Little Bay Poo
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We took Ronnie in for a follow up appointment at the vets yesterday. Asked a lot of questions and had a few tests run...hopefully I can remember it all for this post.
We had a urine analysis done because I noticed reddish pee stains on the carpet in Ronnie's cage. These came back negative for blood, and the vet assured us that rabbits can have tinted urine especially if they are on medications or eating new things. She explained that blood in urine would look like a bullseye, with a big red stain in the middle dissipating out towards the ends. She also said blood in urine might come out in little clots. We definitely didn't see that. Ronnie's was just reddish brown stains, all uniform in color with no clots. So his pee is fine, and he's been peeing yellow ever since that one incident.
Ronnie had been off the Pen G shots for 3 days by the time we took him for the follow up appointment, so his tilt was really bad and he was having rolling episodes. We had to roll up some hand towels and squish him in between those in his carrier so he couldn't roll over. The vet said he has to be off Pen G for 3 days after his 7 days worth of shots...that's just the way the prescription works. I asked her why some people do Pen G shots every other day and we are doing on 7 off 3. She got really confused when I asked this and said the only prescription she had ever heard of was on for 7 days and off for 3.
The vet prescribed us Baytril to give .4 cc twice a day every day to Ronnie so that when he comes off the Pen G for 3 days he will still have the Baytril in his system and hopefully not relapse so bad. I told her I heard that Baytril was totally ineffective and I think she got offended! She said that she has seen results with Baytril, so I said okay and we agreed to that prescription.
I also asked the vet about using Zithromax in combination with Pen G, and she said they'd have to special order Zithromax and she doesn't really see the use in it. She said if the Baytril doesn't work well with Ronnie she doesn't mind ordering the Zithromax in the future...but she wanted to try the Baytril + Pen G combo first.
I asked if we should expect Billy to get head tilt in the future since he's been exposed to Ronnie and the vet explained that it doesn't mean Billy will definitely get it. She said that pretty much all rabbits are exposed to this stuff but only some come down with head tilt. She said that some rabbits have antibodies against it so they never come down with tilt.
Ronnie's weight went down very slightly so we were instructed to feed more Critical Care. He's still not too interested in pellets but will gobble down hay, oats, and water. Other than that he checked out fine.
After Ronnie got his Pen G shot and Meclizine for the day he was much improved. He hasn't had any rolling episodes since and still keeps his balance well. Ronnie tilts to so many different degrees within a 1 minute span of time depending on what he's doing or looking at so I can't tell if his head is any better or not. I think it's about the same though, and when he gets really stressed out before meds he tilts to 9 o'clock.
That's all I can think of for now. If I remember anything important I'll come back to add it later.
Robin
We had a urine analysis done because I noticed reddish pee stains on the carpet in Ronnie's cage. These came back negative for blood, and the vet assured us that rabbits can have tinted urine especially if they are on medications or eating new things. She explained that blood in urine would look like a bullseye, with a big red stain in the middle dissipating out towards the ends. She also said blood in urine might come out in little clots. We definitely didn't see that. Ronnie's was just reddish brown stains, all uniform in color with no clots. So his pee is fine, and he's been peeing yellow ever since that one incident.
Ronnie had been off the Pen G shots for 3 days by the time we took him for the follow up appointment, so his tilt was really bad and he was having rolling episodes. We had to roll up some hand towels and squish him in between those in his carrier so he couldn't roll over. The vet said he has to be off Pen G for 3 days after his 7 days worth of shots...that's just the way the prescription works. I asked her why some people do Pen G shots every other day and we are doing on 7 off 3. She got really confused when I asked this and said the only prescription she had ever heard of was on for 7 days and off for 3.
The vet prescribed us Baytril to give .4 cc twice a day every day to Ronnie so that when he comes off the Pen G for 3 days he will still have the Baytril in his system and hopefully not relapse so bad. I told her I heard that Baytril was totally ineffective and I think she got offended! She said that she has seen results with Baytril, so I said okay and we agreed to that prescription.
I also asked the vet about using Zithromax in combination with Pen G, and she said they'd have to special order Zithromax and she doesn't really see the use in it. She said if the Baytril doesn't work well with Ronnie she doesn't mind ordering the Zithromax in the future...but she wanted to try the Baytril + Pen G combo first.
I asked if we should expect Billy to get head tilt in the future since he's been exposed to Ronnie and the vet explained that it doesn't mean Billy will definitely get it. She said that pretty much all rabbits are exposed to this stuff but only some come down with head tilt. She said that some rabbits have antibodies against it so they never come down with tilt.
Ronnie's weight went down very slightly so we were instructed to feed more Critical Care. He's still not too interested in pellets but will gobble down hay, oats, and water. Other than that he checked out fine.
After Ronnie got his Pen G shot and Meclizine for the day he was much improved. He hasn't had any rolling episodes since and still keeps his balance well. Ronnie tilts to so many different degrees within a 1 minute span of time depending on what he's doing or looking at so I can't tell if his head is any better or not. I think it's about the same though, and when he gets really stressed out before meds he tilts to 9 o'clock.
That's all I can think of for now. If I remember anything important I'll come back to add it later.
Robin
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