Background: We adopted a beautiful rabbit from a local-ish rescue to bond to our lonely male rabbit. They bonded SO well, instant love, amazing. Unfortunately within the first 24 hours we realized she was snuffling a lot and trying to clear her nose of this white gunk. Gahhhh. We took her to the vets, thinking it was a grass seed or something stuck up her nose. After rhinoscopy and CT scan and swab it turned out to be a bacterial infection of some kind.
As of today, it has now been exactly 138 days of rabbit sniffling, different antibiotics, multiple daily nebulizing, mucolytics, and vet visits.
She hasn’t kicked it yet but is soooo much better than she was. We assumed it wasn’t contagious, as did the vet. However, a few months ago our other rabbit finally caught it and he has it pretty bad, so he is now on the same stuff she is prescribed by the vet.
The swab test result was: Enterobacter ludwigii
It is the worst sticky white hard gunk that is forming in their nose and reallllly difficult for them to clear. They’re so frustrated.
Anyone had experience with this?
Is it meant to have taken this long to clear it?
As of today, it has now been exactly 138 days of rabbit sniffling, different antibiotics, multiple daily nebulizing, mucolytics, and vet visits.
She hasn’t kicked it yet but is soooo much better than she was. We assumed it wasn’t contagious, as did the vet. However, a few months ago our other rabbit finally caught it and he has it pretty bad, so he is now on the same stuff she is prescribed by the vet.
The swab test result was: Enterobacter ludwigii
It is the worst sticky white hard gunk that is forming in their nose and reallllly difficult for them to clear. They’re so frustrated.
Anyone had experience with this?
Is it meant to have taken this long to clear it?