Hi Emma, I’m glad you’re taking him to the vet and have hopefully been by now…

Is Dasher laying stretched out? Listless? Or hunched up? any grinding of teeth?

I’m currently in mid winter but if you’re in northern hemi, I assume your experiencing summer. Rabbits are more susceptible to heat than cooler weather. If you suspect it’s the heat, try cooling his ears down and putting ice bottles in with him or a fan on him. Also, I thought he may be experiencing a gas episode. With this, they often lay with tummy pressing to floor and keep reajusting their postion. You can help relieve gas but a tummy massage or giving a liquid baby’s gas medicine containing simethicone. 1-2 mls (0.3% solution).

If he is hunched up and refusing food then he may be suffering discomfort from gut slow down (GI stasis) and it is best he be seen. Try get fluids into him, if he won’t eat you can syringe some water or pedilyte into the side of his mouth. Rabbits ears are generally cool to touch but if they feel really, really cold – you will need to wrap him up and get him warm as he may go into shock. At the vet, maybe get his teeth checked also as a probblem there may cause pain and lead to his refusal to eat also.

Hope he comes good. Keep us posted

Hi, Emma,
You’re doing the right thing getting him to the vet. They try to hide illness, so watching the food and poops is the biggest clue to a problem.
Just make sure he has cool (not ice cold) water available before you go.

Have you been by now? It’s been a few hours since you wrote. What did the vet say?
Feel better Dasher.

Good, I was going to suggest gentle tummy massage. The good news about gas is that it is very treatable, like when we have it, and when it is relieved, the bunny will seem relieved. You will find a pile of poopies soon, and probably a bunny who looks like he has a new lease on life.

Now I would examine your food to see if anything you’ve been giving him is one of the more gas producing greens. Some buns just can’t tolerate certain families of greens.

Go Dasher! Glad he’s coming good Emma. I don’t know if spinach is a “known culprit” often it’s broccoli or cabbage…but then some have gotten gas from just romaine. So at the end of the day it really depends on the bunny. If he’s still not eating later but taking med by mouth, you could try give him a pellet slurry. (ie, pellets mixed with water, juice or baby food). Is the Gas X the infant formula? The good thing about this is you cannot over dose, so you can continue to give it. I’ve read recommendations of 1ml every hr for the 1st 3 hours, then 1ml every 3-8 hrs as needed.  (sorry…you may already know this…)

Fingers crossed. Tummy noises are good.
Usually with rabbits, I’ve only heard of the infant formulas used for home administering (65mg simethicone per ml). So the one you have is stronger, but just follow your vets advice. If you would like to have similar on hand for future gas episodes, I’d suggest the infant formula because it has less additives.

Thank god that is good news.