After talking with my traditional vet and deciding that there isn’t really anything that can be done for her mobility problem – she has a problem with one of her legs losing strength and is pretty much dragging herself – I decided to take a Holistic approach and my vet thought it was worth a try as well and knows the holistic vet.
I have never gone to a holistic vet before and am really quite ignorant of all the different approaches they use – I’ve used herbs tinctures before through a master herbalist but have never consulted with a holistic vet before but have been very interested in the idea of alternative medicine since I’ve known a few experienced rabbit friends on other lists who have done some alternative medicines for their rabbits.
Needless to say, it was very overwhelming and I really know nothing at all about what the vet was talking about other than things I’ve heard of here and there as I’ve never studied anything along these lines. My head was reeling when I left but in a good way from information overload.
This vet has not done anything with rabbits before but is very interested and plenty of resources to help her with rabbits so I’m excited to learn more and try more for Maxine and also for Twizzler my bladder sludge rabbit who she would like to see as well.
She did ask me to go ahead and get an x-ray on Maxine’s leg so I set that up for next Wednesday because she wants to see what the problem is – she said it all depends what the actual problem may be so she wants to see an x-ray to see how much help she can be with Maxine.
She did go ahead and do an acupuncture therapy with her yesterday and said that this is accumulative and you won’t see results right away other than she should be a little more bright eyed and bushy tailed in the morning – I honeslty could not tell this morning but she had eaten all the greens which I would have expected anyway.
It was hard for me to tell what Maxine was thinking during the acupuncture – it’s not comfortable anyway being away from your routine when your a rabbit.
She showed me how to do some massage techniques as well which I want to try with all my rabbits – they aren’t very difficult and look pretty easy to do and hopefully will relax them and get their blood circulating.
I’m hoping to learn more as we have more sessions – I probably can only do this once a month though becuase it is pretty expensive but hopefully if I bring both rabbits in together it won’t be as much since I think she charges per session.
I’m anxious to learn more and there is ALOT to learn – she does acupuncture, chiropractic, chinese medicine, homeopathic medicien, massage/reiki, and food therapy (which food therapy sounds like it’s geared more towards carnivores from what I understand from her since she thinks rabbits already have a good diet).
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