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Forum HOUSE RABBIT Q & A Urinary problems

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    • Sylvia
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        Hi, I’m a relatively new rabbit owner and first time poster. I’m Sylvia and my bunny is Tomie.
        A little over a month and a half ago I got her from a friend movie out of town, she’s currently somewhere around 5 months old. Within the first couple of weeks I ended up taking her to see a vet that’s experienced with rabbits as she was having a consistently wet bum/tail and seemed somewhat incontinent. She did a full blood screening, and a urinalysis while we were there, and couldn’t find anything only saying that the urine was very dilute, and that this was a strange problem for a young bunny. So she prescribed antibiotics for 2 weeks, and ordered another urinalysis in a week.
        A week later still no signs of infection, ruled out diabetes, and no signs of kidney issues. However the problem seemed to improve somewhat for a while only to go back to how it was to begin with, all while on the antibiotics.
        The vet doesn’t seem to know what’s wrong and only suggested a psychological problem making her drink more water then she needs, but not to limit water intake regardless.
        She’s a free roaming bunny that drinks out of a bowl, and she probably drinks 2-3 cups of water a day. She eats two or three large handfuls of Timothy hay every day, along with 4-5 leafs of romain lettuce, with celery, apple, or carrot as treats spread throughout the day.
        She has some spots she pees that are behavioural (in front of a door we just went through and closed usually), but the concerning thing to me is the dribbles I see her leaving around, sometimes as much as a quarter sized puddle sometimes as little as if you used an eyedropper. This combined with the wet bum and confused vet has me very worried.
        So, if anyone has had any similar experiences, or maybe thinks I might just be overreacting I’d live to hear from some experienced bunny owners what they think!
        Thanks from Tomie and I!


      • jerseygirl
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          Welcome Sylvia

          It sounds like you & the vet have had a good go at trying to work this out. 2-3 cups of water is a lot, which could make the urine dilute.

          Does the vet think it’s worth doing x-rays to check for stones in kidney, bladder or urethra?

          What age did this start to happen? 

           

          It might be worthwhile to test for the parasite E. Cuniculi also, or just start treating with 28 day course of fenbendazole. Urinary incontinence can be a symptom of EC. More commonly it can cause hind limb paralysis or head-tilt but a lot of rabbits also carry the parasite and are symptom free.
          A few years ago, the parasite was re-classified as microsporidia (fungi group) and some antibiotics (like enrofloxaxin/baytril) have anti fungal properties and may suppress spore formation/activity. Possibility of why you so a bit of improvement on abx then relapse. Or if bacterial infection, there was some reinfection occurring.

          This thread might be of interest to you: https://binkybunny.com/FORUM/tabid/54/aft/144842/afnp/473532/Default.aspx

          Also this page if you haven’t seen it before: http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Uro_gen_diseases/Differentials/Incontinence.htm


        • Sylvia
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            The vet hasn’t really mentioned x ray at all, and actually seemed to dismiss the idea of stones because of the very dilute urine and how easily she pees.
            Her previous owners kept her in a very small cage and didn’t pay a lot of attention to her, but by the time I got her it was already happening (little over 3 months old). Though at this time it was minor and occasional. I got worried when I was finding her with a wet bum 2-3 days I a row about 2 weeks after I got her.
            Her previous diet was also worrying to me, Alfalfa hay in equal parts with Timothy, and carrots while providing unlimited alfalfa based pellets.
            The vet has however asked us to cut calcium out of her diet as much as possible to see if that improves anything. Not that I really know why or how.
            Thanks for the reply!

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