Linuxetee
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Hello, everyone.I have almost 4 years old lionhead female, she's unspayed andlives only indoors. Lucy's sick and I don't know what's wrong with her;( She's been strange this whole week, but started acting sick about two days ago. She seems to be tired and when I let her out of her cage she just goes to lay somewhere or just sits in one place. She seems to be really scared and extremely alert over every little noise. Also she don't want to lay in her usual places. I think she's uncomfortable with her lower abdomen area. About two weeks ago she was treated for UTI with Baytril. They only gave her 3 shots everyday of it and said that's enough, but as far as I know it has to be treated with antibiotics at least 7-10 days to make it go away. Am I right?
She had something like that about two years ago, all her symptoms were the same. At that time we did full blood test and abdomen X-rays, everything was normal, except for high blood sugar which was 10.85 mmol/L, so our vet said it's diabetes, but I know that's really rare in rabbits and that blood sugar can raise high because of fear and stress while they where taking her blood. They sugfested me to perform a laparotomy, but I refused, took her home and she got better after a month or so. She had occasional sickness, but she always got better on her own. At that time I thought that it was something wrong with her GI tract, but later I started noticing her peeing changes, like significantly small pee puddles, staying longer to urinate.
She was eating good until this morning, right now she's hunched up in her cage corner, made only 4 normal looking poos and peed a bit. During the night she drinked about 150 ml of her water and peed a lot. I took her to vet yesterday and described her symptoms, she was having diahrrea last morning, so our vet didn't want to prescribe her antibiotics. Gave her some pain relief (Ketoprofen), vitamins and something antiinflammatory. After trip to the vet she was scared but still eating and wanted all her usual treats and was eating like usual. This morning she wanted to go out of her cage even was running and making binkies, ate dandelion leaves, hay and some clover. WhenI put her in cage she just hunched up and didn't want to eat or do anything else, just pooed and peed a bit, after that she tried to pee in other corner but the hunched up and she's still there at the moment.
I'm going to take her to our vet again, maybe for those antibiotics in case it's UTI again. But I'm really worried about her. Could this be renal failure or it's more likely to be her UTI problem again, because she got only 3 shots and it didn't worked properly?
Thanks in advance.
She had something like that about two years ago, all her symptoms were the same. At that time we did full blood test and abdomen X-rays, everything was normal, except for high blood sugar which was 10.85 mmol/L, so our vet said it's diabetes, but I know that's really rare in rabbits and that blood sugar can raise high because of fear and stress while they where taking her blood. They sugfested me to perform a laparotomy, but I refused, took her home and she got better after a month or so. She had occasional sickness, but she always got better on her own. At that time I thought that it was something wrong with her GI tract, but later I started noticing her peeing changes, like significantly small pee puddles, staying longer to urinate.
She was eating good until this morning, right now she's hunched up in her cage corner, made only 4 normal looking poos and peed a bit. During the night she drinked about 150 ml of her water and peed a lot. I took her to vet yesterday and described her symptoms, she was having diahrrea last morning, so our vet didn't want to prescribe her antibiotics. Gave her some pain relief (Ketoprofen), vitamins and something antiinflammatory. After trip to the vet she was scared but still eating and wanted all her usual treats and was eating like usual. This morning she wanted to go out of her cage even was running and making binkies, ate dandelion leaves, hay and some clover. WhenI put her in cage she just hunched up and didn't want to eat or do anything else, just pooed and peed a bit, after that she tried to pee in other corner but the hunched up and she's still there at the moment.
I'm going to take her to our vet again, maybe for those antibiotics in case it's UTI again. But I'm really worried about her. Could this be renal failure or it's more likely to be her UTI problem again, because she got only 3 shots and it didn't worked properly?
Thanks in advance.
