MiniLopLover3
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On June 26th one of my rabbits stopped eating and things just got worse from there. Normally when someone stops eating, the first thing my family and I think is hairball since that is normally the problem. So, Monday afternoon I gave him a dose of pertromalt, or tried to. He wouldn't take it so I had to put it on his front legs and let him clean it off on his own. He didn't really clean much of it off and I ended up cleaning it off of him with a warm, damp paper towel. Monday night when I went up to feed my rabbits he still hadn't eaten anything but some of his hay. I decided to give him critcal care that night since that stuff generally works miracles and snaps a rabbit right back to normal. But it didn't do much for him. Every night until Friday I gave him critical care because he wasn't eating any food. From Sunday to Friday he'd only eaten maybe a tsp of food but he ate all of his hay each night but didn't touch his treat mix or papaya he got every night. He wouldn't drink water from his bottle but he would from a crock and he drank a pretty decent amount each night. From what I saw with his droppings, they were almost normal, just a bit smaller than normal.
Another thing I had noticed when I went to give him the pertromalt was something very sticky on his nose/upper lip area. I cleaned it up and checked his nose for a discharge that could indicate snuffles (hewasn't sneezing or doinganything else that would indicate that but I had to check)but his nose was clear aside from that strange sticky substance. It reminded me a lot of sap. When I noticed that, I quarantined him and checked the rabbits around him for the same symptoms but theywere allfine. I had to clean his nose off each time I went up to the rabbits because that sticky stuff kept coming back.
He was still really active, running around and coming to the cage door for attention but he favored the corner his food dish was in when he was resting, rather than stretching out like he usually did. The only day he wasn't really active was Friday July 1st, the day I made the call to have him put down. I think he was just too weak from not eating anything since the 26th.
As I said, we'd given him petromalt once, critical care every night since he wasn't eating anything and he also got a shot of penicillin Tuesday afternoon and nothing seemed to be helping him. That was why I decided to just have him put down; I couldn't watch him go through any of that anymore and we had exhausted all of our treatment options.
Our vet doesn't really know much about rabbits, she is really only a way to get medication for them, so we didn't call her but we did flip through our Lops as Pets book because it has helped a lot in the past but we still couldn't find something that matched his symptoms.
Dragonlived inside a 24x30 cage insideinside a building where I've had rabbits housed for years. He would have been three on August 2nd. He was a very happy, attention hogging, solid black Mini Lop with an ego too big to keep in his cage. It's just odd that a rabbit so young and so full of life could deteriorate so quickly. I've had Mini Lops for 15 years and have never seen this in any of my rabbits or in anyone elses rabbitry.
So, I guess after that extremelylong explaination, I just want to know if anyone has any idea as to what might have happened to my poor little Dragon.
Another thing I had noticed when I went to give him the pertromalt was something very sticky on his nose/upper lip area. I cleaned it up and checked his nose for a discharge that could indicate snuffles (hewasn't sneezing or doinganything else that would indicate that but I had to check)but his nose was clear aside from that strange sticky substance. It reminded me a lot of sap. When I noticed that, I quarantined him and checked the rabbits around him for the same symptoms but theywere allfine. I had to clean his nose off each time I went up to the rabbits because that sticky stuff kept coming back.
He was still really active, running around and coming to the cage door for attention but he favored the corner his food dish was in when he was resting, rather than stretching out like he usually did. The only day he wasn't really active was Friday July 1st, the day I made the call to have him put down. I think he was just too weak from not eating anything since the 26th.
As I said, we'd given him petromalt once, critical care every night since he wasn't eating anything and he also got a shot of penicillin Tuesday afternoon and nothing seemed to be helping him. That was why I decided to just have him put down; I couldn't watch him go through any of that anymore and we had exhausted all of our treatment options.
Our vet doesn't really know much about rabbits, she is really only a way to get medication for them, so we didn't call her but we did flip through our Lops as Pets book because it has helped a lot in the past but we still couldn't find something that matched his symptoms.
Dragonlived inside a 24x30 cage insideinside a building where I've had rabbits housed for years. He would have been three on August 2nd. He was a very happy, attention hogging, solid black Mini Lop with an ego too big to keep in his cage. It's just odd that a rabbit so young and so full of life could deteriorate so quickly. I've had Mini Lops for 15 years and have never seen this in any of my rabbits or in anyone elses rabbitry.
So, I guess after that extremelylong explaination, I just want to know if anyone has any idea as to what might have happened to my poor little Dragon.
