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Forum HOUSE RABBIT Q & A Loss of much beloved bunny.

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    • JennyH
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         Hi I lost my giant conti on Monday he was 2, 1/2 yr. He stopped eating on sat evening after getting a fright from a dog, we took him to the vets early sun morning as he hadn’t eaten anything. The vets gave him an a inflammatory injection and said he had a high temp and a virus, we were given some powdered food we could syringe food for him. He ate some of it on Sunday, and seemed a little Perkier but still very weak with a high temperature. We took him back to the vets early Monday morning as he still wouldn’t eat and hadn’t passed an faeces only urine. They gave him another injection and sent us home, but he still wouldn’t eat, and his nose was snotty, and he had swelling under his jaw, and was very disorientated, and he sadly passed away that afternoon. He is up to date on all his vaccine VhD and mixy as well as regularly wormed. Has anyone had something similar happen, we are still distraught and I’m not convinced the vets really did all they could for him. Any ideas what sort of virus it was or if that’s happened to them. Thanks 


      • Sarita
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          I’m so sorry to hear your loss – it’s just impossible to know what the virus was if it was that – the only way to possibly know is to have the vet do a necropsy and sometimes that’s just not definitive either.


        • Valkyrie
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            I am so sorry for your loss. I know how tough it is to lose beloved buns sooner than you expected. @}}======

            I wouldn’t jump on the vet too much. Rabbits are so delicate that any kind of vet care is tricky. We also have to remember that the idea of rabbits as house pets who need vet care is a relatively new concept. We sometimes forget that our views of bunnies is not the dominant view – most people look at rabbits as livestock rather than a house pet. Because of this, there is still a lot of research and learning needed in the field of veterinary medicine; and this takes time. Until recently, vets only looked at rabbits in cases of animal testing or epidemics in a herd. Their anatomy and biology is so different than other house pets that every test and procedure has to be redeveloped – even the aenesthsia. Vet medicine as a whole has improved dramatically in the last couple of decades – 7 years ago my vet said not to bring my two senior dogs back in for vacinations because they were old and the shots could kill them. Now they have special vaccinations for seniors! If a dog or cat got cancer in the early 90s, it was just put down. Now they operate, treat and hope for the best, although the success rate is low. My grandfather used to tell me that with rabbits and canaries, you sneeze and they are dead. This meant that they are such delicate creatures that sometimes they just get sick or die when there is really no reason. We are still discovering all the different illnesses they can get and how to treat them. And their little hearts are so delicate that they can easily be scared or stressed to death. Trips to the vet can be very stressful and frightening to rabbits.

            I imagine that this holds true for other regions as well, but in my area you also have to think of the lineage of most rabbits. Yes, there is a few show breeders in the area asking $100 per rabbit, but most rabbits in pet stores or being bred are not specifically house pets. They are mostly mixed breed mongrels that can be used for meat or pets. There is no good family history and no idea of the longevity or medical history of the past generations. And the breeders that have popped up in recent years saying “pet only homes” are still using that stock. It takes a lifetime of dedication to change this stock into long living house pets with good genetic histories. Growing up, all of my rabbits were from meat stock, even the dwarf and mini rex crosses. The oldest one lived to be 7, most only lived to 4, and I spoiled them rotten and took great care of them. I had a gorgeous mini rex who was in perfect health and then one day I walked into the room and he was dead. He was only 2 and to this day, 7 years later, I still don’t know what happened.

            PS I hope this doesn’t count as discussing intentional breeding or breeding for meat. :S I see it more as history.


          • Sarita
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              Valkyrie makes some excellent points about vets and rabbit medicine! It is definitely evolving as many rabbits are now pets as opposed to “livestock” and Valyrie, it’s perfectly fine what you are saying.

              I have to say that sometimes even with the most rabbit experienced vets, they just cannot save them all and I think as well (it sounds like you may be in Austrailia or England???) JennyH because you mention vaccines and myxi, those are some cruel and hard to control diseases that we don’t see much at all in the US…not sure how those affect rabbits either even with a vaccine (not that this is what caused the death of your rabbit), just speculation.


            • JennyH
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                Hi yes you make some good points, about vets 🙂 the vets I have in Glasgow scotland, are fabulous I was up visiting my parents firer north, for the summer, and they live in the middle of nowhere with livestock vets, who in the past have not taken good care of previous animals leaving us with 100mile round trips to decent vets. That’s really the only reason I bring up vets as the ones I used I don’t trust but I didn’t have much choice. He had just had a couple months prior his VHD and MYXI vaccine which was a new combo of the two new for this year as previously they had been given separately, that has played on my mind a bit. Thanks


              • LittlePuffyTail
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                  I’m so sorry to hear about the loss of your bunny.

                  (((((Binky Free Bunny))))


                • JennyH
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                    Thank you, really missing him, loved my cuddles with him and how excited he got when I opened the fridge for fresh vegis! X

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