Hi Cassi, actually you haven’t reported this with Layla for quite some time, so don’t feel to badly. I trance Jersey when I suspect gas. I’ll put her on her back and once she’s tranced I’ll massage her belly for a while, then gently push her hind feet forwards like and ab crunch. It seems to help her. Hope the smithi will give your Layla some relief.

How is Layla now?

Oh dear! 0_o I can understand your dilemma, C&C, as Mimzy used to be okay with trancing, but now he is not. I find that if he is having any kind of trouble that encourages a massage from me, I just get him out of his pen and do what I call a “Full Bunny Body Massage” where I just let him sit on the bed or my lap in his normal bun loaf position and jut do a slow ‘pet’ with both hands over the top of his body. If I find an excuse to get under his chin or around his ears or down his sides with a little extra pet, it is less likely turned away after we’ve been doing this for about five minutes. He gets totally relaxed and will puddle for me and then if I want to move to rubbing the tummy, I sneak a pet under his ribs and just gently massage his sides. I figure it still sends some good feeling in the general direction and I think Mimzy agrees.

Hope Layla feels better soon! And yes, stay away from that nasty broccoli, bunny! (‘Happy little trees’, indeed! Hmph! Not for my bunnies either!)

Oh been there done that! >_< Isn't it awful? Whatever happened to the days when I could be up ALL night with my friends, get an hour's sleep and then clean up and go to school or work for another 9 hours and not crash until the next evening? ^_^

Ahhhh, the good ol’ days. xD But then, there was no lovable bunny to give me tickly smooches and binky for me when he was happy, so…it’s a trade off.

Good to hear she’s eating now!

I suspected that my evil Jessi had some bloat one night.  B/c she generally won’t let me near her.  I put her in a clementine crate and pet her hard in one direction on each side of her fat belly.  She was in a loaf position in the crate sans clementines.  She tolerated that very well.  Else I can’t imagine I could have done any official bloat masage.

Mimz:  It’s called your teens & twenties AKA the days you could stay up all night, sleep for 1 hr, and work/school all day.  In my early 20’s I could go to bed at 10:30/11 pm and wake up at 12:30/1am to hit the bar w/ my roommate that worked until midnight or so.  We stayed until the bar closed, 2:30 and slept and woke up for work at 6:30.  ICB I used to do that….no I’m lucky to not be draggin’ if I go to bed @ 11pm and wake at 7:00am. LOL

A good way to do is to crush up the simethicone and then mix it with a little bit of banana. If Layla won’t eat it on her own, you can put the mush into a syringe and force feed it – I know it isn’t easy! Raymond had a bit of a gas episode a couple nights ago, we took him to the vet in the morning, and now he’s been eating non-stop since, I think to prove that he doesn’t need to go to the vet again

Were you able to get the smithi into her? I thought it gave some relief fairly quickly – though I’ve never used it. Was she still grinding her teeth right up to that time? Glad to hear she came good eventually!

Mmm…I don’t have any on hand, maybe I should! I know it’s a bit late now but I have seen it in Coles and Woolies in the baby section. Yellow box with blue logo I think. Pretty sure that’s a liquid. Only would have been useful though if you have 24hr supermarkets there. Wonder if tablets have longer shelf life though? I didn’t even know it came in that form. Anyone know if you can crush a tablet and mix with banana?

Glad to hear she’s doing better now!! Yup semethicone is a good thing to have on hand!! I’ve actually had a hard time finding pedialyte before in a pinch-so that’s a good one too!