My rabbit was spayed the day before yesterday, she was given to me awake but did not move, the next day she ate some vegetables, a small piece of apple and lettuce in small quantities, in the morning she made two poops with mucus, a few hours later she made a lot of white and orange mucus. The vet is giving him simethicone, metoclopramide, meloxicam and sulfa antibiotic. He did not want to eat, should I give him a syringe?
Rabbit post spayed enteritris mucoid?
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If you haven't been syringe feeding regularly every 4-6 hours, I would start that immediately. It's not good for a rabbit to eat little to no food for more than 12-24 hours, or it becomes an emergency. If you feed your rabbit a hay based food pellet, that can be soaked in some warm water and made into a mush, then using some sort of large tip feeding syringe (so it doesn't clog) to feed with, or other method to carefully and slowly squirt into the side of the mouth, giving your rabbit time to chew and swallow each mouthful to minimize the risk of aspiration occurring.
(Syringe feeding info in link)
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Medicating_your_rabbit
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Veterinary_emergencies
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Gastrointestinal_stasis
Do you know what medications were given to your rabbit before or right after the surgery. Were any other antibiotics given, orally or injected, and which ones? I'm concerned with your description of there being a lot of white mucous in the poop. Mucoid enteritis can develop into an even more serious enteric illness, and hopefully that hasn't happened.
(Syringe feeding info in link)
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Medicating_your_rabbit
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Veterinary_emergencies
https://wabbitwiki.com/wiki/Gastrointestinal_stasis
Do you know what medications were given to your rabbit before or right after the surgery. Were any other antibiotics given, orally or injected, and which ones? I'm concerned with your description of there being a lot of white mucous in the poop. Mucoid enteritis can develop into an even more serious enteric illness, and hopefully that hasn't happened.
Unfortunately in my country I cannot find hay based pellets, only alfalfa based pellets with corn, so I have been giving him apple in a syringe, regarding the medications that were used before the surgery I do not know.
