RunRabbitRun
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I took Cleo to the vet this morning.He thought her tail sustained an injury as opposed to being chewed on and was most likely dead. He took her into the back to trim the fur and when he brought her out told me the bad news. I had assumed she may need her tail amputated, worst case scenario.
She had a seizure when he started the clippers. The odd behavior I witnessed in her cage the other day had been a seizure. I believe she hurt her tail during a seizure. I am wondering now if she has been having one every time I find fresh blood in her cage. On top of that, he said the area near her rectum looks abnormal, it could be a cancerous mass. He said she may have a bacterial infection which may cause the seizures, but it could also be a mass on her brain. He suggested 1. taking her to University of Pennsylvania for further testing but he said that may run between $2000 - $3000, 2. antibiotics, or 3. euthanasia.
This is my heart bunny and I am absolutely devastated. Never did I think she had these problems. Since she is still drinking, eating all her food, enjoying her free time romping around the basement & loving hay & yogurt drops, we opted for the antibiotics. She gets half a Baytril tablet twice a day until they are gone. She was a trooper as I got her to swallow one, never once trying to bite me. I guess she is on bunny hospice, either the cancer (if that's what it is) will catch up with her or she will have a seizure she won't recover from.
What a way for the year to end, I lost two buns not long ago, one in a very tragic accident.
She had a seizure when he started the clippers. The odd behavior I witnessed in her cage the other day had been a seizure. I believe she hurt her tail during a seizure. I am wondering now if she has been having one every time I find fresh blood in her cage. On top of that, he said the area near her rectum looks abnormal, it could be a cancerous mass. He said she may have a bacterial infection which may cause the seizures, but it could also be a mass on her brain. He suggested 1. taking her to University of Pennsylvania for further testing but he said that may run between $2000 - $3000, 2. antibiotics, or 3. euthanasia.
This is my heart bunny and I am absolutely devastated. Never did I think she had these problems. Since she is still drinking, eating all her food, enjoying her free time romping around the basement & loving hay & yogurt drops, we opted for the antibiotics. She gets half a Baytril tablet twice a day until they are gone. She was a trooper as I got her to swallow one, never once trying to bite me. I guess she is on bunny hospice, either the cancer (if that's what it is) will catch up with her or she will have a seizure she won't recover from.
What a way for the year to end, I lost two buns not long ago, one in a very tragic accident.
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