Saffy
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My sweet little Mini Lop is now at the vets ... came home this evening and she just wasn't the same.
She had been losing weight and I took her to the vets who thought perhaps it was her front teeth that were overlylong, so she clipped them there and then.
Mookie has been eating ok and drinking but this morning seemed a bit off .. I put it down to cleaning out the cage and moving it to another position .. thought she was a bit put out with the change.
Tonight though, she was so unlike herself. Normally she is a devil to catch and is is forever binkying around and not wanting to be picked up and held. This time, she just sat there while I picked her up .. she seemed really light and floppy .. and as I put her back in to the run she just sat and shook and didn't move. Very very not like her ..
I took her to the vet who checked her all over. He said her stomach was very squidgy and she was very dehydrated as her fur wasn't fliking back into place when you pulled it away a little. (We had fed her water earlier from a bottle but she was too lethargic to drink)
He is keeping her in. Has started to hydrate her and put her on anti biotics and is putting her on metoclopramide.
Her body temp was low too.
Please .. prayers and thoughts .. I know, if anything, your thoughts and prayers can help.
ray:
He says if this doesnt help he will organise an x ray and sedate her and try and ease the gas from her stomach with a pipe as it could also be bloat.
She had been losing weight and I took her to the vets who thought perhaps it was her front teeth that were overlylong, so she clipped them there and then.
Mookie has been eating ok and drinking but this morning seemed a bit off .. I put it down to cleaning out the cage and moving it to another position .. thought she was a bit put out with the change.
Tonight though, she was so unlike herself. Normally she is a devil to catch and is is forever binkying around and not wanting to be picked up and held. This time, she just sat there while I picked her up .. she seemed really light and floppy .. and as I put her back in to the run she just sat and shook and didn't move. Very very not like her ..
I took her to the vet who checked her all over. He said her stomach was very squidgy and she was very dehydrated as her fur wasn't fliking back into place when you pulled it away a little. (We had fed her water earlier from a bottle but she was too lethargic to drink)
He is keeping her in. Has started to hydrate her and put her on anti biotics and is putting her on metoclopramide.
Her body temp was low too.
Please .. prayers and thoughts .. I know, if anything, your thoughts and prayers can help.
ray:
He says if this doesnt help he will organise an x ray and sedate her and try and ease the gas from her stomach with a pipe as it could also be bloat.