valaria243
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Someone suggested I should make a new thread so here goes.
The first time this happened was Dec 20. She was out of her cage roaming and was fine. When I saw her later she was dragging her back legs. I called my vet the next morning and we took her in. They were examining her in between appoinments and when they checked her she seemed OK but had some weakness in the rear right leg. They gave us some Metacam to give her as Xrays showed some spinal arthritis (she is 9 years old) and they said they could see nothing else obvious wrong with her (no fractures etc). She spent the night at the vets and when I picked her up the next day she was a little weak with the right leg but was almost back to normal. She improved over the next couple of days and was back to normal hopping all around. Then on the evening of Jan 7, I saw her under the table again dragging the back legs. I gave it a couple of days to see if she would bounce back like before but she didn't. We took her to the vets and they were stumped. They offered to do blood work but due to her age and the randomness of the symptoms we declined (the vet agreed). We are basically just doing supportive care for her. They did give her some antibiotics for her right ear and a higher dose of Metacam. She does do periodic circles in her cage and I take her out to lay with me for a few hours in the evening so I can gently rub her legs. She wasn't really eating too well the first couple of days without me holding her for a while but she has started eating on her own.
The vet did say we should think about putting her down. However, she is with it mentally and tries to get around so I'm still a bit hesitant.
I should add that I tried to help her (by supporting) to hop a bit and she went fairly straight. I think her circling is more about weak leg issue. I have not seen any head tilt in her and it seems the thing that is tilting is her legs. I did ask the vet at the visit about head tilt because I had read a lot about it but she said that was not Fuzzy's problem.
Any one have any ideas? Should I just build a cart for my bunny?
One picture is of Fuzzy wrapped up and laying with me. The other is Fuzzy about 2 years ago (the bald spot on her nose she's had since a baby). Hopefully they come through!
The first time this happened was Dec 20. She was out of her cage roaming and was fine. When I saw her later she was dragging her back legs. I called my vet the next morning and we took her in. They were examining her in between appoinments and when they checked her she seemed OK but had some weakness in the rear right leg. They gave us some Metacam to give her as Xrays showed some spinal arthritis (she is 9 years old) and they said they could see nothing else obvious wrong with her (no fractures etc). She spent the night at the vets and when I picked her up the next day she was a little weak with the right leg but was almost back to normal. She improved over the next couple of days and was back to normal hopping all around. Then on the evening of Jan 7, I saw her under the table again dragging the back legs. I gave it a couple of days to see if she would bounce back like before but she didn't. We took her to the vets and they were stumped. They offered to do blood work but due to her age and the randomness of the symptoms we declined (the vet agreed). We are basically just doing supportive care for her. They did give her some antibiotics for her right ear and a higher dose of Metacam. She does do periodic circles in her cage and I take her out to lay with me for a few hours in the evening so I can gently rub her legs. She wasn't really eating too well the first couple of days without me holding her for a while but she has started eating on her own.
The vet did say we should think about putting her down. However, she is with it mentally and tries to get around so I'm still a bit hesitant.
I should add that I tried to help her (by supporting) to hop a bit and she went fairly straight. I think her circling is more about weak leg issue. I have not seen any head tilt in her and it seems the thing that is tilting is her legs. I did ask the vet at the visit about head tilt because I had read a lot about it but she said that was not Fuzzy's problem.
Any one have any ideas? Should I just build a cart for my bunny?
One picture is of Fuzzy wrapped up and laying with me. The other is Fuzzy about 2 years ago (the bald spot on her nose she's had since a baby). Hopefully they come through!
