Amy27
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I wanted to get some opinions on what you guys think this is and if I am handling it correctly.
Over the summer Little Bunny stopped eating for a week after getting a few doses of Zithromax. The Zitromax was stopped but it still took her a long time to start eating agian. I was giving her sub q fluids and feeding critical care. The vet mentioned at that time that we were getting into a dangerous time period of a rabbit not eating and that her GI tract may never fully recover.
Since then I have noticed sometimes she has really runny poop. But it is all at one time. Like she will go the bathroom and have like 3-4 runny poop stops and it will be on her. But all her other poops are fine. She will go a month or so and then it will happen again. I don't know if this has anything to do with it but her runny poops are never in her litter box. It always just happens where she is sitting, which is usually my off white carpet.
Anyway, I assumed this may just be the long term effects of the GI stasis she had in the summer and that the vet was correct that her GI tract did not go back to normal. She acts fine, eating fine, and all other poops are normal for a long period of time (a month or so).
It happened again today and now I am just trying to figure out if it is the long term effect of the GI stasis or if may be it could be something else. I never really treat it because it is over in like the 5 minutes. It is just one episode of 3-4 poops that are runny.
I also wondered if it could be her cecals because all the other poops are normal immediately after the runny ones. I am not sure how to tell which one it is. I also wondered if it was cecals because she is going on the floor and not in her litter box. Which I think her cecals she doesn't normally go in the litter box because I see her eating them outside her litter box.
I really don't want to take her to the vet since it only happens once every 4-6 weeks. I will mention it at her yearly check up in June. Do you think this is something I should get checked out now? Is it really possible for a rabbit to have long term GI issues after not eating for a week? I felt at the time the vet said that, she was trying to push me towards hospitalizing her and may be that is why she said it.
I am just second guessing myself on waiting for her yearly appointment and that it really is a from her GI tract being darned from the stasis. If there is a possibility that it could be something else, I don't want to wait to take her to the vet. But she seems fine in every area and has never had runny poop until she got the GI stasis.
Thanks for any advice or opinions you can offer.
ETA: Thinking about this. I think I over estimated the amount of times this has happened. Her GI stasis issue was in June or July and this has happend 4, 5 times max since then so it isn't really every 4-6 weeks.
Over the summer Little Bunny stopped eating for a week after getting a few doses of Zithromax. The Zitromax was stopped but it still took her a long time to start eating agian. I was giving her sub q fluids and feeding critical care. The vet mentioned at that time that we were getting into a dangerous time period of a rabbit not eating and that her GI tract may never fully recover.
Since then I have noticed sometimes she has really runny poop. But it is all at one time. Like she will go the bathroom and have like 3-4 runny poop stops and it will be on her. But all her other poops are fine. She will go a month or so and then it will happen again. I don't know if this has anything to do with it but her runny poops are never in her litter box. It always just happens where she is sitting, which is usually my off white carpet.
Anyway, I assumed this may just be the long term effects of the GI stasis she had in the summer and that the vet was correct that her GI tract did not go back to normal. She acts fine, eating fine, and all other poops are normal for a long period of time (a month or so).
It happened again today and now I am just trying to figure out if it is the long term effect of the GI stasis or if may be it could be something else. I never really treat it because it is over in like the 5 minutes. It is just one episode of 3-4 poops that are runny.
I also wondered if it could be her cecals because all the other poops are normal immediately after the runny ones. I am not sure how to tell which one it is. I also wondered if it was cecals because she is going on the floor and not in her litter box. Which I think her cecals she doesn't normally go in the litter box because I see her eating them outside her litter box.
I really don't want to take her to the vet since it only happens once every 4-6 weeks. I will mention it at her yearly check up in June. Do you think this is something I should get checked out now? Is it really possible for a rabbit to have long term GI issues after not eating for a week? I felt at the time the vet said that, she was trying to push me towards hospitalizing her and may be that is why she said it.
I am just second guessing myself on waiting for her yearly appointment and that it really is a from her GI tract being darned from the stasis. If there is a possibility that it could be something else, I don't want to wait to take her to the vet. But she seems fine in every area and has never had runny poop until she got the GI stasis.
Thanks for any advice or opinions you can offer.
ETA: Thinking about this. I think I over estimated the amount of times this has happened. Her GI stasis issue was in June or July and this has happend 4, 5 times max since then so it isn't really every 4-6 weeks.
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