Smitten

[angieang21]

I know I'm fairly new here - but I've been reading about Smitten - and I truly hope she is OK.

Thinking lots of good thoughts for you and your fur crew. ink iris:

 

[Maureen Las]

Vet re-check sounds like it went well..it's good that she gained half a lbs.

 

[pla725]

When they weighed Smit during the exam at Penn she was 8 lbs. She lost a lb.

 

[pla725]

I'mvery worriedby what I see in the picture. I already left a message and email for Dr. Briscoe at Penn.

 

[Maureen Las]

Wow that's pretty shocking!!
let us know what is going on!!
I assume that she urinated blood!!

 

[Pipp]

It doesn't really look like blood to me, more like red-pigmented urine, although I haven't physically seen blood in urine. Blood would be sticky and have clot textures, though, and that doesn't look like it fits the bill, although I can't see it that well. If you were to dip a pencil or somethiing in it, would there be sticky bits? Or is it all pretty much uniform liquid?

When you wiped it up (if you did), was it streaky?

Hope she's okay.



sas ray:

 

[Jenk]

I'm not a rabbit "amateur expert" just yet (having owned buns for just 11 months now). But I think that the urine in the photo looks normal. (My girls' urine ranges in color from light-yellow to deep rust. As Pipp mentioned, things are likely more normal than not if it has the normal viscosity of urine.)

What throws me more is the consistency of Smitten's poops. In the photos of her sitting on a towel, they look clumped and mushy. (Are those cecals that she possibly smooshed down a bit?) Then in the urine-focused photo, her poops range in size and some are misshapen. (I know about misshapen poops; my Zoe has them pretty much all the time.)

I hope that the tests reveal an effective treatment for Smitten.

Jenk

 

[Maureen Las]

I'm not used to seeing that dark acolor in urine in rabbits I have seen the darker orangey rust color .In the photo it looks really bright red to me ..but I surehope that it is normalpigment.

 

[pla725]

She left another rusty urine puddle again this morning.

I saw the poop on the towel pic. I didn't see the poop until I viewed the pic. I changed the towel afterwards. She was probably having an off night. She looked very uncomfortable.

I sent the pic to the vet anyway.

 

[Maureen Las]

if it is a dark orangey rust color could very well be plant pigments

be sure and let us know what the vet says

 

[pla725]

I know she has bladder/kidney issues going on so it may be blood in there that may not be clearly seen. Or it could be just from eating her veggies. Anyway I going to err on the side of caution and call the vet again.

 

[Jenk]

pla725 wrote:

She left another rusty urine puddle again this morning.

I saw the poop on the towel pic. I didn't see the poop until I viewed the pic. I changed the towel afterwards. She was probably having an off night. She looked very uncomfortable.

I sent the pic to the vet anyway.

Please send your vet the other urine-based photo, as well. Not only to verify the normality (or abnormality) of the urine's appearance, but also to verify the abnormality of Smitten's poop shape/size. (I notice that many of the poops in that photo are thin and oblong, rather than round. And a few are abnormally tiny.)

Please keep us posted. :hug:

 

[pla725]

I noticed that too. I think her system is out of whack. I also noticed some small poop too. I did call the vet.

 

[pla725]

Smit's urine is red orange. No response from the vet. She is still eating and moving around. I'm keeping a close eye on her as is Sawyer.

 

[Maureen Las]

Have you seen the dark red-orangish pee from her before or is this a first time ?

 

[pla725]

Only after she ate a carrot. I haven't given her a carrot in over a week. She still has reddish orange pee. I may just take to a vet tomorrow. Still no word from Penn.

 

[Maureen Las]

How is she behaving?

 

[pla725]

She is eating and moving around.

Here is a more recent picture:

 

[pla725]

She seems to favor the same spot. She actually has two spots that she will leave pee on. She does use the litter box. The misshaped poo is a concern as well.

 

[Maureen Las]

http://www.rabbitsonline.net/view_topic.php?id=30244&forum_id=17
There is an older RO thread about red urine that turned out to be OK

I honestly probably can not interpret those pics ..

it doesn't look normal to me but last night several others thought it did so....