dreemariah
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Here's the whole story.
I had two buns, Castiel and Petunia, on valentines day Castiel was very very lethargic when I got up to go to work, he wouldn't move, wouldn't accept food, and had peed and pooped all over himself even though he had very good litter habits. Rushed him to the vet (bunny savvy, where I always took them) and within 5 mins of getting there he passed away.
This last Saturday (May 3) Petunia seemed mildly lethargic in the afternoon and I realized I hadn't seen her eat since I as gotten home from my errands that morning. My normal vet was closed so I looked up the closest one that was open that knew how to care for rabbits. It was a 30 min drive away so I scooped her up and rushed up there. She didn't seem as bad as Castiel was when I found him, but we lost him so quickly I had hoped i caught it quick enough to save her.
When we got there the vet felt her stomach, listened to her heart and breathing, then suggested X-rays to see if anything was blocking her digestion. It all came back clean, just a little gas bubble that was probably making her uncomfortable. She suggested a pain medication and some critical care food so I could hand feed her if she still wasn't eating. Stage assistant brought petunia back in a couple mins later and she looked SO MUCH WORSE. The only description I can think of is that was "sinking" she did not look good at all. I told the assistant and he said okay we will take another look at her and took her out of the room. The vet returned with her, placed her on the floor, petunia took one sad little hop and the vet said "no she's okay, we have her an injection that is kinda sedative so she's just gonna be quiet for a while." When she said that my gut told me she was wrong, and whatever that injection was, it made it worse. But she's the vet, not me. So I took her word for it, thinking I was just panicking after Castiel.
I paid the rediculious $300 bill and left. In the car petunias berating became labored and hiccup like, I turned around called the vet and told them something is wrong I'm coming back, and while on the phone with them she died in the car.
The vet says she doesn't know what happen or why she died so fast.
Later I looked at the instructions she had given me saying what they did and what I should do.
Before the X-ray they gave her 3 injections
Buprenex (pain meds)
Baytril (antibiotic)
And reglan (motility agent)
I did some internet research and found that the buprenex is great for cats and dogs but lethal to rabbits.
I've also seen that a side effect of buprenex is respitory distress, and with rabbits being so fragile, respitory distress can certainly take them quickly.
And I saw that the combination of buprenex and reglan can be a fatal combination.
I called her regular vet this morning to get their opinion but she wasn't in yet so I left a message and am now awaiting a call back.
I wanted to get a few opinions,
Have you ever had this situation? Has your rabbit had a lethal reaction to any of these medications?
What should I do about the emergency vet? Is there a way to report them so that this doesn't happen to someone else's bun? Should I take some kind of legal action? I don't know what to do, because at this point nothing is going to bring petunia back.
I had two buns, Castiel and Petunia, on valentines day Castiel was very very lethargic when I got up to go to work, he wouldn't move, wouldn't accept food, and had peed and pooped all over himself even though he had very good litter habits. Rushed him to the vet (bunny savvy, where I always took them) and within 5 mins of getting there he passed away.
This last Saturday (May 3) Petunia seemed mildly lethargic in the afternoon and I realized I hadn't seen her eat since I as gotten home from my errands that morning. My normal vet was closed so I looked up the closest one that was open that knew how to care for rabbits. It was a 30 min drive away so I scooped her up and rushed up there. She didn't seem as bad as Castiel was when I found him, but we lost him so quickly I had hoped i caught it quick enough to save her.
When we got there the vet felt her stomach, listened to her heart and breathing, then suggested X-rays to see if anything was blocking her digestion. It all came back clean, just a little gas bubble that was probably making her uncomfortable. She suggested a pain medication and some critical care food so I could hand feed her if she still wasn't eating. Stage assistant brought petunia back in a couple mins later and she looked SO MUCH WORSE. The only description I can think of is that was "sinking" she did not look good at all. I told the assistant and he said okay we will take another look at her and took her out of the room. The vet returned with her, placed her on the floor, petunia took one sad little hop and the vet said "no she's okay, we have her an injection that is kinda sedative so she's just gonna be quiet for a while." When she said that my gut told me she was wrong, and whatever that injection was, it made it worse. But she's the vet, not me. So I took her word for it, thinking I was just panicking after Castiel.
I paid the rediculious $300 bill and left. In the car petunias berating became labored and hiccup like, I turned around called the vet and told them something is wrong I'm coming back, and while on the phone with them she died in the car.
The vet says she doesn't know what happen or why she died so fast.
Later I looked at the instructions she had given me saying what they did and what I should do.
Before the X-ray they gave her 3 injections
Buprenex (pain meds)
Baytril (antibiotic)
And reglan (motility agent)
I did some internet research and found that the buprenex is great for cats and dogs but lethal to rabbits.
I've also seen that a side effect of buprenex is respitory distress, and with rabbits being so fragile, respitory distress can certainly take them quickly.
And I saw that the combination of buprenex and reglan can be a fatal combination.
I called her regular vet this morning to get their opinion but she wasn't in yet so I left a message and am now awaiting a call back.
I wanted to get a few opinions,
Have you ever had this situation? Has your rabbit had a lethal reaction to any of these medications?
What should I do about the emergency vet? Is there a way to report them so that this doesn't happen to someone else's bun? Should I take some kind of legal action? I don't know what to do, because at this point nothing is going to bring petunia back.
I was sort of in the same spot as you were, but without any medication. My bun broke her neck, she was so lethargic and such I thought she had eaten something that was poisonous around the house. When I took her to the vet he basically flicked her neck to show us that it was broken and she died. He said there was nothing they could do about it anyways, she was just going to die slowly, so I sort of understand why he did it, but I wouldn't have consented if he had asked and would have preferred to put her to sleep calmly ;-;
