn't eating either veg or pellets, but was eating a fair amount of hay.
Me and Steve got back at about 8pm this evening, and we think the petsitter must have been round at about 7pm to feed them at the latest. Barely any of the veg in their cage has been touched. She's pooed some decent looking poops just now, but there are a few small-ish looking ones in the cage too. Mouse is more than pooing fine!!
We've given her 2 doses of Infacol (Simeticone) and about an hour ago we gave her a dose of metacam since she was sat all hunched up, not moving and looking very uncomfortable. She perked up after that and had a run about and ate some hay, but she still wont touch any veggies, pellets OR a treat of dried banana, which she usually goes crazy for.
She turned 2 in August, is spayed, lives with her sister Mouse who she adores, weighs about 2kgish, and we think she's a Polish/mix.
She is known as 'Miracle Bunny' around these parts because as some of you will remember, last May she had a ruptured abscess in her abdomen that caused peritonitis and she had to have an emergency op that nobody thought she would recover from. She was in stasis for a week before she turned the corner. She then had another operation a month later to remove an encapsulated abscess that formed in the surgery wound, and another operation last November to remove yet another encapsulated abscess from her tummy, all of which she made complete recoveries from. Of course the first thing I did was pick her up and prod her belly, much to her disgust (I do it very regularly anyway!!) and there are no obvious lump or bumps, but as you can imagine I always think the worst with little Chalkie, considering all that she's been through.
She's drank tonight, so I haven't syringed her fluids yet, although I might before we go to bed along with another dose of Infacol. Of course, vets tomorrow. It's weird because there was Snowy a couple of weeks ago, Dotty 2 weeks ago, and now Chalk. It might all be coincidental, but it seems odd that 3 of our bunnies have had 'episodes' so close together recently :?
