So I took my rabbit into the vet about 2 months ago because I noticed it seemed like his legs were being urinated on… There’s only one vet in town that treats rabbits and when I took him in he said he’s probably just sitting in his litter box too much, if though he noted that he was the most well behaved rabbit he’s met and that he seems really comfortable with me and I with him he didn’t want to run any blood tests because he didn’t want to stress him, so he put him on a course of antibiotics and probiotics. While I was there I asked about his eyes running sometimes and without even looking at his eyes he said “maybe the antibiotics and probiotics will help but it’s probably nothing” basically it seemed like he was passing off everything I brought him in for as nothing and just gave me some medicine to try and clear up whatever could be wrong. So I gave him the antibiotics and probiotics until they were gone as instructed and the probiotics (which were probiocin) lasted longer than the antibiotics (about a week and a half) and his eyes stayed clear while still on the probiotics but about 3 days after they were gone, they started running again. He loved the gel/paste and I had no trouble getting him to take it (the vet however tried to force it down him and lost grip of him while he did a full backflip) but I read that a long term probiotic shouldn’t have minerals and I think that one does? And the ones I’ve seen that don’t have minerals come in a powder form and as I said, he really liked the paste and even if a different brand may taste different I can still squirt it on a yogurt treat I assume, and he loves those (also, are they okay to be giving him?)
And I was also wondering if I should give the probiotic to him daily or how often if at all.. Do you guys think that it’s what was helping with his eyes? And do you think his eyes are anything serious?
One important thing I have yet to mention is that about a year ago he scratched his eye, I took him into the vet and he gave me some drops, it cleared up but just after this flat white thing showed up on his eye right where the scratch was which is just barely in the line of sight right in the center on the eye half under the lower eyelid… Then just a few months later scratched his other eye, gave him the drops and it has done the same thing. Everything I find online doesn’t look/sound similar so I don’t think its anything and seeings as the vet doesn’t care enough to examine him I was wondering if I should be concerned it’s something more than a scar?
I have two other rabbits so if it’s something bacterial or possibly catchy that’s bothering his eyes I would assume they would be showing symptoms as well.
Also, he hasn’t had urine on his hind legs in a couple of weeks but the hair looks very separated and he’s missing some hair on them… I was wondering if it’s anything to be worried about and if I should be doing anything regarding when he does urine? Should I do something about the hair on his legs other than what I have been doing? Because I’ve been putting natural cornstarch baby powder with no talc on his legs and rubbing it around and then brushing through when he does get urine on them because it gets very irritated and sometimes slightly matted. Should I be concerned something more is wrong?
To sum it up I was wondering if a long term probiotic preferably in gel/paste form would be a safe treatment and if it would help with his eyes and whether or not his eyes were anything to be concerned about?
He gets very worked up traveling and the nearest vet that might be more experienced is over an hour away