FlopsnWills
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I apologize for this long post ahead of timebecause I know it's going to be lengthy. I'm not sure how many peoplealready know about my mini rex, charliebeing sick. He hasconfused me and stumped 3 different vets since the day I brought himhome. I got him from 2 teenagers giving him away for free in acardboard box and I quicklyneeded to save him, I just knew Ihad to. He's a GORGEOUS mini rex, one of the prettiest I've ever seenand they said he was about 2 years old. I've now had him since March,so that makes it 9 months, which is longer than I originally thought Iwould have him, due to his sickness. Within minutes of being at myhouse, he was sneezing, it was before I knew I should quarantine anynew rabbits that came into my house, because I already had William. Ikilled myself for weeks thinking I brought pasturella to my house andgave it to William and I now had 2 sick buns. He went to the first vet,who said she didn't bother doing pasturella tests because they werenever accurate and she tried him on baytril first, and then terramycin,neither of themdid anything. i then brought him to adifferent vet, who said as long as his sneezing doesn't get worse, toignore it (obviously, he doesn't see many rabbits) i thendecided to bring him to a different vet, who was known to do well withrabbits, and by this time his right eye was completely puss filled andhe could not even open it and he also had a minor head tilt. she saidshe wanted to do a pasturella test, AND a culture/sensitivity, so i hadthem all done. the pasturella test came back negative, and i was bothsurprised and relieved. the culture/sensitivity she had done said thebacteria that was causing the infections was kluyvera (which pam toldme was not very rare) and that baytril and another antibiotic that iforgot the name of, (it began with g)would help. so much forthe baytril because even after another month on it, he showed noimprovement. the G antibiotic however fixed his eye over some time (wethought he was going to lose all vision in that eye) oh and he also had3 injections of penicillin, which saved his life, there was one nightwhen he started his minor head tilt and his eye could not open, and iwas getting ready to say goodbye to him, but the 3rd shot of penicillinquickly turned him around.
so now, 6 months later (and $500 less in my bank account)ihave a fairly healthy rabbit, he shows no signs of being sick exceptfor sneeze attacks. he hardly ever has discharge coming out of his noseand when he does, its either clear or white. when he has his sneezeattacks though, they sound SO painful and i feel so horrible for him. iknow that if i let anyone else take him home in that cardboard box, hewould've been dead a long time ago, but im just so confused. hes beenon a total of 6 or 7 antibiotics and my vet tells me not to worry toomuchandthat she thinks he'll livea normallife with sneezing, and she does know a ton about rabbits, so i try tobelieve her. what do you guys think i should do? have i done all thereis to do? do you think he'll live a normal life? it breaks my heartwhen i see him sneeze 6, 7, 8 painful sneezes in a row, but besides forthat, he's a food-aholic, love-aholic, who my mother has become soattached to, if he went i think i would have to put her in the looneybin. im so sorry this is so long, i just need feedback.
*edit*- he also sheds ungodly amounts of fur, year around. i've now hadhim for months and he has not stopped shedding, what is this about?? ifi pet him for 5 minutes, his fur will be flying around my room like noother. im not too worried about stasis with him since he eats all thehay i can feed him, he's eating us out of our house!
so now, 6 months later (and $500 less in my bank account)ihave a fairly healthy rabbit, he shows no signs of being sick exceptfor sneeze attacks. he hardly ever has discharge coming out of his noseand when he does, its either clear or white. when he has his sneezeattacks though, they sound SO painful and i feel so horrible for him. iknow that if i let anyone else take him home in that cardboard box, hewould've been dead a long time ago, but im just so confused. hes beenon a total of 6 or 7 antibiotics and my vet tells me not to worry toomuchandthat she thinks he'll livea normallife with sneezing, and she does know a ton about rabbits, so i try tobelieve her. what do you guys think i should do? have i done all thereis to do? do you think he'll live a normal life? it breaks my heartwhen i see him sneeze 6, 7, 8 painful sneezes in a row, but besides forthat, he's a food-aholic, love-aholic, who my mother has become soattached to, if he went i think i would have to put her in the looneybin. im so sorry this is so long, i just need feedback.
*edit*- he also sheds ungodly amounts of fur, year around. i've now hadhim for months and he has not stopped shedding, what is this about?? ifi pet him for 5 minutes, his fur will be flying around my room like noother. im not too worried about stasis with him since he eats all thehay i can feed him, he's eating us out of our house!
