Buns16rouge
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Hey guys wow what a long three weeks. I owned three bunnies all bonded together. They lived outside in a hutch with a dog pen to run around in all year around. Again hutch is well insulated. One day when I came home one of my buns,the youngest out of the three had a black scab on the nose and was scratching it constantly . At the time we put a little dab of polysporn not knowing buns should not really use that because of the antibiotics in it, we only put it once and the numbing stuff so she stoped scratching. She was hopping eating and everything so we assumed it was from a bug bite. The next day I went to work but I left something at my house so at 12:00 I went back home. I checked on them and the bun with the scab was sitting in a corner eyes squinting and was not eatting drinking or moving much. I put her in the carrier went back to work booked an emerg vet visit for 3:00. I went to the vet and by this time the buns face was swollen abit. The vet initially thought it was a spider bite and gave penicillin pain shot/anti inflams and extreme super mango mix for six buns because she was not eating. That same night she began wheezing and would not eat at all even her favourite foods. The black started spreading across he face. The next day her face was even more swollen and we took her to the vet again. Her weight dropped again and her breathing was worse and the vet said her chest was swollen. They gave her fluids and novel trimal and metacam. They thought she got an infection and it was spreading (the puss). (Puss in rabbits acts like cancer therefore it is very difficult to stop) We took her home that night and she was very ill face three times the normal size, would not eat or drink anything. I tried syringe feeding her but I was lucky if I got even a small squirt in her. I gave the last pain meds before bed and she relaxed after that. The next morning she died due to confutative heart failed and multi organ failure. (There was blood that's all I'm going to say) That same day my other bun Alice I saw had a tiny back dot on her nose and we decided to watch it over night. Praying it was nothing like what my other bun had. The next day the spot got a bit bigger. I rushed that morning with my other two buns to another emergency vet where they immediately started both buns on metronidazole. We started to question if this was not just bacterial but viral and treated for pasterella. The only other viral disease to explain this was found viral and common in Britten and only Britain had a cure. The vet could not figure it out what caused this and why it was spreading so quickly for my other bun to die in three days. The next day we went back to our original vet with a different lady for my one bun with the black spot that was still getting a bit bigger on the nose. She wanted to keep her on that medication and ran blood tests, a skin sample to look under the microscope, lab rush on a biopsy etc. She put her on novo-trimal,metronidazole and left her on the metacam. My bun was eating but not drinking which was concerning.The blood test showed up white cell count and inflammation everywhere. It took a few days but she slowly got better it was definitely touch and go. The vet still does not know the cause. Yet it was bacterial, my personal opinion of what might have caused it was Mosquitos because they were bad this time of year. I hope this information can help someone else if they have a weird thing like this. I love to answer any questions to help Thankyou for your guys time. My only two buns now are happy again and the scab is slowly starting to come off her nose.
